The friendly staff are quite warm and embracing and will make you feel at home. The very lovely spacious garden area has comfortable tables overlooking the Bay. One may reach Mar Vista by car or boat if you are sailing to and fro on Sarasota Bay look for Mile Marker 39!! The above photo is the very lovely wooden dock which is ideal for strolling and/or fishing before or after your delicious meal in true “old Florida” style!! It resembles an old Florida fish shanty converted into a pub and restaurant with a wonderful outdoor tree lit garden with a great view of Sarasota Bay. Originally built in 1912, Mar Vista is actually the second oldest structure on Longboat Key. Located on the northern tip of the island almost in Ana Maria is the old florida fish and seafood house of Mar Vista. Longboat Key is actually an upscale island somewhat sleepy resort area just off the coast of Sarasota Bay. Locals dubbed them the Seven Sisters, and they each sold in the last few years for more than $1 million.I was fortunate enough to spend a most recent birthday weekend with family in Longboat Key, Florida. All lined up in a row, they’re a tad jarring in the irregular patchwork of homes that defines the Village. It offered buyers seven 7,000- to -8,000-square-foot coastal Craftsman style houses to pick from. A tract of untouched land on Longboat Drive South made way in 2018 for a single-family home development called Banyan Beach Estates. This is a place where going barefoot feels right, and the community directory even lists the names of everyone’s dog or cat.īut Longbeach Village, alas, is also changing, with significant residential and commercial development taking place-most of it in the last few years, says Michael Drake, the former president of the Longbeach Village Association and current president of the Longboat Key Historical Society. A mantra on a wooden post on Poinsettia Avenue says, “When all else fails, turn up the music and dance with your dog.” Waterfront access and docks make kayak ownership an obvious must. One cottage, a supposed princess' lair, wears a sign outside a wooden gate that says, “Sleeping Beauty Lives Here, sh-sh-sh ’til 8 a.m.” as a gentle reminder to passersby to keep it quiet. Other homes sport artful archway entrances behind sprawling bougainvillea. And unlike other parts of Florida that boast of being authentic, with their new Main Streets and modern Florida Cracker architecture, the Village-as Longbeach residents call it-is one of the communities left in Florida that has the state designation “historic.” This is what coastal Southwest Florida looked like before master-planned communities, Gulf-front condos and growth took hold. This barrier island that straddles Sarasota and Manatee counties offers one of the most beautiful drives in Florida-an 11-mile, meticulously landscaped corridor lined with luxury condos, multimillion-dollar mansions and golf courses with glimpses of the Gulf of Mexico peeking through flowers and sea oats.īut if you want a glimpse of the real Florida, the one that is fast vanishing and isn’t hidden behind gates, you’ll want to head to the far north end of the island, to historic Longbeach Village. by Travel + Leisure, and it’s easy to see why. Longboat Key was ranked this year as one of the top five islands in the U.S.
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