Food & Drink in Sarasota

Property Location With a stay at Holiday Inn Sarasota - Lakewood Ranch in Sarasota, you'll be in a shopping district and close to University Park Country Club. This hotel is within the vicinity of Pop's Golf Range and Batting Center and Bobby Jones Golf Complex. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 128 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while video-game consoles and satellite programming provide entertainment. Conveniences include desks and complimentary newspapers, and you can also request rollaway/extra beds. Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Be sure to enjoy recreational amenities including an outdoor pool and a fitness facility. Dining Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). At the end of the day, relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a business center, and business services. Planning an event in Sarasota? This hotel has facilities measuring 2566 square feet (231 square meters), including small meeting rooms. Self parking is available onsite.

Gwen Willhite founded Cookies by Design in 1983, when an unsatisfying brainstorming session about gift ideas led her to ponder one question: why should flowers and sweets remain separate? Her solution was to design the cookie bouquet, where custom, hand-decorated cookies are displayed on sticks and arranged like flowers in gift baskets. Her invention quickly became a popular gift among locals, particularly those allergic to real blooms or too bashful to look at naked cookies. Twenty-five years later, there are more than 200 Cookies by Design locations across the country. Each shop's team of bakers creates cookie baskets with a degree of care that matches Willhite's original vision, decorating and arranging sweet shapes for birthdays, holidays, and any other special occasion.

The Perfect Touch aims to magnify beauty and boost guests' confidence with a wide range of aesthetic treatments. Teeth-whitening sessions, for example, use an organic hydrogen peroxide gel and LED laser light to undo the effects of years of smoking, wine drinking, or gargling with soy sauce. Gleaming, long-lasting Shellac manicures pamper and beautify hands, and epsom-salt pedicures smooth calluses with a peppermint foot scrub and lavender or cucumber lotion. Paraffin-therapy treatments are available as an add-on to help soothe dry skin and promote better circulation in the fingers and toes.

MoZaic's head chef Dylan Elhajoui learned how to cook in his native Fes, Morocco surrounded by a family of chefs and restaurant owners, flavorful foods and fragrances, and bustling markets brimming with fresh produce. He infuses the recipes of his youth with abundant herbs and spices, organic meats, and fresh fish, depending on what can be found in that week's farmers' markets and fishermen's nets. Chef Elhajoui and his team craft delicacies such as the crispy duck leg confit, which they serve with a sour cherry bread pudding and crystalized ginger orange glaze.

• For $15, you get $30 worth of American bistro fare for dinner. • For $10, you get $20 worth of American bistro fare for lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Brewing only blue-ribbon coffee beans, The Beanz Man also pleases palates with a menu packed with baked goods, paninis, platters, soups, desserts, and more. Lead wayward longings to the continent of contentment with a mocha latte ($3.45+) or house gourmet coffee ($1.75+) and accompany cravings to the shores of satiation with a biscotti ($1.25) or a slice of coffee cake ($2.50). With seven sandwiches—such as the honey-glazed turkey and provolone ($6.95), and four paninis, including the fresh mozzarella, tomato, and basil ($6.95)—lunchers find reason to linger.