There used to be a short answer to "where should we eat tonight" at Watersound Club. You went to 30°86° if you wanted a view with your dinner, Beach Break Grill if you wanted something quicker and beachy, or Bruno's Pizza if you just wanted the pizza everyone on 30A has been eating for decades. Three doors, three moods, done. That answer stopped being complete sometime in the last year, and the reason isn't the golf courses or a new pool. It's Camp Creek Inn.
The Two Doors Camp Creek Inn Added
Camp Creek Inn opened with two new dining venues built into its structure, and both were named on purpose rather than picked off a list of coastal-sounding words. The one at the grand entryway is called 1936, a reference to the founding year of The St. Joe Company, the developer behind Watersound. It's built to be a lounge and restaurant you'd actually use on a normal Tuesday: a casual Southern-inspired breakfast to start the day, a spot to meet friends, and a happy hour that runs into the evening.
The second is ANR, named for the Apalachicola Northern Railroad, the line that connected Florida's Forgotten Coast to the rest of the country from 1903 to 2002. The menu leans into that regional throughline on purpose, pulling flavor from towns and cities between the Gulf Coast and French Creole New Orleans in a lineup the kitchen calls "Southern Town Mains." Guests are greeted at the table with house-made skillet cornbread and creole butter before the meal even starts, which tells you the kitchen is aiming for something with more weight than another seafood-forward beach menu.
Both restaurants sit inside Camp Creek Inn, which puts them on the opposite end of the community from the Beach Club triangle most longtime members already know. That geography matters more than it sounds like it should. Before Camp Creek Inn opened, if you wanted a sit-down dinner with some occasion to it, you were driving to the Beach Club. Now there's a legitimate second destination inside the same membership.
The Full Seven, and Where Each One Sits
Pull the current Watersound Club dining list and you get seven names, not three:
- 30°86°, at the Beach Club, for coastal classics with a Gulf view from the dining room, poolside patio, or sunset bar
- Beach Break Grill, also at the Beach Club, for a quicker stop with sushi and seafood done casually
- Bruno's Pizza, the long-running 30A tradition folded into the club's own rotation
- Shark's Tooth, tied to the golf course of the same name
- Gather Kitchen + Bar, a newer addition to the club's roster
- Bark 'N Brine, another recent name on the list
- 1936 and ANR, both at Camp Creek Inn
Seven venues across two ends of the community is a genuinely different proposition than three venues clustered at the Beach Club. It means a family that plays Camp Creek Golf Course in the morning doesn't have to drive back toward the Beach Club for dinner. It means a Tuesday breakfast at 1936 and a Friday dinner at ANR are both options that didn't exist a couple of years ago. The rotation isn't just longer. It's spread out in a way that changes which end of Watersound feels like the center of gravity on a given night.
The Access Rule That Actually Changed This Year
Here's the part that's easy to miss if you're not staying at Watersound Inn or paying close attention to what your membership card actually unlocks. Watersound Club runs on a tiered access system: separate cards for members, member families, member guests, and Watersound Inn guests, each tied to a different slice of the property. For years, an overnight guest at Watersound Inn got access to the Beach Club's core three: 30°86°, Beach Break Grill, and Bruno's Pizza. Good options, but only half the map.
As of 2026, that changed. Watersound Inn's "Member for a Stay" program was expanded this year to give overnight guests dining access to 1936, ANR, and Bark 'N Brine, on top of the Beach Club trio they already had. The same expansion opened up the Camp Creek Pool Complex, the Wellness Center, and the Racquet Center for the length of a stay, along with retail access to the Camp Creek Golf Outfitter Shop and the Tennis & Pickleball Pro Shop, joining the longer-standing Beach Club Mercantile and Shark's Tooth Golf Shop.
That's a meaningfully different guest experience than the one Watersound Inn offered even a year ago. A stay that used to mean "you get the Beach Club" now means something closer to "you get the club," full stop, dining included. For anyone whose family or friends visit and stay at the Inn rather than in a private home, that's the difference between steering guests toward three familiar names and letting them actually work through all seven.
What This Means for a Regular Week
If you already have a Watersound Club membership and a routine built around the Beach Club, the practical shift is simple: there's now a real reason to make the drive to Camp Creek Inn on a night when you'd normally default to 30°86°. ANR gives you a dinner with more regional identity to it than a standard coastal seafood menu. 1936 gives you a lounge that works for a casual weeknight in a way the Beach Club's dining rooms, built around a pool and a sunset, aren't quite designed for.
If you're hosting guests at Watersound Inn instead of in your own home, the access change is the bigger story. Before this year, you'd have had to explain that the Inn's dining access stopped at the Beach Club and that the newer Camp Creek venues were a members-only extra. That conversation is gone. Guests staying at the Inn now move through the same seven doors that members do, which takes one more piece of friction out of having people visit.
None of this changes what Watersound Club has always been built around: golf at Camp Creek, Shark's Tooth, and The Third, a private Beach Club on the Gulf, and a membership structure that keeps most of it behind a card system. What's changed is the range once you're inside it. A club that offered three real dining choices now offers seven, split across two physical centers of the property, with a guest-access rule that finally caught up to match.
If you own along Watersound Club or the Origins side of the community and you're weighing what a rental listing or resale story should say about club access this year, the details above are the kind of thing worth getting right before a buyer or renter asks. Lynne Andrews Collective works this stretch of 30A daily and can walk you through how amenity access like this actually plays into a property's positioning.
