New French Mediterranean restaurant opens

SARASOTA — Partners Cindy Breslin and Kevin Skiest have opened a new French Mediterranean restaurant, Blasé Bistro & Martini Bar, in Sarasota. 

Breslin has over 22 years of restaurant experience as the owner of Blasé Café & Martini Bar on Siesta Key, according to a press release. That restaurant grew from one table when it opened it in 1997 to a 100-seat restaurant with three bars and the adjacent pizza and craft beer restaurant, Pi 3.14, which opened in 2016.