- Welcome to Greater Fort Lauderdale.
This is a destination that I am
especially proud to call my home.
Diversity and inclusion reign supreme here.
We are the LGBTQ capital
of the state of Florida.
Welcome.
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- My evolution as an artist has been
a very interesting process of rediscovering myself.
I'm Chris Lopez and I'm a multi-media artist.
The light is the most important thing in my work.
Ay, ya, beautiful, yes.
The men for me is like just an excuse
to play with the light.
I see myself differently
in every technique that I'm working
'cause I'm doing paintings, I'm doing drawings,
graphic design.
Mostly of my style recently,
is more something that it comes
from my graphic design part.
So my work lately is about just simply find the lighting.
People telling me that my art is very bold
and strong and sleek and simple.
And I'm going more to what I feel is my real language.
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Ft. Lauderdale is so perfect for me.
I'm living for 17 years here and it's amazing.
So I really love it.
So here in Ft. Lauderdale, we have a very interesting
event called the Fat Village Art Walk.
The last Saturday of the month they have open studios
with a lot of food trucks.
The variety is so good.
The crowd is so me.
Gays, straight,
young people, old people,
old Bohemian Ft. Lauderdale is there.
So it's so amazing.
And we love that.
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One of the things that I like about Ft. Lauderdale
is the variety of restaurants and different places
like you can go to have an amazing lunch and some drinks.
Recently we discovered a very, very, very good restaurant,
family-owned, that is called Fabio The Venetian.
It's a very gay-friendly restaurant.
We always feel very welcome.
Sometimes we see a lot of gay couples there.
One of the things that I like from Fabio's is
the Venetian meatballs.
They are the signature dish there.
And it's something that you never have before.
They are amazing.
And then the Burrata Bruchetta.
Something very Italian but you can't find in
any other Italian restaurants.
My favorite drink there is the Spritz Aperol.
It's an amazing drink so I love it.
It's definitely an experience to go to that place.
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Another restaurant that we like is 3030 Ocean.
The most impressive thing about 3030 Ocean is their
farm-to-table philosophy.
And we like that philosophy because you know
where the food is coming from.
My favorite dishes there are Ahi Tuna Poke,
Charred Octopus, amazing.
Reminds me of the Mediterranean flavor
from my Barcelona.
And the Whole Roasted Local Snapper.
I've been trying almost everything on the menu (laughs)
and I like everything.
It is like, definitely, the food is something
that you are never going to be disappointed.
Every time that I am going to 3030 Ocean,
my favorite drink there
is the Harbor Beach Old Fashioned.
So every time that we have friends visiting,
friends from out of town, even friends from Europe,
they love it.
So you never can go wrong with the restaurant
because their food definitely is very high-end.
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