Florida Eats · St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg restaurants: MICHELIN & James Beard, stone crabs and more
What St. Petersburg has on our lists: 6 MICHELIN or James Beard honorees, 2 stone crab spots, 2 grouper and seafood shacks, 1 hand-checked Cuban sandwich or cafecito spot, 1 oyster bar and 1 fish camp or smoked fish spot. Each hand-checked place had a 2025 or 2026 source when we looked in fall 2026. In all, Florida Eats maps 811 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in St. Petersburg, nearest first on your phone.
MICHELIN & James Beard in St. Petersburg
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.
Elliott Aster
501 5th Ave NE, St. Petersburg
MICHELIN Recommended
Fortu
97 Central Ave, St. Petersburg
MICHELIN Recommended
Il Ritorno
449 Central Ave, St. Petersburg
MICHELIN Recommended
in between days
2340 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg
MICHELIN Recommended
Sushi Sho Rexley
214 2nd St N, St. Petersburg
MICHELIN Recommended
Webb's City Cellar
1133 Baum Ave N, St. Petersburg
James Beard semifinalist
James Beard: Outstanding Bar semifinalist 2024
Stone crabs in St. Petersburg
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 27 Florida stone crab spots.
Billy's Stone Crab Restaurant
1 Collany Rd, St. Petersburg
Stone crab On the menu: stone crab · Season: Stone crab served in the Florida season, Oct. 15 – May 1.
Tierra Verde waterfront restaurant named for its stone crabs, on Creative Loafing's Taste of the Beaches list in October 2026.
Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille
610 2 Ave NE, St. Petersburg
Stone crabGrouper & seafoodOyster bar On the menu: Yucatan baked oysters with Manchego, raw oysters, grouper sandwich (grilled, blackened or fried), Yucatan shrimp · Season: Stone crab claws offered during the Florida season, Oct. 15 – May 1.
St. Pete Pier outpost of the Randy Wayne White-themed rum bar, a big donor to Tampa Bay Watch's oyster-shell recycling program.
Grouper & seafood shacks in St. Petersburg
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 52 Florida grouper and seafood shacks.
Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille
610 2 Ave NE, St. Petersburg
Stone crabGrouper & seafoodOyster bar On the menu: Yucatan baked oysters with Manchego, raw oysters, grouper sandwich (grilled, blackened or fried), Yucatan shrimp · Season: Stone crab claws offered during the Florida season, Oct. 15 – May 1.
St. Pete Pier outpost of the Randy Wayne White-themed rum bar, a big donor to Tampa Bay Watch's oyster-shell recycling program.
Mullet's Fish Camp & Market
3901 6th St S, St. Petersburg
Grouper & seafood On the menu: grouper sandwich, seafood market
Newer south St. Pete fish camp-style restaurant and seafood market named for the local mullet tradition.
Cuban sandwiches & cafecito in St. Petersburg
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 56 Florida Cuban sandwich and cafecito spots.
La Segunda Bakery & Cafe
2424 4th St N, St. Petersburg
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban bread, Cuban sandwich, pastries, cafe con leche
St. Pete cafe outpost of the Ybor bread bakery, with the same Cuban sandwiches, pastries and coffee.
Oyster bars & raw bars in St. Petersburg
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 68 Florida oyster bars.
Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille
610 2 Ave NE, St. Petersburg
Stone crabGrouper & seafoodOyster bar On the menu: Yucatan baked oysters with Manchego, raw oysters, grouper sandwich (grilled, blackened or fried), Yucatan shrimp · Season: Stone crab claws offered during the Florida season, Oct. 15 – May 1.
St. Pete Pier outpost of the Randy Wayne White-themed rum bar, a big donor to Tampa Bay Watch's oyster-shell recycling program.
Fish camps & smoked fish in St. Petersburg
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 41 Florida fish camps and smoked fish spots.
Trophy Fish
2060 Central Ave, St. Petersburg
Fish camp On the menu: house-smoked fish spread with pickled vegetables, local Gulf fish
Grand Central District fish house that smokes its own fish for its spread and sells out of the day's catch; a second location is in Tampa.
Inspections in St. Petersburg
Florida DBPR has an inspection on record for 700 places we list in St. Petersburg. At their latest visit, by DBPR's own result groups: 636 places Met Inspection Standards and 64 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 St. Petersburg eats
Kinds of food among the 811 places we list in St. Petersburg, counted from DBPR's licenses and open map data.
| Kind of place | Places |
|---|---|
| Bar & Pub | 154 |
| Coffee & Café | 84 |
| Pizza | 53 |
| Sandwiches & Deli | 37 |
| Burgers | 34 |
| Seafood | 33 |
| Mexican | 33 |
| Bakery & Sweets | 27 |
| Breakfast & Diner | 24 |
| Italian | 22 |