\u00a0hit by the same storm at their restaurant in St. Pete Beach and their restaurant in South Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\nTheir cameras captured dramatic video of floodwater rising inside their St. Pete Beach location.<\/p>\n
Since then, the couple got rid of the South Carolina business and expanded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, the business in South Carolina, we ended up closing. We had to choose between businesses, and this one was established, and we decided to stay here where our roots are,\u201d Heidi said.<\/p>\n
Those roots ended up spreading right across the street to what was once a pizza restaurant, now closed and up for sale because of the same storm. They said they didn\u2019t hesitate to purchase it.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, this restaurant didn\u2019t reopen after the hurricanes. So, it\u2019s kinda always been, like, my eye\u2019s been on this place. Like I could see us having both of these places at some point, and it just worked out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re about a week away from opening a larger restaurant right across the street from their current location, and they\u2019re turning their current location into a separate business.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re gonna do a retail store, very similar to a Williams Sonoma, high-end cooking, kitchenware, china, glassware, silverware, giftware, some St. Pete Beach souvenirs. In addition to that, we will host cooking classes, sometimes arts and craft classes,\u201d said Heidi.<\/p>\n
The couple is calling their new business, The Scullery, a British colonial term that means butler\u2019s pantry. They\u2019ve promised their new location will still include the lobster rolls, nautical d\u00e9cor, and fresh seafood they\u2019re known for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014\u00a0A St. Pete Beach restaurant hit hard by Hurricane Helene is not only back open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[17174,3125,1802,115,596,4368,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,835],"class_list":["post-349342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-weather-stories","tag-hurricane-helene","tag-hurricane-milton","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-saundra-weathers","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349342","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=349342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}