Restaurants in Pensacola, FL

The eating opportunities in Florida’s westernmost city run the gamut, from burgers and barbecue to four-star New American cuisine. Among its many claims to fame, Pensacola happens to be where the bacon cheeseburger first was created, at Jerry’s Drive-In. But it’s seafood that takes top billing hereabouts: Cajun/Creole fare at Cosse’s On the Beach; oysters and shrimp at Marina Oyster Barn; crabcake Benedict at Native Cafe in Gulf Breeze, oysters galore at Peg Leg Pete’s, and crawfish at Cub’s Crawfish. For every kind of seafood imaginable, the place to go is Captain Joey Patti’s. Adjoining an epic seafood market, Joey Patti’s feels like a great big diner: crowded, chatty, and full of life – informal in the extreme, a high-spirited place that’s fun for the family and easy on the wallet. The menu is huge, featuring fried fish of every kind, hearty gumbo, grilled fish, platters, plates, and baskets. Pensacola being northwest Florida, which is, in fact, the deepest South, you know that every plate of crisp-fried fish is going to come with hushpuppies.

 

 

Pensacola’s Most Famous Dishes

Mountainous sandwich holds pastrami, egg, French fries, cole slaw, and a tomato at Primanti Brothers in Pittsburg, PA

Sandwiches

Freshly baked assorted bagels for sale, hung on wall pegs

Bagels

Close view of a lump crab cake, broiled ... Maryland crab cake heaven

Crab Cake

Pink, butter-sauced shrimp surround a mound of thin spaghetti noodles

Shrimp

Pensacola’s Best Restaurants

Peg Leg Pete’s Oyster Bar

PENSACOLA BEACH, FL

Captain Joey Patti’s Seafood Restaurant

PENSACOLA, FL

5 Sisters Blues Cafe

PENSACOLA, FL

Jerry’s Drive-In

PENSACOLA, FL

Marina Oyster Barn

PENSACOLA, FL

Native Cafe

PENSACOLA BEACH, FL

A broad, heavy-paper bowl holds crisp-fried bites of alligator and a honey-sopped biscuit
Cosse’s on the Beach

PENSACOLA BEACH, FL

Bagelheads

PENSACOLA, FL

Broad dish holds crawfish with corn, potatoes, mushrooms, and sausage.
Cub’s Crawfish

PENSACOLA, FL

The Magnolia

PENSACOLA, FL

Shaggy’s Pensacola

PENSACOLA BEACH, FL

Carmen’s

PENSACOLA, FL

Polonza

PENSACOLA, FL

The Union Public House

PENSACOLA, FL

Naussau Grits at The Coffee Cup Restaurant in Pensacola, FL
Coffee Cup

PENSACOLA, FL

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