Dining
Bars & Pubs
Pubs, taverns, tasting rooms and the places that stay open after the kitchens close.
Arts & Central
Rosemary District
Bamboo Island Bar
Bridge Street
Blase Southern Style
Southern
Southern cooking, including blackened jumbo shrimp over smoked gouda grits and a gumbo-style mac and cheese.
Southside Village
Boca Sarasota
Craft cocktails in a deliberately modern room, and one of the downtown places that reads younger than its neighbours.
Downtown Sarasota
Cha Cha Coconuts
Island-style casual dining, and a Circle fixture rather than a recent arrival.
St. Armands Circle
Circo
Mexican
Artisan tacos and margaritas, and a room built for the second category as much as the first.
Downtown Sarasota
Daiquiri Deck
Frozen drinks first and food second, which is the honest order of it.
St. Armands Circle
Daiquiri Deck
Bridge Street
Delany's Public House
Irish
Main Street at Lakewood Ranch
Ed's Tavern
Main Street at Lakewood Ranch
Fine Wine & Tastings on Main
Main Street at Lakewood Ranch
FOOD+BEER
Rosemary District
Gecko's
Family-friendly pub food, cheeseburgers, wraps and sandwiches, with tuna nachos the thing regulars order.
Southside Village
Good Liquid Brewing Co.
Waterside Place
Good Liquid Distilling Co.
Waterside Place
Grove
Main Street at Lakewood Ranch
Island Time Bar & Grill
Bridge Street
Libby's Brasserie
French
French-leaning brasserie cooking: brioche grilled cheese, crab and corn chowder, chicken paillard.
Southside Village
Lynches Pub & Grub
Irish
An Irish pub with the beer and whiskey list to match, and a rooftop that catches the Circle.
St. Armands Circle
Marina Jack
Seafood, Steakhouse
Steaks, seafood and pasta over Sarasota Bay, and the one downtown dining room where the sunset is the point.
Downtown Sarasota
O'Leary's Tiki Bar & Grill
A barefoot tiki bar on the bayfront with live music nightly, and about as far from the Main Street dining rooms as you can get while staying downtown.
Downtown Sarasota
Oak & Stone
Pizza
Craft beer and artisan pizza, with a wall of taps that is the reason most people pick it.
Downtown Wellen
Origins Craft Beer and Pizza Cafe
Pizza
Craft beer alongside unorthodox pies, taco pizza and gyro pizza among them, plus baked wings.
Southside Village
Peculiar Pub
Main Street at Lakewood Ranch
The Bridge Tender Inn Dockside & Tiki Bar
Seafood
Bridge Street
The Lounge by Good Liquid Distilling Co.
Waterside Place
Tommy Bahama Restaurant & Bar
St. Armands Circle
Vino Bistro
Tapas and wine, small-plates format rather than a full dinner menu.
Rosemary District
Wink Wink Food and Drink
Rosemary District
Bars & Pubs FAQ
Where do I find bars & pubs in Sarasota and Lakewood Ranch?+
29 venues in this category sit inside the walkable districts, across Rosemary District, Bridge Street, Southside Village, Downtown Sarasota, St. Armands Circle, Main Street at Lakewood Ranch, Waterside Place, Downtown Wellen. Those districts are the places you can park once and walk, which most dining in this market is not. Every name here comes from the directory the district publishes itself, because that is the list that gets updated when a tenant leaves, and each record carries the date it was last checked. Anything not marked open and verified does not appear at all.
Does this list include everywhere, or only the districts?+
Only the districts, and that is deliberate. This is a real estate site, not a restaurant guide, and the question it is built to answer is what daily life looks like within walking distance of a home rather than where the best meal in the county is. A district is durable; a county-wide restaurant list is stale within a season and nobody here maintains one. For the editorial treatment of dining, including the Michelin-recognised restaurants, see the lifestyle page linked below.
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