Guidebook for Pensacola
Food Scene
Something like 164 beers on tap, excellent sausage pizza, great local atmosphere.
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Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom
10 S Palafox StSomething like 164 beers on tap, excellent sausage pizza, great local atmosphere.
Burgers here are as big as your head! You get a laminated menu and a grease pencil to begin. Pick your protein (Kobe beef, regular beef, chicken, black bean burger, etc.), pick your bun, then go crazy on ingredients. Home made potato chips are great, as are the spiked milkshakes. Not too expensive.
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The Tin Cow Downtown Pensacola
102 S Palafox StBurgers here are as big as your head! You get a laminated menu and a grease pencil to begin. Pick your protein (Kobe beef, regular beef, chicken, black bean burger, etc.), pick your bun, then go crazy on ingredients. Home made potato chips are great, as are the spiked milkshakes. Not too expensive.
In East Pensacola Heights just across the bayou from our neighborhood in East Hill, the New Yorker is a favorite local hangout. You can get about anything here, from freshly made salads (tortellini, antipasto, egg salad, rosemary turkey, etc.) to soups, pizza, calzones, subs, hot dogs, everything!!! Super cheap, super fast, and super good!!! Five stars!
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New Yorker Deli & Pizzeria
3001 E Cervantes StIn East Pensacola Heights just across the bayou from our neighborhood in East Hill, the New Yorker is a favorite local hangout. You can get about anything here, from freshly made salads (tortellini, antipasto, egg salad, rosemary turkey, etc.) to soups, pizza, calzones, subs, hot dogs, everything!!! Super cheap, super fast, and super good!!! Five stars!
They only take cash and local checks, but when you can get a great hamburger for $2.25, isn't that worth it? Milkshakes, chicken gizzards, comfort food, lots of grease. Hey, that's why we like it!
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Jerry's Drive In
2815 E Cervantes StThey only take cash and local checks, but when you can get a great hamburger for $2.25, isn't that worth it? Milkshakes, chicken gizzards, comfort food, lots of grease. Hey, that's why we like it!
Brew Ha Ha just opened in March 2018 and is already making a splash for being Pensacola-centric--there is a re-creation of the Graffiti Bridge on 17th Avenue, complete with a little train going over the trestle; the back area outdoors (pet-friendly) hearkens back to the Fort Pickens Campground of the 1960s; to get outside you have to walk through the "tunnel of trees" -- actual live oak limbs draped in Spanish moss canopied overhead, just like the ones on 12th Avenue; even the bathrooms are wallpapered in vintage Pensacola yearbooks going back to 1938! Oh, and outside, be sure to get a selfie in front of the WWII-era "Greetings from Pensacola" postcard mural!
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Brew Ha Ha Pensacola
Brew Ha Ha just opened in March 2018 and is already making a splash for being Pensacola-centric--there is a re-creation of the Graffiti Bridge on 17th Avenue, complete with a little train going over the trestle; the back area outdoors (pet-friendly) hearkens back to the Fort Pickens Campground of the 1960s; to get outside you have to walk through the "tunnel of trees" -- actual live oak limbs draped in Spanish moss canopied overhead, just like the ones on 12th Avenue; even the bathrooms are wallpapered in vintage Pensacola yearbooks going back to 1938! Oh, and outside, be sure to get a selfie in front of the WWII-era "Greetings from Pensacola" postcard mural!
Drinks & Nightlife
An out-of-the-way place on the beach where the locals go for great blues and incredible eats. We are groupies of a blues singer/songwriter/keyboard player named Victor Wainwright, so you'll find us all there when he's playing the Paradise. Burgers made with angus beef, fried green beans to die for (really!!!), and best Bushwackers anywhere (the drink invented locally that's just like an adult milkshake with four kinds of booze). Inside seating, outside seating, nice pier to walk out and see the sunset, plus inexpensive. Can't beat it!
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Paradise Bar & Grill
21 Via De Luna DrAn out-of-the-way place on the beach where the locals go for great blues and incredible eats. We are groupies of a blues singer/songwriter/keyboard player named Victor Wainwright, so you'll find us all there when he's playing the Paradise. Burgers made with angus beef, fried green beans to die for (really!!!), and best Bushwackers anywhere (the drink invented locally that's just like an adult milkshake with four kinds of booze). Inside seating, outside seating, nice pier to walk out and see the sunset, plus inexpensive. Can't beat it!
Parks & Nature
Take Fort Pickens road once you get to Pensacola Beach, and keep going until you enter Gulf Islands National Seashore. It's a hefty $15 entrance fee, but that's good for a week, and it's worth it if you're only there a day. Stunning views of sugar white dunes and emerald water, tons of ospreys, least terns and black skimmers, and the pre-Civil War Fort Pickens, one of three forts built in a triangle guarding the mouth of Pensacola Bay. Great snorkeling here on the sound side, lots of batteries to climb around on and in (check out Battery Cooper and Battery Worth), and a nice nature trail right next to the fort (bring some stale crackers for the alligator snapping turtle!).
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Gulf Islands National Seashore
1400 Fort Pickens RoadTake Fort Pickens road once you get to Pensacola Beach, and keep going until you enter Gulf Islands National Seashore. It's a hefty $15 entrance fee, but that's good for a week, and it's worth it if you're only there a day. Stunning views of sugar white dunes and emerald water, tons of ospreys, least terns and black skimmers, and the pre-Civil War Fort Pickens, one of three forts built in a triangle guarding the mouth of Pensacola Bay. Great snorkeling here on the sound side, lots of batteries to climb around on and in (check out Battery Cooper and Battery Worth), and a nice nature trail right next to the fort (bring some stale crackers for the alligator snapping turtle!).
Scenic Highway is a stunning 10-mile drive along Pensacola and Escambia Bays with a couple of great stops along the way. Stop at Bay Bluffs Park to walk along the boardwalk and down to the bayfront through the dense woods. These are the only bluffs in Florida, and if you look back from the water, they are bright red--that's the color of our dirt around here. Also stop at at Chimney Park at Scenic Highway and Langley for a little history of the area (the old chimney is the last remnant of a thriving sawmill and brick industry along the bluffs). The parks are free.
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Bay Bluffs Park
3400 Scenic HwyScenic Highway is a stunning 10-mile drive along Pensacola and Escambia Bays with a couple of great stops along the way. Stop at Bay Bluffs Park to walk along the boardwalk and down to the bayfront through the dense woods. These are the only bluffs in Florida, and if you look back from the water, they are bright red--that's the color of our dirt around here. Also stop at at Chimney Park at Scenic Highway and Langley for a little history of the area (the old chimney is the last remnant of a thriving sawmill and brick industry along the bluffs). The parks are free.
Gorgeous state park on Pensacola's west side, which fronts the Intercoastal Waterway (here called Big Lagoon). Very nice hiking trails here, as well as a boardwalk that takes you out over the marsh and up a 40-foot observation tower for birds-eye views of the park and the barrier island (Perdido Key) beyond.
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Big Lagoon State Park
12301 Gulf Beach HwyGorgeous state park on Pensacola's west side, which fronts the Intercoastal Waterway (here called Big Lagoon). Very nice hiking trails here, as well as a boardwalk that takes you out over the marsh and up a 40-foot observation tower for birds-eye views of the park and the barrier island (Perdido Key) beyond.
Sightseeing
Homes dating back to early 1800s. This entire neighborhood on Pensacola Bay, plus the two public plazas, Plaza Ferdinand and Seville Square, used to be within the confines of a wooden fort. The British mapped out the street grid for the original old city and named all of the street Charlotte and Pitt and Prince and very proper British names, then 20 years later the Spanish took Pensacola in the Battle of Pensacola (1781) and renamed the streets Tarragona, Zaragozza, Intendencia, Alcaniz, Cervantes, etc.--and those streets are still called by those Spanish names! The architecture here is simple with mostly one-story shotgun homes. It remains the most intact historic district in Florida.
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Seville Historic District
Homes dating back to early 1800s. This entire neighborhood on Pensacola Bay, plus the two public plazas, Plaza Ferdinand and Seville Square, used to be within the confines of a wooden fort. The British mapped out the street grid for the original old city and named all of the street Charlotte and Pitt and Prince and very proper British names, then 20 years later the Spanish took Pensacola in the Battle of Pensacola (1781) and renamed the streets Tarragona, Zaragozza, Intendencia, Alcaniz, Cervantes, etc.--and those streets are still called by those Spanish names! The architecture here is simple with mostly one-story shotgun homes. It remains the most intact historic district in Florida.
Downtown Pensacola is now quite a hip and happening place! Stroll through the Palafox Market on Saturdays for locally-sourced honey, beef, vegetables, flowers and plants, and quirky art work. Check out the many shops and galleries throughout the downtown area. Favorite restaurants: Hopjacks, Tin Cow, Ruby Slipper, Al Fresco, So Gourmet, Bodacious Brew, and Jaco's down at the foot of Palafox on the bay. Plaza de Luna is right here as well, a public plaza great for fishing, checking out the ships at the port next door, and strolling the promenade along the fancy marina. In season you can take in a Blue Wahoos game (our baseball team) at Wahoos Stadium on the waterfront. Inexpensive and fun!
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Downtown
Downtown Pensacola is now quite a hip and happening place! Stroll through the Palafox Market on Saturdays for locally-sourced honey, beef, vegetables, flowers and plants, and quirky art work. Check out the many shops and galleries throughout the downtown area. Favorite restaurants: Hopjacks, Tin Cow, Ruby Slipper, Al Fresco, So Gourmet, Bodacious Brew, and Jaco's down at the foot of Palafox on the bay. Plaza de Luna is right here as well, a public plaza great for fishing, checking out the ships at the port next door, and strolling the promenade along the fancy marina. In season you can take in a Blue Wahoos game (our baseball team) at Wahoos Stadium on the waterfront. Inexpensive and fun!
Folks who lived in the old city in the 1800s (now the Seville Historic District) were making a ton of money off of fishing (red snapper), shipping and lumber, but the waterfront was dirty, smoky, and filled with sailors and dock workers. So starting about 1870, these families moved to the top of the hill--an area just north of downtown called the North Hill Preservation District. Since there was so much money flowing in town, these well-to-do families hired their own architects to design them a unique home, each trying to outdo the others. So North Hill is a stunning collection of many architectural styles including Queen Anne, Art Moderne and Mediterranean Revival. Free.
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North Hill Preservation District
Folks who lived in the old city in the 1800s (now the Seville Historic District) were making a ton of money off of fishing (red snapper), shipping and lumber, but the waterfront was dirty, smoky, and filled with sailors and dock workers. So starting about 1870, these families moved to the top of the hill--an area just north of downtown called the North Hill Preservation District. Since there was so much money flowing in town, these well-to-do families hired their own architects to design them a unique home, each trying to outdo the others. So North Hill is a stunning collection of many architectural styles including Queen Anne, Art Moderne and Mediterranean Revival. Free.