Just a short walk from the beautiful beaches of Sarasota, Café Gabbiano brings Italy to Siesta Key. It's serene, casual ambiance imitates that of the paradise surrounding it. With 4,000 square feet to spare, Café Gabbiano offers intimate, private dining in our wine rooms as well as comfortably cool, outdoor seating on our climate-controlled patio.

Your host, Marc Grimaud, welcomes you to the world of wine with over 200 bottles in the collection available on site. As Café Gabbiano's certified sommelier, Marc specializes in bringing a world class selection of wine to the cellars of Café Gabbiano and carefully pairs your meal upon request. Our wine list has received Wine Spectators’ certificate of excellence for its careful sourcing and variety in our selection.  General Manager, Peter Tracy, has spent the past 28 years in fine dining delivering an excellent guest experience through attentive, personal service.  

Our menu is brought to you by a talented team of chefs who expertly create each meal according to family recipes. Our head chef, Paolo Di Costanzo comes from Ischia which is a beautiful island off of Naples Italy.  Paoli started his culinary career in Ischia and has worked all over the world.  He has led the Café Gabbiano culinary team since the early 2000’s and still works to push the Italian culinary envelope in Siesta Key.

We use only the freshest ingredients and introduce new dishes, inspired by seasonal treasures, to showcase the skill of our chefs. This culinary team has created a delicious and unique dining experience coupled with service provided by a friendly professional service team.

We have a great set of partner vendors that help us source local and seasonal ingredients.  Our menu has chef specials that can change daily to highlight the current seasonal ingredients.  From sourcing seasonal fish, local and seasonal produce, to the best Italian imports and flours to make our lineup of in house made pastas and raviolis.  Our homemade pastas include spaghetti, linguini. squid ink linguini and rigatoni.  Our ravioli options consist of truffle and cheese, ossobuco, and cold water lobster fillings.  

Our proteins are organic and free range.  Our fish selections are domestic during the proper seasons to ensure the best core ingredients are passing through our kitchen.  

Our diverse menu includes a wide range of seafood, pasta, ravioli, chicken, veal and fish options to please the amazing Sarasota culinary scene.  

Together with our partner vendors, we host winemaker dinner events throughout the year to offer our diners the unique experience of tasting excellent, sometimes rare vintages from both well-known and off the beaten path producers, conversation with vintners and their associates close to the winemaking process and of course, an expertly paired, coursed meal.

Café Gabbiano is one of the few 4.5 star rated restaurants across the major platforms such as Yelp, Google, Open Table and Trip Advisor.  We owe such high praise to our culinary team and our attentive staff who create an all around great experience with crafted cocktails, an award winning wine list, fresh ingredients and a dynamic Italian menu to please all palates.  We hope to welcome you in soon.  You can keep up to date on all happenings such as wine dinners and other events on our website www.cafegabbiano.com.  Be sure to follow us on social media platforms as well.