Shell Yeah The St. Pete Beach Seafood Festival Is This Weekend
Cassandra Currier
Friday, June 12, 2026
If you are looking for something fun, free, and delicious to do this weekend, the St. Pete Beach Seafood Festival has you covered. Running from Friday, June 12 through Sunday, June 14, this annual event has taken over Corey Avenue in St. Pete Beach for a full three days of fresh seafood, live music, local vendors, and one of the most surprisingly entertaining things you will ever watch on a Saturday afternoon crab races. Yes, crab races. And yes, they are exactly as fun as they sound.
The festival is organized by Florida Penguin Productions in partnership with the Corey Avenue Business District, and the whole street shuts down for the weekend to make room for it all. The location is hard to beat. Corey Avenue sits right between the Gulf of Mexico and Boca Ciega Bay, surrounded by boutiques, bars, restaurants, and beach shops that give the event a genuine neighborhood feel. This is not a corporate pop-up or a ticketed experience. It is a real community festival in one of the most beautiful corners of the Tampa Bay area, and it costs nothing to walk in.
The food is the main attraction, as it should be. Vendors are set up throughout the street serving fresh catches and Gulf Coast favorites all weekend long. Whether you are a shrimp person, a crab person, or someone who simply cannot say no to anything fried and served in a paper basket by the water, there is something here for you. The advice is simple: come hungry, take your time, and try a little bit of everything.
Beyond the food, the live music lineup gives the whole weekend a real festival energy. Motel Funk kicks things off Friday evening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday is the biggest day for music, with Bickley XI, a steel pan group, taking the stage from 1 to 3 p.m., followed by Memphis Lightning bringing blues rock energy from 4 p.m. on, and The Tom Pettry Experience closing out the night with a tribute to one of Florida's most beloved artists. Sunday wraps things up with Classix, another set from Bickley XI, and Barefoot Bob & The Hope to send everyone home on a high note.
The hours are easy to work around no matter what your weekend looks like. Friday runs from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. From South Tampa, you are looking at a 25 to 30 minute drive over the bridges short enough to make it a spontaneous afternoon trip or a planned full-day outing. The event is family friendly and welcomes everyone, no tickets required.
Events like this are a big part of what makes living in the Tampa Bay area so special. The St. Pete Beach Seafood Festival brings people together around good food, great music, and the kind of easy coastal energy that is hard to find anywhere else. If you have not gone yet, there is still time. It runs through Sunday at 6 p.m., and it is absolutely worth the drive.
The festival is organized by Florida Penguin Productions in partnership with the Corey Avenue Business District, and the whole street shuts down for the weekend to make room for it all. The location is hard to beat. Corey Avenue sits right between the Gulf of Mexico and Boca Ciega Bay, surrounded by boutiques, bars, restaurants, and beach shops that give the event a genuine neighborhood feel. This is not a corporate pop-up or a ticketed experience. It is a real community festival in one of the most beautiful corners of the Tampa Bay area, and it costs nothing to walk in.
The food is the main attraction, as it should be. Vendors are set up throughout the street serving fresh catches and Gulf Coast favorites all weekend long. Whether you are a shrimp person, a crab person, or someone who simply cannot say no to anything fried and served in a paper basket by the water, there is something here for you. The advice is simple: come hungry, take your time, and try a little bit of everything.
Beyond the food, the live music lineup gives the whole weekend a real festival energy. Motel Funk kicks things off Friday evening from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday is the biggest day for music, with Bickley XI, a steel pan group, taking the stage from 1 to 3 p.m., followed by Memphis Lightning bringing blues rock energy from 4 p.m. on, and The Tom Pettry Experience closing out the night with a tribute to one of Florida's most beloved artists. Sunday wraps things up with Classix, another set from Bickley XI, and Barefoot Bob & The Hope to send everyone home on a high note.
The hours are easy to work around no matter what your weekend looks like. Friday runs from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. From South Tampa, you are looking at a 25 to 30 minute drive over the bridges short enough to make it a spontaneous afternoon trip or a planned full-day outing. The event is family friendly and welcomes everyone, no tickets required.
Events like this are a big part of what makes living in the Tampa Bay area so special. The St. Pete Beach Seafood Festival brings people together around good food, great music, and the kind of easy coastal energy that is hard to find anywhere else. If you have not gone yet, there is still time. It runs through Sunday at 6 p.m., and it is absolutely worth the drive.
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