Florida Eats · Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota restaurants: oyster bars, MICHELIN and more
What Sarasota has on our lists: 3 oyster bars, 3 MICHELIN or James Beard honorees, 1 hand-checked Cuban sandwich or cafecito spot, 1 grouper and seafood shack, 1 fish camp or smoked fish spot and 1 of Florida's oldest restaurants (from 1959). Each hand-checked place had a 2025 or 2026 source when we looked in fall 2026. In all, Florida Eats maps 849 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in Sarasota, nearest first on your phone.
Oyster bars & raw bars in Sarasota
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 68 Florida oyster bars.
Captain Curt's Crab & Oyster Bar
1200 Old Stickney Point Rd, Sarasota
Oyster bar On the menu: oysters, crab, clam chowder · Since 1979
Family-run south Siesta Key seafood compound with the Sniki Tiki bar, known for its competition-winning clam chowder.
Phillippi Creek Oyster Bar
5353 S Tamiami Trl, Sarasota
Oyster bar On the menu: oysters, seafood entrees, fish tacos
Waterfront oyster bar on Phillippi Creek with dock seating and boat access, open daily; its menu file is dated May 2026.
Siesta Key Oyster Bar
5238 Ocean Blvd, Sarasota
Oyster bar On the menu: oysters, cold beer, live music
Siesta Village bar known locally as SKOB for oysters, beer and live music.
MICHELIN & James Beard in Sarasota
Restaurants in the MICHELIN Guide Florida 2026 or named by the James Beard Foundation, reported as facts rather than scores. Across Florida: 217 Florida MICHELIN and James Beard restaurants.
Lucky 8
1812 S Osprey Ave, Sarasota
Bib Gourmand
Focaccia Sandwich + Bakery
2300 Bee Ridge Rd, Sarasota
MICHELIN Recommended
Tralia
6566 Gateway Ave, Sarasota
MICHELIN Recommended
Cuban sandwiches & cafecito in Sarasota
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 56 Florida Cuban sandwich and cafecito spots.
Columbia Restaurant
411 St Armands Cir, Sarasota
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban sandwich, Spanish-Cuban plates · Since 1959
St. Armands Circle branch of the Ybor City Spanish-Cuban restaurant family, open since 1959 and listing regular daily hours after the 2024 storm flooding on the Circle.
Grouper & seafood shacks in Sarasota
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 52 Florida grouper and seafood shacks.
Walt's Fish Market Restaurant
4144 Tamiami Trl, Sarasota
Grouper & seafoodFish camp On the menu: grouper Reuben, smoked mullet dip with saltines, fresh fish market
Family seafood market with a restaurant attached on the South Trail, posting October 2026 menus and daily market hours.
Fish camps & smoked fish in Sarasota
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 41 Florida fish camps and smoked fish spots.
Walt's Fish Market Restaurant
4144 Tamiami Trl, Sarasota
Grouper & seafoodFish camp On the menu: grouper Reuben, smoked mullet dip with saltines, fresh fish market
Family seafood market with a restaurant attached on the South Trail, posting October 2026 menus and daily market hours.
Oldest restaurants in Sarasota
In business at this address since 1960 or before, going by the place itself or a published history, listed from the oldest. Each note gives the source of the year. Across Florida: Florida's oldest restaurants.
Columbia Restaurant
411 St Armands Cir, Sarasota
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban sandwich, Spanish-Cuban plates · Since 1959
St. Armands Circle branch of the Ybor City Spanish-Cuban restaurant family, open since 1959 and listing regular daily hours after the 2024 storm flooding on the Circle.
Bay News 9 (July 2025) reports this St. Armands Circle restaurant opened in December 1959, the Columbia family's first expansion beyond Ybor, and calls it Sarasota's oldest restaurant; no move is reported.
Inspections in Sarasota
Florida DBPR has an inspection on record for 755 places we list in Sarasota. At their latest visit, by DBPR's own result groups: 686 places Met Inspection Standards and 69 places Follow-Up Inspection Required. Florida doesn't grade restaurants, and neither do we. Records through September 30, 2026. Each place's results are in the web search; what the results mean: Florida restaurant inspections, explained.
What Sarasota eats
Kinds of food among the 849 places we list in Sarasota, counted from DBPR's licenses and open map data.
| Kind of place | Places |
|---|---|
| Bar & Pub | 128 |
| Coffee & Café | 87 |
| Pizza | 65 |
| Bakery & Sweets | 51 |
| Mexican | 41 |
| Seafood | 40 |
| Sandwiches & Deli | 37 |
| Italian | 37 |
| Burgers | 32 |
| Latin & Caribbean | 28 |