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Please see below a website with local dining in Bradenton, Sarasota and Tampa
https://www.opentable.com/n/tampa/sarasota-bradenton/bradenton-restaurants
Good restaurants that we tried and recommend are the followings:
1) There is an excellent Thai Restaurant (Thai Palace) on Cortez just west of 43rd Street – Thai Palace, website http://thaipalacebradenton.com/#gallery - fabulous food & service - not cheap, but worth every penny.
2) There is also a wonderful Japanese restaurant called IZUMI Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi bar with tableside hibachi, website: http://www.izumisushifl.com, address: 4446, 3611 1st St, Bradenton, FL 34208
3) For a special treat with amazing fresh fish from the Gulf, go to the Star Fish Company, on Sarasota Bay in the village of Cortez. You get in line & order, then sit at a picnic table & they bring your meal in a box. It is pure old time Florida. You can watch dozens or hundreds of tropical birds sitting on boathouses or old fishing boats. Crowded during season, so go at off times. Website: http://starfishcompany.com/starfishcompany/index.html. Address: 12306 46th Ave W Cortez Fl, 34215, tel (941) 794-1243. Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:30am - 8:00pm Sunday & Monday 11:30am - 3:00pm.
4) On the island, most people love to take their guests to the Beach House (end of Cortez) or the Sandbar (north in Anna Maria on the beach) and eat outdoors while viewing the Gulf of Mexico.
5) Also turn left on Cortez, travel about six miles and you are on Anna Maria Island and can visit some of the best beaches in Florida and good restaurants.
On the bay side of the island in the town of Anna Maria, you can get a sandwich or ice cream cone, then walk across the street to the boardwalk with picnic tables or walk out on the very long Anna Maria City Pier to watch people fishing. There is also a restaurant on the end of the pier. Farther north on the bay side, there is the Rod & Reel Pier, a shorter pier where people fish. Web address and menu at Our Menu | The Rod and Reel Pier (rodreelpier.com) This is one of my favorite places to eat. It is up a short flight of stairs. They have breakfast as well as lunch & dinner. You usually see dolphins through the windows & also a view of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge which crosses Tampa Bay.
6) Also South of Cortez, on Bridge Street (the fishing pier was the original bridge to the island many years ago) are many cute shops and small restaurants.
7) Everyone's favorite breakfast place is Peach's. The one on the island is on East Bay Drive near Walgreens & Publix. Peach’s on Cortez is in the shopping center at 59th St.
8) A good family restaurant, Riverside Café, is right across the Manatee River in Palmetto. Go across the bridge on U.S. 41 and turn left immediately after the bridge ends. It's a good. Web address below: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g34538-d391662-Reviews-Riverside_CafePalmetto_Florida.html
https://www.opentable.com/n/tampa/sarasota-bradenton/bradenton-restaurants
Good restaurants that we tried and recommend are the followings:
1) There is an excellent Thai Restaurant (Thai Palace) on Cortez just west of 43rd Street – Thai Palace, website http://thaipalacebradenton.com/#gallery - fabulous food & service - not cheap, but worth every penny.
2) There is also a wonderful Japanese restaurant called IZUMI Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi bar with tableside hibachi, website: http://www.izumisushifl.com, address: 4446, 3611 1st St, Bradenton, FL 34208
3) For a special treat with amazing fresh fish from the Gulf, go to the Star Fish Company, on Sarasota Bay in the village of Cortez. You get in line & order, then sit at a picnic table & they bring your meal in a box. It is pure old time Florida. You can watch dozens or hundreds of tropical birds sitting on boathouses or old fishing boats. Crowded during season, so go at off times. Website: http://starfishcompany.com/starfishcompany/index.html. Address: 12306 46th Ave W Cortez Fl, 34215, tel (941) 794-1243. Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:30am - 8:00pm Sunday & Monday 11:30am - 3:00pm.
4) On the island, most people love to take their guests to the Beach House (end of Cortez) or the Sandbar (north in Anna Maria on the beach) and eat outdoors while viewing the Gulf of Mexico.
5) Also turn left on Cortez, travel about six miles and you are on Anna Maria Island and can visit some of the best beaches in Florida and good restaurants.
On the bay side of the island in the town of Anna Maria, you can get a sandwich or ice cream cone, then walk across the street to the boardwalk with picnic tables or walk out on the very long Anna Maria City Pier to watch people fishing. There is also a restaurant on the end of the pier. Farther north on the bay side, there is the Rod & Reel Pier, a shorter pier where people fish. Web address and menu at Our Menu | The Rod and Reel Pier (rodreelpier.com) This is one of my favorite places to eat. It is up a short flight of stairs. They have breakfast as well as lunch & dinner. You usually see dolphins through the windows & also a view of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge which crosses Tampa Bay.
6) Also South of Cortez, on Bridge Street (the fishing pier was the original bridge to the island many years ago) are many cute shops and small restaurants.
7) Everyone's favorite breakfast place is Peach's. The one on the island is on East Bay Drive near Walgreens & Publix. Peach’s on Cortez is in the shopping center at 59th St.
8) A good family restaurant, Riverside Café, is right across the Manatee River in Palmetto. Go across the bridge on U.S. 41 and turn left immediately after the bridge ends. It's a good. Web address below: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g34538-d391662-Reviews-Riverside_CafePalmetto_Florida.html
