Red Bar celebrates its 18th year on Super Bowl Sunday! FEB 3

[Teresa]

Happy 18 Years Red Bar!!! You are truly beloved by so many friends, residents and visitors!
Join the celebration at Red Bar on Super Bowl Sunday Feb 3.

Dread Clampitt kicks off the anniversary celebration at noon.

Super Bowl XLVII kicks off at 5:30 CST

Hubba Hubba rocks the house after the game

Dinner will be $10 all you can eat Super Bowl food including chili wings, cips and house smoked salmon, fried shrimp, oysters... Georgie is making complimentary jello shots!


Oli's facebook post today (Jan 29)

‎18 years ago today
The 49RS and chargers were playing in the Super Bowl
And while this was going On I was opening the Red Bar that night... praying people would like it
Bday party is next Sunday
But today is the actual bday
Thank u all beautiful people
Happy 18 Red Bar

Give 'em some love on SoWal.com Dining Guide | Red Bar (rate & comment)

 

[Kurt]

http://www.tampabay.com/features/travel/florida/article1016963.ece


Olivier Petit was 19, and barely out of culinary trade school in his native Belgium, when he took a summer job serving tourists here in the Panhandle beach towns stretching along 30-A.


"I thought I would just come work the season and be done," Petit told me. "But I've been here ever since."


Today Petit, 39, runs the Red Bar, one of the area's best-known hangouts. During the high season from Memorial Day through Labor Day, Petit serves between 700 and 1,000 customers daily.


With its red indoor lighting and funky decor, the Bohemian-chic restaurant and watering hole is modeled after his father's bar in Belgium. Old movie, art and music posters from around the world cover the ceiling and walls. Street signs and eclectic knickknacks hang above the bar and doorways.


"It looks chaotic, but there is symmetry," Petit said. "Every piece is hand selected."


The Red Bar, with its six-item dinner menu and cash-only policy, is a come-as-you-are spot where locals drink shoulder to shoulder with tourists and celebrities like Sheryl Crow. The house jazz band is always hoppin'. The beer taps flow generously. The white-sand beach is just outside.


No wonder local resident Lynn Nesmith, an architectural critic and freelance writer, called it "the heart and soul of Grayton Beach."

 

[Kurt]

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