Phillippi Creek Oyster House Adds Tiki Area, Reopens Gift Shop

Some recent upgrades at Phillippi Creek Village Restaurant & Oyster Bar hopes to keep the water from pouring down while waiting for your creekside dining table to open up.
Plopping down on a picnic table at Phillippi Creek Village on a recent afternoon, you get a sense that you're not in Sarasota anymore, but it turns out you're at one of the first spots of Sarasota way back when Fernando Phillippi sailed his vessel up the creek in 1569 and started developing the land and creating infill areas and the manmade island where the Phillippi Creek Village complex sits today.
"There's not too many locations in Florida that is true Florida," said vice president of operations Rafael Manzano. And Phillippi Creek is one of those true Old Florida restaurants.
The building has maintained its basic shape and structure since erected in 1604, and

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