Bob Basham, Chef Chris Ponte to open waterfront restaurant in Tampa
By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Sep 9, 2024

Two veterans of Tampa's hospitality scene have teamed up again — this time to open a waterfront restaurant on Rattlesnake Point.

Bob Basham, a cofounder of Outback Steakhouse, and Chef Chris Ponte, whose restaurants include Olivia, On Swann and Ponte Modern American, have formed a partnership to open an 8,000-square-foot restaurant next to Salt Shack on the Bay. Basham and Ponte are leasing a 1.69-acre parcel from apartment developer MAA, which built the 495-unit MAA Breakwater apartment complex that surrounds the waterfront parcel where the restaurant will be built.

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