Over 50 St. Pete

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.