Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce

11/22/2024

Longboat Island Chapel Christmas in the Garden 2024 - A Celebration of Lights and Music! 🌟🎶

🗓️ December 1 - December 31, 2024
🕔 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
🎶Special Performances at 6:00 pm
✨Performances Have Limited Seating
(Admission Free)

11/22/2024

Paradise found ❤️🌴 ☀️

📍 The Resort at Longboat Key Club

📸 photo taken on 11/9

11/21/2024

Celebrate with J.McLaughlin Longboat Key and support the Longboat Key Garden Club! 🎉💙

Festive sips, bites, and holiday styling—starting today at 3 PM 🥂🛍️

🗓️ Thursday, November 21
⏰ 3–7 PM

✨ 15% of all sales will benefit the Longboat Key Garden Club’s Environmental Recovery & Re-Beautification Fund

11/20/2024

💙🎉Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub will be reopening today!

Through the highs and lows these past 7 weeks, we're THRILLED to announce that Mar Vista will be OPEN FOR BUSINESS today, beginning at 4:00pm 🥳🙌

🌳11/20: 4:00pm-9:00pm
🌳11/21: 11:00am-8:00pm
🌳11/22: 11:00am-9:00pm
🌳11/23: 11:00am-9:00pm
🌳11/24: 11:00am-8:00pm

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your support through this entire process.
The Mighty Mar Vista is back in action, and we can't wait to have you join us once again. 🫶

11/20/2024

🎉 The 6th Annual Light Up Longboat is THIS Saturday, November 23rd! ❤️

✨Entertainment Schedule:
🎵 5:00-6:00 PM: Tim Michael McCaig
🎶 6:00-8:00 PM: Big Z

🌲The Rotary Club of Longboat Key will be collecting unwrapped children’s gifts for HOPE Family Services. Donate and receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win a gift certificate to The Lazy Lobster. 🌟

✨ Food Trucks:
- The Maine Line
- Georgia Girl Soul Food
- Far Out

Kick off the holiday season with music, giving back, and community cheer! We can’t wait to see you there! 🎁🎄

Vendors:
Cannons Marina
David Gregory
Design 2000
Driftwood Beach Home & Garden
Fitness Quest Physical Therapy-Longboat Key
Happy Paddler Kayak Tours & EcoVentures
Harry's Continental Kitchens
John Harkness Photography
Kiwanis Club of Longboat
Le Gardenia Bleu
Longboat Key Garden Club
Longboat Key Turtle Watch
Longboat Key Limo and Taxi
Mary Lou Johnson Photography
Michael Saunders & Company Longboat Key Office
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Reed Medical Group
Rotary Club of Longboat Key
Save Our Seabirds
Steff's Stuff Antiques
Alexander Telfair - Telfair Chiropractic
The Paradise Center Longboat Key
Three Island Monkeys
Town of Longboat Key
The UPS Store 3225
Ventura's Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar
Wagner Realty - Florida Real Estate
Zota Beach Resort

11/18/2024

Exciting news! 🎉 Save Our Seabirds is back open 💙

Their Wild Bird Learning Center is open 7 days a week from 10 AM - 4 PM. It is a self-guided tour - and it is FREE! ✨

📍1708 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, FL

11/16/2024

🎉The 6th Annual Light Up Longboat is just one week away! Join us next Saturday, November 23rd, for an evening of festive fun and community cheer.

🗓️ Mark your calendar and make plans to kick off the holiday season with us—it’s going to be a night to remember! ✨
🎁 The Rotary Club of Longboat Key will be collecting unwrapped children’s gifts for Hope Family Services.



Town of Longboat Key Longboat & Holmes Ace Your Observer Secur-All Insurance Agency

11/16/2024

🎶 Tonight at 7 PM, join Maestro Andi Zdrava and the Illyrian Symphony Orchestra at Faith Lutheran Church in Sarasota. 🎶

✨November 16
✨Free Admission

The orchestra will open with the timeless Mozart classic, the Overture to the Marriage of Figaro. Following the overture, the orchestra will perform Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, a joyous masterpiece that Beethoven himself dubbed “one of my best works”.

https://illyriansymphonyorchestra.org

11/14/2024

When you book with AMI Locals from November 11th to 22nd, 2024, a portion of every reservation will help support The Center of Anna Maria Island!🌴💙🌊

From November 11th to 22nd, 2024, a portion of every reservation will help support the Center of Anna Maria! 🌊✨ We’re thrilled to give back to this incredible community while you soak up the sun. Book your dreamy getaway today and let’s make waves together! 💙🏖️

11/14/2024

Ventura's Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar is fully open! 💙🎉🥂

11/14/2024

✨ Bradenton Gulf Islands Hurricane Relief Concert with LYNYRD SKYNYRD 🎸✨TOMORROW! November 15

Get your tickets NOW through The Center of Anna Maria Island at centerami.org/concerts before they’re gone!

Hosted at the Bradenton Area Convention Center on Friday, November 15, all proceeds will go directly to support our gulf island hospitality workers impacted by recent hurricanes.💙
📅 Friday, Nov 15
🎤 Marcus King | 8:00 PM
🎸 Lynyrd Skynyrd | 9:30 PM
📍 Bradenton Area Convention Center, 1 Haben Blvd, Palmetto

11/14/2024

🛍️ J.McLaughlin’s Annual Toy Drive is tomorrow, Friday, November 15th! ✨

You can do some shopping, donate new toys & books, and talk all things turtle with the Longboat Key Turtle Watch ❤️🐢

Celebrate The Season!

Bring a toy, do some shopping, and talk turtle with us tomorrow at J. McLaughlin's Annual Toy Drive

11/13/2024

Harry's Continental Kitchens is open & ready to welcome you back! 🎉Stop by and celebrate with them! 🥂

11/13/2024

Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub We are cheering you on! 💙

Our incredible team — those you see here and those behind the scenes — have been working tirelessly to bring our restaurant back to life after the historic storms, Hurricanes Helene and Milton 💪🌪️💙! We’re beyond grateful for our staff’s dedication to making this place a home for us all. Their passion for the restaurant and for you, our amazing community, is truly inspiring!

Every day brings us one step closer to welcoming you back to our dock and through our doors, we couldn’t be more excited 🙌✨. Your support and love mean the world to us, and we’ll keep you updated as we get closer to reopening! ❤️ Stay tuned for opening day!

11/11/2024

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We appreciate and honor you!
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✨Please note, our office is closed today in observance of Veterans Day. We will resume regular business hours tomorrow, Tuesday, November 12th.