Discover the best fine dining restaurant in Key West.
A local favorite for special occasions and moments of celebration, Café Marquesa is often rated the best fine dining restaurant in Key West. Melding signature island flavors, traditional techniques and coastal inspiration, the exquisite menu is curated daily by Chef Travis Lee. The result is the true essence of refined island dining. Along with house-made bread and decadent desserts, dinners at Café Marquesa are made to linger over. From its inception, Café Marquesa has led the way in expressing a unique, gourmet coastal cuisine.
Like many of the great ports of the South, Key West offers endless inspiration for chefs. Once a stop on trade routes to the Caribbean, the island developed a signature cuisine that’s practically an open book for flavors. Pair this with the bounty from two bodies of water and the signatures of great chefs who have dedicated time here and a compelling cuisine emerges.
No wonder Café Marquesa is such a local favorite for special occasions, and a place to settle into and savor. Every dinner layers memory upon memory. Join us and find yours.
Holiday Dining in Old Town
Thanksgiving Dinner
Enjoy a thoughtfully crafted three-course prix fixe menu featuring elevated traditional favorites, seasonal ingredients and signature dishes.
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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Celebrate the joy of the holiday with a festive four-course prix fixe menu showcasing innovative holiday-inspired flavors set within the elegant atmosphere of Café Marquesa.
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New Year’s Eve
Toast to the year ahead with an exquisite four-course prix fixe experience at Café Marquesa. Savor refined island flavors and thoughtful culinary touches, with optional wine pairings and caviar service for an evening of indulgence.
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Café Marquesa Menus
Our menus change seasonally. For the most up-to-date offering, please visit our dining room.
Cafe Marquesa is the restaurant at The Marquesa Hotel, serving coastal Southern cuisine built around Florida Keys ingredients such as pink shrimp and black grouper. Chef Travis Lee leads the kitchen, with earlier roles at MICHELIN-starred Mujo in Atlanta and at The Fat Duck and Waterside Inn. Dinner is served daily, either a la carte or as a seven-course tasting menu at $165. The restaurant holds a Wine Spectator 2026 Award of Excellence and an OpenTable Diners’ Choice award, a short walk from the guest rooms in the same historic compound.
Café Marquesa is MICHELIN-recognized as a restaurant, which is not the same thing as holding a MICHELIN Star. The hotel around it holds the MICHELIN Two Keys designation for 2024 and 2025 and is the only hotel in Key West with any MICHELIN Keys award. The two are judged separately: Keys rate the quality of a stay, Stars rate restaurants. Executive Chef Travis Lee, who took over the kitchen in November 2025, came from Mujō in Atlanta, which held a MICHELIN Star in 2023 and 2024, with earlier work at The Fat Duck, Waterside Inn and The Ritz-Carlton.
Yes. Café Marquesa takes reservations from anyone, through OpenTable or on 305.292.1244. The dining room occupies the corner of the 1884 James Haskins House that first opened as a clothing store and later became a grocery, and its picture windows look out on Fleming Street and the Victorian architecture around it. The address is 600 Fleming Street, one block off Duval. Reservations are recommended, particularly for the tasting menu, which is served from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
The kitchen cooks coastal Southern food built on Florida Keys ingredients, with pink shrimp and black grouper among the signatures and local sourcing across seafood, meat and produce. Dinner arrives a la carte or as a seven-course tasting menu, with house-made bread and desserts to finish. Breakfast is the other half of the story: a morning menu of local ingredients, house-made breads and pastries, and the Marquesa beignets guests come back for. Chef Travis Lee curates the menu daily and the printed menus change with the season.
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Rise & Shine
Greet the day with a nourishing breakfast from the award-winning Café Marquesa, in the heart of Old Town, Key West.
