Bayside Seafood Grill & Bar

Bayside Seafood Grill & Bar sits on Gulf Shore Boulevard North in the Park Shore area, on the water at Venetian Bay, and has operated since 1990 under co-owners Tony Ridgway and Sukie Honeycutt, the same family behind Ridgway Bar & Grill and Tony’s Off Third on Third Street South downtown. Confirmed through the Census Bureau’s geocoder, the restaurant’s address falls within the incorporated City of Naples, despite sitting well north of the more commonly recognized 5th Avenue South and Third Street South downtown core, a useful data point given how much of the broader Naples area outside the true city limits shares the same mailing address.

The restaurant’s layout includes several distinct spaces built around its waterfront setting: a cafe area open from 2 PM until close daily, a grill room serving lunch from 11:30 AM to 2 PM and dinner from 4:30 PM until close, and an Upper Deck Bar that opens at 11:30 AM daily and takes advantage of the restaurant’s direct water views over Venetian Bay. On Sundays, the restaurant adds a dedicated brunch service from 10:30 AM to 2 PM, a popular option among Park Shore residents and visitors staying at the area’s condominiums and resorts.

Being independently owned and operating continuously since 1990 makes Bayside one of the longer established restaurants along the Naples waterfront, predating much of the development that has since filled in the surrounding Venetian Village shopping and dining area. The restaurant’s seafood-focused menu takes advantage of its direct bay access, and its multiple dining spaces, cafe, grill, and upper deck bar, give guests several different ways to experience the same waterfront setting depending on the occasion, from a casual lunch to a full dinner to sunset drinks on the upper deck.

The Ridgway and Honeycutt family’s ownership of Bayside alongside their Third Street South properties illustrates a broader pattern among Naples’ most established independent restaurant families: building a small cluster of related businesses across different parts of the city rather than expanding the brand outside Naples entirely. That local concentration, spanning both the historic downtown core and the Park Shore waterfront several miles north, has kept the family’s restaurants independently owned across more than three decades in a market where larger, multi-city restaurant groups have increasingly moved in.

For visitors looking for waterfront dining outside the immediate downtown core but still within the City of Naples proper, Bayside remains one of the most established and reliable options along the bay.