Kick back at the Salt Shack, the latest waterfront restaurant to open in Tampa

Seven years ago, Graeme Fraser and brothers Bill and Bob Curtis of Island Management saw vacant marine industrial land at Rattlesnake Point, south of the bustling intersection of Gandy and Westshore boulevards, as the ideal spot for Tampa’s next must-visit waterfront restaurant. Working with Tampa-based contractor the Sinclair Group and a $4.5 million budget, they realized their vision when the Salt Shack opened in July.

“The good thing about industrial zoning is it allows for damn near everything under the sun,” Fraser says.