Key West may be casual, but the food is serious business. Tell us your favorite restaurant

So what’s the best restaurant in Key West?

We need to know, so we are putting out a call to find the No. 1 dining spot on this tropical island, known for much more than conch fritters and late-night pizza slices.

This debate will get heated. Food means everything in Key West. Well, after drinking.

In Key West, world-renowned, luxurious waterfront fine dining abounds, with curated wine lists and sought-after reservation lists. The dress code may remain casual, but the menus here are dressed to the nines.

But feel free to nominate your favorite no matter what the cuisine or menu prices.

This poll is entirely unscientific and the stakes are low. Based on the restaurants nominated in this call out, we will create the Sweet 16, which will face off in weekly polls until we are down to the final two. This poll only covers Key West. But, yes, next we will cover the restaurant scenes up the Keys, including Marathon and Islamorada.

Thank you for taking part. We can’t wait to see the short list.

This story was originally published May 18, 2022 at 2:49 PM.

Gwen Filosa

Miami Herald

Gwen Filosa covers Key West and the Lower Florida Keys for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald and lives in Key West. She was part of the staff at the New Orleans Times-Picayune that in 2005 won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She graduated from Indiana University.