{"id":389599,"date":"2026-09-03T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389599\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:40:15","slug":"monstah-lobstah-on-indian-rocks-beach-to-close-sunday-for-complete-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389599\/","title":{"rendered":"Monstah Lobstah on Indian Rocks Beach to close Sunday for complete rebuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant will hold a four-day send-off celebration from Thursday, September 3rd through Sunday, September 6th. Guests will be invited to share memories, messages, and well wishes on one of the restaurant\u2019s walls. Ownership plans to preserve and incorporate that portion of the building into the new restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Plans call for a newly constructed, multi-level restaurant designed for its coastal setting, with views of both the beach and the Intracoastal Waterway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The project will also include JD\u2019s Rooftop Bar, a rooftop venue named for the longtime restaurant that previously occupied the property. The space will host live music, dancing, and piano nights, while including historic photographs and preserved pieces from JD\u2019s Restaurant &amp; Lounge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Permits and approvals are still needed before construction can begin, and the owners do not yet know how long the rebuild will take. They said they will provide updates as permits are approved, construction starts, and a reopening timeline becomes clearer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Crabby Bill\u2019s Family Brands, owned by the Loder family, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/owner-of-crabby-bills-opens-new-england-inspired-seafood-restaurant-in-indian-rocks-beach\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">purchased the building<\/a> in 2022 for $3.2 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The original building was constructed in 1949. It operated as O\u2019Neal\u2019s on the Rocks from 1967 through 1985 before JD\u2019s opened the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant will hold a four-day send-off celebration from Thursday, September 3rd through Sunday, September 6th. Guests will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-389599","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\/389599","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=389599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}