Restaurant Guide
We have a lot of options in Cocoa Beach and on the "Space Coast" so we are going to give you the best of by us - the owners.
⭐ Dave & Stacy's Favorites. If we only had a few days in Cocoa Beach, these are the places we'd visit ourselves:
🎷 Best Live Music: Heidi's Jazz Club / Salty Sister's / Dirty Bird's
🍔 Best Casual Food & Drinks: 4th Street Fillin Station 🚶
🏖️ Best Beachfront Dining: Coconuts on the Beach
🌴 Best Outdoor Tiki Bar: Dirty Birds / Dolphins / Riki Tiki Tavern - Coldest place in town because it is over the water at the end of the Westgate Pier
👨👩👧👦 Best Family-Friendly Spot: Salty Sisters
😂 Adult Laughs: Gregory's Upstairs Comedy Club 🚶
🍹 Best Area for Bar-Hopping: The BarMuda Triangle (DOWNTOWN Cocoa Beach)
🍳 Best Breakfast: Whisk & Grind 🚶
☕ Best Coffee: A Le Vei
🥐 Best Bakery: Sunrise Bread Co.
Below are more options and info!
⭐ Dave & Stacy's Favorites. If we only had a few days in Cocoa Beach, these are the places we'd visit ourselves:
🎷 Best Live Music: Heidi's Jazz Club / Salty Sister's / Dirty Bird's
🍔 Best Casual Food & Drinks: 4th Street Fillin Station 🚶
🏖️ Best Beachfront Dining: Coconuts on the Beach
🌴 Best Outdoor Tiki Bar: Dirty Birds / Dolphins / Riki Tiki Tavern - Coldest place in town because it is over the water at the end of the Westgate Pier
👨👩👧👦 Best Family-Friendly Spot: Salty Sisters
😂 Adult Laughs: Gregory's Upstairs Comedy Club 🚶
🍹 Best Area for Bar-Hopping: The BarMuda Triangle (DOWNTOWN Cocoa Beach)
🍳 Best Breakfast: Whisk & Grind 🚶
☕ Best Coffee: A Le Vei
🥐 Best Bakery: Sunrise Bread Co.
Below are more options and info!
This list is constantly being updated. However, one of the more popular questions we get is; Where can we eat with a view.
Ocean View: (you would think there would be more of these options - but not so much)
River or Port View:
Ocean View: (you would think there would be more of these options - but not so much)
- Coconuts on the Beach
- The end of the Pier (Riki Tiki Tavern - call to make sure they are open)
- Twisted Tides (beachside behind Ron John's)
- Tiki Bar at the Hilton Beachside (North of our condo). We hear their fish tacos are great!
- If you wish to take a bit of a drive (40 minutes) Sand on the Beach in melbourn beach. If you are down that far it is another 15 minutes to Sebastian Inlet State Park. Google or contact the owners for details on this visit...
River or Port View:
- Restaurants up at Port Canaveral (Fish Lips, Grills, Rusty's are owner faves)
- Sunset Bar and Grill (about 2 miles north of our condo's). Usually see dolphins here
- Squid Lips (a funny name but we frequent it in South Cocoa Beach. If it is hot out, ask to be seated in the Marlin room. Good views from an air-conditioned room.
- A little further away - but a new find (6/2026), Marker 99. About a 30 minute drive from the condo's but you sit over the water. Often see manitee and dolphin.
- Thinking of dolphin, Dolphins Restaurant on the turn off of 428 to Kennedy Space Center. It is a lovely open air, large tiki concept right on a river that often has dolphin swimming by...