{"id":422491,"date":"2026-10-08T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422491\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:12:28","slug":"new-restaurant-from-food-network-star-ray-lampe-coming-to-clearwater-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422491\/","title":{"rendered":"New restaurant from Food Network star Ray Lampe coming to Clearwater Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"528\" data-attachment-id=\"369080\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/ray-lampe-crop-datz-restauranty-group\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ray-Lampe-crop-Datz-Restauranty-Group.png?fit=2048%2C1386&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1386\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Ray Lampe crop Datz Restauranty Group\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ray Lampe, aka Dr. BBQ, c. 2017&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ray-Lampe-crop-Datz-Restauranty-Group.png?fit=780%2C528&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ray-Lampe-crop-Datz-Restauranty-Group.png\" alt=\"A promotional portrait photograph showing pitmaster Ray Lampe, aka Dr. BBQ, c. 2017. Captured in a medium close-up shot, Ray Lampe smiles directly at the camera with framed eyeglasses, white hair, and a full white beard. He wears a black short-sleeved chef jacket featuring a colorful flame-patterned collar, set against a red and black graphic wall backdrop.\" class=\"wp-image-369080\"  \/>Ray Lampe, aka Dr. BBQ, c. 2017 Credit: c\/o Datz Restaurant Group<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ray Lampe, also known as \u201cDr. BBQ,\u201d is back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/downtown-st-petes-dr-bbq-restaurant-has-closed-14860171\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/downtown-st-petes-dr-bbq-restaurant-has-closed-14860171\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selling the real estate that was home to St. Pete\u2019s Dr. BBQ <\/a>and Burnt Ends Tiki Bar in 2022, the Food Network star is back behind the grill, this time in Clearwater Beach at his latest concept Squiki Tiki with Dr. BBQ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Located within the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach, at 100 Coronado Dr., new barbecue-tiki hybrid will offer \u201csmoky BBQ classics like a pulled pork sandwich and St. Louis-style ribs, alongside creative dishes like a burnt ends bao and smoked shrimp summer rolls, complemented by a lineup of tiki-inspired cocktails,\u201d says a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No exact opening date was announced, but Squiki Tiki hopes to debut sometime in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSquiki Tiki combines my passion for barbecue with Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach\u2019s welcoming hospitality and commitment to the local community,\u201d said Lampe, who was a contestant on Food Network\u2019s \u201cChopped,\u201d as well as \u201cTailgate Warriors With Guy Fieri\u201d and American Grilled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Squiki Tiki will be open for both hotel guests and the general public every day from 11 a.m.-9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa-newslettersignup-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/oct-01-07-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 01 \u2013 07, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColin Wolf has been working with weekly newspapers since 2007 and has been the Digital Editor for Creative Loafing Tampa since 2019. He is also the Director of Digital Content Strategy for CL&#8217;s parent&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/colin-wolf\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Colin Wolf\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ray Lampe, aka Dr. BBQ, c. 2017 Credit: c\/o Datz Restaurant Group Ray Lampe, also known as \u201cDr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[123247,157573,135,8770,137,136],"class_list":["post-422491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-clearwater-beach-dining","tag-new-tampa-bay-restaurants","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-dining","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422491","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=422491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}