That's when you realize:
You haven't looked at OpenTable once.
Key West has its own dining rhythm, and Old Town has perfected it. You wander until you smell something good. You stop because the porch looks inviting. You stay because the table next to you is laughing and you'd like to be part of that energy for a while.
This isn't a city where dinner is a transaction. It's where dinner is the night.
You'll find tucked-away patios on Duval that feel a hundred miles from the crowd. Garden tables behind wooden gates you almost walked past. Old conch houses converted into bistros where the floors creak in all the right places. Seafood spots near the harbor where the fish was swimming this morning and nobody is in a hurry to remind you.