Thursday, June 30, 2011

Travel Thursdays Ed. 3 Destin

Taking a quick break from the Disney Planning to share my favorite Destin hotspots.

If you have ever been you know what there is to love about the Gulf coast.

If not you are SORELY missing out and must make plans to get down there STAT!!

I have called the Florida panhandle my summer home for the past 16 years. 

We have watch this booming tourist town emerge from merely 10 high rises to now hundreds.

Here are a few pics from past trips.
March 2008
My family minus Nick... This is at our absolute MOST favorite restaurant in the whole panhandle....

The Ocean Club.

It is tucked away in a professional center right next to the entrance to Tops'l.
In the past 10 years of eating here every experience has been wonderful, always with wonderful wait staff and some of the best seafood your mouth will ever see.

Our favorite space in the restaurant to eat is in the Garden Room.

My favorite mexican restaurant in Destin is hands-down La Paz
They have been in business since 1979 and they KNOW mexican food!!
click here to see their menu.
They are located across the street from Louisiana Lagniappe (down the Destin peninsula)

Throughout the years we have done AJ's, Joe's crab shack, Jimmy Buffett's Margarittaville Restaurant, all the touristy hot spots... nothing compares to a good hidden secret frequented by the locals; and these two are my most favorite of those.

We always make our way to SanDestin to Baytown Wharf.

I personally love Poppy's and looking through all the adoreable shops.
Poppy's 
the wharf
adoreable shops
Other favorite spots in the area are Cafe 30A, Bud and Alley's, and Callahan's.
Cafe 30A
Bud and Alley's


If your in the area check out some of these great eats. 

I am sure they won't dissapoint.

3 comments:

Lauren@ Not Your Average Southern Belle said...

We're going at the end of July - saving this for restaurant ideas! :)

Erica B said...

I have never been to Destin or Gulf Shores. It looks beautiful!

Jessie Jones said...

Bud and Alley's = heaven. Although the Red Bar is still my all time beach favorite!