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Lobsterfest Fills Key West with Seafood and Street Celebrations
Key West hosts five days of seafood events and island street festivities, pairing summer travel with nearby recreation and convenient overnight lodging.
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Spiny lobster season opens in early August, and Key West marks the occasion with Lobsterfest, five days of special dinners, parties, and a Duval Street fair built around the fresh catch. Restaurants across the island compete for attention with lobster-forward menus, while live music and street festivities extend the celebration well beyond the dinner table into a genuinely island-wide event.
The timing is deliberate. This is the first significant chance all year for visitors to taste Florida spiny lobster at its freshest, straight off boats that have been waiting for the season to open. That immediacy gives Lobsterfest a different energy than a purely calendar-driven festival, closer to a harvest celebration than a themed street party, even as the Duval Street fair leans into the island’s usual playful atmosphere.
A multi-night stay allows visitors to sample several restaurants’ takes on the season’s catch rather than committing to a single dinner, while leaving room for Key West’s beaches, reefs, and historic streets during the daylight hours. Given the overlap of a popular season opener with the island’s peak summer travel, booking accommodations well ahead of early August is worth the effort.
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