Crystal Sands by Avantstay Walk to the Beach

It may be tucked away in an everyday shopping center in Destin, but this casual farm to table restaurant offers so much more than expected. Concrete floors, a wood-beamed ceiling and marble-topped tables lend a contemporary country appeal to this appealing space. It's the kind of place where you can pop in any time of day for a bevy of Southern-leaning casual, comforting dishes like the house-made, charred biscuit smothered in a bone marrow and black pepper gravy. Main dishes like Gulf shrimp and grits as well as sweet tea pork chop tempt at dinner, but no meal is quite complete without a wedg