Food destinations within easy reach of Key West, worth the train, the rental car or the early start.

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Florida: Sunset Champagne Cruise on the Marathon Mermaid

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Big Pine Key (No Name Pub)

  • ★ 4.4
  • 30 miles, about 45 minutes by car

Famous for Pizza and smoked fish dip under a ceiling of signed dollar bills

Big Pine Key hides No Name Pub, a 1931 general store turned 1936 pub where Key West day-trippers eat pizza under thousands of stapled dollar bills.

US 1 north to mile marker 30, then follow Watson Boulevard towards No Name Key

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Marathon (Keys Fisheries)

  • ★ 4.4
  • 50 miles, about 1 hour by car

Famous for Lobster reuben at a working fish house

Marathon anchors the middle Keys food run from Key West, where Keys Fisheries serves its lobster reuben over the docks beside a working seafood market.

US 1 north to mile marker 49, Gulf side at 35th Street

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Islamorada (Robbie's & Hungry Tarpon)

  • ★ 4.3
  • 80 miles, about 1 hour 45 minutes by car

Famous for Dockside breakfast and tarpon feeding at a Keys marina

Islamorada makes the long day trip from Key West worthwhile: Robbie's marina pairs the Hungry Tarpon's dock breakfasts with hand-feeding wild tarpon.

US 1 north to mile marker 77.5, bayside

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Cudjoe Key (Square Grouper)

  • ★ 4.4
  • 23 miles, about 35 minutes by car

Famous for Fresh local seafood at a highway-side dining room

Cudjoe Key's Square Grouper Bar and Grill is the Lower Keys seafood stop worth the drive out of Key West, with the My New Joint lounge upstairs.

US 1 north to mile marker 22.5, oceanside

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Saddlebunch Keys (Baby's Coffee)

  • ★ 4.2
  • 15 miles, about 20 minutes by car

Famous for Roadside coffee roastery and espresso stop at mile marker 15

The Saddlebunch Keys run is Key West's shortest food drive: Baby's Coffee roasts at mile marker 15, the classic halfway stop on any Lower Keys loop.

US 1 north to mile marker 15; the roastery is on the left heading north

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