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    Michelles Brown Bag Cafe

    4.3 (67 reviews)
    Open 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

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    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Dogs allowed
    Outdoor seating

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    Bradenturkey Sandwich
    Jason E.

    Food is made with love and you can tell! They just moved to burns court! Best ice tea in town!

    Inside the glass office building is this Michelle's brown bag cafe!
    Miche

    Michelle had fresh pink flowers on each table welcoming and attracting customers like bees to honey! The smell of the cookies fresh out of the oven also enticed me! I got 3 cookies. ( blondie, cranberry & Chocolate chip.) so warm and scrumptious. And Michelle was also smiling behind the counter. Wonderful service and beautiful foodS. My friends got sandwiches and coffee. Nice perky music from the 1980's. Ahhhhh, Everyone was happy. I would come back.

    Groovin Reuben
    Art C.

    My sandwich was very good I popped in today for lunch and tried their Groovin Reuben off their favorites board. It is a turkey sandwich made like a Reuben, with Swiss cheese, dressing, and kraut, on rye bread. I liked it. While there wasn't that corned beef, much of the flavor for a Reuben comes from the other ingredients anyway. This sandwich had plenty of flavor. I also got a side of their homemade chips, thick cut and lacking salt. Michelle's is located inside the City Center Building at Main St and Osprey Ave. You order at the counter and they give you a number that you can put on your table. I opted to get mine to go, so I just hung around for the few minutes and took my brown bag when it was ready. I thought the food came out quickly enough for someone on a lunch break from work. As for me, retirement is great, and apparently my role now is just being in the way of people who are truly in a hurry. There are a couple of small tables inside the restaurant itself, more tables in the atrium of the building, and even four tables outside. I assume those were technically part of the restaurant, they all had Boars Head umbrellas, and Michelle's uses Boars Head food. That's where I sat, and the view of watching the world go by through the intersection and along the sidewalk was more interesting than just looking at a parking lot.

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    Great fresh sandwiches. Feed our group of 33 twice and delivered- so nice! Everyone really enjoyed their meals. Thank so much!

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    Ingredients are always fresh and service is always great. I've never had a bad meal at Brown Bag!

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    Yummy sandwiches, nice staff! Love the outdoor seating.

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    Fresh with good sized portions. The staff has always accommodated our special requests with a smile.

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    The Fat Rabbit

    The Fat Rabbit

    4.4
    (53 reviews)
    0.5 mi

    Great second floor pub in downtown near the theaters. Great vibe with classic rock posters and good…read moresports on TVs. We visited by chance for their nice happy hour. Great wing options and we tried their cilantro garlic version--delish and different. They had about 10 wing options--wow! Some nice happy hour drink specials--including a great Old Fashioned with Forrester. Calusa IPA beer in big mug. The big hit was their special Irishman burger, really big with a tasty whiskey bacon jam and tons of arugula. A truly special burger. One super nice woman bartender/server made our drinks and brought us the tasty food. We will definitely return.

    May 1, 2026 - two for dinner before a show at Florida Studio Theater…read more My first visit. An easy walk from the FST parking and the FST theater. Drinks very reasonable and decent volume/quantity/pour. A buck for my soda water with lemon..... a bargain for the driver and non-drinker! The boss got 10 wings, 1/2 parm cheese and 1/2 barbecue. The reputation is best wings in Sarasota??? She like flats only and we paid $1 for just flats. This was a very nice option as I the whole food plant based "spartan vegan" will usually cringe at leaving those drums behind or wasted??? I did try one of each though. I believe they are baked and then before serving deep fried to crisp them up and heat them. Sadly the barbecued ones where burnt (see picture) and a little too crisped. The meat and most of the wing and the flavor was pretty good. 5/10 The parm wings where actually the opposite and the meat and wing undercooked, but the deep fry dunking crisped up the skin which would have been really raw and rubbery. These were also seasoned nicely and tasty. 8/10 Both easily fantastic with attention to pre-cooking and cooking? I got the Cup o' Spuds (sweet potato) in a little basket. These were pretty deeply fried and a few blackened/burnt but were nice and hot and flavorful and couple burned gave it some character and was a big deal. The menu is very limited for whole food plant based, vegetarian, vegan, nutritarian mix and match or anything....... so went with one of the three salads. the Side Salad I got an entree size. Romaine, diced tomatoes, cucumbers and black olives and a balsamic. My server missed my point after the second ask about adding "protein". I would have LOVED to have seen some black, pinto, kidney, navy, garbanzo, or any kind of BEANS to add to this salad as a "PROTEIN" or a quinoa, or even scoop of rice or edamame or even a few chunks of toasted or grilled tofu!!!! The salad ingredients were fresh and a nice amount of each. Dressing good but I only used a little since I thought I had asked for Balsamic Vinegar (no oil) and this was a Balsamic "Dressing" with actually quite a bit of oil. Service by "Nightime Bar B" was very attentive and friendly. REALLY good! Fielded our myriad of questions and we were never wanting or waiting. We had a long discussion about the wings which is why my wife wanted to go here. Maybe I should have put this first.......but the pricing was EXTREMELY reasonable especially for Main Street and I guess technically IN Season? The drinks about $12 for a Cosmo, Tito and club $10 ? Tax, tags, tip at 20% plus and we got out under $70 for two!!! VERY nice! Good spot. We will be back!!! As we have just about completed the Mainstreet and City of Sarasota circuit these guys are in the "rotation" for a before cabaret or full production play at the FST.

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    10 wings - flats only.  1/2 barbecue, 1/2 parm cheese
    10 wings - flats only. 1/2 barbecue, 1/2 parm cheese
    Outside before steps there is elevator access via another building for accessibility.

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    Outside before steps there is elevator access via another building for accessibility.
    Fam Cuisine

    Fam Cuisine

    4.9
    (15 reviews)
    0.7 mi

    The Portobello Melt was on point! Came out hot, freshly made, service was great. Flavors from the…read moresmoky tofu, rye bread, spinach and I added sweet chili mayo to mine and it was phenomenal! Definitely will be back to try more of the menu! Clean and cool spot to stop in for lunch!

    Long live Fam Cuisine along with other phenomenal local (vegan) options like Ionie organic cafe and…read moreProject Coffee in Sarasota. I love the price point and value Fam's menu offers. They're conveniently located on Fruitville Rd near the Sprouts market and they're a perfect spot to stop by whether you need a quick bite or on your way to or from the beach in the area. There isn't anything I've tried here that has disappointed. Note that their hours of operation do change every so often so check on Google before visiting. I think my favorite of all the options is the Portobello mushroom melt. It does have a considerable amount of moisture from the tofu, portobello mushroom and spinach combination. I've learned it's best to have it at the restaurant and lifting the bread ever so slightly once your unwrap the sandwich so that it releases the extra heat before you enjoy it. It'll save you from a burn! I like asking for tempeh "bacon" or soy curls as add-ons depending on which item I'm ordering. Tempeh "bacon" works great on sandwiches and soy curls in the wraps. I also like their fried mushroom sandwich which is supposed to mimic a Chick-fil-A sandwich because it's satisfying but not heavy. Their brown sugar Oatmylk iced coffee was nice because it didn't taste sugary and I liked their iced tea option that was the very berry forward one. They have good sweets also like their banana chocolate chip muffin. I'm looking forward to trying their vegan tiramisu.

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    Portobello Melt Sandwich
    Extra seating.

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    Extra seating.
    Fork & Hen

    Fork & Hen

    4.6
    (262 reviews)
    0.6 mi
    $$

    We made an impulse visit to the Fork & Hen for dinner. We were able to get in without a…read morereservation and opted to sit inside, they also have outdoor seating. Interesting décor of stuff. I was seated facing a wall so I didn't get a good long look at my surroundings but between what I did see and looking at photos posted on Yelp the theme seems to be chickens. Our server was friendly and available to answer any questions as we spent time looking over the menu. I settled on The Hitman, a double patty smashed burger with American cheese, hen sauce, fried mozzarella, Nueske's bacon, with a side of garlic parm fries. It isn't listed on the online menu but there is a note the menu changes frequently so it may not match the day's offering. Let me start by saying that two of the people at my table got salads and were disappointed that there was too much lettuce and too little other stuff. With that out of the way, let me talk about The Hitman, which I loved. What is Nueske bacon? This is a special smoked flavorful bacon made by the Nueske family. Fork & Hen uses thick cut, and there were two slices on my burger. My burger towered so high there was no hope of picking it up, so I attacked it with knife and fork. Being made with Focaccia bread certainly added to the height, but so did a thick block of mozzzrella cheese. The cheese, melted on the inside and crispy on the outside, was substantial. I would be careful biting into a hot block of melted cheese, think pizza mouth. In my photo I broke into one corner to show that is cheese, so much cheese. The burger patty part topped with American cheese was by itself great, like you might find at a home cookout or Smashburgers. Other toppings were there but for me this was meat and a lot of cheese. And as much bread as you want. I loved my surprising good cheeseburger.

    A disappointing experience. Walked in around 7pm and the restaurant was completely empty. That…read moreshould have been our first indication. Our table ordered a couple of dishes: chicken and waffles, southern fried chicken, shrimp fried rice, and the hitman. The water tasted like it came straight from the water fountain outside the restaurant. Chicken was overly breaded and salty, and the corn cake was sour. I also don't know how they managed to dry out dark meat. The waffle was semi burnt. The shrimp "fried rice" was soggy, vinegary, almost sushi rice like texture, and shrimp was heavily salted. The hitman smashed burger... the hitman probably killed people with the insane amount of salt on the plate. See the theme? Lighten up on the salt unless you're trying to give your customers clogged arteries. Extremely disappointing considering all the great reviews we saw before going.

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    Interior bar seating
    Interior bar seating
    Yellowtail snapper with Thai sauce
    Yellowtail snapper with Thai sauce
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