Cobalt sits at the Pass, on the Alabama side, with a view of the boats coming in and out of the inlet that almost no other restaurant on the Coast offers. The dining room is closer to “actual restaurant” than to “beach restaurant” — polished service, a wine list with thought put into it, a sushi bar that’s a real sushi bar, and a kitchen that takes the seafood seriously.
This is the anniversary dinner. The proposal dinner. The “we want a nice night out, not a beach night out” dinner. The clientele matches: people in actual shoes, mostly. Dress code is “you’ll feel underdressed in flip-flops but you won’t be turned away.”
The deck is the move when the weather cooperates. Watching a sunset over the Pass from the deck with a glass of something and the boat traffic doing its thing is genuinely one of the better moments on the Alabama coast.
Reservations strongly recommended. The bar will seat walk-ins for the full menu.