Prime downtown Sarasota spot leased for high-end whiskey-centric eatery

A high-end Fort Lauderdale bar and restaurant company, Damn Good Hospitality, is planning its debut in Sarasota with a fine-dining, whiskey-infused location in a coveted second-floor spot on Main Street downtown. 

The company intends to open a restaurant dubbed Warren in an 11,500-square-foot space on the second floor of two connected buildings in Five Points. The ground-floor tenants are sports apparel and sneaker retailer Fit2Run and Sunburn, a medical cannabis dispensary. 

Guests will enter Warren through a large lobby/foyer area on Pineapple Avenue, according to a statement, while the second-floor space is along Main Street and Pineapple Avenue. That floor, the release adds, offers “sweeping views of the Five Points intersection and park.”