Cheap Eats in Key West

The Green Parrot

• ★ 4.8
• Cocktail bar
• $
• Old Town

Drink Cold draft with free popcorn

The Green Parrot has poured at Whitehead and Southard since 1890 by its own count, Key West's open-shuttered dive with free popcorn and nightly bands.

5 Brothers Grocery & Sandwich Shop

• ★ 4.7
• Cuban
• $
• Old Town

Order Cuban mix pressed hot, plus a bag of bollos

5 Brothers Grocery has pressed Cuban mixes and poured con leche at Southard and Grinnell in Key West since 1978, a family corner store with a bench crew.

Sandy's Cafe

• ★ 4.6
• Cuban
• $
• White Street & The Meadows

Order Cuban mix with a large cafe con leche

Sandy's Cafe is the laundromat lunch counter of Key West, pressing Cuban mixes and pouring con leche at a White Street walk-up window from 05:00 daily.

Cuban Coffee Queen

• ★ 4.6
• Café
• $
• Historic Seaport

Order Cafe con leche and the Cuban breakfast burrito

Cuban Coffee Queen pulls con leches at a muralled walk-up window by the Key West Bight, the waterfront original of the island's Cuban coffee mini-chain.

El Siboney Restaurant

• ★ 4.5
• Cuban
• $
• White Street & The Meadows

Order Roast pork with black beans, rice and plantains

El Siboney is Key West's bilingual Cuban dining room on Catherine Street, ladling roast pork, rice and beans at prices the neighbourhood can still afford.

Fisherman's Cafe

• ★ 4.4
• Seafood
• $
• Historic Seaport

Order Fresh fish sandwich with the papaya and mango slaw

Fisherman's Cafe works a small counter by Key West's Historic Seaport, stacking fish sandwiches with papaya and mango slaw for boat crews and walkers.

Baby's Coffee

• ★ 4.4
• Coffee roaster
• $
• Lower Keys

Order An iced Old Town Roast and a bag of Sexpresso beans

Baby's Coffee has roasted 100% Arabica beans since 1991 and works from mile marker 15, the road-trip espresso stop on a Key West run up the Overseas Highway.

Cuban Coffee Queen Roasters

• ★ 4.3
• Coffee roaster
• $
• Old Town

Cuban Coffee Queen Roasters supplies the beans behind Key West's favourite con leche windows from a courtyard roastery off Southard at Key Lime Square.

Captain Tony's Saloon

• ★ 4.3
• Cocktail bar
• $
• Duval Street

Drink Pirate's Punch under the hanging tree

Captain Tony's Saloon drinks inside an 1851 icehouse on Greene Street, the Key West bar that claims Hemingway's patronage and a tree through the roof.

The Conch Shack

• ★ 4.2
• Seafood
• $
• Duval Street

Order Cracked conch with the key lime aioli

The Conch Shack fries conch fritters towards midnight at weekends, a sidewalk window on lower Duval Street feeding Key West drinkers between bars.

Mr Z's

• ★ 4.1
• American
• $
• Old Town

Order The classic ribeye cheesesteak with white American

Mr Z's has griddled Amoroso-roll cheesesteaks and pizza on Southard Street in Key West since 2002, the counter the bars empty into after closing time.