Pensacola Travel Guide
Weather, best time to visit, and the best food, culture, nature and activities.
Typical prices
- Budget meal$12.00
- Mid-range meal$28.00
- Cappuccino$3.50
- Domestic beer$5.50
- Taxi (per km)$2.00
- Public transport ticket$1.75
- Museum entry$0.00
- Mid-range hotel (night)$150.00
Food & Drink
- The Fish HouseSeafood · $$$
Downtown Pensacola waterfront restaurant on Palafox Pier known for its 'Grits a Ya Ya' with shrimp and smoked Gouda grits.
- Peg Leg Pete'sSeafood · $$
Pensacola Beach seafood shack known for oysters and its laid-back beach-bar patio.
- Five Sisters Blues CafeSouthern / Soul Food · $$
Soul food restaurant in the historic Belmont-DeVilliers district, known for fried chicken and shrimp and grits.
- Seville Quarter
Multi-room entertainment complex in downtown Pensacola's historic district, with live music across several themed bars under one roof.
- Flounder's Chowder House
Pensacola Beach bar and restaurant known for live music on its waterfront deck.
Culture & History
- National Naval Aviation Museum
Naval Air Station Pensacola museum with over 150 restored aircraft, including Blue Angels jets hanging overhead.
- Pensacola Museum of Art
Downtown art museum housed in the city's former 1906 jail building.
- Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show
Annual air show at NAS Pensacola featuring the Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron, based in Pensacola.
- Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival
Long-running juried arts festival held in downtown Pensacola's Seville Square.
Nature & Outdoors
- Pensacola Beach
Gulf Islands National Seashore beach with sugar-white quartz sand and the Pensacola Beach fishing pier.
- Fort Pickens
Historic fort within Gulf Islands National Seashore with a quieter beach and Civil War-era fortifications.