8th Annual Fort Pierce Oyster Festival

Date: Saturday, April 6 – Sunday, April 7, 2019

Time: Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Location: Along the waterfront in downtown Fort Pierce ​at Veterans Memorial Park and River Walk Center – 600 N Indian River Dr., Fort Pierce, FL 34950

Admission: free

This two-day festival celebrates the Fort Pierce Waterfront and all of its bounty with delicious oysters, tasty seafood dishes, landlubber foods, live entertainment and a bevy of arts & craft and merchandise vendors.

This exciting event features food, music, arts & crafts, and marine education exhibits, not to mention a shipload of oysters. Event patrons will be eating oysters and saving the shells for Oyster Restoration Projects including the spoil islands near the Fort Pierce City Marina.

This year you will have more choices of oyster dishes and seafood selections, as well as a nice variety of landlubber foods. Our oyster menu includes:

• Raw shucked oysters
• Oysters on the half-shell
• Fried oysters
• Steemed oysters
• Oysters Rockefeller
• Oyster po boy
• ​Fried oyster Creole
• ​Fried oyster Buffalo style
• Oyster shooters (made with choice of vodka or local craft beer)

There will also be a very complete entertainment schedule.

Free parking at the City Parking Garage.