3 Best Restaurants in Dania Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Broward County

Grampa's Bakery & Restaurant

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Grampa's Bakery and Restaurant provides a cheery, homey fix of comfort foods from the charbroiler, fryer, and grill. You won't go hungry ordering Grampa's chili with cheese, lox, eggs, or biscuits and gravy. Check out the sweets at the bakery counter up front or head next door to Jaxson's for some ice cream.

Come for the breakfast food, and skip the dinner menu.

Quarterdeck

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Located on the water just off the Dania Beach Pier, this sporty hot spot serves local brews, specialty cocktails, and classic American fare with a beachy twist. Menu highlights include lobster fritters, stone crab chowder, and a yellowfin tuna Philly sandwich. With more than 40 televisions, it's a great spot to watch sporting events.

Rustic Inn Crabhouse

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The late Wayne McDonald started with a cozy one-room roadhouse in 1955 when this stretch of Dania Beach was a remote service road just west of the little airport. The still-rustic place brags that it's "still crackin'." The huge menu features garlic crabs (patrons bang crabs open with mallets on tables covered with newspapers) and peel-and-eat shrimp (either with garlic and butter or spiced and steamed). Finish off your meal with Key lime pie made from a family recipe.

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