The Oyster Bar
The Oyster Bar spent 24 years at 249 Central Avenue downtown, from 1999 until it closed there in 2023. Owner Josh Cameron of Craft Hospitality Group brought it back on 14 October 2025 in a new 3,200 square foot Grand Central room with 120 seats, 22 of them outside. The old signatures came with it ... buffalo shrimp, bacon parmesan-crusted grouper and raw oysters, with a dollar-oyster 'Aphrodisiac Hour' from 4 to 5pm. The site now names Daniel Walter as executive chef.
- Address
- 2245 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL
- Phone
- (727) 888-2894
- Website
- oysterbarstpete.com
- Cuisine
- seafood, oysters, steak
- Good to know
- Long Running, Outdoor Seating, Live Music, Brunch
- Verification
- Details researched October 6, 2026. Hours and offerings change, so confirm with the venue before visiting.
Good for
What people come here for, beyond what is on the menu.
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For whoever runs The Oyster Bar. This is what a search engine or an AI assistant can currently read about the place. It is free, it is here whether the venue joins in or not, and it can be corrected any time.
- Street address on file: yes
- Neighborhood assigned: yes
- Phone number published: yes
- Website on file: yes
- Hours published: no Hours drive the most time-sensitive question in local search.
- Cuisine or specialty described: yes
- Photography on file: yes
- Website reachable: pass HTTP 200
- Served over HTTPS: pass
- Structured data present: pass Declared: WebPage, ReadAction, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebSite
- Declares a business type: fail A Restaurant, BarOrPub, or LocalBusiness type is what puts a venue into local answer sets.
- Page description written: fail The description is what gets quoted when a search engine or assistant summarizes the venue.
- Menu linked from the homepage: pass
- Hours published on site: fail Hours are the most time-sensitive fact in local search and the most commonly stale.
- Address published on site: pass
- Social profiles linked: pass instagram.com, facebook.com
- Open to AI crawlers: pass No AI crawler is blocked in robots.txt.
Website checks last run October 6, 2026 against the venue's own site.
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