Restaurants
43 restaurants across Perdido Key and Orange Beach. Curated, alphabetical.
Avenue Pub
Scratch-kitchen gastropub on Terry Cove at Hudson Marina — smoked tuna dip, grouper tacos, cold local beer, and dogs welcome on the deck.
Bahama Bob's Beach Side Cafe
Gulf Shores institution just over the Orange Beach line. Beach-shack vibe, real Gulf seafood, the kind of place locals defend hard.
Barometer Waterfront Grille
Chef-owned waterfront newcomer at Sportsman's Marina that landed on USA TODAY's Best New Restaurants list before its first birthday.
Beach Buzz Restaurant
Neighborhood pizza joint on Gulf Beach Hwy where the dough gets made fresh every day.
Big Fish Restaurant & Bar
Canal Rd's upscale-casual seafood-and-sushi room — the local default for a night that matters.
Brick & Spoon
The build-your-own bloody mary brunch on Canal Rd — mornings only, and worth setting an alarm on vacation for.
BuzzCatz Coffee & Sweets
Orange Beach's homegrown coffee shop and scratch bakery — the cinnamon rolls are the argument.
City Coffee and Ice Cream
Coffee at 7am, ice cream at 10pm — the Villagio's one-stop sugar-and-caffeine counter.
City Donut
USA Today readers' #1 donut shop in America, 2024 — and it's in a strip mall on Perdido Beach Blvd.
Coastal
Beachfront, open-air, and running from breakfast to live music after dark. Gulf seafood, tropical drinks, and a beach bar that doesn't pretend to be anything fancier.
Cobalt The Restaurant
Fancy version. At the Pass. Sushi bar, a real wine list, and a dining room you'd take a date to without apologizing.
Cosmo's Restaurant & Bar
Orange Beach's everyday upscale. Weekday lunch, weekend wait, decent at everything. The kind of menu where the table can't decide and everyone ends up happy.
Crab Trap Perdido Key
Gulf-front, family-volume, Royal Reds, and one of the better sunset patios on the Florida side of the Key.
Crabs - We Got 'Em
The stilted building with the long ramp. Gulf views from every table, every floor. The one tourists photograph and locals still go to.
Crazy Horse Cafe
Home-style diner a mile east of the Lillian bridge where the pies are homemade and the mullet is fried.
Doc's Seafood Shack
Royal Reds, fried shrimp, no view, no wait, no nonsense. The locals' answer to 'just give me good shrimp.'
Fisherman's Corner
Cajun and Creole cooking done seriously, in the middle of the Key, by people who clearly mean it.
Ginny Lane
The Wharf's upscale-ish anchor. Wood-fired oven, real menu, marina-side patio. The 'we're at the Wharf but we want a real dinner' answer.
GTs On The Bay
Bay-side deck, the steamer pot, and a sunset that justifies the wait. Easy answer when 'bay-side dinner' is the brief.
Hippie Bean Cafe
Locally owned coffee-and-acai stop on Sorrento — the caffeine checkpoint on the way to the Key.
Islander Food Shack
Perdido Key hole-in-the-wall doing scratch burgers, seafood platters, and Jamaican meat pies — patio, cold beer, zero pretense.
Jaime's Local Seafood Shack
A lobster roll shack under the Theo Baars Bridge that Southern Living noticed before most of the Key did.
Lambert's Cafe (Foley)
Home of throwed rolls. They throw the rolls. At you. From across the room. It's a thing and it's been a thing for forty years.
Lillian's Pan Pizza
Pan pizza a few steps from the sand since 1989 — older than most of the condos around it.
LuLu's
Lucy Buffett's open-air gulf-coast restaurant. Live music, a kids' play area, a real menu, a real wait in season. The bigger version of family beach restaurant.
Luna's Eat & Drink
Southern coastal kitchen and taphouse on Canal Rd — the locals' answer when you ask where to actually eat.
Nami Sushi
Orange Beach's newest Japanese spot — sushi, hibachi, udon, and bento boxes in the old Bon Temps Po'boys space on Canal Road.
Old Salt Tavern
Made-from-scratch shrimp & grits and po-boys in the Walmart shopping center — because good kitchens don't care about their parking lot.
Ole River Grill
On Ole River just over the state line. The grouper sandwich. The deck. The locals' answer to 'where do we eat that isn't tourist madness.'
Original Oyster House
Bay-side, the gator pond, the oysters. A reliable Gulf Coast chain that's been doing the same thing well long enough that 'chain' isn't really the right word.
OSO at Bear Point Harbor
The boat-up restaurant hiding in a residential harbor that tourists on the Boulevard never find.
Perdido Key Breakfast Club
The Key's omelette-and-benedict headquarters, tucked in the back of Villagio.
Perdido Key Oyster Bar Restaurant & Marina
Boat-up oysters and sunset water views on the Intracoastal, next to Galvez Landing.
Salty Pearl Raw Bar
Family-run Gulf raw bar at the foot of the Theo Baars Bridge — oysters on the half shell, chargrilled, and crab legs the regulars swear by.
Shipp's Dockside Grill
Chef Matt Shipp back on the Orange Beach Marina basin — casual counter service and sushi down below, his full-service cooking up top.
Sunset Grille at Holiday Harbor
Boat-up dining at the Key's only full-service marina, pointed straight at the sunset.
Tacky Jack's Orange Beach
Alabama institution. Breakfast all day. Live music. The locals' answer to 'where do we go that isn't trying to be anything.'
The Beach Bun
Family-owned smash burgers and chili dogs a block off the beach — the fast, cheap answer to feeding everybody without a wait list.
The Gulf
Open-air, shipping-container architecture, gulf-front. The Instagram spot — but the food and drinks earn the photos.
The Jellyfish
The Key's dressy night out — sushi, steaks, and crab cakes upstairs in Villagio.
The Louisiana Lagniappe
New Orleans–leaning Gulf seafood in the SanRoc Cay marina — a dinner-only Orange Beach institution since 1999.
The Point
Waterfront, old-school, and serving Perdido its mullet since the 1950s. Royal reds, oysters, a bluegrass band, and oak trees older than half the condos.
