OUR TOP PICKS FOR PLACES TO EAT:



CAPT. JACKS BUFFET ALL YOU CAN EAT Jack knows when you got a need to feed you need good food and lots of it. Choose from over 75 items for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Be ready to eat all the CRAB LEGS you can at every dinner buffet. Across the street from the World Famous Harpoon Harry’s Beach Club. 12628 Front Beach Rd. 850-234-6458.

BREAKERS DINE ON THE BEACH For the one night this week when you actually want more than a burger and fries. Dress is casual, but the food and service is award winning. Seafood, steaks & more. Every table has a 180 degree view of the Gulf. Groups welcome. Right next door to Harpoon Harry’s. You can make reservations, but they’re not necessary. 12627 Front Beach Rd. 850-234-6060.

CAPT. JACKS BUFFET - #1 CRAB LEGS WITH EVERY DINNER BUFFET
Deciding what to eat is way over rated. All you can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets are served every day. Sink your teeth into their #1 CRAB LEGS, and eat all you want cause they’re included with every dinner buffet. 8208 Thomas Dr. 850-236-8555.

DIRTY DICKS - GET YOUR CRABS HERE The name rocks. The food... even better! A real seafood restaurant with a New Orleans accent! Dick serves shrimp, clams, scallops, blue crabs, fresh fish, chicken, steak and pasta for lunch and dinner every day. Large groups welcome. 9800 Front Beach Rd. 850-230-DICK

GUADALAJARA - LIVE MARIACHI’S The most delicious Mar- garitas and Mexican food in North Florida. Inside and outside dining. Full bar. Open 7 days a week. 8730 Thomas Dr., in the St. Thomas Square Shopping Center. 850-235-3300

HARPOON HARRY'S - WATERFRONT BURGERS & BEER Their specialty is the enormous HARRY’S HANDFUL BURGER, and one bite and you’ll taste why. Their menu includes all kinds of appetizers, sandwiches, and desserts. Have lunch or dinner on the open air beach front deck and wash it all down with an ice cold beer or frozen drink. Open 11am-4am daily. 12627 Front Beach Rd. 850-234-6060.

HOOTERS - THE ONLY HOOTERS IN THE WORLD THAT SITS
RIGHT ON THE BEACH! Featuring a '60’s, '70’s & 80’s music jukebox, sports on television and a menu that includes seafood, sandwiches, salads and spicy chicken wings. 12709 Front Beach Road. 850-230-9464.

HUNGRY HOWIES - HOME OF THE FLAVORED CRUST PIZZA
If you have a Howie’s near where you live you consider yourself lucky, and if not, consider yourself very lucky to be in PC Beach right now! Delivery to your hotel room or you can pick it up. Pizza, pasta, wings & salads. East beach: 850-230-3999. West beach: 850-236-4426.

JOEYS JAVE JUICE - THE BEACH’S ONLY TRUE EXPRESSO & JUICE BAR. When you need some java, go see Joey. He’s also got fresh pastries, sandwiches and more. Need to check your e-mail? Joey’s has FREE Wi-Fi. Two Locations - 9722 Front Beach Rd. and at Beckrich & Back Beach. 850-249-JAVA.

KITCHENS ICE CREAM - YOU’LL SCREAM FOR THIS ICE CREAM. They say they have the finest ice cream on the Gulf coast, but we disagree. This could actually be the finest on the planet. In the Shoppes at Edgewater. 850-234-K-ICE.

LA TAPATIA MEXICAN TAQUERIA Y TIENDA We prepare our ancestors recipe’s daily. A unique restaurant and store, the only one of it’s kind on the beach. Calling cards, cooking goods, hispanic music CD’s. Order to go. 10440 Front Beach Road. 850-249-1591

LOS RANCHEROS MEXICAN RESTAURANT The best mexican food this side of the border. Prepared fresh daily. Cold beer and great Margaritas. Outdoor patio dining. Eat here or to go. 527 Beckrich Rd. (in Edgewater Shopping Center). 850-249-5195. See you soon Amigos!

MONTEGO BAY - HOME OF THE $9.95 SEAFOOD PLATTER If you love seafood, steaks, ribs, chicken, & oysters, you will love it here. Try the Captain’s Catch - you will not be disappointed. 2 locations: Shoppes at Edgewater and at the curve on Thomas Dr. 850-233-6033.

PIZZA FACTORY BUFFET - ALL-U-CAN-EAT PIZZA - This place has 3 of our favorite things... pizza, salad and dessert and just when you thought it can’t get any better it’s all you can eat. Open every day for lunch and dinner. In the Shoppes at Edgewater. 850-249-8263.

SALTWATER GRILL - HOME OF THE 25,000 GALLON AQUARIUM
The atmosphere is very cool and upscale with a resort casual attitude. There’s even a piano bar! Whole Maine Lobster, fresh seafood and hickory grilled favorites. Open for dinner and early bird specials. 11040 Hutchison Blvd. (a.k.a. Middle Beach Rd.). 850-230-2739.

SHARKY’S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & BEACH CLUB Candlelight dining overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Come discover the real meaning of "Gulf fresh seafood". Fried, grilled, steamed, broiled or blackened seafood plus hand-cut steaks and ice-cold Apalachicola oysters. Indoor and outdoor deck dining. Families welcome. 15201 Front Beach Rd. 850-235-2420

SPINNAKER’S PARADISE GRILL The coolest beach club on the planet - a beautiful waterfront legend and one of the best places to take the family for lunch and dinner! Voted best burgers “out-of-this-world” BBQ. Right on the Beach. 8795 Thomas Dr. 850-234-7882. www.spinnakerbeachclub.com