{"id":17408,"date":"2026-08-28T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/17408\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:05:11","slug":"caragiulos-italian-american-restaurant-plans-reopening-in-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/17408\/","title":{"rendered":"Caragiulo\u2019s Italian American Restaurant Plans Reopening in New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter 38 wonderful years on historic Palm Avenue, we\u2019ve sadly had to close our doors temporarily,\u201d Caragiulo\u2019s Italian American, a longstanding downtown Sarasota favorite, announced on its website. \u201cThe historic, 100-year-old Mira Mar building is being redeveloped over the next few years, so we needed to find a new home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plans to reopen Caragiulo\u2019s in its new home at 1833 Ringling Blvd appear to have taken a bit longer than expected. But after coming across plan review documents submitted by Caragiulo Inc., What Now reached out to a representative of the restaurant this week. The representative confirmed that Caragiulo\u2019s is about 30 days from a reopening.<\/p>\n<p>Signs of life are plainly visible online too, where Caragiulo\u2019s is staying active on its social media profiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been all hands on deck these days!\u201d says one post, dated July 28. \u201cThe family and crew are putting in the work, getting every last detail ready for our next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another post, on June 3, announced the start of hiring.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the menu at Caragiulo\u2019s will feature any new items, the representative answered in the affirmative\u2014some new dishes will be coming, but the details are staying under wraps for now!<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more details as the Caragiulo\u2019s reopening approaches.<\/p>\n<p>You can keep up with all things Caragiulo\u2019s by following @caragiulos on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-431225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/caragiulos2.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-431225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/caragiulos2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\"\/>Photo: Official (Image Credit: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/caragiulos\/)<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter 38 wonderful years on historic Palm Avenue, we\u2019ve sadly had to close our doors temporarily,\u201d Caragiulo\u2019s Italian American, a longstanding downtown Sarasota favorite, announced on its website. \u201cThe historic, 100-year-old Mira Mar building is being redeveloped over the next few years, so we needed to find a new home.\u201d Plans to reopen Caragiulo\u2019s in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49,50],"class_list":["post-17408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italian-restaurants","tag-italian-restaurant","tag-italian-restaurants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dnc\/117174695613294104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}