St. Pete Beer, Wine & Booze

Downtown · cuban

A Cuban-inspired rooftop bar on top of the AC Hotel downtown, built around rum cocktails. There is an indoor lounge and an open-air terrace, and a boozy brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30am to 3pm.

Downtown · food hall, deli, burgers, tacos, pizza, pasta, asian street food

A five-story, 27,700-square-foot food hall from Tampa Bay's Hi Hospitality Group, built on the old Dome Grill site after construction that began in late 2021. It opened in phases from 19 February 2026, starting with Palm Avenue Deli and Constellation Burger. The ground floor now also holds Don Ricardo's Taqueria, Park Pie, Speaks Pasta, Kojo Wok and Strawberry Fields, with the Meadows dessert cafe on the mezzanine and The Winfield cocktail parlor in the basement. The fourth-floor Kojo restaurant and rooftop Bar Hana were still marked as opening soon on the site.

Grand Central District

A Havana-inspired speakeasy hidden behind a laundromat-style cafe front, from Stephen Schrutt's Hunger Thirst Group. The cafe and the bar keep separate menus, and there is a dress code.

EDGE District

A vinyl listening bar that opened on April 17, 2026. Owner Matt Kaye built the 1,600 square foot room around a Klipsch Heritage speaker system and McIntosh amplifiers, tuned so people can still talk. Local DJ Casper curates the records with guest DJs, and beverage director Chris Trull wrote a list of 15 to 18 cocktails plus zero-proof drinks.

Old Northeast · italian-inspired steakhouse, steak, pasta, seafood, italian contemporary, wood-fired

Elliott Aster is the signature restaurant at The Vinoy, a collaboration between the resort, chef Lee Wolen and Chicago's Boka Restaurant Group. It opened on 20 May 2025 and was added to the MICHELIN Guide Florida a year later. The guide describes an Italian-inspired steakhouse with high ceilings and large chandeliers ... wood-fired steaks, house-made pastas, focaccia rolls, radiatore alla vodka and a caramel coffee budino. There is an antipasti bar, a lounge that opens before the dining room, and a Sunday brunch. Wolen was a 2025 James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Chef for his Chicago work.

EDGE District · coffee, cocktails

Coffee by day and cocktails by night, modeled on the European and American cafes of the 1950s and 60s where creative people gathered. It began as a three-month pop-up in the EDGE District and stayed. The room goes technology-free after 5pm, and happy hour runs daily from 5 to 7.

Beach Drive · new american, coastal, steak, seafood

Opened in August 2024 in the space that was 400 Beach Seafood & Tap House. Shawn and Jeanna Damkoehler bought that restaurant in 2021, ran it under the old name until 2023, then rebuilt it with the design firm AvroKO around Aesop's fable of Juno and the peacock. St. Pete Catalyst reported it as the only Florida restaurant serving Dean & Peeler steaks, dry-aged 45, 65 or 90 days. The Pluma lounge next door keeps more than 1,400 wines, and the patio faces North Straub Park and the yacht basins.

Grand Central District

A Grand Central cocktail bar from Stephen Schrutt's Hunger Thirst Group, the same group behind Dirty Laundry. The site carries a cocktail menu dated February 2026.

St. Pete Beach

The brewery calls itself the first and only microbrewery on St. Pete Beach. It runs a 5-barrel system with 18 or more house beers and also distills vodka, rye, bourbon and agave spirits on site. There is a scratch kitchen, an outdoor stage and a patio where dogs and kids are welcome.

Grand Central District · new american, small plates

Opened in October 2025 on the ground floor beside the Tru by Hilton, from the team behind Noble Crust in north St. Pete and Fat Beet Farm Kitchen and Bakery in Tampa ... partners Jeff Strouse, TJ Thielbar and Chris Sweeney. The menu is all small plates and is built to change with the season; much of the produce comes from the group's own Fat Beet Farm. Chef Fernando Sanchez leads the kitchen.

Grand Central District · latin, peruvian, small plates

Opened in December 2024 by Jason Ruhe and Hope Montgomery, who also own Brick and Mortar Kitchen and Wine Bar downtown and Sea Worthy Fish + Bar in Tierra Verde. Ruhe shares the kitchen with Jason Cline, formerly head chef at Birch and Vine. The menu runs to 20-plus small plates, charred octopus, Peruvian-style ceviche and two paellas, around a circular bar with a small stage for live Latin music. David Fischer of Zazoo'd designed the room.

Downtown

A cocktail and cigar lounge with live music seven nights a week, sets usually starting at 6:30pm, and a Thursday night jazz session hosted by Le Jazz. It is paired with Central Cigars and keeps a temperature-controlled humidor ... smoking is allowed inside. The bar says it has more than 25 years behind it.

Downtown

A 1960s-styled tiki bar that opened in 2018 in the old LUX space. The front bar is all flickering tiki totems and big murals, and the cocktail list leans on Pacific Rim flavors. Tiki Tuesday means a $7 Mai Tai.

Downtown · asian fusion, gyoza, bao

A food truck that grew into restaurants. The site says its hand-folded gyoza, dirty rice bowls and bao have been made from scratch 'since the food truck days', and I Love the Burg counted the downtown room, with a full kitchen and cocktail bar, among the best openings of 2025. It also has a Central Avenue shop at 1431 Central and one in Tampa. The downtown room stays open until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays.

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.

Grand Central District

An LGBTQ+ lounge on the Mari Jean Hotel property, sister to Cocktail and The Wet Spot. The room is pop art, bold color and a ceiling of disco balls, with cocktails named after LGBTQ+ icons and a tapas menu. The bar says it favors conversation over volume, though Tampa Bay DJs play. 21 and up, service animals only.

Beach Drive

The rooftop bar of The Birchwood, a 1924 building first known as the Lantern Lane Apartments and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Two floors were added in the renovation, and the top one looks out over Tampa Bay and the St. Pete Pier, with cabanas and fire pits. Wednesday is $8 martini night.

Downtown

A locally owned cocktail bar and kitchen downtown with more than 700 spirit labels on the back bar, about 200 of them whiskies, and 14 beer taps. The kitchen sends out shareable plates late.

Downtown

A downtown cocktail bar on the 200 block of Central that stays open until 3am six nights a week.

Downtown

A 22-seat cocktail bar in the basement of Central Park St. Pete, opened in July 2026 by Hi Hospitality Group. It is the second of four bars planned for the building. Dim and close, with about a dozen small plates ... shrimp coctel tostadas, crispy pork rinds with avocado.

Grand Central District · new american, bistro

A neighborhood bistro and cocktail bar opened by Matt Kaye, owner of The Bends, with chef Rob Reinsmith in the former NuMex space. The same pair later opened Slim Charmer, a 26-seat martini lounge in a 1940s building next to Wild Child's patio at 2706 Central. Sunday is brunch only.