Enjoy These Beach Concession Eats at Sarasota's Beaches

Imagine enjoying a tasty snack or thirst-quenching drink while taking in the picture-perfect views on one of Sarasota's beaches. Does life get any better?! The great news is that you don't have to leave your beach time to grab some refreshments and all-American grub. You know, the kind that just hits the spot during a day of salt, sun, and surf. Cheeseburger in paradise, anyone?

Several of Sarasota's popular beaches have public pavilions or window-serve concession stands where you can order what you want and enjoy it at nearby tables on their shaded, beachfront decks or back at your beach set-up area.

Lido Island Grill, Lido Beach Pavilion

400 Benjamin Franklin Dr, Sarasota
Open 11 am to 5 pm, 7 days a week

Lido Key Beach encompasses a pristine stretch of coastline for all to enjoy, just a short drive from downtown Sarasota. The public beach offers plenty of parking lots, wash-off stations, restroom/changing rooms, a shaded dining area and a pavilion.

Chef Laszlo Bevardi brings together island flavors from around the globe and combines them with traditional beach favorites to make the menu for Lido Island Grill, located within the Lido Beach Pavilion. Chef Laszlo operates Lido Island Grill along with his wife and two daughters. They also operate Bevardi's Salute, an Italian restaurant in downtown Sarasota.

Lido Island Grill features a sizable menu, with highlights that include:

• Lobster rolls
• Ceviche
• Crispy calamari

• Gulf grouper sandwich

  

Plus, if you're looking for a fun adult drink—on the rocks or frozen—you've got beachy-keen choices like a rum runner, pina colada, and Lido lemonade (made with vodka and Island Oasis lemonade mix).

Make sure to check out the colorful background for Lido Island Grill's logo when you visit—it's perfect for pictures. The logo is a sea turtle originally designed by one of Chef Laszlo's daughters and then remade by renowned Sarasota artist Tim Jager.

Siesta Beach Eats, Siesta Beach Pavilion

948 Beach Rd, Siesta Beach
Sun Deck, 10 am to sunset
Sand Pavilion, 8 am to sunset

Siesta Key Beach is world-famous for its crystal quartz sand and family-friendly vibes. With its popularity, it makes sense that the public beach offers a giant parking lot, plenty of wash-off stations and restrooms, covered dining areas, and a beautiful concession stand with two different areas—the Sand Pavilion and the Sun Deck—for ordering food as well as beach apparel, gear, and beach rentals at its retail store.

Here's something very cool about Siesta Beach Eats: You barely need to leave your beach set up to get your food. Although you can go directly to one of its two locations to order and eat, you can also go to its main website page, scan the QR code, and follow the find instructions for ordering online. Simply let the Siesta Beach Eats folks know which color the lifeguard flags are (red, green, or blue) where you'll pick up your food or drinks. They'll let you know when you can pick up your food and beverages.

Siesta Beach Eats features a breakfast menu with highlights like:

• Avocado toast
• Breakfast burrito
• Bloody Mary

Then, for lunch and dinner, you've got choices like:

• Blackened mahi sandwich
• Blackened chicken rice bowl
• Cheeseburger 
• Firecracker shrimp wrap

• Fish and chips

  

Siesta Eats also has some cool and refreshing boozy drinks like the Siesta Margarita and Firecracker Daiquiri, in addition to beer and non-alcoholic choices.

Note that the menu for online ordering/beach pickup may be different that what you can order by visiting one of Siesta Beach Eats' locations. There's also delivery ice cream!

Shark Tooth Beach Concessions & North Jetty Grille, Nokomis Public Beach

208 S. Casey Key Rd, Nokomis, 10 am to 4 pm
1000 S. Casey Key Rd, Nokomis, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Food & beverage trolley: Wed to Sun, 11 am to 6 pm

Nokomis Beach is Sarasota County's oldest public beach. The historic Nokomis Beach Plaza conveniently offers picnic shelters, a playground, beachside restrooms, bayside portable restrooms, plenty of parking, and just a close walk by, a couple of concessions for fuel and refreshments. 

Shark Tooth Beach Concessions takes its name from the multitude of shark teeth that wash ashore on south Sarasota's shoreline and that attract visitors to the area beaches to find them. Those shark teeth have been part of our beaches for literally millions of years; the nearby town of Venice even has the moniker "Shark Tooth Capital of the World."  

Shark Tooth Beach Concessions includes a shark tooth in its logo, while the menu itself features classic American favorites, like:

• Hot dogs
• Philly cheesesteak
• Tacos (including steak tacos and veggie tacos)
• Chili cheese nachos

The menu for both the Nokomis Beach and North Jetty Grille locations features some cool twists, like cold brew coffee roasted by Black Gold Coffee of Venice.