{"id":381801,"date":"2026-08-26T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381801\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:44:09","slug":"frankies-pizza-parlor-brings-new-york-style-pizza-in-a-90s-sports-bar-to-st-pete-beach-by-the-luce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381801\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie’s Pizza Parlor brings New York-style pizza in a ’90s sports bar to St. Pete Beach by The Luce"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pizza is one of humanity\u2019s great achievements. Not up for debate. And when someone decides to bring a proper New York-style pie to a Gulf Coast beach town with real ambition, the right response is to drop everything and pay attention.<\/p>\n

Enter Frankie\u2019s Pizza Parlor, the St. Pete Beach newcomer that\u2019s been quietly running its walk-up pizza window since July 4th weekend, building hype the old-fashioned way: by actually being good. And starting this Friday, August 28, the full restaurant throws open its doors at 6340 Gulf Blvd., adjacent to The Luce, the new St. Pete beach hotel.<\/p>\n

Frankie\u2019s isn\u2019t your average beach tourist trap. This is a checkered-tablecloth, sports-on-every-screen neighborhood joint from the team behind The Luce, built around the holy trinity of oversized NY-style pies, fresh pasta made in-house daily, and a 12-tap draft lineup spotlighting brews from America\u2019s most iconic pizza cities. That includes a custom collaboration with 3 Daughters Brewing, yielding the Frankie\u2019s West Coast IPA, brewed right there on the beach. Local pride levels: appropriately sky high.<\/p>\n

The menu swings for the fences in ways that feel almost dangerously fun. There\u2019s the Limone Dip, a pizza sando riffing on chicken piccata as a French dip, featuring crispy chicken, citrus ricotta, caramelized onions, capers, and lemon butter. There\u2019s the Chicken Parmesan, finished tableside with molten mozzarella and parmesan, served for two, because some things should be witnessed. And then there\u2019s the 1990s nostalgia angle, which runs through the whole place: Dunkerz (warm mini cookies with sprinkle frosting, clearly engineered to short-circuit your frontal lobe), and the Jules Freeze, a boozy spin on that orange-and-vanilla mall food court classic you haven\u2019t thought about in 25 years. Truly, nostalgia has never been so dangerous.<\/p>\n

On the cocktail front, there\u2019s the Kickflip Negroni, the Roaming Fees Margarita, the Late Fee (a frozen espresso martini), and Frankie\u2019s signature amaro-style old fashioned. No notes on those names.<\/p>\n

Happy hour runs Thursday through Sunday from 3-6 pm. The restaurant is open seven days a week, 11 am \u2013 10 pm, with 18 TVs ensuring every game stays in view.<\/p>\n

St. Pete Beach now has a neighborhood sports bar where the pasta\u2019s made fresh daily, the 1990s have been resurrected, and 18 TVs mean you\u2019ll never miss a play. Frankie\u2019s has figured out what the Gulf needed. Now someone just needs to tell the rest of Florida.<\/p>\n

Be sure to follow them on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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