Hub Stacey’s at the Point is the bay-side bar that locals send each other to. Deck on the water. Boats pulling up. The grouper sandwich is the order, and depending on your timing the kitchen will turn out a basket of fries that has been doing the same thing for the same number of decades.
Tuesday is karaoke night and the lineup is the entire point. You’ll hear the same regulars sing the same songs in the same order, which is somehow not boring at all. The first-time karaoke tourist will be welcomed and lightly tormented. This is correct.
The Innerarity sunset over the bay beats the Gulf-side sunset half the year — the geometry works out — and this deck is the best front-row seat for it that isn’t on a boat.
If you’re a tourist who has only been to the Sandshaker, drive across the bridge. This is the other half of the story.