Blue Heron Pizza Pub

John Luce spent 25-plus years running restaurants between Boston and Cape Cod before Massachusetts COVID lockdowns pushed him south, and he rebuilt that same Massachusetts pub-pizza style block by block in Port Charlotte. The kitchen still runs the New England playbook down to Monday's hot-or-cold lobster rolls, not a diluted Florida version of it.

Monday between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m., when the hot-or-cold lobster roll special runs and nowhere else on the menu.

Order the Massachusetts pub pizza, the style the owner ran for years in restaurants between Boston and Cape Cod.

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