An interesting and extensive menu, and it is always prepared and presented beautifully.
Lisa H.
Save Our Seabirds
The hospitality team behind Sarasota's only consecutive AAA Four-Diamond restaurant, the exclusive caterer for Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, the operators of The Ora ballroom and Michael's on the Bay.
Inquire about your eventA purpose-built ballroom on Tamiami. A waterfront room with horizon-line views. The exclusive run of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. A private cellar space among more than a thousand wines. Every room staffed by the dining-room team that has been walking the floor since 1987.
Full coordination, venue selection, tasting menus, and the team that has handled four decades of Sarasota weddings.
The room, the menu, the auction logistics, and the practiced discretion that has carried benefits for more than five hundred Sarasota nonprofits.
Board dinners, multi-day retreats, holiday parties, sales meetings. Conference-grade A/V and dedicated coordinators.
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. Birthdays. Anniversaries. Retirement parties. Handled with the dignity each milestone deserves.
Memorial gatherings and celebrations of life, planned with the sensitivity of a coordinator who has done many.
Your venue, your home, your office. The full catering team mobile-deployed across Florida, with kitchen capability built in.
Michael's Events & Catering holds the exclusive catering rights for every event at the Selby Gardens Downtown Sarasota campus. The member events, the wedding receptions held beside the orchid conservatory, the donor dinners, the private after-hours tours: every plate, every glass, every coordinator on the floor is ours.
A working botanical backdrop, an exclusive run of eight bayfront acres.
In addition, Michael's operates two restaurants on the Selby campus: Selby House Café in the historic Selby home, and The Green Orchid by Michael's On East, the world's first net-positive-energy restaurant.
An interesting and extensive menu, and it is always prepared and presented beautifully.
Food, delicious and abundant. Beverage, free-flowing. Service, seamless.
The team coordinated the entire wedding at Selby Gardens with grace from the first call to the last guest.
Tell us about the event. The number of guests, the date you have in mind, the kind of room you imagine. We follow up within one business day with venue options, a starting price band, and the coordinator who would be assigned to your event.
No obligation in the first conversation, and no booking fee until you ask us to hold a date.
Available Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Voicemail returned same day.
Nothing here is binding. We will reply by email or phone, whichever you prefer.