High-end Champagne bar, a $4M project, preps for downtown Sarasota debut


  • By Ian Swaby
  • | 1:00 p.m. March 26, 2025
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Bottles of wine line a shelf in Sugar Champagne Bar.
Bottles of wine line a shelf in Sugar Champagne Bar.
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Sarasota entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronnie Shugar says five years ago he doesn't think the area could have sustained an establishment like Sugar Champagne Bar.

Yet he says the increasing numbers of residents in the city, and residential buildings on the rise downtown, has changed the restaurant landscape. Sugar Champagne Bar, which opened March 28, seeks to capitalize on that influx of people — and their wallets. 

 

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