Florida home to America's top beach bars as Daytona Beach spot leads the list

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"No shoes, nary shirt, nary problem."

That's the motto astatine the No. 1 beach bar successful America.

Ocean Deck Restaurant & Beach Club successful Daytona Beach, Florida, precocious earned that favoritism from USA Today readers. It's 1 of 3 watering holes from the Sunshine State that cracked the apical 10 champion formation barroom rankings of 2025 — on with Flora-Bama Lounge, Package & Oyster Bar successful Pensacola (No. 2) and Sloppy Joe's connected the Beach successful Treasure Island (No. 7), some nestled disconnected the Gulf of America.

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Florida's apical formation barroom sits adjacent the Atlantic Ocean, attracting a premix of "really dedicated locals" and tourists who trek to Daytona Beach annually for motorcycle week and 1 of NASCAR's longest-running races.

What started arsenic a blistery canine basal successful 1957 yet expanded into a full-fledged edifice and bar. After longtime proprietor Dick Keough retired, Connie and Matt Fuerst took implicit the barroom successful 2012.

A pistillate and antheral wearing sunglasses airs extracurricular the Ocean Deck Restaurant & Beach Club successful Daytona Beach, Florida.

Matt and Connie Fuerst person owned Ocean Deck Restaurant & Beach Club successful Daytona Beach, Florida, since 2012. (Nigel Cook/News-Journal/USA TODAY NETWORK)

"He ever said helium wanted to ain this place," co-owner Connie Fuerst said of her husband, a seasoned of the edifice industry.

It's the lone barroom successful the metropolis "actually connected the beach," Fuerst told Fox News Digital.

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"Everything other has to beryllium connected a seawall. We're grandfathered into that rule."

Part of its appeal, she said, is that radical are capable to "come successful disconnected the beach successful their swimsuits and person a portion and bask it."

People beryllium and basal portion mingling connected the soil astatine the formation extracurricular a bar.

Guests astatine Ocean Deck tin travel successful their swimsuits and bask a acold brew. (Ocean Deck Restaurant & Beach Bar)

The barroom besides puts connected formation concerts and has karaoke each weekend.

Then there's the restaurant, which keeps its room unfastened until 1 a.m. – an enticing gully for the early-morning crowds.

For those who determine to halt by, Fuerst recommends the Ocean Decker, "which is simply a immense monster of a burger."

"It's got bulb rings, cheese, bacon, ham, tomatoes, lettuce, pickles," she said. "It is about, I privation to say, 8 inches tall, and we person to enactment a steak weapon successful it to support it together. People emotion it."

The Ocean Decker burger disposable astatine Ocean Deck Restaurant & Beach Club successful Daytona Beach, Florida.

The Ocean Decker is simply a "monster of a burger" that is astir 8 inches gangly and has to beryllium held unneurotic with a steak knife. (Ocean Deck Restaurant & Beach Club)

Hawaii – not Florida – is the authorities with the astir formation bars successful the apical 10.

They are each located connected edifice properties.

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California comes successful conscionable down Florida with 2 bars connected the list, portion South Carolina's Tiki Hut astatine Beach House is the lone typical from the Deep South.

Check retired the database of the apical 10 formation bars and their locations.

1. Ocean Deck Restaurant & Beach Club successful Daytona Beach, Florida

2. Flora-Bama Lounge, Package & Oyster Bar successful Pensacola, Florida