Top Cape Canaveral, Florida Restaurants

Cape Canaveral offers numerous restaurant options, from casual to fine dining, from seafood to steak, and from Italian to Mexican.  A couple are worthy of mention due to their great location and fantastic food.  First, an excellent choice to enjoy food and drinks in a casual patio setting is Rusty's Seafood & Oyster Bar of Port Canaveral, at 628 Glen Cheek Dr., Cape Canaveral, FL 32920.  Established back in 1993, Rusty’s theme is a cozy, come-as-you-are, fun-filled alternative to a fine dining atmosphere.  Relaxation is encouraged from the minute you walk in.  You can opt to take a seat at the oyster bar, sit outside on the enormous wood deck which overlooks the water, or simply head inside to enjoy the A/C in the sweltering summer months.  Dive into raw or steamed oysters, the famous peel-and-eat shrimp, seared ahi tuna sandwich, snow crab legs, or have a hearty bowl of seafood gumbo or clam chowder.  Other good ones to try include the fish and chips, crab legs and oysters. There are several specials during happy hour, including both food and drink deals.  Rusty’s is the only restaurant at the Port where you can “dock and dine,“ or in other words you can park your boat. The bar and restaurant has six slips.

A couple doors down is Grills Seafood Deck & Tiki Bar, at 505 Glen Creek Drive, Cape Canaveral, FL 32920.  The cuisine is American bistro-style, featuring sandwiches and seafood, and the spot serves dinner, lunch, and Sunday Brunch . Grills has a Sunday brunch.  The only dress code is anything goes, and you can dress up or down.  Grills has a popular tiki bar, and is a unique waterfront eating establishment.  Officially, it is the restaurant which is the closest to the Atlantic Ocean in the Port Canaveral area of Cape Canaveral.  Grills offers diners a chance to grab the chowder of the day or a freshly-grilled yellow fin tuna sandwich while watching the day's catch being brought in around sunset.  For breakfast, Grills offers the usual pancake fare as well as specialty omelets, one of which is made with crab meat, shrimp and toped with a Caribbean hollandaise sauce.  Dinner choices include a wide variety of fresh seafood, hearty steaks, and even a few vegetarian choices. Live music is offered Wednesday through Sunday.