The Village Door Restaurant & Entertainment — Restaurant in Florida

This is the spot to go to when you're in Destin.

Lots of drink options and great prices for drinks, best priced drinks you'll find in the village.

There's always a fun DJ that'll joke around with the crowd. He calls birthdays and brides and grooms and bachelors and bachelorettes onto stage and shouts them out with a special announcement and plays a song for the occasion.

Best atmosphere out of any bar for 2 hours, people regularly come from Panama City to come here. It's definitely the favorite local spot.

It's got amazing vibes.

And the management is all amazing, I've met every single one of them and they've been the ones that have made me feel comfortable and welcome there.

I seriously can't thank the owner enough for being so kind and understanding and for making my day with your kindness so many times.

And thank you for the other management respecting that.

The security is all cool people to chat with and easy to get along with, very respectful and good at their jobs. Even when they have to do their job as security and take someone out of the bar, they never make a scene.

Top notch security and they're everywhere, in the crowds, up top, all around the bar and dance floor. They make sure nothing illegal or sketchy is going on and their presence , especially as friends, is comforting imo.

The outside bartender is amazing 11/10, They're always in a great mood, happy, and they make you feel listened to and actually have conversations with you when they don't have drinks to make. Gives the real bar feel outside.

Seriously can't say enough good things about the outside bartenders, they've made me smile

The inside bartenders can be short but they make decent drinks, i usually go for bottles of cider. They're pretty usually rushed with orders so no stress there.

Overall this is one of my favorite bars for the off season, we'll see what it's like during spring break and...

Came to Destin with family for vacation. It was important we found a safe place to eat out for my son who has to have GF for health reasons. We sought this place out before even leaving from home just so we could go out to eat for once while on vacation. We get there around 3:30 4ish not even dinner rush, so inside was completely empty, waiter begins to take us outside to sit. Temps were still pretty hot outside and music was pretty loud for kiddos so we asked to sit inside where it was cool. We were seated and waiter spoke to some older man and said can we seat them here (bar area)? He said no not a good place very rudely along with another lady that worked there gave us a dirty look. The waiter explained to us that they were doing some kind of "food" tasting production and it was going to be loud and if we wouldn't mind going upstairs to eat. The waiter was very apologetic and nice, so of course we obliged. We had a new waitress greet us upstairs who truly made up for the "rude" man and woman downstairs. Come to find out that rude older man who said "absolutely not we cannot sit downstairs" was the owner!! We truly felt unwelcome and humiliated there when we first arrived because of the owner and that one other lady who gave us a dirty look.

I give only 1 star because of the wait staff that was kind and accommodating. The brisket and fries were ok. We ordered food to go for late dinner so we wouldn't have to cook again that night. We ordered the smoke turkey and chicken wings this time. Turkey was VERY salty and chicken wings still had chicken feathers in them!

Very disappointing this place. Certainly not a place you want to go while on vacation. I guess if you're there for the night club scene maybe. Overall one of the worst experiences we had. Will not be back. Btw way our bill came out to $170.00 w tip so very overpriced on top of...

We had a late lunch here after checking into our hotel nearby. We were literally the only people there, which wasn’t surprising given the time of day and the season. We were seated quickly and the staff were friendly. We ordered drinks, a grouper sandwich and a burger.

We were sitting outside and sort of chuckled at the signs near the railing warning against feeding raccoons; we assumed they had gotten comfortable coming up to the patio and grabbing food people might have dropped.

Our food came out pretty quickly. It was OK. The texture of the fish seemed as if it was frozen instead of fresh. The burger was fine. After a bit we noticed a squirrel run by our table. The staff referred to it as “squirrelly” and said they sometimes leave crackers out for it to eat. After a few minutes the squirrel was perched on the table next to us eyeing our food. Then it was climbing up the empty stool next to me. I nudged the stool and it scurried off, but returned before long. This went on for a few minutes before the staff came and lured it away with a cracker. Shortly after it was back. This went on for the duration of our meal. At one point the squirrels hands were up on the table. The staff seemed amused by it. I was not.

We had them take our food away before we were finished because we were tired of being harassed by the squirrels and wanted to finish our drinks in peace. I mentioned how bothersome the squirrels had been and only then was an apology offered. We were given a discount on our meal for the trouble.

This was a very disappointing experience and seemed indicative of a place where management is not paying enough attention to what is happening with...