INDIAN ROCKS BEACH â The City Commission on Dec. 8 gave Nicholas Rapisardi, owner of the popular VIP Mexican American Cuisine in Treasure Island, permission to sell beer, wine and liquor at a second location heâs opening at 213 Gulf Blvd. in Indian Rocks Beach. He must now apply to the state of Florida for a liquor license at that location.
Set to open in March, the new restaurant will be larger than the one his family has owned since 1994. Rapisardi, who grew up in Seminole, told commissioners he began running the Treasure Island restaurant in 2002 after his father died. Though that original location seats 85 customers, on some nights they have to take the phone off the hook to keep up with the carryout orders in the kitchen, he said.