A live music venue in Sarasota — previously home to Cock & Bull and most recently known as Big Top Live — is getting new owners and a rebranding.
Sarasota area restaurateurs Jeff and Melanie Gambino, who own The Parrot Patio Bar & Grill, are in the process of buying the restaurant and live music venue off Cattlemen Road from the property owners. The couple renamed it The Parrot Live Tiki Bar & Grill. “We’re closing on it in the beginning of December,” Jeff Gambino tells the Business Observer in a Nov. 19 interview at the establishment.
The Gambinos have two locations of The Parrot Patio Bar & Grill: One on Webber Street in Sarasota that opened in 2018 and one on State Road 70 in east Manatee County that opened n 2019…