Bonefish Grill Opened in Naples Bay Resort

Bonefish Grill is opened in the Naples Bay Resort, 1500 Fifth Ave. S.

The St. Petersburg-based restaurant, which specializes in market-fresh fish grilled over an oak-burning grill, is now in Naples. It is open until 10:30 Monday through Thursday, 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 p.m. Sunday. Reservations are accepted, but not necessary.

The Naples location is the chain's 12th location in Florida, which includes one each in Fort Myers and Bonita Springs.

Bonefish Grill joins Olio restaurant, which opened in February in Naples Bay Resort, just one week after the development’s hotel opened its doors.

Olio, created by the resort’s developer Antaramian Development Group, overlooks Naples Bay and offers a menu inspired by fresh Italian food and California’s wine country.

The Naples Bay Resort property along U.S. 41 East just past the Gordon River includes an 85-room hotel, 30 larger residences, a 97-slip marina and 25,000 square feet of retail space for shops and restaurants. Bonefish Grill, Olio and the rest of the resort’s retail area is open to the public.

May - Naples Daily News

Naples ranked in top 25 "arts destinations" by American Style magazine

Naples again marches among the top 25 small cities considered "art destinations" in American Style magazine.United Arts Council Executive Director Elaine Hamilton said she isn't surprised to see Naples among such company as Santa Fe, N.M., which won the top spot among small cities Taos, N.M. and Aspen, Colo. "We do have an incredibly deep arts community, 76 galleries and 500 resident artist and musicians," she said. Anyone who looks at the council's monthly calendar, www.colierarts.com, will get an idea of just how much happens daily in the arts here. Hamilton added: "It's phenomenal, the stuff going on."That rich array is what caused independent theatre founder and director Donato Colucci to put down roots three months ago to grow a classics-oriented theater company here. Colucci said he hadn't heard of Naples as an arts desitnation but " as a vacation and snowbird place." At least that was his impression before he came down to visit his son last year."As soon as I got here, I opened up the paper and saw all these festivals going on. And I said, "what's going on here?" he recalled. As Colucci says he decided: "This is really a good place for the arts."

Naples Daily News, April 2008