Waterfront Dining in Sarasota at Marina Jack

Located on the waterfront in downtown Sarasota, Florida, Marina Jack matches its prime waterfront location with three different dining options. Here are your restaurant choices. 

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Fine Dining Restaurant at Marina Jack

The award-winning Marina Jack Dining Room restaurant sets the scene perfectly for that special celebration or romantic date night. 

Located on the second floor, the restaurant’s wall of windows overlooking the marina and Sarasota Bay provides a spectacular backdrop. 

People dining at Marina Jack waterfront restaurant overlooking the water and sunset in Sarasota, Florida
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The Dining Room menu features a variety of fresh seafood, pasta, grilled whole Maine Lobster, signature Bouillabaisse, and arguably some of the best steaks in Sarasota. 

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Marina Jack waterfront restaurant surf and turf entree with steak, lobster, asparagus and mashed potatoes
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A full menu of specialty cocktails, spirits, and handpicked wines is acknowledged by Wine Spectator to complete your fine dining experience. Reservations are recommended.

Interior of Marina Jack fine dining restaurant bar in Sarasota, Florida
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Casual Waterfront Dining at Marina Jack 

For a casual meal with family and friends, the open-air Blue Sunshine Patio Bar and Grill is THE place for a relaxing waterfront lunch, Happy Hour, or dinner. 

Blue sky and sunshine with outdoor dining tables at waterfront restaurant Marina Jack in Sarasota, Florida.
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Marina Jack’s Blue Sunshine Patio Bar and Grill menu has a good variety of delicious appetizers, chef-prepared salads, soups, and sandwiches, peel and eat shrimp, Buffalo wings, Oysters Rockefeller, baby back ribs, and Marina Jack’s signature broasted half chicken. 

The Happy Hour menu includes draft beer, wines by the glass, a wide range of cocktails, and a selection of food specials. 

Live Music at Marina Jack 

Blue Sunshine Patio hosts a steady stream of accomplished singers, bands, and musicians. From local bands to accomplished Southwest Florida musicians, the Patio at Marina Jack welcomes them all.

Smiling musician at Marina Jack restaurant in Sarasota playing guitar with man playing bass in background.
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Marina Jack Deep Six Lounge and Piano Bar

The Deep Six Lounge and Piano Bar at Marina Jack offers a relaxed ambiance for indoor and outdoor lunch and dinner dining and music at the piano most evenings. The dinner menu features fresh oysters on the shell, crispy calamari, tenderloin sliders, a variety of flatbreads, seafood tacos, steaks, and burgers, as well as a dessert menu. 

Deep Six Lounge and Piano Bar at Marina Jack in Sarasota.
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Marina Jack waterfront bar in Sarasota with a plate of buffalo chicken wings, plate of loaded nachos, bottle of Bud Light and glass of beer on bar counter
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Located in the heart of downtown Sarasota, Marina Jack has plenty of parking for cars (valet is also available) and deep-water docks for boats of all sizes. The marina moorings and docking tend to be popular in the high season, so make your reservation well ahead of time. 

Marina Jack restaurant with night sky overlooking the water in Sarasota, Florida
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Marina Jack also offers sightseeing lunch tours and sunset dinner cruises aboard the 96-foot Marina Jack II boat.

Marina Jack II sightseeing and dinner boat Sarasota Bay with blue sky and sunshine.
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Marina Jack waterfront restaurant & bar in Sarasota, Florida. Casual and Fine Dining. Check it Out!
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Marina Jack waterfront restaurant & bar in Sarasota, Florida. Casual and Fine Dining. Check it Out!
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Marina Jack waterfront restaurant & bar in Sarasota, Florida. Casual and Fine Dining. Check it Out!
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Nita Ettinger is Co-publisher for Siesta Publications Inc. and the Editor in Chief for Must Do Visitor Guides. Must Do Visitor Guides provides Southwest Florida visitor information through printed magazines and the website MustDo.com. Must Do magazines are published bi-annually and are available at no cost in Sarasota, Lee, and Collier County Chamber of Commerce, visitor information centers, select Southwest Florida hotels, and wherever free publications can be found.