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Is Salute! On the Beach Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Key West, FL)

Food Paradise, Season 12 Key West, Florida

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Salute! On the Beach is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing updated 2026-07 and an OpenTable listing updated 2026 both show the restaurant as an active, reservable business. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The episode featured Salute! On The Beach's Italian-Caribbean seafood menu, including steamed mussels, peel-and-eat Key West pink shrimp and sautéed yellowtail snapper, served on an open-air deck. The restaurant sits directly on Higgs Beach on Key West's Atlantic side and is affiliated with the Key West restaurant group behind Blue Heaven, whose Key lime pie appears on Salute's dessert menu according to the restaurant's own site. A Yelp listing for the business, updated 2026-07, showed 799 reviews and marked it as an active Italian restaurant with recent photos.

OpenTable's listing for the restaurant, updated 2026, also showed it accepting reservations with current daily hours of 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The property offers complimentary parking directly in front for beach and dinner guests, according to its website. No closure, relocation or ownership change has been reported since the episode aired.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 12

Episode 9
Air date not confirmed
Title: Shore Bets · What was featured: Italian-Caribbean seafood served oceanfront on Key West's Higgs Beach
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 12 Food Paradise

Season 12: 79 of 100 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/salute-on-the-beach-key-west-4
  2. OpenTable https://www.opentable.com/r/salute-on-the-beach-key-west
  3. saluteonthebeach.com http://saluteonthebeach.com/
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Record fp-0934 · checked by Cal Marchetti.