Finding your next coastal moment…
A little local discovery
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Explore the Emerald Coast
19 places on this page
A fresh mix each visit, with room for less-searched places to be discovered. Your mix stays consistent while you browse pages or return with Back. Paid placements are shown separately.
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Restaurant · Inlet Beach
Marble Slab Creamery at 30Avenue in Inlet Beach offers small-batch ice cream with a choice of mix-ins, plus shakes and ice cream cakes. The shop shares its Suite B101 space with Great American Cookies, offering cookies and cookie cakes alongside frozen treats. Find it on the north side of US Highway 98.
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Community recommendation calculation: (total stars + 17.5) ÷ (review count + 5). Five prior reviews at 3.5 stars reduce the effect of very small samples. Only published reviews from active, non-demo accounts count.
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Restaurant · Miramar Beach
Moo La-La Ice Cream & Desserts is the original Moo La-La shop at 101 Cannery Lane in the Village of Baytowne Wharf. It offers a rotating selection of ice cream flavors, waffle cones, shakes, sundaes and other sweet treats. The shop is a convenient dessert stop while exploring Baytowne Wharf in Sandestin.
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Resort · Miramar Beach
Seacove is a vacation-rental community of individually owned condominiums and townhomes on Scenic Gulf Drive in Miramar Beach. Rentals offer equipped kitchens, living areas and in-unit laundry, with one-, two- and three-bedroom options. The community is close to the Gulf beaches and the area’s shopping and attractions.
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Restaurant · Inlet Beach
A casual breakfast and lunch café at 30Avenue in Inlet Beach. Canopy Road Café combines American diner favorites with creative brunch dishes, serving pancakes and other breakfast classics alongside lunch options in a welcoming neighborhood setting.
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Restaurant · Watersound
Long-running 30A pizza shop in Watersound offering dine-in, takeout, and delivery. Pizzas are made with house-prepared dough and sauce, and the restaurant also serves a daily lunchtime pizza bar.
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Restaurant · Destin
Irish pub near Destin Harbor with a classic saloon atmosphere, live Irish entertainment, and an upstairs deck with harbor views.
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Restaurant · Miramar Beach
An upscale Mexican restaurant at Grand Boulevard in Miramar Beach, with dishes inspired by Mexico City cuisine. Cantina Laredo serves grilled seafood, chicken, and steak with house sauces, alongside tacos, enchiladas, guacamole, and fresh-lime margaritas.
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Restaurant · Destin
The Edge Seafood Restaurant & SkyBar offers seafood and open-air dining directly over Destin Harbor. Guests can watch fishing boats and harbor activity from the waterfront restaurant, while the upstairs SkyBar provides cocktails and elevated harbor views. The venue sits along the Destin Harbor Boardwalk on Harbor Boulevard.
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Restaurant · Grayton Beach
Breakfast and brunch restaurant in Grayton Beach serving homestyle favorites and lunch dishes. Crackings offers a relaxed setting at Uptown Grayton, with live music and a menu of breakfast classics and coastal-inspired specialties.
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Attraction · Destin
Nancy Weidenhamer Dog Park is a free, roughly three-acre park in Destin with separate spaces for large and small dogs. Open grass, shaded areas, benches and watering stations give dogs room to play and owners places to rest. Dogs must stay leashed until inside the park and when leaving; Tuesday mornings are reserved for maintenance.
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Attraction · Destin
Destin Princess and Destiny offer guided deep-sea fishing trips from Destin Fishing Fleet Marina. Choose family-friendly half-day outings, full-day adventures, extended offshore trips, or private charters. Bait, tackle, and fishing licenses are included, with experienced crews helping anglers of different skill levels fish the Gulf.
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Resort · Destin
Fronting US-98 on a Gulf of Mexico barrier island, this casual resort-style hotel is a 3-minute walk from the beach, an 8-minute walk from Big Kahuna water park and 1.1 miles from Henderson Beach State Park. Modest studios and 1- to 2-bedroom condos are decorated in traditional style. All offer free WiFi and kitchenettes or full kitchens, plus living areas with pull-out sofas and flat-screen TVs. Some add whirlpool tubs. In addition to indoor and outdoor pools, there's a whirlpool, an exercise room and a 9-hole indoor putting green. Other amenities include a games room, a kids' activity program, a 24/7 movie room and laundry facilities.
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Attraction · Destin
Family-friendly waterfront park featuring a splash pad, playground, and beach area.
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Restaurant · Santa Rosa Beach
Casual restaurant and bar in Grayton Beach serving globally inspired beach food and drinks. Chiringo offers a relaxed coastal atmosphere, with vegetarian and gluten-free choices and a location near the beach on Hotz Avenue.
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Restaurant · Seacrest
Peddlers Pub serves draft beer and wine at Peddlers Pavilion in Seacrest Beach. The pub is part of an outdoor gathering area with covered seating, televisions and nearby food vendors, shops and bicycle rentals. Seasonal live music adds to the pavilion’s relaxed atmosphere, while the neighboring Kickstand Bar offers cocktails.
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Restaurant · Santa Rosa Beach
Neighborhood cafe and bakery in the Shops of Grayton serving naturally leavened breads, fresh pastries, breakfast and lunch dishes, and Stumptown coffee.
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Restaurant · Destin
Jasmine Thai is a neighborhood Thai restaurant in Plantation Commons on Commons Drive West in Destin. It serves traditional Thai dishes prepared with fresh herbs and spices, with dine-in, takeout and delivery options. The restaurant is in suite 108; its published schedule runs Tuesday through Sunday, with possible early closing on quiet evenings.
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Restaurant · Destin
Destin Harbor cafe serving New Orleans-style beignets dusted with powdered sugar, specialty beignets, coffee drinks, and breakfast bites near the waterfront.
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Restaurant · Santa Rosa Beach
Frost Bites is a walk-up shave-ice stand on Seaside’s Airstream Row at 2215 East County Highway 30A. The vintage trailer serves Hawaiian-style shave ice, frozen custard, floats and combinations of the two. Order at the window and enjoy a cold treat while exploring Seaside’s town center.
