Over 50 St. Pete

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 · 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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 · 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.