Palace Bar & Restaurant

The Palace Bar and Restaurant occupies the corner of Ocean Drive and Twelfth Street, defined by its wraparound glass frontage and an elevated outdoor stage. Since nineteen eighty-eight, this spot has functioned as a central anchor for the local gay community. Its reputation solidified through decades of daily drag performances that spill onto the sidewalk, turning the intersection into a public runway. During the pride parades of the nineteen nineties, crowds packed the street here, waiting for the performers to appear above the diners.