Destinations
Experiences
Things To Do in the Fort Myers Area
Things To Do in the Naples Area
Things To Do in the Sarasota Area
Articles
Events
Deals
This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.

Waterfront Dining in Sarasota at Marina Jack

Located on the waterfront in downtown Sarasota, Florida, Marina Jack matches its prime waterfront location with three different dining options. Here are your restaurant choices. 

Photos courtesy Marina Jack

Fine Dining Restaurant at Marina Jack

The award-winning Marina Jack Dining Room restaurant sets the scene perfectly for that special celebration or romantic date night. 

Located on the second floor, the restaurant’s wall of windows overlooking the marina and Sarasota Bay provides a spectacular backdrop. 

Photo courtesy Marina Jack

The Dining Room menu features a variety of fresh seafood, pasta, grilled whole Maine Lobster, signature Bouillabaisse, and arguably some of the best steaks in Sarasota. 

Photo courtesy Marina Jack
Photo credit Nita Ettinger
Photo credit Nita Ettinger

A full menu of specialty cocktails, spirits, and handpicked wines is acknowledged by Wine Spectator to complete your fine dining experience. Reservations are recommended.

Photo courtesy Marina Jack

Casual Waterfront Dining at Marina Jack 

For a casual meal with family and friends, the open-air Blue Sunshine Patio Bar and Grill is THE place for a relaxing waterfront lunch, Happy Hour, or dinner. 

Photo courtesy Marina Jack
Photo courtesy Marina Jack

Marina Jack’s Blue Sunshine Patio Bar and Grill menu has a good variety of delicious appetizers, chef-prepared salads, soups, and sandwiches, peel and eat shrimp, Buffalo wings, Oysters Rockefeller, baby back ribs, and Marina Jack’s signature broasted half chicken. 

The Happy Hour menu includes draft beer, wines by the glass, a wide range of cocktails, and a selection of food specials. 

Live Music at Marina Jack 

Blue Sunshine Patio hosts a steady stream of accomplished singers, bands, and musicians. From local bands to accomplished Southwest Florida musicians, the Patio at Marina Jack welcomes them all.

Photo courtesy Marina Jack

Marina Jack Deep Six Lounge and Piano Bar

The Deep Six Lounge and Piano Bar at Marina Jack offers a relaxed ambiance for indoor and outdoor lunch and dinner dining and music at the piano most evenings. The dinner menu features fresh oysters on the shell, crispy calamari, tenderloin sliders, a variety of flatbreads, seafood tacos, steaks, and burgers, as well as a dessert menu. 

Photo courtesy Marina Jack
Photo courtesy Marina Jack

Located in the heart of downtown Sarasota, Marina Jack has plenty of parking for cars (valet is also available) and deep-water docks for boats of all sizes. The marina moorings and docking tend to be popular in the high season, so make your reservation well ahead of time. 

Photo courtesy Marina Jack

Marina Jack also offers sightseeing lunch tours and sunset dinner cruises aboard the 96-foot Marina Jack II boat.

Photo courtesy Marina Jack
Photo courtesy Marina Jack
Photo courtesy Marina Jack
Photo courtesy Marina Jack

Written by:

Nita Ettinger is Co-publisher for Siesta Publications Inc. and the Editor in Chief for Must Do Visitor Guides. Must Do Visitor Guides provides Southwest Florida visitor information through printed magazines and the website MustDo.com. Must Do magazines are published bi-annually and are available at no cost in Sarasota, Lee, and Collier County Chamber of Commerce, visitor information centers, select Southwest Florida hotels, and wherever free publications can be found.