Sarasota County has three food businesses in the pipeline, including a family-run New York-style pizzeria, a large Mexican restaurant and a new frozen custard shop on Siesta Key.
Dominick’s Family Pizza — Sarasota
Address: 8317 N Lockwood Ridge Rd, Sarasota, FL 34243
Status: Targeting a soft opening in about two months, followed by a two-week to one-month soft-opening period before the full public debut.
What to expect: Dominick’s Family Pizza will be a small, family-run pizzeria with about 12 to 15 seats inside its roughly 1,500-square-foot space. Owner John Papandrea plans to use the soft opening to train staff, test workflows and collect guest feedback through reservation-only seating and complimentary tastings…