Navarre's incoming restaurant is hoping you'll love burgers and wings as much as they do
If you love a juicy piece of meat with a thick, buttery bun — you may be into Navarre’s Fatboys.
The restaurant is coming soon to 8651 Navarre Parkway and the burgers are made “just the way you like it.”
The casual burger and wing joint — spanning locations in Destin, Miramar, Niceville, Crestview and Enterprise, Alabama — leans into the cheeky name wholeheartedly.
The menu delivers on its promises for quality burger options, including The Hula Girl, glazed with teriyaki and topped with grilled pineapple slaw, The Sunrise topped with fried egg and bacon, The Roadhouse slathered with barbecue sauce, pulled pork and fried onion straws and The Italian layered with fresh arugula, pepperoni, bocconcini cheese, balsamic glaze and pesto sauce.
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But the menu ventures beyond the signature burgers, offering a variety of entrees matching whatever you're in the mood for, including wings, The Birria Style Sandwich, The Grouper Sandwich, salads, street tacos and sweets.
The restaurant's Florida locations also offer draft and bottled beer, wine and specially crafted cocktails.
Aside from the name, the restaurant has drawn attention for itself through its 100% premium beef patties and house-made sauces, per the restaurant’s website.
However, the restaurant does provide options for those with dietary restrictions, including gluten-free and meatless menu items
The Navarre location, which will fill a portion of the old Helen Back pizza restaurant at the foot of the Navarre bridge. The Helen Back restaurant closed in late 2017, along with two other Helen Back properties in Okaloosa County.
“There is a lot of work to be done for the Navarre location, however we are hoping to be ready to open by late fall or early winter,” Fatboys Spokesperson Heather Reaver wrote in a statement to the News Journal.
Pier One Marina Gulf Breeze — a limited liability company that owns several other properties in Santa Rosa County, including the building housing the Bridge Bar and Sunset Lounge and Flowers by Yoko at the foot of the Pensacola Bay Bridge, as well as the adjacent scuba shop and gas station — purchased the Helen Back property in Navarre for $1.25 million.
Scott Wheatley, the co-owner of Pier One Marina Gulf Breeze, said although he cannot speak specifically to the restaurant’s lease agreement, he can say, in general, that “long-term tenants are a good thing.”
“We are very pleased and optimistic to be working with this restaurant group,” Wheatley told the News Journal.
This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Navarre restaurants: Fatboys burger and wing joint filling Helen Back space
