Slim Charmer, a new cocktail bar and tasting room from Wild Child team, now open in St. Pete

A brand new concept from a familiar hospitality team just made its long-awaited debut in St. Pete’s Grand Central District.

Slim Charmer, located at 2706 Central Ave. adjacent to its sister concept Wild Child, soft opened a few weeks ago and now serves its first wave of customers from 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays and 5 p.m.-midnight on Fridays-Saturdays.

The new bar and restaurant specializes in martinis and “eclectic small plates” and only offers 26 seats between its bar and actually-slim dining room.

Slim Charmer’s intimate menu matches its limited seating, and is split into the categories of: “The Toasts,” “The Raw,” small plates, large plates and desserts. Its raw bar offers half a dozen oysters with champagne mignonette and horseradish, two raw preparations of fish featuring salmon, bluefin tuna and hamachi, a steak tartare and razor clams with yuzu salsa verde and pickled green tomatoes.

It also features toasts topped with roasted mushrooms, stracciatella and caviar or little neck clams with calabrian chili butter and pancetta, while other small plates include a roasted carrot salad with goat cheese feta and fava beans, nduja-stuffed bacon-wrapped dates and a pile of housemade potato chips smothered in a truffle cream sauce, prosciutto and chives.

And for the time being, the only entree on the Slim Charmer menu is an $80, dry-aged NY strip served with a compound butter, roasted garlic, arugula and parmesan.

For drinks, the newly-opened concept features almost a dozen martinis that range from classic preparations (with your choice of olives) and the trendy espresso martini to other craft cocktails like its “French 75″ that comes with gin, blackberry, tarragon, lemon and champagne. There’s quite a few wines and N/A options, too.

And since the restaurant’s motto is “effortlessly charming, always unexpected”, customers can expect rotating menu items and seasonally-inspired specials from the Slim Charmer kitchen, led by Executive Chef Scott Grimm.

Slim Charmer owners Rob Reinsmith and Matt Kaye (who is also the owner of beloved dive bar The Bends,) opened Wild Child together in 2020. Since then, the globally-inspired New American restaurant has proven itself to be a must-visit eatery in Tampa Bay, and now welcomes its sleek, modern counterpart right next door.

Head to @slim_charmer on Instagram for more information about the newly-opened martini bar and restaurant’s menu, operating hours and more.

For now, Slim Charmer doesn’t accept reservations and offers walk-in service only.

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This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2025.