A Jacksonville dining tradition for three decades and boasting one of the area's largest menus, Clark's Fish Camp in Mandarin overflows with rustic Americana ambiance and crowd-pleasing cuisine. An array of stuffed wild animals – bears, leopards and the like – crowds the lengthy bar almost as much as the actual patrons do. As you'd expect, seafood shines here: crab and shrimp of all sorts, oysters steamed in garlic butter, and frog legs, to name a few. For those on gastronomic safari, there are plenty of exotic choices, from mildly to definitely so: quail, rabbit, fried alligator and turtle, smoked eel, and fried or charred ostrich, kangaroo, venison, buffalo, antelope, and snake. And yes, a number of them taste like chicken. Full bar. Serving lunch Sat–Sun, dinner nightly. Voted Best Fish Camp in the 2009 Folio Weekly readers' poll.
"If you like your dock nearby, your gator tail crispy and your animals heavily taxidermed, Clark's is one spot you don't want to miss. Located at the end of Hood Landing Road in Mandarin, on the banks of Julington Creek, Clark's has been catering to boaters and the people who love them for more than 30 years.
—Folio Weekly