There's more than one Hub Stacey's — a quick disambiguation

A reader wrote in this week to say our Hub Stacey’s writeup didn’t match the Hub Stacey’s they actually went to — the inside was bigger, the menu was different, the karaoke wasn’t a thing. We initially thought we’d gotten something wrong. Turns out the reader had gone to a different Hub Stacey’s.

There are several Hub Stacey’s locations around the Pensacola area. They share the name and the same general beach-dive lineage, but they’re not interchangeable, and tourists conflate them all the time.

The one we write about as “Hub Stacey’s at the Point” is the bay-side location at Innerarity Point. The page →

Other locations exist (and have come and gone) at other addresses in the Pensacola area, including downtown Pensacola and Pensacola Beach. They’re not the Innerarity location and not interchangeable with it in any of the ways that matter (menu, vibe, the regulars on the deck, Tuesday karaoke).

If you’ve been to “Hub Stacey’s” and it didn’t match what we wrote, it’s almost certainly the location that’s the difference. Look at the address, not the name.

Same general pattern with Tacky Jack’s (Orange Beach at the Pass vs. the Wharf vs. historical other locations) — we cover the Pass location specifically; the Wharf location is its own deal.

And similar deal with LuLu’s — Lucy Buffett’s locations have shifted across the years as the brand has grown. The one open right now is the one to verify before driving over.

When you see a beach-area chain with multiple locations, the safer move is to check the actual street address on the website before you commit to the drive.

— Kathy