A Bonita Springs institution on Bonita Beach Road at Little Hickory Island, Doc’s Beach House is the most beloved and most enduring beachfront bar and restaurant in Lee County: a two-story Gulf-facing beach bar with cold cocktails, fresh Gulf seafood, live music on the rooftop deck, and the warm, community-rooted beach bar character that has made Doc’s a Southwest Florida institution for generations. The grouper sandwich is legendary; the rooftop sunset views are extraordinary; and the whole operation captures the honest, genuine Florida beach bar spirit that Doc’s has never needed to manufacture.
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