A Must-Try Restaurants in Sarasota Coastal Areas
Updated: Oct 5
My Top Restaurants in Sarasota Coastal Areas

Sarasota's Restaurant Establishments that I Secretly Admired
Does Brand Matter in Restaurant Industry? My answer is always yes! A brand represents the sum of people's perception of a brand's customer service, reputation, advertising, and identity. Owning a restaurant is perhaps the most lucrative option for these days. After all who doesn’t love to cook and eat? Eating is a social thing. Here are my 5top favorite restaurants in Sarasota County.

The Shore
The Shore on Longboat Key is just south of Anna Maria Island. It is about 15 minutes from the Island, and next to Mar Vista, another fantastic restaurant on Longboat Key. The Shore offers a delectable coastal cuisine with romantic and scenic view to write home about. There is something about eating in social gathering that helps to bring people together. Eating is a social thing. Food connects us to the world around us. This is why the look and feel of their brand personality and brand trust stands out from the rest. This place really shows that.
Brand experience is the sum of all the sensations, thoughts, feelings, and reactions that individuals have in response to a brand.

Mar Vista Beach House
Dockside Restaurant on Longboat Key offers authentic dockside dining, extensive drink menu and a picture worthy ocean front view. This restaurant has strong brand identity. You can see the moment you walk in. Mar Vista has a beautiful outdoor seating overlooking the scenic water view of Sarasota Bay. This gives a sense of more relax atmosphere and great way to socialize and actually enjoy the conversation. Restaurant brand identity is your overall brand visual image. How your establishment communicate your product, message, look and feel to your audience. This place has it all.
Brand identity is your overall brand visual image. How your establishment communicate your product, message, look and feel to your audience.

The Beach House
Beachfront mainstay features seafood & island-inspired fare, with beach front seating. Another great restaurant that offers beautiful outdoor seating overlooking the scenic view of Gulf of Mexico. I believe that there is something about eating in social gathering that helps to bring people together. Eating is a social thing. Food connects us all. Food connects us to each other, to our own pasts and identities/memories, and nature and its original. Food connects us to the world around us. Again, eating is a social thing. This is why the look and feel of your brand personality, image, brand trust is important. This place really shows that.

KOJO, Downtown Sarasota
This restaurant uses all the senses to create an emotional connection with the audience from sight, feel, smell, sound to taste. KOJO features a number of cocktails that picture worthily as well as delightful. I believe people crave good food experience in downtown area. They know well that food plays with your senses like many other forms of art. The art of culinary is also a story telling form of conversation piece. How we see food is a reaction on how the object appears to the senses. This place nailed it.

SELVA, Downtown Sarasota
Another restaurant uses all the senses to create an emotional connection with the audience from sight, feel, smell, sound to taste, SELVA made one of my favorites. SELVA is a Peruvian eatery dishes up inventive ceviches & sizable cocktails in a chic room with elegant decor. Brand loyalty has very little to do with prices or money. It's about a connection a brand makes with its customers. Brand loyalty has everything to do with how consumers perceive your brand. This is the reason why customers choose you over other brands.
Sell the Experience, Not Just the Product.

Old Salty Dog, Lido Key
Beachfront mainstay features seafood & island-inspired fare, with beach front seating. Another great restaurant that offers beautiful outdoor seating overlooking the scenic view of the Bay area.

State Street Restaurant, Downtown
A strong brand requires a strong brand identity, brand image, brand culture, and brand personality. Food plays with your senses like many other forms of art. The art of culinary is also a story telling form of conversation piece. Your brand experience matters. Brand experience is the sum of all the sensations, thoughts, feelings, and reactions that individuals have in response to a brand. Good brand builds customer loyalty.

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