Bamboo Willie’s Beachside Bar

Great live music, cheap drinks!!!
What tops it all is the Hooters 50feet away.
Awesome!!!

3.5 stars. Specializes in frozen drinks and offers live shows. Like I tell most people, if you want to find a fun place to go late on a Friday or Saturday evening, try Wiley’s, Flounders, Cpt Fun, or the Dock and pick which you like best. Definitely the fastest service out of all the bars though.

We went for drinks and the live music. Great time. The band rocked it and the beer was cold. Not a big frozen drink fan but they had a large selection. Nice to see the live music.

Dozens of slushee machines filled with different flavors of frozen adult beverage? YES PLEASE!

Absolutely love this place! So many choices and you can’t beat it being right on the beach! Bartender was friendly and kept the bar itself maintained! Very pleased and will be returning!

I mean, any bar that serves a bunch of tasty frozen alcoholic beverages on a hot day is going to be a 4 star in my book.
We came in the afternoon on a Friday so it wasn’t busy at all but probably has bands and turns a bit clubby at night I would guess.
Drinks of all flavors… they can also mix two of them together to make the creamsicle if you want. We did want.
It is right on the water so you can watch everyone enjoying the beach.
Basically it is a standard beach bar… but there’s nothing wrong with that.

Went for the crawfish festival they had. Was ok but most of seating was out in the open, not good when it had been raining. Enjoyed the live bands, just wish their family/​friends who were there just to listen and not eat took up all the seats underneath the roof. Good thing my kids and friend’s kids didn’t mind the little drizzle. Drink prices too high. May go again but w/​o kids and not on a rainy day.

This used to be a Fat Tuesdays, nothing special about the place although I must say it had some great Kona beer. Great place to watch a game, hear live music, and bar hop.

awesome bushwaker drinks the only main drink and they only have the best in Pensacola beach area, the one we had down in ft Lauderdale they don’t even know about it down there lol no one did Miami didn’t even know it is only a special drink in Pensacola beach!

Beach son fun how can you go wrong drinks that are out of this world so sweet but yet they hit the spot and get you tipsy tipsy, Live bands from different nights in different types of music with her to so hip pop on Blues rock ‘n roll bamboo willies has it all! An excellent waitstaff ready and willing to serve you some of the best frozen drink seven had anywhere while next to fat Tuesdays that is but there just the same, purchased one other souvenir cups the next time you’re in town and you come to Willys you won’t have to pay as much you can just pay for the refill, never I’m in Pensacola Florida I always make sure that I visit the spot it’s one of my faves!

You need to stop here for at least one of their frozen drinks! You won’t regret it. It reminds me of a drive thru place in Fort Worth TX called Eskimo Hut. There are so many choices it was hard to decide. At least you can do small samples to see what you want. Nice view of the bay/​cove. You can also pay extra to have your drinks in souvenir cups with coozies. We paid $ 19 for two really big drinks in the souvenir cups. We came here on a Thursday after it had been raining earlier that day so I can’t review on the atmosphere or how they are when it’s busy. There was only one dude there besides us. Oh, they also have a full bar if frozen drinks are not yer thang.

This wasn’t such a bad place to get a frozen drink while walking the beach.
It was good that they let you try sample the flavors so you get a taste of it. There is a lot of selection, but I know that some of the drinks you either will love or you will hate.
Best way side just go to this place to check it out. Try the samples, get what you like. Just remember when you sample, ask yourself «Can I drink all of this?»
The place itself isn’t so appealing. It’s dark, smelly, and sticky at some parts. But just grab a drink and walk around the nice beach.

Looooooove this place. Good service, I have never stood at the bar, even on busy days, longer than 2 or 3 minutes. Daiquiris are New Orleans original brand, mixed in the same machines, these are mixed in bulk, not single ones behind a bar. This is truly a daiquiri bar that has a full bar as well.

Stopped by Bamboo Willie’s with my wedding party since it was one of the last spots open on the Pensacola Boardwalk that Saturday night. The one positive thing I can say is that the drinks were cheap. Unfortunately, they tasted cheap. All of the frozen drinks are pre-​made and taste like sickly sweet kool-​aid. We ordered several different daiquries, rum runners and pina coladas, but I really couldn’t tell the difference from one from another. Since the bar doesn’t serve food we attempted to get some wings from Hooters next door, but unfortunately they stopped serving food.
I’m sure the atmosphere is 110% better during the day when you can overlook the water. I would skip visiting Bamboo Willie’s at night.

Based on the great reviews this place got I feel kind of bad that I just wasn’t so excited about it. I really wasn’t impressed with the frozen drinks. My friend and I tried two different types, in which I had the Rum Runner and it tasted like metal or something. We actually both threw our daiquiris out. Maybe because I’m from the home of drive-​thru daiquiris so my taste buds may be a little different so I wasn’t too impressed. The bartender seemed very annoyed with my cousin as she decided on which frozen drink she wanted. She was not impressed to talk to the non-​locals.
The only thing I liked about this place was the great view on the deck of the Quietwater Beach. Great to catch some sun and stare out into the water or even chill right on the beach and get some sand on your toes.

I came to Pensacola last summer and came to Bamboo Willie’s everyday for a week straight. I loved the different frozen drinks that came in a thermos! There was also a variety of live music. I loved how I could go swimming in the ocean and then go back and enjoy a frozen drink on a bar stool over-​looking the water. The bartender was so much fun and put up with the daily visits from my friend and I. I definite place to go if ever in Pensacola.

We didn’t get to Pensacola until after sunset… but after walking past every other bar on Quiet Water Beach… we saved the best for last by settling for the tiki hut out back of Bamboo Willie’s.
We’d been staying in Nola, but my travel buddy had never been to Florida. That meant, renting a car and hitting the interstate.
What I didn’t know — since I had never been anywhere but South Florida, was that the north is pretty great as well.
As we rolled into town, we came upon Quiet Water Beach and knew we’d hit a gold mine.
We parked on the opposite end of Bamboo’s then just started walking the beach. Most of the restaurants/​bars were a bit crowded with a scene of club-​like goers, and since we weren’t dressed for it and since I was sun-​burned from face to feet, I wanted to go somewhere opposite of «The place to be seen». Not that Bamboo Willie’s wasn’t jumping, but the tiki hut behind it was quiet… and that’s just what I was looking for.
One grows up picturing white sand beaches in Florida, but I can attest that Clear Water beach doesn’t have clear water and Miami isn’t all white sand. That being said, Pensacola did not disappoint, because where our bar stools sat, our toes were pushed into white sand. We also were seated very close to the crashing waves — albeit small — of the ocean/​bay, which puts off a very peaceful sound, especially while imbibing in fruity cocktails. Honestly, I can’t remember if we ordered food since that wasn’t what we were after. We let the bar-​tender make us some tropical concoctions that were absolutely lovely. Had I known we’d run into such a gold mine, we would have brought our overnight bags and stayed here for the night, so we could experience brunch on the beach at Bamboo Willie’s the next day. We definitely would have also taken advantage of some lounge chairs (instead of bar stools) and kicked it in the sun a few hours before headed back to our hotel in Louisiana.
All this said, I now know that Pensacola can measure up against the bigger cities in the south and that the Quiet Water Beach strip — especially Bamboo Willie’s — is a must visit for anyone on a road trip.

This is one of the places on the beach that is fine during the day, but that I assiduously avoid at night. Matter of fact, after sundown, I view the boardwalk as a slum, with a danger level appropriate to the worst neighborhoods in Pcola. Young people seem to love it, but then again, the only fights that I’ve seen (and I’ve seen plenty) have involved drunk-​as-​hell punks and punkettes.
Good frozen drinks and a nice view and access to Quietwater Beach. If you’re hungry, there are options within a minute or two walk on the boardwalk. I’ve seen wet t-​shirt contests here and listened to some great bands. Your mileage may vary on enjoying the ambiance after dark, so don’t take my word for it. I’m an incorrigible beach bum and prefer my regular haunts, where the bartenders and customers know my name.

Wide variety of frozen drink machines. Had the octane which was good and of course fruity. Added a shot of Bacardi 151 for only $ 1.50 more, what the hell, and really only needed one. I would recommend stopping by for a cold one, overlooking the quiet beach, day or night. Don’t serve any food, however you can get food from hooters next door (which to mention has one of the best looking staff of girls i have seen, and I’m from texas) or anywhere on the boardwalk and eat it here.
Stopped by at night and they had a pretty good band playing, not some old guy talking on stage or annoying karaōke. :)

Bamboo Willie’s is a beach bar on the end of Quietwater Boardwalk. It is wide open with areas to sit all over, including overlooking the water. I came here a few times over the last two days for their lovely, frozen beverages. There is a wide variety of the typical frozen drinks. I went with the Bushwacker as this isn’t something I can get in Phoenix. $ 6 a pop for a small was damn reasonable and after two, I had a healthy summertime buzz going. This place is definitely worth it if you are at the beach and want to have a drink while walking around/​swimming.