Sarasota's The Breakfast Company to open Venice restaurant

By Louis Llovio
| 8:00 a.m. September 13, 2025
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The Breakfast Company, which opened a new location in the Rosemary District on April 23, is expanding into Venice.

Manatee-Sarasota

The Breakfast Company is opening in Venice early next year.

The popular Sarasota eatery’s new spot will be at 2996 Executive Drive just off of Interstate 75 and Jacaranda Boulevard. It will be next to a medical office building currently under construction and the TownePlace Suites by Marriott.

The plan is for it to open in the spring.

The 4,000-square-foot restaurant will include outdoor seating and a drive thru.

This will be the restaurant company’s fifth location and will be co-owned by founder Dimitri Syros and Shannon Holder, a family friend and a The Breakfast Company manager.

The locally owned restaurant chain was founded by the family behind El Greco Cafe, a Greek restaurant that used to be on Main Street in downtown Sarasota.

It currently operates locations in Manatee and Sarasota County, with a Rosemary District restaurant opening in April.

The Breakfast Company is leasing the Venice space, according Wendy Crites with the Sarasota commercial real estate firm Loyd Robbins & Co.

The lease details weren’t disclosed.

Crites and Loyd Robbins brokered — and announced — the deal.

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.