Claytons Siesta Grille

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About the Business

We opened in 2004 in the height of the boom with a famous chefs name on our billboard and a zest for creating a great hometown restaurant. We dropped the famous chef after a few years and settled in with our Executive Chef Dimitri Xinidis. His culinary skills and our good serving attitude have put us on top of the charts with every rating service. September of this year will be our 10th year and we hope to have achieved that return call to Clayton's from hometown locals and our returning visitors. We will never let our guard down and will continue to monitor our food quality and our front of the house service.

Established in 2004.

Business Name

Claytons Siesta Grille

Specialties

Clayton's has an excellent food and service attitude. Our chef Dimitri Xinidis specializes in seafood, unusual appetizers, specialty salads, grouper, salmon, trout almondine, crispy duck, filet mignon, and we have a cult like following for our fish taco's and pizzas. All of our deserts, sauces, soups are homemade. We also serve breakfast and lunch and have a catering team that will handle a small party on the beach to a full scale formal black tie wedding event. Our support for the community and our in-house mentoring program for high school students is above the norm. We are a family owned business and don't follow the trend of the chains. We guarantee everything we do!

Amenities

Takes Reservations, Offers Delivery, Offers Takeout, Vegan Options, Accepts Credit Cards, Accepts Android Pay, Outdoor Seating, Casual, Moderate Noise, Offers Catering, Good for Groups, Good For Kids, Good for Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Private Lot Parking, Free Wi-Fi, Happy Hour Specials, Full Bar, TV, Covered Outdoor Seating, Bike Parking

Business Owner

Clayton T. (Business Owner)

Clayton grew up in the restaurant industry from the time he was 14 at first working as a busboy at Mr. Steak, moving up to wearing the cow suit on HWY 41 in Sarasota, Fl. This was somewhat humiliating for a young man who was chased around by a girl in a cowboy suit just to get some attention for a steak house. The other jobs included, dishwasher, prep cook, salad and soup maker, broiler cook, oyster shucker, bartender and server in a fancy restaurant. Following this assortment of jobs and graduation from college I had a 25 year appraisal career.After selling my business I purchased a building, renovated it and Clayton's Siesta Grille was born. Now while this sounds kind of romantic, I want potential investors or future proprietors to know just how difficult the business is to have some profitability. The old adage is if you want to make a million bucks in the restaurant business start with two million.

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• Food
• Restaurants

Categories By Location

• Sarasota, Florida, United States
• Food
• Restaurants

• Florida, United States
• Food
• Restaurants

• United States
• Food
• Restaurants

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New American, Seafood