{"id":333457,"date":"2026-07-08T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333457\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:29:47","slug":"rumba-island-bar-grill-abruptly-closes-st-pete-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333457\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumba Island Bar &#038; Grill abruptly closes St. Pete location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/2023\/2\/10\/rumba-island-bar-and-grill-has-finally-opened-on-4th-street-in-st-pete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The St. Pete restaurant opened in 2023<\/a> in a building formerly occupied by WingHouse Bar &amp; Grill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant specialized in seafood and island-inspired cuisine, serving dishes such as grouper sandwiches, jerk chicken rice bowls, fresh fish, rum cocktails, and tropical appetizers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It also drew regular crowds with daily happy hour specials and live music on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Baystar Restaurant Group has not publicly announced the reason for the closure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">St. Pete Rising reached out to Baystar Restaurant Group for comment, but the call was not returned prior to publication. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This story will be updated if additional information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rumba Island Bar &amp; Grill&#8217;s Clearwater location at 1800 Gulf to Bay Boulevard remains open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Pete restaurant opened in 2023 in a building formerly occupied by WingHouse Bar &amp; Grill. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-333457","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\/333457","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=333457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}