The Grand Marlin - Pensacola Beach

About the Business

Specialties

With views of Santa Rosa Sound and sunsets over Pensacola Bay, The Grand Marlin offers a tranquil, relaxed atmosphere where patrons can enjoy the most memorable dining experience on the Gulf Coast. The Grand Marlin features the area's best selection of seafood, highlighted by daily specials from the kitchen of prize-winning Chef Gregg McCarthy. Printing its menu daily, The Grand Marlin ensures its choice of fish and shellfish will be the freshest on the Gulf Coast. And for those in the mood for something other than seafood we offer tempting steaks, succulent poultry dishes and other fare to meet your every taste. The dining room features the area's best-stocked, most tempting oyster bar where the finest oysters are shucked to order. It's a perfect place for a quick lunch, to meet friends for our daily Happy Hour or to sample our specialty baked oysters.

History

Established in 2010.

The story begins, as many good stories do, with folks killing time on a boat, waiting for the fish to bite. The boat? "The Gulf Rascal." The place? The North Drop, the world-renowned marlin fishing grounds north of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. The fish they waited for? The Atlantic Blue Marlin, pound-for-pound the world's strongest sports fish. The folks? They were just friends who love the thrill that comes with hooking a big marlin. The group that would become The Grand Marlin team have been close friends and business associates for decades. They share many passions: Boats, big-game fishing, good food and drink and a love of the stress-free lifestyle of the Caribbean.

Meet the Manager

Business owner information

Chef Gregg McCarthy M.

Manager

Gregg McCarthy- Executive ChefWith a lifelong passion for great tasting food Chef Gregg, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, sees the seafood offerings of the Gulf coast as an opportunity and a challenge. The opportunity is to take the finest, freshest seafood the ocean's waters have to offer. The challenge is to use his culinary skills to create innovative and tantalizing dishes. Chef Gregg is more than up to the challenge.With a distinguished career that includes cooking at the Old Ebbitt Grill in Washington D.C. and the Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas, Chef Gregg was also sous chef at the Buckhead diner in Atlanta.Winner of numerous awards and featured on PBS's Great Chefs series, Chef Gregg has been a guest chef at New York's James Beard House, one of the highest honors a chef can receive.Before coming to the Grand Marlin, Chef Gregg was corporate executive chef at Atlanta's Ray's Restaurants.