Café Moka Coffee and Bakery
A great place for breakfast or lunch, Café Moka feels like a quaint French café. They serve fresh brewed coffee, breakfast croissants, quiche, baked goods, sandwiches like prosciutto and mozzerella, roast beef and cheddar and smoked salmon on French baguettes, salads plus a soup du jour. This is a great place to go and take it slow. Sit by a window and watch the world go by or out in the tranquil garden. If you go after 6pm they offer a selection of fine wines, baked brie, cheese plates, a tapas plate and delicious oven baked flatbreads..
91865 Overseas Highway
Tavernier, FL 33070
305-453-6271
Chad’s Deli
92330 Overseas Highway
Tavernier, Florida 33070
(305) 853-5566
Chad’s has been a fan favorite for many years with their large menu of oversized deli sandwiches served on their own signature breads that include rye, pumpernickel, sourdought and Italian. Offerings include all your deli favorites including chicken salad, turkey and bacon, Reubens, pulled pork, meatball and more. They have really inventive one-of-a-kind soups like tomato bisque, creamy white cheddar spinach and feta chowder and red pepper Gouda. They also offer large entrée sized salads. pizza, calzones burgers and baked goods. The entire restaurant is decorated in Chad’s extensive Coca-Cola memorabilia and it’s hard not to find Chad himself manning the counter
www.chadsdeli.com
Sunrise Cuban Café & Market
91885 Overseas Highway
(305) 852-7216
A Cuban café serving Café Con Leche, Cuban sandwiches with matchstick potatoes, huevos rancheros, slow roasted pork and black beans and rice. The menu board is written in Spanish and the decor is sparse, just a few banquet chairs and tables, but the experience is very authentic.
Made 2 Order Café
90691 Overseas Highway
(305) 852-3251
This restaurant is a little bit difficult to find as it’s tucked away on the old highway. You’ll want to visit their website for directions, but it’s well worth it. This is a really popular breakfast and brunch spot. They have beautiful dockside seating, and a large menu offering eggs Benedict, their signature grilled banana bread with peanut butter, orange French toast, corn beef hash, house fried potatoes, Popeye and Olive Oyl omelettes and fish and grits.
Dillon’s Pub and Grill
91200 Overseas Highway
Tavernier, Florida 33070
This is an Irish pub and sports bar popular with the locals. It’s located in a shopping center next to the Winn Dixie Grocery Store. Inside it’s dimly lit and cold with flickering TV’s tuned to sporting events. There are plenty of ice cold beers on tap, including Guinness. The menu features plenty of fresh seafood, but also departs from the usual to offer prime rib, French onion soup, corned beef and cabbage, BBQ baby back ribs, sesame seared Ahi tuna, loaded potato skins and chicken wings.
Dillonspubandgrill.com
Snappers Oceanfront Restaurant and Bar
139 Seaside Avenue
Key Largo, Florida 33037
(305) 852-5956
Snapper’s is a large historic Ocean front restaurant and several smaller more casual bars located in its various nooks and crannies. Many of the locals come by boat and venture no further than the dockside bar known as the Turtle Club. There’s a lively crowd, live music, a full bar and lots of small bites and sandwiches on the menu. Up the dock there’s a food truck court with various offerings. Continue on to the main restaurant and you’ll encounter more formal surroundings with world-class cuisine and a Sunday Brunch so popular it requires reservations. This is fine dining and the prices reflect that. For starters you can order Wahoo ceviche, garlic steamed mussels, shrimp cocktails, Alligator, Nachos with sushi grade tuna and fresh oysters on the ½ shell. For diner they offer Bleu cheese encrusted filet mignon, shellfish scampi, Surf and Turf, and fresh fish cooked 6 different ways by the chef. This a memorable place to celebrate a special occasion.
www.snapperskeylargo.com
What The Fish Rolls
90775 Old Highway
Tavernier, Florida 33070
(305) 440-3650
A quaint seafood shack serving delicious lobster and shrimp rolls. There’s no inside seating, but lot’s of comfortable outdoor seating under the large outdoor Tiki hut.
www.whatthefishrolls.com
Old Tavernier Restaurant and Lounge
90311 Old Highway
(305) 852-6012
An elegant restaurant serving chef prepared Surf and Turf, stuffed lobster, Chicken Florentine, seafood pasta, duck with cranberry sauce, Greek style whole yellowtail snapper and extravagant desserts on crisp white tablecloths. Top notch service and an extensive wine list round out the experience.
www.oldtavernier.com
Harriette’s Restaurant
95710 Overseas Highway
Key Largo, Florida 33037
(305) 852-8689
Harriettes has been serving breakfast, lunch and brunch for over 30 years. They serve over 2o different types of house-made muffins, fresh squeezed orange juice, biscuits and gravy, breakfast burritos, omelets, pancakes, grits and eggs your way. For lunch they have club sandwiches, Ruebens on rye, a conch burger, chipped beef, a fried oyser sandwhich, egg salad and more.