The Remedy

The Remedy is the restaurant and pool bar inside Beal House Fort Walton Beachfront, a Tapestry Collection by Hilton property on Okaloosa Island. The hotel itself has a story worth knowing before you sit down to eat: the building opened in 1998 as a Best Western and reopened in May 2023 after a full renovation, and it was renamed for Dr. James Hartley Beal, a pharmacist and educator who moved to what was then Camp Walton in 1928 and championed its renaming to Fort Walton in 1932. Beal donated land for the town’s early fire and police departments, established Beal Memorial Cemetery, and pursued shell collecting as a passion so serious that his roughly 100,000-specimen collection now resides at the University of Florida. Shell motifs from that collection carry through the hotel’s design, giving The Remedy a beach house feel that ties the menu’s coastal focus to the building’s local history.

The kitchen describes its dinner menu as “Coastal Fresh with a Dash of Cajun,” built around locally sourced seafood, and the approach shows up in dishes like fish tacos, boom boom shrimp, and a short rib hash that leans more brunch than dinner. Breakfast service runs early, stretching into a late-morning lunch menu before the dinner menu takes over in the afternoon, and beignets appear on the menu for guests who want something sweet with their coffee or cocktails. The bar list goes well beyond a standard hotel restaurant pour, with martinis and other crafted cocktails built around tequila, gin, vodka, bourbon, and rum, plus a rotation of local beer. That range makes The Remedy as much a destination for an afternoon drink by the pool as it is for a sit-down dinner.

Seating spreads across an indoor dining room and a poolside deck, and the outdoor tables put diners within sight of the pool and, beyond it, the Gulf itself, since Beal House counts sixty of its rooms as oceanfront. That waterfront setting matches the restaurant’s own outdoor seating and waterfront designation, and it makes The Remedy a natural stop whether you’re staying at the hotel or just visiting Okaloosa Island for the day. The restaurant is open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., which means it can cover an entire day of dining, from an early coffee and breakfast before the beach to a late cocktail after dinner elsewhere.

Because Beal House sits directly on Santa Rosa Boulevard, The Remedy is an easy walk from the Okaloosa Island Boardwalk and its fishing pier, a structure that has stretched roughly 1,262 feet into the Gulf since 1972 and traces the area’s beach culture back further still, to a 1930s stretch known as Tower Beach that burned in a 1942 fire before the island rebuilt into today’s tourist strip. A morning on that pier or an afternoon in the surf can end with a short stroll back to Beal House for lunch or a sunset drink. Guests who want to plan around a specific event or offer can sign up for the restaurant’s mailing list through its website, and the hotel’s front desk can help with same-day seating during busy summer weekends. The property’s fitness center and direct beach access also make The Remedy convenient for hotel guests who want a meal without getting back in the car. Come dressed for the beach: flip-flops and swimwear are entirely normal here, especially at the poolside tables closest to the bar.