Pleasure Doing Business: O’Maddy’s Bar & Grille

by Bob Deacon, May 13 ,2011

O’Maddy’s on Shore Blvd. is a lively hub of activity on the Gulfport waterfront.

A great menu, sunny weather, waterfront location and outdoor seating have O’Maddy’s Bar & Grille on pace for a record year in 2011. The Shore Blvd. restaurant has been around for more than 20 years and is now entrenched as a Gulfport landmark.

Joe Guenther is the general manager and his wife Maddy is the owner. He explained that many years ago she wanted to open an Irish pub so she simply put an ‘O’ in front of her name and went into business. That was 1989 and the location had been in her family for years before that. One side of the building was formerly a snack bar and a gas station stood at the the corner building.

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It’s A Family Affair

By Rick Parsons 

Every neighborhood should have its own favorite eatin’ place right? One of my favorite types of restaurants are the local mom and pops that have been there forever, serving good food that is prepared fresh daily with the owner somewhere on the premises, either behind the bar or behind an apron.

Gulfport has always been one of my favorite spots in the bay area for many reasons; one of them being it has numerous restaurants that could be described exactly as I did above. Over the last couple of years, Gulfport has turned into quite the destination spot with the emergence of its Art Village, a stretch of fun shops and restaurants along Beach Blvd., where you can spend a day shopping, sightseeing and doing what I love to do just about more than anything. …eating. 

Let me introduce you to one of my favorite places to do just that – O’Maddy’s Bar and Grille!

O'Maddy's!

by John Hoty, April 2009

Whether you're a resident or a snowbird, everyone knows that O'Maddy's Bar & Grille is the place to be for Gulfport's ultimate waterfront drinking and dining experience. Just at the end of the main drag on Shore Boulevard is the rocking playground where the biggest crowd of locals and regulars make themselves at home each and every day, rain or shine. And with O'Maddy's offering of the area's best menu of awesome food, scenery, celebrations and drink specials it is no wonder that this waterfront bedlam remains the champion of Shore Boulevard year after year...

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O’Maddy’s Bar and Grille Waterfront Dining

by Hilton Kean Jones on September 17, 2008
Inkwatu.com

Just writing about O’Maddy’s Bar and Grille, thinking about sitting looking at the water while sipping a beer and munching on their Caesar salad topped with a double order of Vegas Hot fried chicken tenders raises the probability, considerably, that that’s where I’ll wind up eating supper tonight! O’Maddy’s, and similar places, are why some of us live in Florida. We like beach towns and beach town attitudes.

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