The Southernmost Beach Café is what it says on the tin: The southernmost eatery in the US. I’d been there once before and was served a delectable lunch. So, I thought, they must concoct their own special breed of Key lime pie, right?
And yes, indeed they do!
Looks stunningly delicious, doesn’t it?
The verdict?
Well, let me hand it to you straight: It was all wrong. All of it. An Oreo cookie crust?! Nice with a plain cheese cake, I’m sure, but positively offensive with a zesty Key lime filling. The cream topping – sickly sweet. The strawberry goop on top? It completes the flavour amalgamation from hell.
My rating: This unholy melange wasn’t the absolute worst dessert I’ve ever had in my life, so I will give it 0.5 out of 5. I’m being gracious here out of appreciation of the fabulously friendly wait staff and all the other glorious food they serve up.
If you have the chance, do go there, the setting is beautiful. Just don’t order their flippin’ aberration of a Key lime pie!
Artist weaving palm fronds on Southernmost Beach, Key West
Missed the other reviews? Here they are:
And if you’re curious about the early days of my cake obsession, click here [Warning: contains hideous pictures of 70’s/80’s hairdos and fashion].
Lady Of The Cakes 
I told you to stop searching for a better Key Lime Pie! LOL
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Oh, but I found another prime specimen… there’ll be a post on that shortly 😉
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Bleuurgh. I’ll take your word for it. What a terrible disappointment.
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I’m still recovering from it…
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Oh good lord, I could imagine what that disgustingly sweet ‘strawberry’ sauce (that did not use a single strawberry in its making), would taste. Yuck
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Strawberries just don’t go with KLP… full stop.
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Haha yes! When you’re right, you’re right
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But also, I’m not too fond of artificial strawberry things on anything.
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I’m crying a little on the inside for you right now 😉
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Thank you. I knew you’d resonate with this traumatic experience!
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100%! I’m sending you virtual hugs 😉
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It looks ghastly, sorry, but your image didn’t entice me because it was so detailed, I could SEE the sweetness!
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That’s just as well, seeing how crap it turned out to be!
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My friend would have a name for this, but I won’t utter it here…
I will say it looks hideous! GAAACK!
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A pi(l)e of shit…?
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LOL! NO! But that is a good one! 😀
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Ooh! I’ve been to that beach!! I remember all those signs! I posed next to a sign that said that it was the southern most part of America.
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Yes, that one’s just round the corner 🙂
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Oh how very American. We love to mix our sweets.
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Pie sounds disgusting but the scenery’s fabulous 🙂
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It’s a great place, it really is 🙂
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Very nice, palm frond bowls. Never saw before.
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I’ve another pic of a different street artist weaving them… will put that up soon. Amazing 🙂
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Thanks for the tip on the Key Lime Pie…lovely photos!
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Thanks!
You got rid of that nasty flu thing?
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Well…thought so, but started sneezing again this morning…
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It’s one of my favorite spots!!! Down there you may find a lovely strowberry cheese cake too… 😀 claudine
PS. I’m going to try to back it tomorrow with the kids
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Strawberry cheesecake I can take… but NOT strawberry Key lime pie 😉 Good luck with the baking 🙂
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Just looking at the photo set my teeth on edge – I can see it oozing sugar!
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I think it’s damaged my pancreas irreparably….
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Wow, that combo does sound pretty wretched. It’s funny how you had the worst and the best of this dessert in a span of a week. Tho I keep looking at that photo and thinking – take lime out of the equation, and it’s probably a good cake!
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Yes, without the lime, it could well have been a palatable strawberry cheesecake. Though I’m not sure about that oreo base.
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It’s just chocolaty! My BFF makes an AMAZING raspberry cheesecake w Oreo crust.
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I don’t find that Oreos taste of chocolate at all…
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How can they even call this Key Lime Pie? What an insult to key limes and also to pies!
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Exactly! It’s a non-viable mutant and should be terminated swiftly.
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Oh that is an assault on the senses. I commend your optimistic attitude that allowed you to even take a bite.
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I was on a mission 😉
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