About Bevardi's Salute! Restaurant

Bevardi’s Salute! Restaurant is a chef-owned and operated, local Italian artisan restaurant in downtown Sarasota, located at the corner of Lemon Avenue and First Street, 23 North Lemon Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 34236. Call 941.365.1020 any time for information or reservations.

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Chef Laszlo, his wife Ottilia, and their two daughters moved to Sarasota in 2010 to introduce Sarasota to their restaurant concept of house-made pasta, authentic Italian food, and fresh seafood with table-side service, beautiful ambiance, and tasty food.

Bevardi’s Salute! Restaurant is an award-winning, family-friendly local favorite offering a full bar, a charming indoor dining ambiance, nightly Happy Hour at the Bar from 4-6pm, Early Bird Special for $26.95 from 4-6pm, and live music nightly on the breezy outdoor patio. Laszlo Bevardi studied in Eastern Europe - from Hungary to Germany - and two years traveling as a Chef through the Caribbean, before settling in the US to open Bevardi's Salute Restaurant in 2010. The downtown Sarasota locale is famed for its home-made pasta, prepared daily, its whole fish dinners that are often imported and filleted table-side, and its freshly-picked produce from local farms.

Q:  What attracted you to a career in food?

A:  My love of food started when I was a child. My parents were telling me, as soon as I grew up, that I was always hanging out in the kitchen. I always wanted to make dough and pasta and cut vegetables. I just enjoyed being in the kitchen instead of playing with my toys. When I finished school, I had to kind of pick my area of study, and it was natural for me to go to restaurant and hotel school.

Q:  You have such an international background. What led you to Sarasota?

A:  I grew up until I was 19 in Hungary and went to restaurant school there. Then  I went to restaurant school in Berlin, Germany I also went to the Royal Caribbean cruise line. My partners and I had restaurants in Philadelphia and we wanted to open somewhere warmer, so we opened Bevardi's Salute!

Q: Why is Bevardi's Salute! Restaurant is known for its seafood?

A: I think what people like is we do a great job with whole fish. I always try to find local, sustainable seafood. I have three or four different seafood purveyors and I always try to check around to get the best quality on the table. I also import fish from the Mediterranean, from Italy and Greece. It comes fresh on a bed of ice. They fly it over to Miami and I get it the next day at the restaurant. We do a whole Dover sol from Norway the same way.  We prepare the fish with the skin and everything, and we filet it table-side. I always prefer to cook the fish whole.

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Dinner Served

Sun-Thu 4pm-10pm • Fri-Sat 4pm-11pm

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Early Bird Dinner Menu

daily 4pm-6pm

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Daily Happy Hour

from 4-6pm in the Bar

with a Small Plates Menu

Live Music
Tue-Sun click for details

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PRIVATE PARTY ROOM AVAILABLE!

In-House Catering
Weddings, Business Functions, Fundraising Events, Gatherings, etc
for Happy Hour, Dinner, Lunch Events

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