{"id":33155,"date":"2025-11-04T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33155\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:09:11","slug":"did-st-petersburg-restaurant-sesh-go-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33155\/","title":{"rendered":"Did St. Petersburg restaurant Sesh go out of business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">From all indications, restaurant and brewery Sesh St. Pete has gone out of business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The establishment\u2019s Facebook and Instagram pages have been removed, along with its website. And Sesh\u2019s phone number was disconnected Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sesh St. Pete is also listed as permanently closed on Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TheSt. Pete Catalyst reached out, unsuccessfully, to co-owner Matthew Powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Located at 2221 Fourth St. N., Sesh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/life-culture\/food\/food-news\/2023\/04\/04\/sesh-st-pete-fourth-street-melting-pot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:opened in April 2023;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">opened in April 2023<\/a> after two years of renovations to the existing building. Powers, who also founded the Mad Beach Craft Brewing Co. in Madeira Beach, purchased the 7,600-square-foot property in 2021 for $1.425 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He co-owned the restaurant with his Mad Beach managing partner, Tyson Williams, who also did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The property was once home to fondue chain The Melting Pot, which closed at the Fourth Street location in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic (a new location, on Central Avenue, opened in April).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Between 1959 and 1985, the site was the home of a French eatery called Rollande et Pierre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was built in the late 1930s by woodcarver Earl Gresh, who operated a workshop and tourist attraction, the Earl Gresh Wood Parade, between 1940 and 1958.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This content provided in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:stpetecatalyst.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">stpetecatalyst.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From all indications, restaurant and brewery Sesh St. Pete has gone out of business. The establishment\u2019s Facebook and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[23260,23261,23262,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-33155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-matthew-powers","tag-pete-catalyst","tag-sesh","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\/33155","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=33155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}