10 new restaurants open or coming soon, 5 close or closing soon; and 1 moving soon

Laurie K. Blandford, Treasure Coast Newspapers
Updated ·4 min read

In case you missed any of the stories for subscribers about new and closed restaurants that TCPalm previously posted throughout this month, here's a roundup with links.

Click each "read the full story" link for the name, location, hours, photos, menu highlights, signature dishes and more information about the restaurants, like exclusive interviews with the chefs and/or owners.

If you have restaurant news, please email [email protected].

NEW RESTAURANTS OPEN

New restaurant, same owner

The new Italian-American restaurant features a menu of authentic Italian dishes made with fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
The new Italian-American restaurant features a menu of authentic Italian dishes made with fresh, locally sourced ingredients.

A new Italian-American restaurant has the same owner as the previous restaurant at the same location. It features a menu of authentic Italian dishes made with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. Read the full story.

On the waterfront

The new restaurant features jumbo lump crab cakes with asparagus, red onion arugula salad and lemon olive oil.
The new restaurant features jumbo lump crab cakes with asparagus, red onion arugula salad and lemon olive oil.

The new upscale riverfront restaurant replaced a longtime local favorite that closed last year. The owners previously operated a restaurant in Alaska. Read the full story.

Burgers-and-bourbon bar

The new restaurant's burgers are made with fresh ingredients, stacked on a potato bun and served with fries, which are hand cut and double fried.
The new restaurant's burgers are made with fresh ingredients, stacked on a potato bun and served with fries, which are hand cut and double fried.

The owner of a restaurant with craft tacos expanded next door with a burgers-and-bourbon bar. The burgers are made with fresh ingredients, stacked on a potato bun and served with fries, which are hand cut and double fried. Read the full story.

Dessert lounge, cocktails

The new dessert lounge features its signature macarons on its menu.
The new dessert lounge features its signature macarons on its menu.

A new dessert lounge is a chic place to end an evening with a date or friends. It serves craft cocktails, a long list of sweet desserts and a short list of savory appetizers. Read the full story.

Barbecue, soul food

The new restaurant with barbecue and soul food features ribs.
The new restaurant with barbecue and soul food features ribs.

A new restaurant with barbecue and soul food that opened its first location in Georgia has opened a second location where a different soul food restaurant used to be. Read the full story.

Food truck with sliders

An order of a pulled pork slider (left) and two blackened snapper slider specials are served with a side order of Parmesan grilled asparagus cooked by Tony Weisman in his food truck, Sunset Sliders, while parked along Southeast Dixie Highway at Southeast Hawthorn Street on Thursday, June 27, 2019, in the Golden Gate area, south of Stuart.
An order of a pulled pork slider (left) and two blackened snapper slider specials are served with a side order of Parmesan grilled asparagus cooked by Tony Weisman in his food truck, Sunset Sliders, while parked along Southeast Dixie Highway at Southeast Hawthorn Street on Thursday, June 27, 2019, in the Golden Gate area, south of Stuart.

The Sunset Sliders food truck, featuring creative burgers, in January opened a permanent location in the Golden Gate area of Stuart at 3711 S.E. Dixie Highway. The owner brought his food truck from Jacksonville to the Treasure Coast in 2019. Read the previous story.

Chick-fil-A new location

Chick-fil-A in March opened a standalone location in Jensen Beach at 3745 N.W. Federal Highway, separate from the longtime location inside the Treasure Coast Square mall. Its owner-operator, Nathan Buchanan, also runs the Stuart location.

Pizza chain new location

National pizza chain Marco’s Pizza opened a new location on April 1 in the North Stuart Centre shopping plaza at 1495 N.W. Federal Highway.

COMING SOON

Seafood grill expands

A seafood grill restaurant chain is opening a new location in a historic hotel in Jensen Beach. It already has locations in Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce, as well as Juno Beach and West Palm Beach. Read the full story.

One closes, another opens

A Fort Pierce Thai and sushi restaurant has closed after over 10 years in business. It will be replaced by a relatively new Thai and sushi restaurant that originally opened in Sebastian. Read the full story.

MOVING SOON

Island Beach Bar & Restaurant, which opened to the public in the Ocean Village gated community on South Hutchinson Island in Fort Pierce three years ago, will close May 19, but reopen May 24 at 110 S. Ocean Drive, near Jetty Park. The new restaurant will be separate from the Sunrise Sands Beach Resort. Previous restaurants in that same spot have included Rhumfish, Rhumcay and The Inlet Grill.

CLOSING SOON

Seafood market-eatery

Crab E Bills Indian River Seafood in Sebastian, established in 1927 on Indian River Drive along the Indian River Lagoon, will close May 31. The restaurant already closed, but the seafood market had remained open.

CLOSED RESTAURANTS

Will it reopen?

Brunch at the Seminole Inn is served buffet style with several stations. Pictured is Chef Luis busy flipping omelettes and cooking eggs and waffles to order.
Brunch at the Seminole Inn is served buffet style with several stations. Pictured is Chef Luis busy flipping omelettes and cooking eggs and waffles to order.

The Seminole Inn in Indiantown hopes to reopen its Foxgrape Cafe, which it closed in August because of issues finding kitchen staff. The famous brunch featured slow-roasted beef and other meats at a carving station, fried chicken, made-to-order egg omelets and waffles, sausage gravy and biscuits, sweet potato casserole, fresh local vegetables, a salad bar and desserts, including its famous peach cobbler.

Longtime locals favorite

A downtown coffeehouse has closed after 12 years in business.
A downtown coffeehouse has closed after 12 years in business.

A downtown Stuart coffeehouse has closed after 12 years in business. It originally opened in 2011, but new owners took over in 2018. Read the full story.

What will replace it?

A doughnut shop has closed after 48 years in business.
A doughnut shop has closed after 48 years in business.

A Fort Pierce doughnut shop that was open 48 years closed in April after being bought out. It originally opened in 1976 and went through a few different owners. Read the full story.

Both pizzerias close

Citron Bistro owners Jay and Joan McLaughlin closed both of their Station 49 locations in Vero Beach and Palm Bay. They opened the pizzeria in 2017 in a former Vero Beach gas station that previously was Garage Wood Fired Pizza Restaurant, then opened the Palm Bay location in 2022. Their longtime executive chef, who had a New York fine dining background, used a custom-made, wood-burning oven to create Neapolitan-style pizzas.

Laurie K. Blandford is TCPalm's entertainment reporter dedicated to finding the best things to do on the Treasure Coast. Email her at [email protected]. Sign up for her What To Do in 772 weekly newsletter at profile.tcpalm.com/newsletters/manage.

This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: New restaurants in Sebastian, Stuart, Vero Beach, Fort Pierce, Jensen

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