When you are in Florida, you want to eat fresh sea food. When eating seafood, you have to eat it on the water, overlooking the waters it just came out of. Phillippi Creek Oyster bar gives you this experience. Located in Sarasota Florida directly on the water, this restaurant offers some of the best oysters, lobsters and fresh seafood Florida has to offer. The atmosphere is great too. The decorations give it a homey feel and the open air seating lets you take in all the fresh salty ocean air that Florida has to offer.
The food is amazing too. Phillippi Creek offers everything from appetizers, to sandwich platters, to full entres with all the trimmings. They specialize in oysters, serving them in every way from fried to fresh. They even manage to put oyster in a sandwich. If you have a person in your family who does not like seafood, you can bring them along too. Phillippi Creek accommodates all kinds of tastes. They serve chicken tenders, hamburgers, steaks and pastas. For the seafood lovers, well you are in for a treat. They serve shrimp, crab, flounder, and other fresh catches, fried, grilled, in a salad, in pasta, on a sandwich or any other way you can imagine seafood being served to you. The deserts are to die for. They offer key lime pie, brownie ice cream pie and a daily desert special that will be a welcome treat to anyone.
The Phillippi Creak Oyster bar is founded on the old estate of the Phillippi family. The estate featured a winter home built in 1604. The home was converted into the Phillippi Creek Oyster bar and has not changed much since being built back then.
If you want a restaurant with good food, good service, and good history, look no further than Phillippi Creek.