After recently closing one taproom, a Sarasota brewery has handed over another of its locations — which also serves as a concert venue — to a popular local restaurant and bar operator.
The Parrot Patio Bar & Grill, which has two locations in Sarasota and Bradenton, has bought Big Top Live at 975 Cattlemen Road and will operate it as The Parrot Live Tiki Bar & Grill Music Venue.
Big Top Brewing Company had occupied the Cattlemen Road space since 2021, but many longtime locals remember it best as craft beer bar and music venue Cock & Bull, whose owners Howie and Dawn Hochberg still owned the property prior to The Parrot purchasing it. With that sale and the recent closure of its Lakewood Ranch location Big Top Brewers Collective, Big Top will now have one location, its expansive Fruitville Commons facility that opened last year…