It was a survivor, until Mother Nature whipped up just a bit more than it could handle. For decades, the Rod & Reel Pier and restaurant at the northern tip of Anna Maria Island withstood it all.

The Rod & Reel Pier is reopening its iconic restaurant on Anna Maria Island after suffering catastrophic hurricane damage — but it’s in a new location. Oliver Lemke, who bought the restaurant and ...

County commissioner George Kruse posted a split image of Anna Maria Island’s iconic Rod and Reel Pier restaurant from post-Hurricane Helene to Hurricane Milton wiping out what was left on Wednesday, ...

David Clark, a Bradenton resident who had worked as a server at the Rod & Reel Pier Restaurant since 2022, saw the place he called his second home vanish. According to the Rod & Reel Pier’s Facebook ...

The Rod and Reel Pier washed away during Hurricane Milton. Owner Oliver Lemke is reopening the Rod and Reel as a restaurant in Holmes Beach. The restaurant has been transformed to bring customers back ...

Angler Rich MacNeil loves to fish at the Rod and Reel Pier near the northern tip of Anna Maria Island. About once a week he drives from Hillsborough County to visit what he calls one of the best ...

HOLMES BEACH, Fla. (WWSB) - The iconic Suncoast Restaurant has reopened for business more than a year after Hurricanes Helene and Milton destroyed the Rod N’ Reel Pier and its popular eatery on Anna ...