Restaurants in the Florida Keys offer you the chance to enjoy a wide range of foods from oysters to sushi, steak, lobster, and delicious deli sandwiches. If you're a foodie, this island archipelago is a destination for you. Whether you're looking to enjoy authentic Key lime pie, you want to try freshly prepared conch in a variety of ways, or you're a sushi fanatic, you're sure to find the food to suit your taste buds here.

Restaurants across the Keys range from peeling-paint, sawdust-on-the-floor legacy taverns to shining new upscale fine dining establishments. Check out 10 great restaurants to try in the Florida Keys.

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    Florida Keys Steak and Lobster House

    Visit a classic steak house for surf and turf

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    Florida Keys Steak and Lobster House is a classic steak house where you can enjoy great steak, fresh lobster, and a wide range of food in a welcoming atmosphere. The vibe here is elegant but casual with stained glass-style windows and modern art juxtaposed with hardwood floors and ceilings with white-tablecloth service. If you have vegetarians along with you, they'll also find great eats on the menu here, so there really is something for every flavour palate.

    The restaurant is located in Marathon along the Overseas Highway. Menu highlights include Bang Bang Shrimp, Cowboy Steak, and outstanding sushi options. Separate lunch and dinner menus are available.

    Locatie: 3660 Overseas Hwy, Marathon, FL 33050, USA

    Openingstijden: Daily from 11.30 am to 10 pm

    Telefoonnummer: +1 305-743-5516

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    Mangrove Mike's Cafe

    Try some conch fritters

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    Mangrove Mike's Cafe is a laid-back casual eatery that's good for everyone and serves up breakfast and lunch with seafood classics and deli-diner eats. Some of the lunch highlights include fried calamari, conch fritters, gyros, a flat-iron steak sandwich, flatbread pizza, and homemade barbecue pork (available as a sandwich or platter). The fish sandwich here also has to be tried to be believed.

    For breakfast, you can choose from a wide range of hotcakes and Belgian waffles prepared just how you like them with tonnes of fresh fruit toppings. Also available are breakfast quesadillas and your basic eggs and meat. Mangrove Mike's is on Islamorada.

    Locatie: 82200 Overseas Hwy, Islamorada, FL 33036, USA

    Openingstijden: Daily from 6 am to 2 pm

    Telefoonnummer: +1 305-664-8022

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    Harriette's Restaurant

    Get some down-home Key Largo cooking

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    Harriette's Restaurant has been serving up home cooking on the spot of a former 2-bedroom house for 40 years with legendary muffins and down-home family eats. Harriette's is family-owned and -operated, and they pride themselves on treating every customer like a member of that family. This is one of those places that's as popular with locals as it is with holidaymakers, and it's constantly highly rated on dining review sites. It's on Key Largo.

    The breakfast menu here is as vast as their portions, with some highlights including sirloin steak and eggs, biscuits and gravy, corned beef hash and eggs, and conch and eggs. Lunch highlights include conch chowder and the conch fritter burger. Vegetarian options are available too.

    Locatie: 95710 Overseas Hwy, Key Largo, FL 33037, USA

    Openingstijden: Daily from 6 am to 3 pm

    Telefoonnummer: +1 305-852-8689

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    The Square Grouper Bar and Grill

    Enjoy eco-friendly pier-to-table seafood

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    The Square Grouper Bar and Grill on Cudjoe Key offers up fresh, locally caught seafood and farm-fresh ingredients for an experience that's as delicious as it is eco-friendly. The restaurant uses only straws and paper products made from corn, so there's no plastic here. The menu shifts regularly based on what's in season and available, and you'll always find innovative small-plate dishes, daily specials, and homemade desserts. All of this is paired with a boutique wine list and a selection of craft beers.

    Menu highlights include house-smoked fish dip, barbecue bacon-wrapped shrimp, Mexican street corn dip, conch chowder, a buffalo shrimp po'boy, a pizza burger, shrimp cakes, seafood stew, and seafood platters with the fish of the day.

    Locatie: Florida Keys, FL, USA

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    Butterfly Café

    Enjoy family-friendly al fresco dining

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    The Butterfly Café offers al fresco dining with indoor and outdoor seating and casual, sophisticated surroundings with tantalising seafood offerings and astoundingly delectable desserts. The outdoor dining lets you enjoy your meal with the warm air and crashing waves in the distance, while the inside offers a wide-open area with a soaring ceiling and relaxing vibe. Some of the dinner menu highlights include shrimp cocktail, crab cakes, horseradish crusted grouper, and, for dessert, their famous sticky toffee pudding.

    This restaurant is also a family-friendly establishment with a kids' menu. Treat the little ones to hot dogs, pizza, mac and cheese, or chicken fingers, and a brownie sundae for dessert. The restaurant is located at Tranquility Bay Beachfront Hotel and Resort in Marathon.

    Locatie: 2600 Overseas Hwy, Marathon, FL 33050, USA

    Openingstijden: Daily from 6 pm to 9 om

    Telefoonnummer: +1 305-289-7177

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    Castaway Waterfront Restaurant

    Try seafood, steak, sushi, and spirits

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    Castaway Waterfront Restaurant offers unique fusion seafood cuisine in a laid-back, casual, and friendly setting with fresh seafood, sushi, and craft beer on draft. This restaurant is so popular it was featured on the TV show "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" where it showcased its famed lobster enchiladas and King of the Jungle rolls. They serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. They take reservations beginning at 4 pm, but they also take walk-ins. They have dozens of beers on tap.

    The restaurant is family-friendly and welcomes kids. It focuses on what it calls "all the S's," meaning seafood, steak, sushi, and spirits. You can enjoy indoor or outdoor seating along the ocean. Castaway is in Marathon.

    Locatie: 1406 Ocean View Ave, Marathon, FL 33050, USA

    Openingstijden: Monday–Tuesday and Thursday–Friday from 11 am to 10 pm, Saturday–Sunday from 10 am to 10 pm (closed on Wednesdays)

    Telefoonnummer: +1 305-743-6247

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    Bayside Gourmet

    Enjoy a craft pizza or Philly cheesesteak

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    Bayside Gourmet on Islamorada is a family-owned and -operated restaurant offering authentic classic and contemporary cuisine focused on gourmet pizzas but with plenty of other options. Besides their Margherita, ricotta, saltimbocca, and Hawaiian pizzas, you can enjoy lobster bisque, mozzarella Caprese, smoked fish dip, a grouper Reuben, lasagne, or a Philly cheesesteak at any time. At dinner, a wide range of Italian fusion cuisine is on offer, including chicken parmesan and shrimp di Pomodoro.

    Bayside is also open for breakfast daily. Menu options and highlights for breakfast include a big burrito, eggs cooked to order, a shrimp and bacon omelette, or a blackened grouper and fresh salsa omelette.

    Locatie: 82758 Overseas Hwy, Islamorada, FL 33036, USA

    Openingstijden: Monday–Tuesday and Thursday from 11 am to 9.30 pm, Friday–Saturday from 11 am to 10 9 pm, Sunday from 11 am to 9 pm (closed on Wednesdays)

    Telefoonnummer: +1 305-735-4471

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    Key Largo Conch House

    Try sustainably sourced conch prepared every way

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    Key Largo Conch House is the place to go if you want to try fresh conch prepared in every way under the sun at a family-owned and -operated restaurant. The food here is prepared from generations of recipes, and the restaurant has become so beloved that it's been featured on such programmes as "Emeril's Florida", "Man v. Food," "Ultimate Road Trips," and "Travel Thirsty." This restaurant on Key Largo prides itself on sustainable, ethically sourced seafood dishes served up pier-to-table fresh.

    They are open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day, and they have an expansive wine and beer list for pairing. Don't forget your after-meal coffee, which is outstanding. A children's menu is also available.

    Locatie: 100211 Overseas Hwy, Key Largo, FL 33037, USA

    Openingstijden: Monday–Wednesday from 8 am to 9 pm, Friday–Sunday from 8 am to 10 pm (closed on Thursdays)

    Telefoonnummer: +1 305-453-4844

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    Hideaway Café

    Relax with true gourmet fine dining

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    Hideaway Café is located on Grassy Key and serves up gourmet cuisine with an ocean view for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with an elegant, upscale vibe. This establishment offers gourmet classics like Escargot á la Edison with julienne vegetables in a light cream sauce. Other menu highlights include roasted whole duck, blackened shrimp, lobster and seafood crepes, shrimp scampi, and many others. For meat eaters, the chef's special rib steak weighs in at nearly 2 pounds. Every day brings a new vegetable of the day special such as green beans marinara.

    You can eat outdoors or indoors. Outdoors you'll be on a balcony overlooking the beach and ocean, while inside you'll enjoy an elegant air-conditioned space with dark wood decor.

    Locatie: Florida Keys, FL, USA

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    Goldman's Bagel Deli

    Get New York-style deli food on Key West

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    Goldman's Bagel Deli is your solution for casual takeaway eats, fresh baked goods, and piled-high deli sandwiches that are made from scratch on the spot. It's been family-owned and -operated since 1998, and the bagels are made fresh using the traditional "boil and bake" method. This is the place to come if you want to enjoy New York-style fare on Key West.

    They serve breakfast and lunch every day. Menu highlights include a 3-egg scramble with cheddar, ham steak, and salsa, classic deli sandwiches ranging from a BLT to a classic club, speciality salads with vegetarian options, and grilled franks and burgers made to order.

    Locatie: 2796 N Roosevelt Blvd, Naval Air Station Key West, FL 33040, USA

    Openingstijden: Monday–Saturday from 6.45 am to 3.30 pm, Sunday from 6.45 am to 3 pm

    Telefoonnummer: +1 305-294-3354

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