Casablanca Cafe

Casablanca Cafe is a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, serving Mediterranean-American cuisine from an oceanfront setting on Fort Lauderdale Beach. The menu covers brunch, lunch, dinner, happy hour, cocktails, and dessert, with fresh seafood, coastal specialties, and comforting classics. Brunch runs daily, 11am to 4pm Monday through Thursday and 8:30am to 4pm Friday through Sunday, with mimosas, Bloody Marys, and handcrafted drinks. Lunch brings signature sandwiches such as a mojo pork sandwich and a lamb sandwich, alongside a daily catch prepared grilled, blackened, or fried. Dinner adds entrées like shrimp, mussels, and calamari with saffron rice, and a snapper filet with citrus adobo sauce. Desserts include baklava, Key lime pie, chocolate lava cake, and classic creme brulee. The restaurant holds a 4.50 rating across 3,049 reviews.

The restaurant occupies the oldest remaining beachfront structure on Fort Lauderdale Beach, an original 1927 beachfront home whose preserved Mediterranean Revival architecture shapes the dining experience. Seating is first-come, first-served, with no reservations accepted. Live piano and nightly music run Tuesday through Sunday, with happy hour music starting at 6:30 PM Tuesday through Thursday and 7:30 PM on Fridays. The patio faces the sunset, and the piano bar carries the evening from smooth jazz to contemporary favorites. Private celebrations such as birthdays, bridal showers, engagement parties, and rehearsal dinners are hosted in the historic beachfront setting. Valet parking is available for guests Monday through Friday from 4pm and Saturday and Sunday from 8am.

The restaurant sits on Alhambra Street, just off North Seabreeze Boulevard and about a tenth of a mile from North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard. The Water Taxi stop at Beach Place is roughly three tenths of a mile away, and Las Olas Beach is about four tenths of a mile from the door. The Marathon Swimmer Diana Nyad memorial and Las Olas Intracoastal Promenade Park are each around four tenths of a mile away.

Casablanca Cafe has built an established track record on a large base of customer reviews, and Fort Lauderdale Magazine named it the 2025 Best Beachfront Restaurant.

For oceanfront dining on Fort Lauderdale Beach, Casablanca Cafe pairs a 1927 beachfront home and nightly live music with Mediterranean-American cooking served steps from the sand.