This beachy, sexy club is the spot for nightlife in Korcula.

The best restaurant on the waterfront in Hvar Town, Gariful specializes in local seafood. The owners have a small fleet of fishing boats that go out daily and lobsters can be viewed in the restaurant’s aquarium.

This charming heritage hotel just up from the main square in Hvar has a lovely terrace restaurant for al fresco lunches and dinners. The menu includes a mix of seafood and Mediterranean classics like braised artichokes with Adriatic shrimp tails.

There are two cult nightclubs in Hvar: Carpe Diem and Kiva. This one is found down a narrow alley and is really a bar (instead of a club)—with great dance music that packs in locals and visitors.

Tucked away in a rustic garden sits Lola’s, an intimate restaurant that serves Croatian cuisine with hints of Spanish and Mediterranean influences. Diners can expect to enjoy an excellent wine selection as well as fresh seafood in the romantic outdoor venue.

One of those unique drinking experiences that is best at sunset is to climb the wooden ladder that leads to the top of a turret on Korcula’s 15^th century fortress walls. The drinks at this bar, which are hoisted upstairs via a pulley, are expensive, but guests come for the view and the fun of making it up and down.

Famous for its homemade pasta, Nonno serves fresh Mediterranean cuisine in a two-story, cottage-like setting. The cozy dining room and alfresco, street-side tables are ideal spots for unwinding with a glass of Croatian wine.

Something of a hidden gem around Hvar, Passarola is a relaxed and airy indoor/outdoor restaurant. Whitewashed stone and dark-wood tables with white place settings lend a simple charm, enhanced by warm service and creative, sophisticated Dalmatian cuisine.

Pelegrini, set just above the main square of Sibenik, is considered one of the best restaurants in Croatia, serving elevated Dalmatian cuisine reinterpreted and prepared with seasonal ingredients and bold flavors. Chef Rudolf Štefan is proud of his dishes, and therefore does not stray from the three-course tasting menu prerequisite. The best seats are in the old stone dining room or at one of a few outdoor tables overlooking the square and Cathedral of St. James.

The most picturesque bar in the lovely town of Rovinj features seating on turquoise cliffs that drop down to the sea. Come for the view, the vibe and the crowd. It is truly one of the prettiest cocktail spots in Europe.

Set on the lagoon of Palmizana, Zori is an island restaurant located a ten-minute boat ride from Hvar that boasts an incredible setting and seafood. Guests arrive at the family-run spot by boat and are treated to an idyllic seaside retreat that is a favorite with the Dalmatian Coast boating crowd. Chef Iva Tomlinovic emphasizes the freshest ingredients that her husband Renato sources daily in the Hvar market and from organic farms. Her parents opened the restaurant thirty years ago, and the menu still highlights regional fare. Favorites include goat cheese with truffles, fresh scampi, risotto with baby shrimps and rocket, bison burger and grilled fish of the day. An Indagare member raves, "At Zori I had the best lobster I've ever had." Note that next door is a great bar called Longanini.