The Best Places to Eat in Saint Petersburg
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The best places to eat in Saint Petersburg, according to the experts: AAA and Michelin Guide have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Parkshore Grill comes out on top.
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Rococo Steak and Elliott Aster hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with AAA close behind.
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Rank 1. Parkshore Grill
Contemporary American
The awards
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Rank 1. Rococo Steak
Steakhouse
The awards
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Rank 3. Elliott Aster
Italian Steakhouse
High ceilings and chandeliers set the tone inside this Italian-leaning steakhouse at the Vinoy Resort, where the menu pivots between wood-fired cuts and house-made pasta without apologizing for either direction. The focaccia pull-apart rolls arrive glistening, and the radiatore alla vodka clings to every ridge the way a good vodka sauce is supposed to. The caramel coffee budino lands in a sundae glass, which feels right.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Pan-Asian dining room at the base of the Ponce de Leon Hotel, with arched mirrors, warm wood, and the kind of sleek lighting that makes everyone look like they made a reservation months ago. The kitchen leans hard into contrast: spicy pork wontons with crispy garlic, carrots in kimchi butter, and Japanese A5 wagyu that quietly upstages every steakhouse nearby. The Michelin Guide has it on their radar.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 3. Il Ritorno
Italian
The exposed brick and high ceilings in downtown St. Pete signal that this is a proper fine dining Italian room, not a red-sauce joint. Creative pastas lead the menu, with the kitchen leaning into arrangements that look as considered as they taste. Steaks and lamb come from the butcher shop next door, and caviar doughnuts and wagyu show up for anyone who wants to push further. The servers keep the whole thing from taking itself too seriously.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 3. in between days
Contemporary Japanese Noodle Shop
Low lights, slow-spinning records, and a menu short enough to fit on a napkin, this Tokyo-style sake bar and vinyl house keeps things deliberately tight. The food runs to gyoza, oysters, hamachi, and a rotating noodle dish, all landing somewhere between comfort and quiet craft. Sake-based cocktails fill out the drinks side, and the room has the kind of unhurried warmth that makes people stay longer than planned.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 3. Sushi Sho Rexley
Sushi
A block from St. Pete's bar strip, this omakase counter keeps things focused: two menus, both built around nigiri, with the chef making confident calls on what goes with what. Koji-fermented ora king salmon brushed with whiskey barrel-aged soy is the kind of detail that tells you plenty about the ambition here. The room is small and the format is fixed, so you give up control at the door and mostly stop minding.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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The awards
- AAA AAA: Approved
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The awards
- AAA AAA: Approved