Restaurants on Siesta Key

 Siesta Key Restaurants where you can go to grab a quick breakfast or lunch in your flip-flops and sandy toes, or to relax in style over an extraordinary dinner.

 

ANNA’S DELI
217 Avenida Madera
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-7790
Anna’s is Siesta Village’s long-standing spot for hefty sandwiches.

 

BELLA ROMA
5239 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL   34242
941-349-0995
You’ll find traditional Italian cuisine, with an exceptional array of pasta and risotto, at this small Siesta Village restaurant.

BIG OLAF
5208 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-9392
For decades, this shop has provided cold treats to overheated locals and tourists, usually decadent ice cream piled into Olaf’s trademark waffle cones.

BLASÉ CAFÉ
5263 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-9822

This funky spot serves an array of interesting appetizers focused on seaside seafood, along with standard modern American fine dining entrées.

BLU SMOKE ISLAND GRILL
149 Avenida Messina
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-0738

This restaurant features traditional barbecue mixed with interesting open-fire grilling, along with a variety of sides.

BROKEN EGG
1140 Avenida Messina
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-2750
Broken Egg caters to its devoted fanbase in the heart of Siesta Village, complete with cute outdoor dining carved on a deck that juts out into its parking lot.

CAFÉ CONTINENTAL PATISSERIE
5221 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-3171
Fresh pastries and good coffee for anyone who wants a more casual early morning nosh in the Village.

CAFÉ GABBIANO 
5104 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-1423
Pietro Migliaccio’s hearty, NY-influenced Italian fare has that distinctive balance of rusticity and elegance that is the hallmark of great Italian-American cuisine, the kind of elusive qualities that chains and even most independent places fail to replicate. The outdoor area is covered and elegant.

CAPTAIN CURT’S 
1200 Old Stickney Point Road
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-3885
Award-winning clam chowder, live music and big plates of steamed seafood with sides of butter highlight this casual spot near Siesta’s south bridge.

CITY PIZZA
6645 Midnight Pass Road
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-4490

This south Siesta staple still serves amazing New York pies featuring floppy slices and incredibly gooey cheese. The dough is chewy and flavorful and the setting is perfect — sea breeze blowing, palm trees swaying.

CLAYTON’S SIESTA GRILLE
1256 Old Stickney Point Road
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-2800
You can get three squares a day at Clayton’s — breakfast to dinner — all of it tailored to the elegant island setting that decorates this restaurant just off the south bridge to Siesta.

THE COTTAGE
153 Avenida Messina
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-312-9300
This tiny spot just off the main drag in Siesta Key Village is the new home of chef Darwin Santa Maria, the island setting a perfect match with his considerable talent with seafood. At theCottage, his dishes are mostly small plates, but with big flavor.

DAIQUIRI DECK
5250 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-8697
It’s not all fried fish sandwiches and long rows of alcoholic slurpee machines at Daquiri Deck. Owners expanded the Deck a couple years back and added in an extensive raw bar menu to up the non-frozen options.

GILLIGAN’S ISLAND BAR AND GRILL 
5253 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-8122
The usual lineup of bar food and boat drinks at a lively nightspot.

THE HUB BAJA GRILL
5148 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-6800

The Hub looks like a tourist spot thanks to acres of faux island décor. Still, it’s difficult to argue with a big, open-air covered deck that sits right on the sidewalk in the center of Siesta activity.

http://javiersrestaurant.com/
6621 Midnight Pass Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-1792
Before the Peruvian invasion came to Sarasota in the form of Selva Grill and a handful of other restaurants, Javier’s was serving anticuchos and ceviche in a calm and elegant spot on south Siesta.

JO-TO JAPANESE STEAK HOUSE 
5218 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-8366
Jo-To has a humble facade in Siesta Village, but behind that door are the chop-socky shenanigans of tableside teppanyaki and the only sushi on the key.

LELU COFFEE LOUNGE
5251 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-5358

Lelu is a full service spot, with everything from breakfast sandwiches and a cup o’ joe to caffeinated martinis and blue cheese sliders.

LOBSTER POT
5157 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-2323
Seems strange to head out to a Florida barrier island for New England-style seafood, but the absurdly rich lobster bisque and a bucket of steamers will quickly convince you that seafood has no borders.

MIGUEL’S
6631 Midnight Pass Road
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-4024
Amidst a sea of bar food and casual spots on Siesta, Miguel’s stands out as the most refined traditional restaurant on the island. Here you’ll find Continental classics with a focus on French cuisine.

NAPOLI’S
5242 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-345-2452
Great pies and standard casual Italian fare, with slices sold from the outdoor courtyard on busy nights.

OLD SALTY DOG 
5023 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-0158
The grouper sandwich is very good, the beer is cold and domestic, but the biggest draw for the OSD can be summed up in six words: beer-battered, deep-fried hot dog.

OPHELIA’S 
105 Midnight Pass Road
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-2212
Most Siesta restaurants get away with either hiding away behind a strip mall façade or amping the village’s island-party theme for atmosphere. Ophelia’s, however, fits the island better than all the rest. The high-end food is elegant and composed, but the location — mere feet away from the mangrove islands of an Intracoastal offshoot — is fabulous. Depending on the weather, and the bugs, try to reserve one of the tables placed right on the deck where you can eat to the natural music of jumping fish and buzzing cicadas.

PITA SHACK
5214 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-706-2844
Meat, veggies and cheese stuffed into warm pita makes Pita Shack a favorite Siesta Village spot for quick and casual sustenance.

SIESTA KEY OYSTER BAR
5238 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-5443

SKOB is another spot that references the wood and surf theme common to Siesta Village pubs, but here it feels a little more natural, in large part to a staff that’s turned it into a popular haunt for regulars. The food is standard bar and Floribbean fare.

SIESTA SMEAG’S
5263 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-9494
Good pizza from a place with a name that more evokes Lord of the Rings than New York pie.

SOLORZANO BROTHERS PIZZERIA
215 Avenida Madera
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-2767

Big, New York pizza in the heart of the village, from a family that owns several Sarasota Italian spots.

SUN GARDEN CAFÉ
210 Avenida Madera
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-7170
Owned by former downtown Sarasota restaurateurs Suzanne and Rick Monroe, Sun Garden stands out from the rest of the village’s many breakfast spots. The sweet potato pancakes — topped with sweet almond butter — will cause cravings, and the fried baloney sandwich ain’t far behind.

TURTLES 
8875 Midnight Pass Road
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-346-2207
Way down on the southernmost section of the island, Turtles is a casual joint that serves bar items and fresh seafood across from Turtle Beach.

VILLAGE CAFÉ 
5133 Ocean Blvd.
Siesta Key, FL  34242
941-349-2822
Village Café is another entrant in the crowded Siesta breakfast scene, but it’s managed to hold its own for years against the other village powerhouses.