Again in 2023 (the place has the time gone btw?!), I wrote about how Cheeky’s in St. Pete was coming quickly. Effectively guess what???? Their opening date is coming very quickly! The seafood and uncooked bar restaurant formally opens subsequent Wednesday, Could seventh on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg’s Grand Central District.
To refresh your reminiscence, Cheeky’s is a creation from Tampa native and co-founder of award-winning eating places Willa’s and Willa’s Provisions Nate Siegel. On the menu is recent seafood from native waters and the Gulf, together with East Coast and Florida oysters, Maine lobster rolls, po-boys with bread sourced from Leidenheimer (a bakery in New Orleans), smoked fish dip, scorching bowls of chowder, burgers, salads, every day specials. FYI, the restaurant opens with dinner service solely and can introduce weekday lunch, weekend brunch, a cheerful hour and reside music sooner or later.
Cheeky’s oysters (out there uncooked, grilled, and fried) are sourced from Lengthy Island’s Blue Level, Massachusetts’ Katama Bay and native Florida oyster farms like Indian River Oyster Firm in New Smyrna Seashore and Misplaced Coast Oysters in Tampa Bay.
Govt Chef Phillips Cleary will run the kitchen. He launched his profession over 20 years in the past and moved to Tampa in 2022, not too long ago working at Willa’s and On Swann. Cleary’s objective is to “spotlight the wonder and ease of the most effective elements whereas incorporating elevated strategies discovered from his background in tremendous eating.”
Cheeky’s drinks embrace traditional cocktails like martinis, native beers, and Guiness on faucet, pure wines by your alternative of glass or bottle, and some spirit-free choices. Visitors may sip frozen cocktails like banana daiquiris, transfusions, margaritas and espresso martinis made with espresso from native roaster Look Alive. Cocktails on draft will embrace mojitos, palomas and strawberry negronis.
Diners can choose from a number of bar stools to loads of banquettes in an open and breezy eating room or at tables with umbrellas to protect us from the new Florida solar within the soon-to-open outside patio.
“Coming to St. Pete is a dream come true, and opening a brand new little place like Cheeky’s alongside Central Avenue is so thrilling,” says Nate. “That is already such a particular group, and I’m honored to grow to be a small a part of it alongside my pals and neighbors at Bandit, Baba, Wild Youngster and extra.”
The restaurant will welcome walk-ins, and reservations will likely be out there on Resy.
Discover Cheeky’s at 2823 Central Ave. in St. Petersburg. Take a look at their web site for particulars and comply with them on Instagram @cheekys_net.
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