Best Restaurants During the Holidays in Pensacola, Florida

Get Out of the Heat and into the Spirit

If your holiday travel plans include Northwest Florida this Christmas and you're looking for the best restaurants during the holidays in Pensacola then have you come to the right place. I can fill you on the little secrets that will save you time and trouble.


Christmas in Pensacola is a joyous time for many. After all, nothing says it's Christmas quite like 85-degree weather, right? Have you ever had the run the air conditioning while you were opening presents on Christmas Day? Come to Pensacola, Florida and chances are you will.


No, you won't be experiencing the Currier & Ives postcard version of the holidays here. But there are few places you can go to eat where you will get the feeling that it really is Christmas. At least on the inside, if not outside.


One of the best restaurants during the holidays in Pensacola is Coach & Four. It's a steakhouse located across the street from the Five Flags Speedway. The Five Flags Speedway is famous among the stock car racing set for holding the Snowball Derby every December. An ironic name, yes, but it's better than the alternative: The December Heat Wave Derby. I'm not a big fan of car racing myself, but from what I've been told the Snowball Derby is the last big time stock car race of the year. Now by big time I don't mean Jeff Gordon big time. But professional drivers do race it and several winners have gone on to become big names. All I know is that you definitely don't want to pick the night of the Snowball Derby to eat at the Coach & Four.


Any other night during the holidays, though, and it's must. Aside from the face that the restaurant serves up the best steaks in Pensacola. Let me repeat that with emphasis: The Coach & Four has the best steaks in Pensacola! Aside from that, the atmosphere inside during the holidays is exactly what a holiday atmosphere should feel like. I don't mean sick with decorations, though it will be decorated. I don't mean the staff wearing Santa caps, though they will be. I don't mean Christmas music playing, though it might be. I mean the feeling inside is one of warmth and camaraderie and fellowship.