Photos: courtesy of Baystar Catering (baystarcatering.com)
Island Estates · Caterers
The catering arm of the Salt Rock Grill restaurant family — steak-and-seafood-house cooking, brought to your venue.
why book them
Restaurant-group pedigree instead of banquet-line sameness: the kitchens behind Salt Rock Grill and Island Way Grill, off-site.
Baystar Catering is what happens when a restaurant group couples actually eat at starts catering: the off-site arm of Baystar Restaurant Group — the family behind Salt Rock Grill, Island Way Grill, Marina Cantina, and Salt Cracker Fish Camp — based on Island Way in Clearwater Beach and billing itself as Tampa Bay's premier caterer.
Weddings are a named line of business, and the testimonials on its site describe the full apparatus: plated dinners, service staff, and coordination, with the menus leaning into the group's signatures — steaks, lobster, sushi, oysters, crab cakes. For a reception at one of the region's BYO-caterer venues, this is how you serve the barrier islands' favorite dinner without booking the restaurant.
| Pedigree | Baystar Restaurant Group (Salt Rock Grill, Island Way Grill…) |
|---|---|
| Based at | 20 Island Way, Clearwater Beach |
| Wedding work | Full-service off-site catering, staffing, coordination |
| Booking | Quote form · 727-461-6617 |
Verified June 2026 against baystarcatering.com — availability and pricing change; confirm directly.
Tampa (serves Pinellas)
Forty years of luxury Florida event catering from a 32,000-square-foot Tampa commissary — with personal event planners on staff.
why book them The big-production option — and the kitchen Clearwater Marine Aquarium names as its exclusive caterer.
Clearwater
Clearwater's since-2003 kitchen — forty-plus curated menus, published per-person pricing, and a "never been late" record it prints.
why book them Budget honesty in a category that hides the ball: all-inclusive packages published from $15 a person.
Clearwater
Chef-owned since 1988 — Johnson & Wales training behind picnics-to-black-tie catering, with its own banquet hall to boot.
why book them The belt-and-suspenders option: full off-site wedding catering, plus an in-house banquet facility if your venue plan changes.
