We love our beaches. And we love our parks and preserves. But sometimes in sunny Florida you just gotta get indoors. Especially now when regardless of what the calendar says, the weather screams “summer!”
So, yeah, now that you’ve posted that vaccine selfie, go ahead and mask up and have some fun inside, where you also don’t have to worry about our infamous afternoon thunderstorms. We’ve included our picks for best air-conditioned family activities as well as adults-only date night recommendations.
You will also find some great restaurant, bar and ice cream shop suggestions mixed in among these 21 places to have fun indoors across Sarasota and Manatee counties.
The restaurant also prefers not to use more processed vegan foods, such as the popular Beyond Meat. Many menu items use mushrooms, such as “crab” cakes made with lion’s mane or shiitake “escargots,” with the restaurant working with the Palmetto mushroom farm Petrichor.
Other initial menu offerings include a saffron risotto-stuffed tomato, miso-glazed eggplant and almond ricotta-spinach ravioli. It also features a variety of small plates, soups, salads and desserts, including housemade sorbet.
The restaurant has a beer and wine license and serves a selection of both, including a few beers on draft. It also offers a variety of mocktails, working with the company Ritual Zero Proof, among other nonalcoholic drink options like hibiscus lemonade, kombucha, coffee and tea.
5 hours ago Share As circus leaders plan an expansion, they re aiming for a 99-year lease extension to remain on Sarasota High School s campus.
Leaders of the Circus Arts Conservatory hope to make Sarasota a U.S. hub for circus education and are planning an expansion of its 2.2-acre property on Bahia Vista Street.
To make that possible, conservatory leaders need approval from the Sarasota County School District because the organization s arena sits on Sarasota High School property.
Conservatory leaders appeared before the School Board on May 4 to inform members of their intentions, and will return to present a master plan concept and ask for a 99-year extension to its lease.
An ogre sings outdoors in ‘Shrek’
“Shrek, the Musical,” the stage version of the hit animated film, is usually produced with a cast of roughly 30 playing everyone from the green ogre named Shrek to dozens of fairy tale characters. All of them will be on hand, but in a different way in a new outdoor production presented by the Dingbat Theatre Project. All the actors play multiple characters and manipulate a variety of puppets. It is staged by founder Luke Manual McFatrich (he also plays Dragon) and is choreographed by Brian Finnerty (who also plays Lord Farquaad). Cory Woomert plays Shrek, Alyssa Goudy is Princess Fiona and Derric Gobourne Jr. is Donkey. The cast also includes Noelia Altamirano, Amanda Heisey and Jamie Molina. Performances are outdoors at the Bazaar on Apricot and Lime, 821 Apricot Ave., Sarasota, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and May 13-15. Tickets are $25 or $50 for blanket seating for up to four people. For more information: dingbattheatre.org