Thank you, swn5363! Yes, I am currently staying across the street from Red Bar and love the place. I have always enjoyed AJ's from all my trips each year but haven't seen any local crowds yet so I will give it another round. I will check out Howl and Hog's Breath too. Been to the Hog's in Key West and had a blast there so that should be fun.
I just didn't know if they had a sort of "Bar Wars for people in the industry" going on in Destin like they do in PCB. Monday night here, Tuesday night here, and so on. Thank you for your help. Just trying to get in the loop without having to go through too many more nights of figuring it out.
I will check out Criolla's soon, thanks for the hook-up.

Ciao~