{"id":14276,"date":"2026-05-14T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeteobserver.com\/?p=14276"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:21:00","slug":"christians-on-the-water-soft-opens-this-weekend-at-bay-pines-marina-in-seminole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeteobserver.com\/?p=14276","title":{"rendered":"Christians on the Water soft opens this weekend at Bay Pines Marina in Seminole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The as soon as-in vogue Harbor Grasp Tiki Grille<\/a> might per chance well per chance even bear never reopened after Storm Helene, but a designate contemporary opinion is taking its location as a change. <\/p>\n

Christian\u2019s on the Water, an outdoors restaurant and tiki bar overlooking Bay Pines Marina<\/a>, will soft birth this Saturday, May per chance presumably per chance simply 16th at 11am at 4999 Harbor Lights Drive<\/strong> in Seminole.<\/p>\n

The restaurant and bar will attend drinks finest at some stage in opening weekend because it awaits final approval to birth food service on location.<\/p>\n

The opinion that is the latest enterprise from Marc DeRusso and his fundamental other Amelia, owners of DeRusso\u2019s Pizzeria<\/a> in Tierra Verde and St. Pete. The St. Pete pizzeria is positioned simply down the boulevard from the contemporary restaurant.<\/p>\n

DeRusso\u2019s first restaurant, Bourbon Aspect freeway Grill<\/a> in Colonie, NY, has been birth for 27 years. <\/p>\n

Christian\u2019s on the Water will provides beer, wine, and frozen, wine-based mostly cocktails, along with margaritas. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cOn daily foundation, folks circulation by the food trailer and quiz when we\u2019re going to be birth,\u201d DeRusso says with a chortle. \u201cI have been in enterprise for a in actual fact very lengthy time, but this has been one in all the most advanced places to secure birth, simply attributable to of the unfamiliar nature of each and every the tiki bar and food trailer.\u201d <\/p>\n

Final summer, Bowline Marinas<\/a> bought the 7.9-acre Bay Pines Marina property. <\/p>\n

Its contemporary owners approached DeRusso about taking on the outdated fashioned Harbor Grasp Tiki Grille residence, which sustained hurt at some stage in 2024\u2019s support-to-support hurricanes and never reopened.<\/p>\n

Over the final five months, DeRusso has refreshed the property with contemporary furnishings, air-conditioned portable lavatories, renovations to the 22-seat tiki bar and gloomy dining residence, and landscaping upgrades to the turfed courtyard, which entails adding Adirondack chairs and cornhole. <\/p>\n

The outdoors restaurant plans to host reside acoustic song seven days a week. A diminutive retail residence will promote branded t-shirts, koozies, hats, sunscreen, and towels.<\/p>\n

A contemporary 20-foot food trailer will attend what DeRusso describes as \u201ccoastal-inspired\u201d dishes. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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While DeRusso\u2019s other restaurants focal level on pizza, Christian\u2019s on the Water will offer a unfold of casual dishes, along with grouper sandwiches, peel-and-expend minute, smoked fish unfold, wreck burgers, and rice bowls topped with pulled pork, crimson meat, or hen. <\/p>\n

The restaurant also plans to present a \u201chook and cook dinner\u201d service, allowing fishermen to raise their salvage to be grilled or fried. <\/p>\n

Once fully operational, Christian\u2019s on the Water plans to birth weekend breakfast service starting at 9 am on Saturdays and Sundays, providing egg bowls and breakfast sandwiches. <\/p>\n

The restaurant is on the market by car, by bicycle (resulting from its proximity to The Pinellas Path), and by boat, providing a dozen slips for its prospects to exhaust while they dine and drink.<\/p>\n

Following its soft opening duration, Christian\u2019s shall be birth from 11 am to 10pm on weekdays and unless boring evening on weekends. <\/p>\n

DeRusso tells St. Pete Rising<\/em> that the restaurant is called after his late son Christian, and the enterprise\u2019 soft opening coincides with the anniversary of his passing. <\/p>\n

He hopes the enterprise will no longer finest present colossal food, drinks, and hospitality, but will attend as a living tribute for his son.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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