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Inside Sarasota's Massive New HL Asian Market

The 23-aisle market is teeming with products ranging from cookware to snacks, live seafood and hard-to-find sauces, plus an enormous produce section.

05/12/2025 By Lauren Jackson

🧧 Happy New Year! 🧧

Celebrate the Lunar New Year With a Festival at Waterside Place

Korê's owner Daniel Dokko is spearheading the celebration, which will include a lion dance, tents showcasing Wagyu beef from Japan, and Dokko's version of "Squid Games."

01/15/2025 By Lauren Jackson

Wahoo!!!

HL Asian Market on South Tamiami Trail Is Officially Open, and It's Awesome

The huge grocery store features 23 aisles of Asian groceries, cookware and ceramics, as well as an enormous meat and seafood department.

12/16/2024 By Lauren Jackson

Strip Mall Superstars

Sarasota's Best Under-the-Radar Restaurants

Our guide to out-of-the-way, hiding-in-plain-sight, if-you-know-you-know restaurants that will knock your socks off.

09/01/2024 By Lauren Jackson

Restaurant Review

At Stiks, Familiar Asian Flavors Are Reinvented in a Grab-and-Go Format

Fast, approachable and tasty, Stiks is the exciting restaurant reinvention we didn’t know we needed.

03/03/2022 By Cooper Levey-Baker

Free & Freeish

Delicious and Cheap Spots to Grab a Bite in Sarasota-Manatee

From an incredible selection of Asian food to over-the-top doughnuts, you can eat well on a budget here.

12/21/2021 By Cooper Levey-Baker

Cheap Eats

5 Great Inexpensive Asian Restaurants

Discover outstanding and well-priced cuisine at one of these spots.

05/31/2016 By Cooper Levey-Baker

Eat This Now

The 5 Best Things We Ate This Week - 5/18/16

From steamed pork buns at J-Pan to bibimbap in Gulf Gate, here are the 5 best things our panel of food experts ate this week.

05/18/2016 By Eat Beat Team

Global Breakfasts

Around the World in 5 Bites

Eat your way around the globe without leaving town.

01/25/2016 By Cooper Levey-Baker

Article

Taste of Asia Opens in New Space on Tamiami Trail

Taste of Asia opens in a new, larger space on South Tamiami Trail in Sarasota.

10/17/2013 By Judi Gallagher

Article

Food Blogger Jaden Hair's Vietnamese Summer Roll Recipe

Jaden Hair shares a recipe for Vietnamese summer rolls from her new cookbook.

08/01/2013 By Megan McDonald

Article

New Restaurant: Ziti in Westfield Southgate

Chef Judi Gallagher tries out Ziti, the new restaurant in Westfield Southgate Mall, and finds lots to love.

02/20/2013 By Megan McDonald

Sarasota Magazine

Asian Food

Inside Sarasota's Massive New HL Asian Market

Celebrate the Lunar New Year With a Festival at Waterside Place

HL Asian Market on South Tamiami Trail Is Officially Open, and It's Awesome

Sarasota's Best Under-the-Radar Restaurants

At Stiks, Familiar Asian Flavors Are Reinvented in a Grab-and-Go Format

Delicious and Cheap Spots to Grab a Bite in Sarasota-Manatee

5 Great Inexpensive Asian Restaurants

The 5 Best Things We Ate This Week - 5/18/16

Around the World in 5 Bites

Taste of Asia Opens in New Space on Tamiami Trail

Food Blogger Jaden Hair's Vietnamese Summer Roll Recipe

New Restaurant: Ziti in Westfield Southgate