Prominent restaurant group creates new waterfront concept

LONGBOAT KEY — The Gonzmart Family of Restaurants will open The Buccaneer on the site of the former PattiGeorge's restaurant on Longboat Key in 2019.

The restaurant group owns and operates 13 Florida restaurants, including the Columbia Restaurant, Ulele, Good Goody Burgers, Cha Cha Coconuts and Cafe Con Leche Ybor City.

The name of the new restaurant refers to a Longboat Key restaurant that opened in 1957, closed in 2001 and was razed in 2005 to make room for the Grand Mariner condominium.