Key Largo Fisheries — Restaurant in Key Largo

Some places aren’t just restaurants—they’re family traditions. For me, Key Largo Fisheries is one of those. My dad has been ordering fish from here to Los Angeles for over 30 years. That should tell you something: when you’ve got Miami blood in your veins but live 3,000 miles away, you don’t gamble on seafood. You call Key Largo Fisheries.

I’ve been coming here since before they even built the restaurant in the back. Back then, it was strictly a fish market—the kind of place where you could smell the ocean before you saw it. When they finally added the restaurant, it was like a gift to the rest of us. Now you don’t just buy the catch—you taste it, right there, fresh off the boat, with the salt air hitting your face and the Keys sun reminding you why you made the drive down US-1.

The menu? It’s the ocean’s greatest hits. Lobster Reuben (a Florida Keys classic), cracked conch fried to golden perfection, shrimp so sweet they taste like they’re still flirting with the tide. And the grouper sandwich? Forget it—it should be in the Smithsonian.

This place is more than food, though. It’s a stop, a ritual, part of the rhythm of driving through the Keys. Locals know it. Fishermen know it. Travelers figure it out once they get here. You sit out back, looking at the water, biting into fish that was swimming a few hours ago, and you realize—this is the real Florida Keys. Not the T-shirt shops, not the chain restaurants. This.

Key Largo Fisheries is a gem, one of those rare places that’s been doing it right for decades and somehow only gets better. Every time I come down to my beautiful Keys, it’s a must-stop.

If you want to taste what Florida really tastes...

Posting my review due to price being a resident for 5 years I feel like I can give now my honest review. fish is fresh people that work here are great, pricing let me explain … come here several times in the past never really was a huge fan, you basically pull up to a warehouse with some seating in the back side nice view of the fishing boats and canal that smells not so great at times . Walk up to the window to order 1 hogfish sandwich 6 small conch fritters and 1 beer $53.29 with the tax 2ed window is where you grab a lunch tray with your food than hopefully find a table to sit outside.. I understand the price if you are being served and have indoor A/C options but a warehouse ? Ok maybe you think hogfish is expensive yellow tail snapper inside the store is 18.99 a pound and yes you still need to go home and cook it .. I don’t know what the hype with this place is ? Do the fish they catch swim in diamond water ? Honestly it’s crazy that even if you go to a fish warehouse thinking that you can pay reasonable price for fish caught locally think again people please take your business to a restaurant for these prices they have amazing sunset views and indoor A/C options for the same money I promise I will NEVER come back here my god in the keys the only place I have ever paid for a $10 beer 🤣 these people...

I asked what gluten free options they had available and was told, “All fish are gluten free” by the middle aged woman without a name tag behind the counter. I’m very well aware that fish is naturally a gluten free food when it comes out of the water, what doesn’t make it gluten free is how it’s prepared, but thanks for the unhelpful information! If you’re that annoyed by the question I have some information that will actually be very helpful for you - label your menu and mark any items that are gluten free clearly. Believe me, the last thing people like me who physically cannot eat gluten without serious complications want to do is have to ask some unfriendly person behind the counter who doesn’t want to help us anyway.

I was also told their fries are not gluten free due to the “coating” they use. Very limited options for celiac customers and those with gluten intolerances. I had peel and eat shrimp and a grilled chicken sandwich sans bun. My husband, who can eat gluten, ordered the lobster BLT. All the food we ate was very basic, nothing special about this place.

On a non-food related note, tiny little flying insects (not mosquitoes) bit us the entire time we sat outside. No indoor...