Location: Longboat Key
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Gorgeous Longboat Key combines serene seashore enjoyment with luxury shopping and dining choices. Families enjoy the many water sport activities from fishing, boating and kayaking to plucking perfect seashells along the shoreline. Couples and friends explore chic dining and shopping spots around St. Armand’s Circle. The aristocratic heritage of the St. Armand and Ringling families resonates through quiet gardens and plush Palm Beach-style shopping. Umbrella-draped cafes and handsome restaurants offer exceptional European fare and inventive coastal specialties. Work off that decadent dessert with a stroll around the circle for leather, jewelry, resort wear and art gallery browsing.Venture just across the bridge over Sarasota Bay for unrivalled cultural treats. The Ringling circus family bequeathed an elegant legacy of art and architecture. The estate includes the acclaimed John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the family’s winter Ca’ d’Zan mansion – a Venetian Gothic masterpiece - the Circus Museum and historic Asolo Repertory Theater. With elegant gardens and terraces spread over 20 bayside acres, the complex provides hours of enjoyment.
Restaurants in Longboat Key
1. Longboat Leisure Charters - Tours
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 5 reviews
Cruise in the lap of luxury aboard the 30 foot "Sweet Belle". Enjoy the breathtaking sights while sipping your favorite adult beverage. We provide All Beverages and Snacks. See Dolphins, Sandbar Hop, take in the beauty the area has to offer. No two cruises are the same. We also provide daily cruises as well as Custom Charters. Passengers call us the Highlight of their vacation.
2. Liquid Limousine Charters
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5.0 based on 8 reviews
Liquid Limousine Charters have been chartering seascape memories for over 11 years.We specialize in personalized charters for you and your family. We can provide that one of kind proposal opportunity, romantic sunset gathering or area tour. A cruise includes views of Longboat Key, Lido, Anna Maria, and of course spectacular beautiful Sarasota Bay front. The casual cruise from Bay to Gulf is an unforgettable memory for you and your guests. This is a one of kind experience with nature. Liquid Limousine Charters offers detailed narrated sightseeing and sunset cruises along with manatee and dolphin watches. Captain Jimmy a longtime resident of Longboat Key provides an unforgettable learning experience of the bay and all the secretes which she holds. Liquid Limousine also offers lunch trips to Siesta Key and Sarasota, waterfront mansion tours, scattering of ashes at sea, family knee boarding and tubing excursions and sandbar anchoring. Scattering & Releasing of Ashes at Sea: Liquid Limousine Charters is available to local funeral homes for the releasing of ashes of loved ones at sea. Training: "Capt. Jimmy provides boat handling skills training aboard your own boat. Learn the local waters and how to use the aides to navigation and close areas on the bay." Private Piloting: "Own your own vessel and prefer to have fun with your family guests, leave the driving to Captain Jimmy.
3. Catherine's Florida Charters
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5.0 based on 176 reviews
We offer a wide range of affordable private boating excursions, from sailing adventures on a beautiful 53' Ketch ("Catherine"). Sailing Sarasota Bay. Specializing in Sunset Sails, Day Sails, Proposals, Couples Retreat, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Photo Shoots, Video Production & More) We also offer affordable private Eco tours on our electric powered ("Catherine II"). Specializing in Sightseeing Tours, Dolphin Watches, Sunset Cruises, Snorkeling and more! Let our USCG Captain Kurt Schulz take you on a great adventure that you and your family will remember forever!
4. Coquina Beach
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4.5 based on 452 reviews
This scenic beach is located next to a small park on Anna Maria Island.
Reviewed By KeithC152 - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
This is our favourite beach in the world. The brilliant white sand leading down to a nice blue green is superb. It's nearly always clean and tidy but currently its does have a few issues. Parking is restricted as the never ending improvement works are going carried out (it's taken over a year so far and still nowhere near complete) and now an addition area is fenced off as they rebuild the beach patrol huts. That said, once you get on this beach it is just glorious, dolphins and manatees are frequent visitors, beautiful.
5. Islandside Golf Club
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4.5 based on 20 reviews
Designed by Bill Mitchell, this 6,792-yard "watery challenge" borders along the scenic Gulf of Mexico, and is a challenge for golfers of all skill levels.
Reviewed By Kim36237 - Lake Zurich, United States
Staying at The resort at longboat key and played the Islandside course today. I couldn’t be more impressed with the condition of the course and the play of the greens especially.
6. Cannons Marina
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4.5 based on 88 reviews
- Boat Rentals, Boat Sales, Boat Brokerage, Yamaha Outboards - Cannons Marina os family-owned and operated boat dealership for more than 64 years, our boutique-style operation allows us to put together the boating solution that best suits your needs, your passions, and your own distinct style. We have the area’s best boat rentals by the day, week, or month. We are conveniently located to the area's best boating, sandbars, dining and sightseeing on Anna Maria, Sarasota, Bradenton & Longboat Key.
7. Quick Point Nature Reserve
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4.5 based on 46 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
Quick Point Nature Preserve, located at 100 Gulf of Mexico Drive on the southeast end of Longboat Key, across Sarasota Bay from Sarasota, Florida, is a 35-acre nature park offering hiking trails, boardwalks, a canoe launch, a fishing pier, tidal pools, scenic vistas, wildlife viewing and bird watching. Its wetlands and mangroves provide vital benefits to Sarasota Bay, particularly in bringing food and shelter to bay life and serving as a filter against pollution and protection from erosion. It protects one of the last undeveloped landscapes on the long barrier island that has turned into a popular tourist destination. The woodland is filled with winding trails of stony footpaths and boardwalks connecting one second of the park to another. It is surrounded by lagoons, one man-made, whose function is to protect animal life and safeguard the ecosystem of Sarasota Bay. And while you are walking through the park, you can catch a full panorama of downtown Sarasota gleaming in the sunlight. Among the inhabitants of the lagoons are fish such as mullet, conch and whelk. There are wading birds who enjoy the lagoons, such as the Snowy Egret, White Ibis, Herring Gull, Great Blue Heron, Great American Egret and Osprey. Sarasota Bay lost about 30 percent of its seagrass in the 1940s and 1950s due to stormwater and wastewater discharge. Recently, however, improvements in wastewater and stormwater treatment and technologies have led to the recovery of seagrass beds by seven percent since 1988. It's a beautiful sight to see.
8. Joan M. Durante Community Park
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4.5 based on 157 reviews
Reviewed By catwrites - Los Angeles, United States
Great park! Usually pretty quiet and not too busy. We usually walk here because my son loves running around and playing on the playground. We also like walking along the different paths, which offer nice views of the bay, and enjoy looking at the different birds and plants all around.
9. Longboat Key
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4.5 based on 132 reviews
Reviewed By Jim4413
Spent a few days with my son and family at my daughter in law’s uncle’s fabulous condo here in Longbeach Key, Florida. Scenery stunning, fabulous beach with, despite recent red tide problems, dolphins rolling fifty yards offshore. Fantastic seafood restaurants. Awesome, unforgettable experience.
10. Harbourside Golf Course
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 23 reviews
Resort golf course featuring three nine-hole courses designed by Willard Byrd of Atlanta, ranging from 3,323 to 3,426 yards of exciting and challenging play.
