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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 · 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.