At 65 years old, the Columbia Restaurant on St. Armands Circle is the oldest eatery in Sarasota. It's been through a lot, but recent back-to-back hurricanes—which brought four feet of flooding and ...

Sarasota's oldest full-service restaurant, an iconic family-owned business on St. Armands Circle with more than six decades of history, appeared to be in dire shape due to the storm surge and related ...

Columbia Restaurant, which is famous for its Spanish-Cuban cuisine, and its more casual next-door sister eatery, Cha Cha Coconuts, which opened in 1989, will reopen at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, ...

Editor's note: This story was last updated Sunday, Oct. 6. Due to Tropical Storm Milton being forecast to hit Sarasota-Manatee as a Category 3 hurricane, restaurant openings could be affected. For ...