Live Music

Chef-owned waterfront newcomer at Sportsman's Marina that landed on USA TODAY's Best New Restaurants list before its first birthday.

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.

The state-line bar. Open since 1964. Multiple stages, multiple rooms, live music seven days a week, and the only building in the United States that the FL/AL state line runs through.

The roadhouse just past the state line where somebody local is always playing and your dog is welcome on the porch.

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.

Birthplace of the Bushwacker. A Pensacola Beach institution since 1971 — live music outside, regulars inside, and a frozen drink that has personally ruined more vacations than any other beverage on the Gulf Coast.

Alabama institution. Breakfast all day. Live music. The locals' answer to 'where do we go that isn't trying to be anything.'

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.

Family-owned live-music room on Canal Road — songwriters on Saturdays, food and a full week of acts, no beach-bar shtick.

A smoky Canal Road dive where $19.99 buys all the Royal Reds you can peel.

The only brewery on the Perdido corridor — house beers and ciders, live music at the pavilion, no drive to Pensacola required.

The loudest of the three big marinas. Forty-boat charter fleet, two restaurants, live music, and the easiest place to walk on and book a fishing trip.