Over 50 St. Pete

Warehouse Arts District

Leigh and Mike Harting opened the brewery in December 2013 with head brewer Ty Weaver ... the name comes from the question of how to put their three daughters through college. It started in a 1,600 square foot tasting room and now fills a large warehouse the brewery says serves over 250,000 guests a year. I Love the Burg calls it the biggest brewery in St. Pete, with more than 40 taps of beer, cider, hard seltzer and sangria. This is the original location; a Clearwater Beach taproom and an airport bar came in 2022.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Beach Drive · mediterranean, aegean, small plates

A Mediterranean and Aegean small-plates room that calls itself 'your neighborhood spot for small plates, good times and lots of wine'. Husband-and-wife owners Shawn and Jeanna Damkoehler opened it first, then opened Juno & the Peacock a block north in 2024. I Love the Burg's staff singled out its brunch in June 2026.

Beach Drive · french bistro, charcuterie, french

A French wine bistro a block off Beach Drive with a menu that changes by season, from French onion soup and foie gras torchon to tuna carpaccio and beef tartare. It pours nearly 100 wines chosen by sommeliers and builds charcuterie boards to order.

Grand Central District · coffee, pastries

A locally owned roaster and cafe on Central Avenue since 2016. It runs a full espresso bar and a kitchen all day, bakes its bread and pastries in-house, and also sells natural wine by the bottle and beer. There is no WiFi, by design, and a dog-friendly walk-up window handles online order pickup. Coffee is roasted every Tuesday and shipped every Wednesday.

Warehouse Arts District · bbq

A family-owned brewery in the Warehouse Arts District that opened in 2020 and added a barbecue kitchen and cocktails. Its concerts have moved into a dedicated event space called Bayboro Live. I Love the Burg points to the big beer garden.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

Beach Drive · italian, pizza

A St. Pete-born trattoria and the original of a small group that now has rooms in Tampa and Land O' Lakes. Its own site says it was inspired by a 2003 trip through Tuscany and opened in 2005. The same owners run Stillwaters Tavern on the same stretch of Beach Drive.

bbq

A south St. Pete barbecue counter known for chopped chicken, with ribs and chopped beef also on the board. The Tampa Bay Times listed it among the area's Black-owned barbecue spots in March 2026.

Beach Drive · new american

The ground-floor restaurant of The Birchwood, a hotel in a 1924 Spanish Mission-style building that began as the Lantern Lane Apartments and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Owner Chuck Prather named the hotel for a neighborhood his father developed in Hillsborough County, and a 12-by-24-foot mural of a birch forest covers the south wall. The Canopy rooftop bar is upstairs and a ballroom fills the fourth floor. Prather also runs Teak, Pier Teaki and Driftwood Cafe on the St. Pete Pier.

Grand Central District · coffee

Black Crow was the first coffee shop in Florida, and the first business in St. Petersburg, to be certified zero waste, which means keeping at least 90 percent of its waste out of the landfill. Owner Deana Hawk told a local station the journey 'started with us wanting to make changes'. The Grand Central shop is also where the company roasts its single-origin beans. The original shop is in Old Northeast.

Old Northeast · coffee, pastries

The original Black Crow, opened in Historic Old Northeast in 2015; a second shop followed at 2161 1st Ave S in Grand Central. Creative Loafing reported it as Florida's first certified zero-waste coffeehouse in 2018, a standard that requires keeping 90 percent of its waste out of the county landfill. Co-owner Deana Hawk led the change, and the shop was composting more than 15,000 pounds of organic waste a year.

EDGE District · latin street food, cuban, juice bar

Debbie and George Sayegh came from Brooklyn, where they ran restaurants including a Cuban coffee shop that used the same Cuban sandwich recipe Bodega serves today. George trained partly in Miami and fell for Latin food; the couple say they built Bodega for themselves because they were hungry for something different. It is a walk-up window with all outdoor seating and a juice bar next door, and the Cuban sandwich and lechon platter are the dishes the venue ties its name to. The same couple opened Baba in Grand Central in 2019 and closed it on 3 July 2026.

coffee, wine, snacks

In its own words, 'a bookstore with wine, a wine bar with books' ... a bottle shop, independent bookstore, coffee cafe and wine bar in one small room. Founder and managing director Terra Dunham describes it as an independent, woman-owned, values-driven, local-first business. Its book picks run regularly on Radio St. Pete and Great Day Live.

Downtown · new american

Chef Jason Ruhe and Hope Montgomery, husband and wife, spent years catering and consulting before opening what they call 'a true brick and mortar' of their own on the 500 block. The couple went on to open Seaworthy Fish + Bar in Tierra Verde in 2020 and Pulpo Kitchen + Lounge on Central in late 2024. I Love the Burg's staff wrote in June 2026 that its burger is perhaps the best in the city.

Treasure Island · american, seafood

Caddy's calls this one 'The Original', the beach bar on Sunset Beach that the Madeira Beach and Indian Shores rooms grew from. Helene's surge in September 2024 buried it in sand and debris and Milton tore the roof days later; owner Marcus Winters told Tampa Bay 28 'It was like a warzone.' The building was gutted, lifted and rebuilt to current code while the bar ran out of a big tent under a Treasure Island emergency measure Winters credits with saving the business. It reopened in the rebuilt building with a ribbon cutting about 18 months after the storms, around 1 April 2026, with roughly 135 staff back at work.

St. Pete Beach · french, bakery

A French bakery cafe selling baguette sandwiches and quiches. It was shut for about three months after the 2024 storms, and neighbors raised more than $25,000 to help it reopen.

Grand Central District · pizza

Twenty taps of beer, wine and kombucha and a stage that the brewery says has full bands most nights of the week. Sister kitchen Kraken Joe's Pizza cooks in an oak-fired brick oven on site. I Love the Burg notes the covered and uncovered seating and the arcade games.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

Downtown · cuban

A Cuban-inspired rooftop bar on top of the AC Hotel downtown, built around rum cocktails. There is an indoor lounge and an open-air terrace, and a boozy brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30am to 3pm.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Grand Central District · mexican, tacos

Don and Gwen opened Casita after bonding over travel and planning vacations around what each city had to eat, which is how they landed on Mexican food. Corn tortillas are made in-house and the meats are slow-braised. Nearly fifteen years on there are three St. Pete locations ... Central Ave, 4th Street and 66th Street.

Beach Drive · french brasserie, mediterranean, american

A Beach Drive brasserie with a separate market next door at 162 Beach Dr NE selling pastries, breads and chocolates. The restaurant describes its cooking as classic dishes with subtle Mediterranean influences, in the style of a European brasserie. It serves brunch, lunch and dinner and books private events and banquets.

MLK Street North · seafood, new england seafood

The Casual Clam has served New England seafood on MLK Street North since 1991: whole belly Ipswich clams, a New England style lobster roll and a clam chowder the house says is made fresh daily. There is all-you-can-eat shrimp, grilled, blackened or fried, and picnic benches outside.

Downtown · food hall, deli, burgers, tacos, pizza, pasta, asian street food

A five-story, 27,700-square-foot food hall from Tampa Bay's Hi Hospitality Group, built on the old Dome Grill site after construction that began in late 2021. It opened in phases from 19 February 2026, starting with Palm Avenue Deli and Constellation Burger. The ground floor now also holds Don Ricardo's Taqueria, Park Pie, Speaks Pasta, Kojo Wok and Strawberry Fields, with the Meadows dessert cafe on the mezzanine and The Winfield cocktail parlor in the basement. The fourth-floor Kojo restaurant and rooftop Bar Hana were still marked as opening soon on the site.

Beach Drive · spanish, tapas

A Spanish tapas house modeled on Barcelona, built around shared plates and sangria. The company says it has been at it for nearly thirty years and now runs two rooms, this one on Beach Drive and one on Westshore in Tampa. It does not take reservations.

Downtown

A wine bar with self-serve wine machines, so you can sample before committing to a glass or a bottle. The food is charcuterie, flatbreads, crepes and paninis, and the room runs tastings and wine classes. Mondays are kept for private events.

Skyway Marina District · italian, pizza, new york pizza, sicilian pizza

Circo is a family-owned pizzeria that spent four years in Tierra Verde before moving in July 2025 into the Skyway Marina space where Portofino Italian Ristorante had cooked for more than three decades. St. Pete Rising says it is best known for New York and Sicilian style pizza in 14 and 18 inch sizes, and it also serves breakfast daily.

St. Pete Beach · bar food, seafood, tacos, american

A grill and a beach bar on the sand, attached to a hotel on Gulf Boulevard, with seafood, tacos and frozen drinks and live music every day by its own account. I Love the Burg recommended it to parents for the soft sand, hammocks and children's options on the menu. A 2026 visitor review seen in search results says it reopened in February 2026 after hurricane damage.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Gateway · american, sports bar

Courtside Grille is the Gateway area's sports grill, opening at 11 a.m. on weekdays and Saturdays and noon on Sundays.

Gateway · seafood, crab

The Crab Shack is the no-frills seafood house on the St. Petersburg side of the Gandy. Visit St. Pete-Clearwater describes cracked crab, shrimp, frog legs and alligator in an informal room.

Downtown · bakery, coffee, breakfast, gluten free bakery, cafe

A St. Pete-born bakery and cafe that says it is 'dedicated to creating the ultimate bakery experience without the use of gluten'. The downtown shop is one of two, with the other at 6653 Central Ave, and St. Pete Rising reported in September 2026 that a third cafe and production kitchen was due in the Skyway Marina District in October. The menu marks vegan dishes, including a daily vegan soup and Ed's Vegan Burger.

Grand Central District · european cafe, french pastries, burgers

Co-owners Dragan and Martina Pelevic soft-opened this 12-seat European-style cafe in January 2026. Dragan Pelevic is a trained chef from Montenegro who has cooked across Europe and in Austin and Massachusetts. He makes every sauce, pastry and baked good from scratch in an old trolley converted into a kitchen behind the shop. The case holds eclairs, napoleons and croissants, and the menu runs from a lamb and Angus 'hybrid' burger to mushroom lattes.

Historic Kenwood · french, moroccan

A family-run French and Moroccan kitchen in Historic Kenwood. The site puts it this way: Chef Touf 'cooks the way he learned in Paris and serves the way he learned in Morocco'. Cybel began as a catering company and still is one; the permanent dining room opened in late 2024. It is BYOB at 10 dollars a bottle, tagines and couscous anchor dinner, and on Sunday mornings the room runs as Lilya's Cafe with coffee, croissants and quiche.

Grand Central District

A Havana-inspired speakeasy hidden behind a laundromat-style cafe front, from Stephen Schrutt's Hunger Thirst Group. The cafe and the bar keep separate menus, and there is a dress code.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Downtown · irish

The newest Irish bar downtown. I Love the Burg's 2026 World Cup guide calls it probably the largest room in the city given over to soccer, rowdy on match days, with beer and shot specials and Irish food.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

EDGE District

A vinyl listening bar that opened on April 17, 2026. Owner Matt Kaye built the 1,600 square foot room around a Klipsch Heritage speaker system and McIntosh amplifiers, tuned so people can still talk. Local DJ Casper curates the records with guest DJs, and beverage director Chris Trull wrote a list of 15 to 18 cocktails plus zero-proof drinks.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

4th Street North · burgers, american

El Cap is the 4th Street burger bar with the red neon baseball sign. St. Pete Catalyst traces it to 1958, when Louis Joseph Svabek opened it in a 1948 building as one of his 'Cap' beer joints; Steve and Rose Bonfili of Pennsylvania took it over in 1963, and their son Frank turned it into what many call the city's first sports bar. Johnny Johnson has hand-formed the patties since 1992 and once made 2,300 in a day. Mary Jean Bonfili left the place to two longtime servers when she died in 2019, and in January 2023 Seed & Feed Hospitality, run by St. Pete natives, bought half while Cindy Nally kept the other half. The order is the World Champ cheeseburger.

Old Northeast · italian-inspired steakhouse, steak, pasta, seafood, italian contemporary, wood-fired

Elliott Aster is the signature restaurant at The Vinoy, a collaboration between the resort, chef Lee Wolen and Chicago's Boka Restaurant Group. It opened on 20 May 2025 and was added to the MICHELIN Guide Florida a year later. The guide describes an Italian-inspired steakhouse with high ceilings and large chandeliers ... wood-fired steaks, house-made pastas, focaccia rolls, radiatore alla vodka and a caramel coffee budino. There is an antipasti bar, a lounge that opens before the dining room, and a Sunday brunch. Wolen was a 2025 James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Chef for his Chicago work.

EDGE District · burgers

A small burger sports bar with a hockey theme on the corner of 1st Ave N and 9th St, open since September 2012. Owner Jason Esposito is the son of Tony Esposito and nephew of Phil Esposito, both Hockey Hall of Famers and founders of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The bar does not take reservations.

Gulfport · bbq, soul food, southern

Jesse Sapp is the pitmaster, and the name honors his late sister, Kimberley Sapp. The Tampa Bay Times reports he cooks over oak and sometimes pecan on a pit smoker more than 50 years old, at the site of the former Hogley Wogley BBQ, and quotes him: 'We take pride in how we clean our ribs.' Spare ribs, chicken, top sirloin and pork shoulder come with mustard-based sauce, hot or mild.

EDGE District

Open since 1992 across the street from Tropicana Field, Ferg's has grown to nearly two city blocks and eleven separate bars and rooms, including Ferg's Dog Park & Grill, a clubhouse with a DJ booth and the St. Pete Axe & Ale axe-throwing room. USA Today readers named it the best sports bar in America in 2025, and it won Best Sports Bar at the 2026 Visit St. Pete-Clearwater Besties. Food trucks such as Vinnie's Pies and Maxi Empanadas park inside, and you can order from your phone.

Open late. Go earlier if you want a calmer room.

Grand Central District · plant-forward, sandwiches, salads, pescatarian

This is the room that was Love Food Central, a vegan and gluten-free kitchen in Grand Central for nearly a decade. It reopened in December 2025 as FireWater with chef Sal Corteo and a menu that added vegetarian and pescatarian dishes. St. Pete Rising lists the vegan plates that stayed, among them the Portobello Burger, the Thai Peanut Cucumber Wrap and a Maple Dijon Chickpea salad. The stated goal: a table where a vegan and a vegetarian can both order comfortably.

Downtown · italian, roman pizza

Opened 24 June 2026 on the second floor of Sundial, in the large space Sea Salt left when it closed on 31 December 2024. It is the first St. Pete restaurant from Next Level Brands and restaurateur Jeff Gigante, whose original Forbici is in Tampa's Hyde Park Village. The kitchen is known for Roman-style pizza on dough fermented for 72 hours.

Downtown · pan-asian, wagyu steak, sushi, steakhouse

Fortu opened in late November 2023 on the ground floor of the Ponce de Leon Hotel, in the space Ceviche Tapas Bar had held since 1997 before it moved to Beach Drive in 2021. It was founded by Shan Bakrac and is run through Benson Hospitality Group, with Nathan Howey as executive chef and managing partner. The kitchen is pan-Asian and built for sharing, with Japanese A5 wagyu, wagyu gyoza and Australian wagyu picanha on the menu and a bar that leans on Japanese whisky and sake. MICHELIN's inspectors call it an attractive, high-energy dining room with handsome wood finishes. It has been listed in both years Pinellas County has been eligible.

4th Street North · seafood, shrimp, grouper

The Shrimp Store has been on 4th Street North since 1984. Its own history page says the building went up in 1928 as a service station for Model T Fords, later became a laundry with a small seafood market in one corner, and the market's fried shrimp baskets and grouper sandwiches grew into the restaurant. It expanded in 1997.

St. Pete Beach · pizza

A walk-up pizza window that opened on July 3, 2026 next to The Luce Hotel, the Marriott property that replaced the storm-closed Postcard Inn. The Gabber reported it already had expansion plans.

St. Pete Pier · seafood, american

A deck-wrapped restaurant on the downtown marina seawall near the Pier entrance, in business for more than 20 years. Its future is unsettled: the city's $165 million marina rebuild calls for the building to come down so the seawall beneath it can be replaced, with construction expected to start in late 2026. In April 2026 the city had not said whether Fresco's would return afterward, and council member Gina Driscoll said she had 'a lot of concern about this restaurant being displaced'.

EDGE District · italian, fresh pasta

A counter-style pasta bar opened in 2026 by two Italians, Alessandro and Giangiacomo, who write that they 'grew up with flour on our hands'. Pasta is made fresh daily and served in bowls ... ragu, carbonara, cacio e pepe, pesto. The site's banner reads 'Ciao St. Pete ... Fusillo is now open'.

EDGE District · german

A small German counter on the 900 block serving sausages, schnitzel, spaetzle and dumplings, with vegan dishes on the menu. The site publishes no origin story or owner name.

MLK Street North

A neighborhood brewery that opened in October 2023 on MLK Street North. Outside is family and pet friendly; inside is the 21 and up Golden Easy bar. The tap list leans to IPAs with wine, low-alcohol and non-alcoholic pours, and the yard hosts food trucks and a monthly Lunar Market with vendors and live music.

Pass-a-Grille · new american, seafood

A dinner-only room on historic 8th Avenue run by chef and owner Jason Lutzk, a Tampa native and Culinary Institute of America graduate. The menu changes with the season and adds weekly specials, with ingredients bought from Tampa Bay suppliers. Florida Trend gave it a Golden Spoon for Best New Restaurant. There is a private dining room.

Grand Central District · mediterranean

A two-story brewery, taproom and beer garden on Central that concentrates on lagers and pilsners, poured from European-style serving tanks. The second-floor terrace looks down over the beer garden. Food comes from LALA St. Pete, and the Brew Good program sends proceeds to local causes such as CASA Pinellas.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Downtown · italian

Owners Domenic D'Angelo and Tony Mangiafico met in 1992 at a restaurant in Punta Gorda. Domenic started at the old Gratzzi Ristorante in BayWalk in 2001, where Tony was executive chef. When that restaurant closed in 2009, the two reopened it in 2010 as Gratzzi Italian Grille on 2nd Street South.

EDGE District

St. Pete's oldest brewery marked its 13th anniversary in September 2026. The beer garden and tasting room on Baum Avenue stay family friendly, while Webb's City Cellar, its second room, pours sours, cider, mead and wine for adults only. On September 25, 2026 it opened Upstairs at Webb's, an adults-only second-floor bar with Japanese-style side-pull pours and English cask ale. I Love the Burg says honey for the mead comes from bees kept on the roof.

Downtown · english pub

An English-style pub and brewery that took over the old Cycle Brewing taproom in July 2025. Husband and wife Todd and Colleen pour cask ale through hand-pulled beer engines ... I Love the Burg says it is one of only a few breweries in the Southeast doing real ale. It opens early on weekends for Premier League and NFL games, and the resident dog is named Dolly.

Gulfport · american

Gulfport's brewery turned six in June 2026 and threw its second annual Beerfest to mark it. Three of its beers medaled at the 2026 Best Florida Beer competition, and in August it released Sea Breeze, a beer honoring local newspaper history back to 1886. There is live music in the biergarten, a Tuesday run club and Thursday trivia. Since June 2026 it also opens at 9am as a breakfast cafe pouring Black Crow Coffee.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Gulfport · cuban

A Cuban restaurant on Gulfport Boulevard, up the hill from the waterfront. The Gabber's book club, which reads Florida authors, meets here at 5:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month, with a schedule running through November 2026.

Gateway · bakery, american, vegan bakery, gluten free bakery

HaleLife opened in 2017 as a dedicated kitchen that bakes without the top eight allergens: no gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, tree nuts other than coconut, or shellfish, checked 'down to the manufacturer'. Everything is vegan and gluten free. The bakery says it has had no reported reactions since opening and that USA Today named it a top gluten free bakery in 2023, 2024 and 2025. It also has rooms in Tampa and Dunedin, and I Love the Burg reported a HaleLife Bistro at 2450 5th Ave S in the Warehouse Arts District.

MLK Street South · bbq

Brothers Steven Johnson and William Delaine have run Hams 'R' Us for 14 years in one of the city's historically Black neighborhoods, rain or shine. The Tampa Bay Times says they cook hot and fast over live oak, laurel oak and pecan. The menu stays short: spare ribs, brisket and chicken, with baked beans and potato salad.

4th Street North · american, seafood, burgers

Dan Harvey opened the grill on 1 April 1984 and the third generation of the Harvey family now works there. The room is built from pieces of old St. Pete: decor from the Vinoy, Soreno and Albermarle hotels, and doors from the Sunshine School. The house claims more than two million grouper sandwiches sold, and the Tampa Bay Times named it one of Tampa Bay's 25 most iconic restaurants, per the venue.

The Deuces · soul food, southern

Heavy's started as a soul food truck working festivals and added a takeout restaurant at 22nd Street and 9th Avenue South, a move I Love the Burg reported in February 2020 with Kendrick Scott, Robb Lancaster and Ken Rhodes behind it. The site calls the founders 'two men on a mission' to serve soul food at fair prices. The turkey wings are the dish with its name on them, beside fried pork chops, oxtails and meatloaf.

Palmetto Park · bbq, seafood, soul food

Mama D's cooks barbecue and seafood at the 34th Street South address that was Big Tim's Bar-B-Q, the last room of a Pinellas barbecue name Timothy 'Big Tim' Walters started in 1968. The Tampa Bay Times reported Big Tim's closing after his family had carried it on following his death in 2009.

Grand Central District · vegan sushi, ramen, asian fusion

Thalia Tatham was diagnosed with lupus at 23 and went vegan in 2020 to take control of it; she told FOX 13 she was in remission within six months. She would not give up sushi, so she started making plant-based rolls for her family, then sold them at pop-ups and a weekly drop at Black Radish Vegan Grocer. Her first brick-and-mortar opened on 21 March 2022 inside Body Electric at 655 31st St S, and the restaurant has since moved to 1990 Central.

Gulfport · bar food

The building went up in 1925 and has been a bar for almost 100 years ... Walt's Place, the Swamp Club, Gulfport on the Rocks for 40 years, then Salty's, before Hurricane Eddie's moved in late in 2020. St. Pete Rising reports it held one of the first liquor licenses in Pinellas County. Helene flooded it in September 2024 and it stayed shut for 16 months, serving on the patio from St. Patrick's Day 2025 while the walls, floors, ceilings and restrooms were rebuilt. It reopened on March 12, 2026 with live music Friday to Sunday, poker, bingo, karaoke and a Thursday locals night.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Pass-a-Grille · seafood, american

The Falkenstein family from Baltimore bought the site in 1977 and built the restaurant out of what was left of an old hotel. The spot had held Page's Pavilion bathhouse, built in 1912, and later the Casa Bonita Hotel. The family added the first floor in 1986 and the upper floors, a banquet room and the rooftop bar in 1990. The roof deck, the Hurricane Watch, has two bars and a full-circle view of Pass-a-Grille. The grouper sandwich is the dish the restaurant puts forward.

Downtown · italian, modern italian, pasta

Owner and executive chef David Benstock grew up in St. Petersburg, cooked elsewhere, and came home to open this room ... the name means 'The Return' in Italian. Local press says he has led it from downtown for more than a decade. Sheridan Scott is chef de cuisine. The kitchen is open, and the Chef's Bar beside it serves 8 to 9 courses that are not on the dining room menu for $275 a person before drinks and tax. A private dining room seats up to 14 at one custom wooden table. MICHELIN's inspectors singled out the pastas, and the DMO quotes the guide praising its 'boldness and flavor in spades'.

Grand Central District · izakaya, sake, french-japanese small plates, oysters, sake bar, ramen, small plates

In Between Days opened in August 2021 in a 1925 Craftsman bungalow, the idea of Pinellas native Zach Ashton, a recording artist turned restaurateur. It is modeled on Tokyo's underground listening bars ... a pair of 1972 Klipsch Cornwall speakers behind the bar, two turntables, and records played a full side at a time under oil lanterns. The room is small on purpose: its own profile counts 7 tables and 6 bar stools. Beverage director Noah Sain leads a team of sake sommeliers over what local press calls Florida's largest sake collection, and chef Justin Shwetzer cooks a short rotating menu of gyoza, hamachi, oysters and a noodle dish. It joined the MICHELIN Guide Florida in 2026.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

EDGE District · coffee, cocktails

Coffee by day and cocktails by night, modeled on the European and American cafes of the 1950s and 60s where creative people gathered. It began as a three-month pop-up in the EDGE District and stayed. The room goes technology-free after 5pm, and happy hour runs daily from 5 to 7.

Downtown · nikkei, izakaya, sushi

Isu sits in the basement of Fortu with its own entrance on Beach Drive, and shares Fortu's owners and management. St. Petersburg Foodies describes the menu as three things at once ... Japanese fusion, izakaya small plates for sharing, and Nikkei, the Japanese-Peruvian cooking that began with Japanese immigrants in Peru. The reviewer wrote that there is nothing else like it in the city.

Highland Oaks · bbq

A take-out barbecue and grill on 22nd Avenue South with seating outside. The Tampa Bay Times listed it among the area's Black-owned barbecue spots in March 2026.

Downtown

An open-air, standing-room concert courtyard downtown ... the venue says it has been running for over 40 years. Touring rock, reggae, hip-hop and electronic acts play under the sky, with balcony views and air-conditioned lounges sold as VIP upgrades.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

St. Pete Beach · bar food

The beach bar of the Beachcomber resort, with a wooden deck, paved walks down to the sand and two stages ... an open-air one by day and an indoor one late. Southern Living put it on its list of the 12 best Florida beach bars in 2024. I Love the Burg's May 2026 beach bar guide notes it had recently reopened. Thursday is Boots & Bikinis night from 8pm.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

Beach Drive · new american, coastal, steak, seafood

Opened in August 2024 in the space that was 400 Beach Seafood & Tap House. Shawn and Jeanna Damkoehler bought that restaurant in 2021, ran it under the old name until 2023, then rebuilt it with the design firm AvroKO around Aesop's fable of Juno and the peacock. St. Pete Catalyst reported it as the only Florida restaurant serving Dean & Peeler steaks, dry-aged 45, 65 or 90 days. The Pluma lounge next door keeps more than 1,400 wines, and the patio faces North Straub Park and the yacht basins.

Treasure Island · bar food

A locals' beach bar across the street from Caddy's, open since 1982, with live bands seven days a week across rock, blues, reggae and R&B. The kitchen turns out pub food ... sandwiches, wings and a $3 cheeseburger. It is 21 and over, and it was back in business well ahead of its neighbor after the 2024 storms.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

4th Street North · juice bar, acai bowls, salads

Josie Barber and Robert 'Bob' Roberts run Karma, a juice bar and eatery built on acai bowls, cold-pressed juice, wraps and salads, with vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free items on its menu. In January 2026 St. Pete Rising reported they were taking the 1918 bungalow at 2955 Central Avenue, the former Craftsman House Gallery, for a larger room called Karma Kitchen and Bakery with an edible garden and Filipino dishes at dinner.

The Deuces · sandwiches, soul food, cuban sandwich

Melissa 'Melly' Gardner opened LOVE22 on Juneteenth 2026 in the building where Lorene's Fish House cooked for 32 years. She calls it a new-age bodega: a downstairs takeout counter with sandwiches, salads, juices and free coffee, a patio with a bar, and a lounge upstairs. The Cuban sandwich uses pork smoked daily, and Sundays are for soul food. Gardner told the Tampa Bay Times she wanted fresh food on a corridor with real health gaps, and that Elihu and Carolyn Brayboy, who own much of 22nd Street, mentored her.

St. Pete Beach · breakfast, american, french

The pink breakfast and lunch cafe at the corner of Corey Avenue and Gulf Boulevard. WTSP covered its reopening after the 2024 storms while it was still working through permit problems.

Downtown · vietnamese, vietnamese fusion

A Vietnamese room on the 400 block that describes its food as 'where our mother's recipes meet bold, modern flavor', cooked 'as we would for our own family'. It keeps a separate vegetarian menu and is open every day.

Grand Central District · charcuterie, small plates, wine

A wine market and small-plates room built around create-your-own charcuterie, boutique wines and local beers, established in 2017 by the venue's own account. Its site greets visitors with 'Back to where it all began!' at the 18th Street address. I Love the Burg lists it under the Warehouse Arts District, though the address sits just south of Central at the east end of Grand Central.

Grand Central District

A Grand Central cocktail bar from Stephen Schrutt's Hunger Thirst Group, the same group behind Dirty Laundry. The site carries a cocktail menu dated February 2026.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Grand Central District

A no-frills neighborhood dive tucked behind a liquor store in Grand Central. I Love the Burg lists it among the city's gay bars and describes strong pours, cheap drinks, regulars and an easygoing room.

St. Pete Beach · seafood, spanish

The dinner room inside the Pink Palace, which has stood on the beach since 1928. The hotel was damaged in the 2024 storms and came back in stages; in March 2026 it announced the end of a renovation that refreshed its ground-floor rooms. Maritana now cooks Spanish-leaning Gulf seafood, with local redfish and a Wagyu tomahawk on the menu, under executive chef Alexander Reyes. The hotel's Beacon Pool Bar is the room day visitors use for a drink on the beach.

Downtown · irish

Founded by Pete, Kat, Aaron and Ian and named for Pete's grandmother, whose beauty salon once filled this same storefront. Fish and chips and shepherd's pie come with vegan versions, and bands play Irish rebel music. I Love the Burg calls it downtown's number one spot for Premier League and big soccer matches ... it showed all 104 World Cup games with the sound on in 2026 and opens early for Celtic F.C.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

St. Pete Beach

The brewery calls itself the first and only microbrewery on St. Pete Beach. It runs a 5-barrel system with 18 or more house beers and also distills vodka, rye, bourbon and agave spirits on site. There is a scratch kitchen, an outdoor stage and a patio where dogs and kids are welcome.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Ponce de Leon · italian, italian market, deli

Mazzaro's is an Italian market with its own pasta room, bakery, deli, butcher and seafood counters, coffee roastery and wine cellar under one roof. The market says it makes fresh pasta by hand every day, stocks more than 300 cheeses, roasts coffee daily and holds 'the biggest selection of Italian wine in Florida'. It closes mid-afternoon and all day Sunday.

4th Street South · seafood, fish market

Brothers Josh and James McMullen run a fish house whose roots go back to 1981 on 5th Avenue South. They grew up fishing with their father and grandfather and sell locally caught mullet, grouper and other fish alongside live bait and tackle. I Love the Burg listed it in February 2025 as a fish market with a food truck, and the family says a neighborhood cafe is planned.

Treasure Island · seafood, steak, italian

A family-owned dinner house named after the Florida Middle Grounds, a fishing area about 100 miles offshore. It serves Gulf seafood, steaks and pasta, takes reservations by phone only and caps parties at 15 from February to May. It was back open within a year of the 2024 storms.

MLK Street North · indian street food, bengali, kati rolls

First-time restaurateur Amita Mukherjee opened this 540 square foot room in January 2025 in the former Chi-town Beefs and Dogs space. Her parents came from India more than 50 years ago and she was raised in St. Pete; she built the menu around the Kolkata street food she missed, kati rolls first. The name pairs Mowgli from The Jungle Book with 'tiffin', the Indian word for a lunchbox or light meal.

4th Street South · seafood, florida

A south-side fish camp with a backyard tiki bar and more than 15 fish preparations, by its own count. I Love the Burg describes the big courtyard of palms and nautical odds and ends where children build shell mounds while the grown-ups eat, with live music in the evening. The owners leased the old Coquina Meat Market across the street for a dessert and wine room, and the smoked wings went into Tropicana Field's food hall.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Grand Central District

One of two bars in the city that double as a dog park ... this one has a water park for dogs. It ran the 2026 World Cup with the sound on.

Grand Central District · greek

Chef Konstantinos 'Dinos' Chilias, a native of Greece, opened Mythos with partner Daniel Marina in the 3,000 square foot corner room that was last The Salty Nun. He previously ran La Creperia Cafe in Ybor City and Crepeway Caffe in the EDGE District. Dinner covers lamb chops, pastitsio and house-made baklava, and the weekend late menu turns to gyros and bifteki.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Grand Central District · vegan hot dogs

Jenny and Jeff Howe started Nah Dogs in 2019 as a roaming vegan hot dog cart at markets and festivals around Tampa Bay. In 2026 they moved into a small storefront that shares a courtyard with Black Crow Coffee and Tombolo Books. St. Pete Rising lists the Yo Soy Dog (nacho cheese, street corn salsa, pickled jalapenos, garlic mayo, tortilla chips) and The Captain (chili, cheese, fried onions, spicy mustard). The Tampa Bay Times reviewed the new room on 14 August 2026.

Gulfport · greek, seafood

A family-run Greek and seafood room on the corner by the Gulfport pier, open since 2011 and run by Dia and Gus Vartsakis. Helene put more than four feet of water through it in September 2024 and nearly everything had to be replaced. 'We saw our time, energy, passion, and livelihood destroyed,' Dia Vartsakis told St. Pete Rising. It reopened on August 29, 2025, in time for GeckoFest, and The Gabber's publisher called its return a marker for downtown Gulfport's recovery. Two shops that shared the building, Qi Crystal Energy and Paw Paw's Pet Boutique, did not come back.

4th Street North · italian, southern, pizza

Noble Crust on upper 4th Street North is known at brunch for lemon ricotta pancakes and the Noble Pig breakfast pizza, per I Love the Burg.

Grand Central District · new american, small plates

Opened in October 2025 on the ground floor beside the Tru by Hilton, from the team behind Noble Crust in north St. Pete and Fat Beet Farm Kitchen and Bakery in Tampa ... partners Jeff Strouse, TJ Thielbar and Chris Sweeney. The menu is all small plates and is built to change with the season; much of the produce comes from the group's own Fat Beet Farm. Chef Fernando Sanchez leads the kitchen.

4th Street South · mexican, tex-mex

Nueva Cantina's St. Petersburg room sits on 4th Street South below downtown. The group now has four rooms, with others in downtown Tampa, Brandon and Palm Harbor. A limited Halloween menu runs until 1 November.

Gulfport · seafood, american

The bar Gulfport measures storms by ... after Hurricane Helene The Gabber's publisher wrote a note titled 'The O'Maddy's Index', and during Idalia in 2023 police closed it because the corner was under water. It faces the Gulfport Pier, has live music every day and welcomes dogs at the outside tables. In March 2026 it opened a second floor, a long-planned expansion that The Gabber says came after 20 years in business.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Downtown · modern italian, italian

Chef Chris Ponte's modern Italian restaurant, the second Olivia after the South Tampa original. I Love the Burg named it among the best St. Pete openings of 2025 and its staff called it 'a quick star' in June 2026.

4th Street South

An Old Southeast dive in a building that has held a bar since 1972. Owners Kelly and Lee took it over in 2022 and joined their names for the sign. $3 drafts, $2.50 beef tacos on Tuesday, a free pool table on Thursday, darts, chess boards and a karaoke machine.

St. Pete Beach · bbq, southern

A Tampa barbecue room that first drew its crowd at 1613 E. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and opened this full-service St. Pete Beach restaurant in February 2026, with servers, a bar pouring beer, wine and sangria, and house lemonade. I Love the Burg calls it Southern-influenced smoked meat done in house, led by ribs and chopped brisket, and flags the fried oysters and a blue velvet cake. The space was Fo'Cheezy Twisted Meltz before. The Tampa Bay Times included it in its March 2026 feature on Black-owned barbecue.

4th Street North · pizza, italian

A 4th Street pizza room where, according to Suncoast Family Fun, children are handed pizza dough to play with at the table, can make their own pizza on Saturdays and eat free on Wednesdays.

Beach Drive · coffee, breakfast

A downtown specialty roaster and cafe that won Best Coffee Shop at the 2026 Visit St. Pete-Clearwater Besties awards. The shop says it roasts on a zero emission roaster and aims to buy from women owned coffee farms. A second counter operates at the SkyBeach Resort near the Skyway.

Pinellas Point · coffee, brunch

Husband and wife Thomas Maloney and Sonya Sarkar opened this second Paradeco in March 2025 beside the pool at SkyBeach Resort, the 18 acre property that used to be the Magnuson Hotel Marina Cove. The bar was 3D printed from recyclable material by the St. Pete manufacturer Haddy. It seats 16 inside with a view over the bay, and the owners chose the spot for the sunrise over the water. The flagship is downtown on 2nd Avenue NE.

Pass-a-Grille · american, seafood

A walk-up counter on the sand at Pass-a-Grille, open from 7 a.m. until half an hour after sunset. An old ship's bell beside the seawall is rung every evening as the sun goes down, and the bell came through the storms intact. Helene and Milton pushed sand and saltwater through the kitchen and it was closed for about four months, reopening in early 2025. Live music runs Friday to Sunday. A second counter operates at 6850 Beach Plaza.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Beach Drive · modern american, seafood, steak

Open since 1996 and, in its own words, the first major restaurant on this stretch of Beach Drive. Executive chef and partner Tyson Grant runs the kitchen; the site says he was voted Best Chef of Tampa Bay in 2025. It also runs full catering for weddings and corporate events.

Old Northeast · seafood, florida

The Vinoy's casual marina-side restaurant. The hotel describes it as local seafood dishes that highlight Old Florida flavors with a modern twist, with seating indoors and out over the marina.

Downtown · florida coastal, coffee

Opened in February 2025 at the foot of the Pier in the former Hops and Props space, which grew from 1,200 to more than 5,000 square feet with a wraparound porch. It is named for C. Perry Snell, the developer behind Snell Isle. Owner Ryan Griffin, a St. Pete native whose Seed & Feed Hospitality also runs Trophy Fish, Mandarin Hide and El Cap, called it his 'love letter to St. Pete' and trains staff as ambassadors for the city's history. Cocktails carry local names like the Pink Streets Margarita and the Jungle Prada.

Grand Central District · bagels, breakfast sandwiches

Steven Peterman started Pete's Bagels in 2019 in Historic Uptown. On 6 October 2026 the Grand Central shop moved four blocks from 2361 1st Ave S into the 4,200 square foot Quonset hut at 1900 1st Ave S, the former Good Intentions space, growing from 42 seats to about 100. Bagels are boiled and baked fresh, with house-made cream cheeses and breakfast sandwiches. Weekend brunch, evening beer, wine and cocktails and more vegan options are planned for the new room.

Gulfport · italian

Pia and Tom Goff have run this trattoria since 2005, cooking to order and baking their own cakes and desserts. The private courtyard is what people come for, and in 2021 they took over the building next door as Pia's Veranda for more seats, outdoor tables and live entertainment. They fed local seniors free during the pandemic and gave away pasta dinners in 2025 when SNAP benefits were disrupted.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

St. Pete Pier

The rooftop bar at the top of the St. Pete Pier, run by the same owner as Teak. I Love the Burg sends people there for sunset, with the downtown skyline behind you, frozen cocktails and lobster empanadas.

Grand Central District · thai, asian fusion, pho, ramen

An independently owned Asian fusion room from the owner of Pin Wok and Bowl downtown. The site says she learned to cook young in her family's restaurant. The menu covers Thai classics, pho, ramen, udon and sushi burritos. It traded earlier as Pin On Cafe, and it sits in the stretch of storefronts that used to hold Nitally's.

Grand Central District

PAW is the dog-themed brewery ... milk bones on the tables, charity nights for animal rescues and a Milk Bone Stout on tap. Brewers Matthew Brown and Dennis Decker started it, its Sweet Stout took silver at the Great American Beer Festival, and it turned 10 in May 2026. The site has a barrel aging room, a tap room and a beer garden with a food truck. On October 1, 2026 it soft-opened a second room, PAW Taps & Tails, in the former Dissent Craft Brewing building at 5518 Haines Rd N, welcoming dogs and cats.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

EDGE District · ice cream, dairy-free ice cream

The Matchin family opened Plant Love here in spring 2019. Mama Jo develops the recipes and her son Jordan handles expansion. The shop makes its dairy-free ice cream in house, more than 50 rotating flavors, and the own site now says it has added Hershey's dairy ice cream in 12 flavors at both shops. That means the counter that was fully vegan is no longer fully vegan.

Gulfport · ice cream

The Matchin family's second shop, opened in Gulfport in 2023 in a former bakery space. The Gabber reported the ice cream is made in house from organic coconut milk, with 12 flavors a day and six of them rotating. The own site now lists Hershey's dairy ice cream at this shop too. With Golden Dinosaurs closed across the street since January 2025, this is the plant-based stop left on Beach Boulevard.

Grand Central District · latin, peruvian, small plates

Opened in December 2024 by Jason Ruhe and Hope Montgomery, who also own Brick and Mortar Kitchen and Wine Bar downtown and Sea Worthy Fish + Bar in Tierra Verde. Ruhe shares the kitchen with Jason Cline, formerly head chef at Birch and Vine. The menu runs to 20-plus small plates, charred octopus, Peruvian-style ceviche and two paellas, around a circular bar with a small stage for live Latin music. David Fischer of Zazoo'd designed the room.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

4th Street North · mexican, latin american

Red Mesa has cooked Mexican and Latin American food on 4th Street North since 1995 and is the original room of the St. Pete-born Red Mesa Group, which later added Red Mesa Cantina and Red Mesa Mercado. I Love the Burg reported in February 2025 that a second Mercado was planned for 6001 Central Avenue.

Pass-a-Grille · seafood

This is the old Sea Critters Cafe on the bay side of Pass-a-Grille. Regulars Charles and Helen Collom bought it in 2022, renamed it, rebuilt the dock and kept most of the staff. Boats can tie up at the dock and the kitchen will cook your catch. The restaurant's site carries a memorial to Charles Lee Collom.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Treasure Island · american, seafood

Helene's surge put nine feet of water into this Gulf Boulevard bar. Owner Brad Piche rebuilt it to take the next flood ... concrete bars, flood gates, closed-cell foam, fiberglass panels in place of drywall, raised electrics and capped plumbing. 'We didn't want to put a band-aid on hurricane repairs,' he told Bay News 9. It reopened in late February 2025 with three bars and a new stage, using food trucks while the kitchen was finished.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

Disston Heights · steakhouse, seafood

Roam is a dinner-only steakhouse on 34th Street North serving prime steaks, seafood and cocktails four nights a week. It takes private events and catering.

Downtown · steakhouse, american

A modern steakhouse with a shellfish and raw bar and one of the deeper cellars in the city ... more than 1,280 labels and 4,000 bottles, and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence nine years running by its own count. Caledon Concepts is named as the developer on the site.

MLK Street North · natural foods, juice bar, health food

Rollin' Oats is a locally owned natural grocery with a grab-and-go cafe. The store says its produce has been 100 percent organic since it opened and that the cafe's prepared foods are made and packed daily, with smoothies and organic juices made to order. A second store is on North MacDill Avenue in Tampa.

Downtown

A cocktail and cigar lounge with live music seven nights a week, sets usually starting at 6:30pm, and a Thursday night jazz session hosted by Le Jazz. It is paired with Central Cigars and keeps a temperature-controlled humidor ... smoking is allowed inside. The bar says it has more than 25 years behind it.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

St. Pete Beach · seafood, floribbean

The dining room is built around a 33,500 gallon aquarium that fills a wall. The own site describes Floribbean cooking and Gulf seafood, a sports bar with a deck, a boutique, and live entertainment every night on an indoor stage. Suncoast Family Fun lists it for children because of the tank.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Grand Central District · moroccan coffee, mint tea, wine

Owner Sarah Aitcadi, whose family is Moroccan, opened Ruya on 11 October 2025 after years of travel through Europe and the Middle East. The name plays on the Arabic word for vision or dream. It is a day-into-night cafe ... Moroccan spiced coffee from a French press, mint tea served to share, sangria and wine ... using beans from St. Pete roaster Look Alive Coffee. The 1,650 square foot room was the If I Brewed the World microbrewery, and there is a pergola-shaded courtyard out back.

Downtown

A 1960s-styled tiki bar that opened in 2018 in the old LUX space. The front bar is all flickering tiki totems and big murals, and the cocktail list leans on Pacific Rim flavors. Tiki Tuesday means a $7 Mai Tai.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Downtown · italian american

A wine-focused trattoria on the 200 block serving Italian American dishes and plates to share. Dinner runs Tuesday through Sunday with brunch on weekends.

Grand Central District · vietnamese coffee, matcha, pastries

Haley Huynh moved from Vietnam to Tampa Bay more than 15 years ago and also owns Sip Tea Boba in Pinellas Park. 'Say' means obsessed in Vietnamese ... 'you drink it so much that you're obsessed with it'. The coffee is slow-dripped through a phin using robusta beans she imports from Vietnam, and the house specialty is egg coffee. It took the former Crisp Waffle Company space in 2026.

Pass-a-Grille · american, seafood, breakfast

Founded in 1938 as one of the area's early drive-ins, the Seahorse was given historic designation by the St. Pete Beach Historic Preservation Board in 2024. Months later Helene and Milton put several feet of water through it and it stayed shut for more than a year. Owners Carlos Calvillo and Anayeri Gomez kept the wooden booths, the memorabilia and the taxidermy when they rebuilt. Breakfast runs to omelets, pancakes and shrimp and grits; lunch to seafood platters, burgers and Cuban-style grilled chicken.

EDGE District · $$ · gyoza, asian fusion, bao

Chef Ronicca Whaley started Shiso Crispy as a food truck in Pinellas Park, hand-folding gyoza. The site says Tampa Bay Times readers voted it 'Best of the Best' in 2020 and 2021 and that she has appeared six times on Guy's Grocery Games. The Central Ave room is the original storefront and what the group calls its flagship; there is now a second St. Pete kitchen on the Jannus Block and one in downtown Tampa.

Downtown · asian fusion, gyoza, bao

A food truck that grew into restaurants. The site says its hand-folded gyoza, dirty rice bowls and bao have been made from scratch 'since the food truck days', and I Love the Burg counted the downtown room, with a full kitchen and cocktail bar, among the best openings of 2025. It also has a Central Avenue shop at 1431 Central and one in Tampa. The downtown room stays open until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays.

Open late. Go earlier if you want a calmer room.

Perry Bayview · breakfast, diner, southern

Jack Thomas started Skyway Jack's in 1976 as a shack at O'Neill's Marina feeding boaters and fishermen near the Skyway, and moved it up 34th Street South about two decades ago. You find it by the giant Humpty Dumpty and the rooster out front. Breakfast runs all day, and the Food Network once picked Jack's scrapple as Florida's best breakfast dish. I Love the Burg later reported a new owner, Darren Forte.

St. Pete Beach · seafood, steak

A Gulf Boulevard seafood room that I Love the Burg describes as owned by a local fisherman, known for fresh fish and dry-aged steaks.

St. Pete Pier · pizza, snacks, american

The own site calls it the St. Pete Pier's only outdoor cafe: pizza and cold drinks at open-air tables beside Spa Beach. Suncoast Family Fun points out why parents use it ... it sits between the pier's playground and the splash pad.

Downtown

A downtown taproom that set out to make beer that tastes like St. Petersburg. St. Pete Orange Wheat is the house signature, the Scottish Ale took a silver medal at the 2019 Best Florida Beer Competition, and Grateful Stout is named for brewer Jon's love of the Grateful Dead.

Warehouse Arts District

A family-owned distillery founded in 2014 that mashes, ferments, distills and ages on site. Its labels include Old St. Pete whiskey, gin, rum and vodka, Tippler's Reserve bourbon, Banyan Reserve vodka and Oak & Palm coconut rum. There is a tasting room with tours and a speakeasy bar that opens Thursday to Saturday nights.

Gulfport · breakfast, southern, american

Named for Aunt Stella, born in Manhattan in 1910, who became a nun and loved to cook. The restaurant serves its full menu all day, breakfast included, and keeps a doggie menu for the patio.

EDGE District

I Love the Burg calls it one of the few dive bars left in town ... cash only, smoking allowed inside and loud on game days.

Beach Drive · american

The Beach Drive original of a scratch-kitchen tavern from the same owners as BellaBrava a few doors down; a second Stillwaters has since opened in Land O' Lakes. It pours 20 regional beers, wines and cocktails on tap and makes its own sausages in house. Its Cuban sandwich is built on La Segunda Cuban bread with smoked ham, mojo pork and a pickled apple slaw.

Gulfport · seafood, american

A hurricane-themed tavern that opened on September 25, 2024 ... one day before Hurricane Helene hit Gulfport. It is three rooms in one: a main dining room, The Crow's Nest rooftop bar over Boca Ciega Bay and BARk, a dog-friendly tiki bar. Artist Derek Donnelly later painted a 'Guardian of Gulfport' mural on the building about the town getting through Helene and Milton. Live music runs Tuesday to Sunday.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Grand Central District · coffee

Owner Kenny Beers ran a coffee counter inside Sans Market in the EDGE District before opening this standalone cafe and roastery on 26 July 2026. It took the former Adieu Glu bakery space and seats 20 to 30. The roaster describes its coffee as light-roast single origin only, no blends.

4th Street North · american, tavern

Chef Ted Dorsey opened Sunshine City Tavern on 4th Street North in late March 2025, per St. Pete Rising. The tavern added Saturday and Sunday brunch starting 7 June.

Downtown · sushi, omakase

Brothers Arte and Rexley Kwok opened this counter in January 2018 as downtown St. Pete's first omakase restaurant. There are ten seats, each facing the chef, and Rexley Kwok prepares and serves every course himself. It is omakase only, with two choices ... a signature menu with a few more appetizers, or a shorter one focused on nigiri. The DMO says the fish comes direct from Tokyo's Toyosu market. Booking is through Tock only; the restaurant's own site warns that it is not on Google Reserve.

Grand Central District

A neighborhood piano bar in Grand Central with live music, a relaxed feel and bar seats out on the sidewalk. I Love the Burg lists it among the city's gay bars.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

Downtown · italian, seafood, pizza

Chef Fabio Viviani's coastal Italian room on the ground floor of 200 Central, serving pastas, pizzas and seafood. The patio has its own dog menu, and a private room called Scappa handles parties.

4th Street South · diner, breakfast

Tchotchke is the daytime diner that opened in 2024 in the room where Munch's Sundries served breakfast for 70 years. Owner Matthew Firosz then opened The Green Room, a bourbon bar with a late kitchen, in the old air conditioning office next door in 2025.

St. Pete Pier · seafood, coastal american

The full-service restaurant on the fourth floor of the Pier Point building at the very end of the St. Pete Pier, with the bay on every side. Chuck Prather, who owns The Birchwood on Beach Drive, runs it along with the Pier Teaki rooftop bar above and the Driftwood Cafe at ground level. The Pier's own listing gives it lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.

South Pasadena · seafood, smoked fish

Ted Peters has smoked fish on Pasadena Avenue since 1951, and its own site still leads with that line: old Florida flavor served fresh since 1951. The smoked fish spread is the thing people name first. The street address sits in South Pasadena, a small city wedged between St. Petersburg and the beach, and the restaurant itself prints its address as Saint Petersburg.

4th Street North · thai

Thai Am has been family owned since 2001. I Love the Burg says the owner and head chef are both natives of Thailand and that ingredients are imported from there. The dish people talk about is Chicken on Fire, a fried chicken filet in Thai chili sauce that arrives topped with flaming whiskey. A second Thai Am is on Drew Street in Clearwater.

EDGE District

The self-described classy dive bar opened in 2012 and has been putting on free shows by local and touring bands ever since. I Love the Burg describes the room as tight in the best way, with the crowd spilling onto the sidewalk and into the parking lot on show nights.

This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.

Pass-a-Grille · american, seafood

A Gulf Way bar and grill facing the beach in Pass-a-Grille. The menu covers wings, burgers, pizza, sandwiches and wraps, with seafood plates and steak dinners.

The Deuces · soul food, wings, southern

The Brunch Munch is a soul food and wings truck parked on the Deuces at 925 22nd Street South. I Love the Burg listed it among St. Pete's Black-owned restaurants in August 2026.

Grand Central District · burgers, sandwiches

A neighborhood burger-and-draft-beer bar that describes itself as 'Cheers-like'. The name is the whole idea: a great BURGer and a cold beer in St. PetersBURG. A different special runs each day, including a Cuban sandwich on Wednesdays and mahi tacos on Fridays.

Open late. Go earlier if you want a calmer room.

Beach Drive

The rooftop bar of The Birchwood, a 1924 building first known as the Lantern Lane Apartments and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Two floors were added in the renovation, and the top one looks out over Tampa Bay and the St. Pete Pier, with cabanas and fire pits. Wednesday is $8 martini night.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

4th Street South · burgers, american, english tea

Helen Lund opened The Chattaway in 1951 and her family, later Jillian Frers, ran it for 75 years as a burger garden with an English tea room inside. In March 2026 the property went under contract and the restaurant was expected to close for good; it shut in mid-July. Cullen Mahoney, Ferg's owner Mark Ferguson and Shrimpy's Waterfront owner John John Delladonna bought the restaurant and its 0.70 acre lot in August and reopened it on 25 September 2026. The new owners added a second outdoor bar, a canopy with fans over the patio and a full liquor license, and say the burger stays as it was.

Downtown

A locally owned cocktail bar and kitchen downtown with more than 700 spirit labels on the back bar, about 200 of them whiskies, and 14 beer taps. The kitchen sends out shareable plates late.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Grand Central District

An off-leash dog park with a full bar ... more than 4,500 square feet of fenced Astroturf with staff watching the play yard at peak times. Dogs need a membership, proof of vaccinations, to be over a year old and spayed or neutered. Humans must be 21 or older. Tuesday is bingo night and food trucks rotate through.

Open late. Go earlier if you want a calmer room.

4th Street North · gastropub, cuban sandwich

A Florida-themed gastropub owned by St. Pete natives Pete Boland and Ian Taylor. The full menu runs until 2am and a late-night kitchen menu carries on to the 3am close ... steaks, seafood, tacos and a Cuban sandwich. I Love the Burg calls it St. Pete's legit local pub, the place locals watch game after game.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Grand Central District

A down-to-earth gay dive bar in Grand Central with a come-as-you-are feel. There is a free pool table, drag bingo, drag shows and dance music nights, and karaoke on Thursday and Saturday.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Gateway · american, seafood

A tiki bar and restaurant on the water at the St. Pete end of the Gandy Bridge, tagged by its own site with #comebylandorbysea. Suncoast Family Fun puts it first on its Pinellas list because tables sit on the sand where children can dig, and an old boat ramp lets them play at the water's edge with a table beside it. The own site books weddings, rehearsal dinners and birthdays under the tikis.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Innovation District · american, comfort food, breakfast

A second-floor diner inside the terminal at Albert Whitted Airport where the tables face the runway and the harbor, so a meal comes with small planes taking off and landing. It opens at 8am every day but Christmas and describes its cooking as 'killer comfort food'.

St. Pete Beach · seafood, raw bar, new american

Heidi and Michael Butler opened The Helm in 2021 at 7736 Blind Pass Road as a raw bar, restaurant and seafood market. Helene's surge wrecked it in September 2024 and it reopened on February 21, 2025. The Butlers also had a South Carolina restaurant hit by the same storm and closed it to stay here: 'We decided to stay here where our roots are.' In July 2026 they moved across the street into the former Verducci's, which never reopened after the storms, nearly doubling their space and adding a private room for 30 to 40. The old room becomes The Scullery, a kitchenware shop with cooking classes. Known for Maine lobster rolls, she-crab soup and Florida sour orange pie.

Innovation District · american, brunch, coffee

A book-lined restaurant and coffee bar on the Johns Hopkins All Children's campus. The room is modeled on the George Peabody Library in Baltimore; the site tells how Johns Hopkins was inspired by his friend George Peabody to use his wealth for the public good. It runs from morning coffee through dinner, with brunch on weekends.

Downtown · sushi, tapas, tiki

Tiki drinks, tapas, pool tables and more than 50 sushi rolls on the 600 block. Chef and co-founder Tom Golden opened it in 2016 after renovating a building the restaurant says is 125 years old, one that ran as a bar in the 1930s and 40s and 'even served as a brothel at one point'. The house catchphrase is 'I'm starvin', make me some cold dead fish'. Weekend brunch features Granny Sage's biscuits and gravy.

Downtown

A downtown cocktail bar on the 200 block of Central that stays open until 3am six nights a week.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Grand Central District · seafood, oysters, steak

The Oyster Bar spent 24 years at 249 Central Avenue downtown, from 1999 until it closed there in 2023. Owner Josh Cameron of Craft Hospitality Group brought it back on 14 October 2025 in a new 3,200 square foot Grand Central room with 120 seats, 22 of them outside. The old signatures came with it ... buffalo shrimp, bacon parmesan-crusted grouper and raw oysters, with a dollar-oyster 'Aphrodisiac Hour' from 4 to 5pm. The site now names Daniel Walter as executive chef.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

EDGE District · sourdough bakery, sandwiches

Ariana Duksa started baking sourdough as a cottage bakery in her Seminole home, and she and Ryan Duksa opened the storefront in 2023. It sells naturally fermented loaves, pastries, breakfast sandwiches, soups and wraps. In September 2026 the owners announced a move to the 1926 Union Trust bank building at 895 Central Avenue, 11,000 square feet over three levels, expected in early 2027.

Historic Kenwood

A veteran-owned room that calls itself St. Pete's first self-pour wine and bourbon tasting lounge. Machines dispense 32 wines and 16 bourbons in tasting, half and full pours, with small bites such as whipped feta and meatballs. Tuesday is trivia night at 7.

Warehouse Arts District · $$$ · american, wood-fired grill, bourbon, new american

The flagship of Horse Soldier Bourbon's restaurant arm ... 16,000 square feet over two floors in the Warehouse Arts District and the original home of the brand's bourbon tasting experience. The kitchen is built around a wood-fired grill. A second Urban Stillhouse has since opened in Somerset, Kentucky, and the company calls St. Pete 'the standard against which every Urban Stillhouse is measured'. It hosts ticketed wine dinners and a Halloween party, Spirits After Dark, set for 30 October 2026.

MLK Street North · pizza

Dan and Brit, a husband and wife, started The Violet Stone as a food truck in 2022 and now run a pizzeria on MLK Street North. The dough is hand tossed after a long ferment and made from scratch each day. Their own line about the business is 'We have absolutely no idea what we are doing'. I Love the Burg reported in February 2025 that the shop was moving to a larger space at 2609 MLK, and a Tampa room on West Kennedy is listed as coming soon.

Pass-a-Grille · seafood, american

A casual bayside seafood bar on Pass-a-Grille Way, next door to Red, White & Booze.

Downtown

A 22-seat cocktail bar in the basement of Central Park St. Pete, opened in July 2026 by Hi Hospitality Group. It is the second of four bars planned for the building. Dim and close, with about a dozen small plates ... shrimp coctel tostadas, crispy pork rinds with avocado.

4th Street North · american, pub fare

A tavern in a century-old farmhouse on 4th Street North with a summer orchard and verandas, built around what it calls the spirit of Old Florida. Happy hour is half off drafts, house wines and wells. Its site also lists a Beach Drive Walk Up Cafe at 400 Beach Dr and a Gulfport drive-thru.

Gulfport · pizza, sandwiches

Larisa and Tommy Lussiano opened this wood-fired pizza and sandwich pub in 2023. They told The Gabber the 2024 hurricanes devastated them and credited staff, friends, family and the town for getting them reopened quickly. St. Pete Rising listed it among the first Gulfport rooms to resume service.

4th Street North · bbq

Mike Leander and Tina Vierus started Treehouse BBQ in 2021 as a mobile catering outfit after a restaurant plan stalled in the pandemic, and they toured the Carolinas, Tennessee, St. Louis, Kansas City and Texas before settling the menu. St. Pete Rising lists Texas-style brisket, Carolina-inspired pulled pork and St. Louis-style ribs. The 1,200 square foot room is mostly carry-out, first come first served until the meat sells out, and the site currently limits brisket to 2 pounds a customer. They still set up at the Kenwood Sunday Market at St. Petersburg High School.

MLK Street North · diner, breakfast, american

Trip's opened on 12 March 2012 and is named for the owners' triplets, Libby, Will and John. The owners call it a 'Not-too-Fancy neighborhood restaurant' and serve breakfast all day beside meatloaf, pasta and sandwiches. The St. Pete diner is the original; the Tampa room on North Florida Avenue came later.

Grand Central District · seafood

A 'bait shop chic' fish house whose menu changes with the catch of the day ... snapper, grouper, tuna from local waters, simply prepared. It takes no reservations and tells guests to come early because the fish can run out. The bar invented its own category, 'boat drinks', and the site says the Tampa Bay Times named it Best Cocktail List in 2019. A second Trophy Fish later opened in Tampa's Seminole Heights.

Grand Central District · indian

Lokesh Vale launched Twisted Indian as a food truck in St. Petersburg in 2016 and built a following at the Saturday Morning Market. The brick-and-mortar on Central opened in May 2022, more than a year later than first planned. The venue describes itself as modern quick-service Indian, and says its aim is to make Indian food less intimidating.

St. Pete Beach

A beach dive on a wide stretch of sand with tiki huts, palm trees, volleyball nets, pool tables and sports on TV. I Love the Burg's 2026 guide calls it one of the most scenic beach bars in America and mentions a rubber duck river.

Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.

Treasure Island · mexican

A walk-in-only Mexican restaurant and lounge that dates its start to 1973. Helene flooded it just before the current owners' 30th anniversary and the room had to be gutted. They sold tacos, wet burritos and margaritas from a borrowed food trailer behind the building, under what they called the 'Shitty Circumstances Menu', and regulars traded donations for the staff against free margaritas. Bay News 9 reported it reopened by September 2025. There is a second VIP in Indian Rocks Beach.

Grand Central District · bakery, doughnuts

Celine Beltgens owns Valhalla, an Orlando-born vegan bakery, and this is its St. Petersburg shop. The own site says every dessert is egg-free and dairy-free, made with unrefined sugar and unbleached flour, and that the kitchen cannot do gluten-free or nut-free orders. Valkyrie's square doughnuts are sold from the same counter. Its sister room next door, Freya's Diner, closed on 6 August 2023.

Downtown

A corner bar on the 200 block of Central with indoor and outdoor seating and, by I Love the Burg's count, some of the cheapest drinks downtown ... $2 drafts and $4 wells at happy hour.

Grand Central District · new american, bistro

A neighborhood bistro and cocktail bar opened by Matt Kaye, owner of The Bends, with chef Rob Reinsmith in the former NuMex space. The same pair later opened Slim Charmer, a 26-seat martini lounge in a 1940s building next to Wild Child's patio at 2706 Central. Sunday is brunch only.

Disston Heights · vegan, vietnamese

A strip-center kitchen on 34th Street North whose own site says everything is 100% plant-based and cooked fresh on site, with a menu drawn from several world cuisines. I Love the Burg's staff singled out the pho.

The Deuces · bbq

Zee's started as a pop-up tent and opened a counter inside the Foodie Labs culinary incubator just before Independence Day weekend 2026. It smokes brisket and pulled pork over wood, low and slow, and also sells sausage dogs and sides. The Gabber reports it gives a share of sales to local animal shelters, and it handed over a night's tips to Friends of Strays at the Foodie Labs night market on 26 September 2026.