{"id":271367,"date":"2026-05-14T20:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271367\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:50:23","slug":"christians-on-the-water-soft-opens-this-weekend-at-bay-pines-marina-in-seminole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271367\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian\u2019s on the Water soft opens this weekend at Bay Pines Marina in Seminole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">While DeRusso\u2019s other restaurants focus on pizza, Christian\u2019s on the Water will offer a range of casual dishes, including grouper sandwiches, peel-and-eat shrimp, smoked fish spread, smash burgers, and rice bowls topped with pulled pork, beef, or chicken.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant also plans to offer a \u201chook and cook\u201d service, allowing fishermen to bring their catch to be grilled or fried. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Once fully operational, Christian\u2019s on the Water plans to launch weekend breakfast service starting at 9 am on Saturdays and Sundays, offering egg bowls and breakfast sandwiches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant is accessible by car, by bicycle (due to its proximity to The Pinellas Trail), and by boat, offering a dozen slips for its customers to use while they dine and drink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Following its soft opening period, Christian\u2019s will be open from 11 am to 10pm on weekdays and until midnight on weekends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">DeRusso tells St. Pete Rising that the restaurant is named after his late son Christian, and the business\u2019 soft opening coincides with the anniversary of his passing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">He hopes the business will not only provide great food, drinks, and hospitality, but will serve as a living tribute for his son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While DeRusso\u2019s other restaurants focus on pizza, Christian\u2019s on the Water will offer a range of casual dishes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-271367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}