Marie's Bistro & Barside

We love Marie's!  We first discovered it a couple of years ago and during our one week stay in Ft. Walton Beach, drove out to Santa Rosa Beach three times to have dinner there. My husband kept ordering off the specials menu and was thrilled every single time. I jumped around the main menu and had the sushi.  Everything was excellent. The owners were delightful and warm.

Fast forward to this year: we are here again and returned last night for dinner.  As we walked in the door, the owner recognized us!  He remembered our daughter and remembered how much I love sushi!  We felt like old friends. Plus, we had another excellent meal.  Husband once again ordered from the specials and had the red snapper in a sauce made of avocado, lime, and hollandaise. It was outstanding.  The sushi continues to be really solidly done; my three year old even wanted some!

We will be returning this week and in the years to come!

Hanie is the best. Sushi was great. Cucumber salad was a bit bland. Overall wonderful meal. Guitar player,  Matt Hall, was really good.  Hire him for a small party

Contemporary American, Italian, Japanese and other cuisines.  Not so impressed with the service or the person working the bar.  Went there on 7/5/2013 because we couldn't get into the best of the best on Hwy 30-A.  However, we were happy to find a sit-down establishment with a bar on that day.  Nice of the man who was running the operation to squeeze us in.  Food was one notch up from so-so.  Cocktails another matter.  Maybe there was a newbie bartender that day.  Martinis were blah.  Person did not have a clue on how to make a decent Old Fashion.  Nice though that he double-shot it, so 2 Old Fashions was enough to make me say "no mas!"  Atmosphere is funky and reminded me of an establishment trying to replicate the Red Bar atmosphere.  Place has a long way to go to get there, as it is on the north side of 30-A with no view other than the parking lot forward, blah-blah-blah on the east and west and a noisy, dirty looking kitchen behind our table.