Sand Bar Restaraunt in Anna Maria City
For many, the Sandbar restaurant is a must visit while staying on Anna Maria Island. The atmosphere is wonderful and it’s one of the few restaurants where you can dine outdoors while listening to the surf. The most popular time at the Sandbar is just prior to sunset. The restaurant offers good food with an outstanding view. You can make reservations for inside and outdoor seating is on a first come first basis. About one hour prior to Sunset time you can expect to wait over 1 hour for a seat outside. There are a few tables outside where you can still put your feet in the sand while most are on the wooden deck covered by an open air cathedral tin roof. Inside seating is 3 to 4 rows of seating with one row along the West wall which offers Direct Gulf Front views. The Anna Maria City restaurant offers a full bar and has limited seating in the bar with limited views of the Gulf.
The Sandbar offers salads, hamburgs, children meals such as chicken fingers, Macaroni and cheese, pasta, and seafood. I have had the seafood salad, stuffed flounder, salmon, and a specialty salad and all meals have been good. The Key Lime pie is very good as well as the Calamari. Be careful if you order the Calamari. Be sure to order a half plate unless you have more than 4 people eating. The Full order is huge and could serve as a meal for two or three.
One local favorite thing to do is to walk the beach to the Sandbar and grab a drink or meal. There is nothing like working off your meal by walking the Gulf of Mexico. The Sandbar has an outdoor entry area however you do need to plan to have a shirt on to enter the restaurant. The walk is about 20 minutes from Peppertree or White Avenue in Anna Maria City. From La Casa Costeria on 73rd Street, it’s about a 35 minute walk to the Sandbar.
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100 Spring Avenue
Anna Maria City, Fl, 34216
(941) 778-0444
September 19th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Since we discovered the Sand Bar 5 summers ago, it was always a favorite of my husband’s and me. No matter how many times we might eat there during a Florida stay, we always made dinner at the Sand Bar our last night dining spot before our return to Illinois.
This past December we were informed that my husband had terminal lung cancer. As time passed we began discussing my husbands final wishes. His wish was to be cremated and have his ashes scattered on the beach at the Sand Bar and then for family members to have dinner and a few drinks at the Sand Bar in his memory.
He died on August 2 and my sons and I will be taking his remains to Florida in Oct. Since his death, I have discovered that to disperse his remains, we need to be at least 3 miles out in the Gulf. So instead of scattering his remains on the beach, we are taking a sunset cruise and will then follow his wishes with dinner at the Sand Bar. I know he will be smiling down on us.