Dining
Italian
Italian kitchens across the three districts: wood-oven pizza, homemade pasta and a couple of full Italian steakhouses.
15 South by Napule
Italian
St. Armands Circle
Acqua Pazza
Italian
Coastal Italian, which in Wellen Park means seafood-leaning rather than red sauce.
Downtown Wellen
Bavaros Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria
Italian, Pizza
Neapolitan pizza and pasta, made to the Napoletana style the name claims.
Downtown Sarasota
Bevardi's Salute! Restaurant
Italian
Italian cooking downtown, long established on the Main Street stretch.
Downtown Sarasota
Bocca Lupo
Italian, Pizza
Coal-fired pizza, salads and Italian classics, in a room built for families.
Downtown Wellen
Eatalia
Italian
Waterside Place
Nonno Umberto Italian Seafood & Steakhouse
Italian, Seafood
Italian with homemade pasta alongside seafood and steaks.
St. Armands Circle
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
Osteria 500
Italian
Waterside Place
Pane e Amore Italian Cafe
Italian
Bridge Street
Pazzo
Italian, Pizza
Italian, with pasta, baked clams, carbonara and pizza.
Southside Village
Percoco's Pizza & Pasta
Italian, Pizza
Main Street at Lakewood Ranch
Rico's Pizzeria
Pizza, Italian
St. Armands Circle
Venezia Italian Restaurant
Italian, Pizza
Wood-oven pizza and pasta, Italian in the Circle rather than downtown.
St. Armands Circle
Italian FAQ
Where do I find italian in Sarasota and Lakewood Ranch?+
15 venues in this category sit inside the walkable districts, across St. Armands Circle, Downtown Wellen, Downtown Sarasota, Waterside Place, Southside Village, Bridge Street, Main Street at Lakewood Ranch. 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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