Oak & Stone in Cape Coral
Farmer & Pig pizzas and the largest self-pour tap wall in the area have arrived. Oak & Stone made its highly anticipated Cape Coral debut on Wednesday, Dec. 17.
“This area is the perfect fit for us,” Sam Aguilar, brand president of Oak & Stone, said of the new 7,000-square-foot location at The Cove on 47th in South Cape. “We want to be part of the neighborhood, part of the community. People can gather here, have fun, relax, sample, share.”
And the space for it all is quite impressive. You’ll find roomy high-top tables filling the bar area, rows of comfortable booths running parallel to the tap wall (more on that in a minute), and low-top tables in a quieter second dining area. More seating can be found — including oversized beanbag chairs and umbrella-covered picnic tables — in the fun (and our favorite) outdoor area, complete with a tabletop fireplace, cornhole and more lawn games.
“This is also the first location to have a private dining room area, too,” said Mickaila Smith, the assistant general manager. “It seats about 35, and the doors can be closed.”
Large banks of windows running down the SE 9th Place side of the restaurant wash it all in a warm, natural light during the day and bring the outdoors in at night. One of the focal points is the large, open and modern bar, greeting customers as they enter from SE 47th Terrace. Seating is available along the L-shaped indoor bar and in a handful of chairs set up outside along 47th Terrace and 9th Place, looking in.
The other eye-catcher is that gorgeously reimagined self-pour beer wall with 36 taps.
“We try not to have stuff everyone else has on tap,” Aguilar said. The variety is impressive, ranging from a few local breweries (Fort Myers Brewing, Palm City and Scotty’s) to state breweries and beyond, plus a few ciders and a mead. There are also two taps offering cocktails (a cosmopolitan and a whiskey sour), as well as seven bourbons and eight wines.
Oak & Stone, which debuted in Sarasota in 2016, has locations open in Estero (10191 Estero Town Commons since late 2023) and Naples (2270 Logan Blvd. since 2020). The Cape Coral location is the eighth in Florida.
