The Grand Marlin of Pensacola Beach

With views of Santa Rosa Sound and sunsets over Pensacola Bay, The Grand Marlin offers a tranquil, relaxed atmosphere where patrons can enjoy the most memorable dining experience on the Gulf Coast.

The Grand Marlin features the area's best selection of seafood, highlighted by daily specials from the kitchen of prize-winning Chef Gregg McCarthy. Printing its menu daily, The Grand Marlin ensures its choice of fish and shellfish will be the freshest on the Gulf Coast. And for those in the mood for something other than seafood we offer tempting steaks, succulent poultry dishes and other fare to meet your every taste.

The dining room features the area's best-stocked, most tempting oyster bar where the finest oysters, from Apalachicola and East Bay to more exotic locales, are shucked to order. It's a perfect place for a quick lunch, to meet friends for our daily Happy Hour or to sample our specialty baked oysters.

We offer a full-bar and an intriguing 80-plus bottle wine list chosen to compliment any dish while presenting exceptional value. Many of these enticing wines are available by the glass.

Overlooking our beautifully designed dining room, with its barrel-vault ceiling and comfortable banquettes, is a spectacular 1,228.5-pound Atlantic Blue Marlin. The fish holds the North Carolina state record and was caught Aug. 15, 2008 by Trey Irvine aboard the Mimi.

The Blue Marlin, pound-for-pound the world's strongest game fish, is representative of the thrill, quality a