Business Observer

+ Cannons Marina receives awards from Grady-White
Cannons Marina has earned the Grady-White Boats’ Admiral Circle Award and the Service Excellence Award for the 2009 model year. This is the 11th consecutive year that Cannons Marina has been honored by Grady-White for its achievements in sales and customer satisfaction.

“We’re ecstatic,” said David Miller, owner of Cannons Marina, in a prepared statement. “2009 presented Cannons Marina and the entire marine industry with a great number of challenges. This award reflects the dedication of our entire sales, service and administrative team, and I am truly grateful for their efforts and their perseverance.”

+ Gold Coast Eagle adds Blue Point Brewing Co. beers
Gold Coast Eagle Distributing, the Anheuser-Busch InBev and Corona distributor for Sarasota and Manatee counties owned by Longboat Key resident John Saputo, announced the addition of Blue Point Brewing Co.’s line of handcrafted beers from Long Island, N.Y. Blue Point Brewing Co. was founded by Mark Burford and Peter Cotter, who met in a Patchogue, N.Y., pub. The company’s first beers were produced in 1998.
Today, Blue Point produces 16 brews.

Gold Coast Eagle Distributing will distribute the company’s Pale Ale, Hoptical Illusion and Toasted Lager brews to local restaurants and bars and, eventually, transition to include bottled brews at liquor and grocery stores. Blue Point seasonal ales will be available in the future.

+ Harvey Lovejoy named new chef at The Sun House
Harvey Sadaichi Lovejoy is the new executive chef at The Sun House Restaurant. Lovejoy is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University, in Charleston, S.C. He has served as executive chef at multiple Disney properties and at the University of Central Florida and also has worked with a film-industry catering company.

Lovejoy brings an Asian twist to The Sun House Restaurant’s Floribbean style of cooking.

“Floribbean cuisine reflects culinary traditions that stretch from the Deep South to the Caribbean and into Latin America,” Lovejoy said in a prepared statement. “The emphasis is on freshness and on blending together a mix of tastes both subtle and striking. Asian cuisine also relies on some of these same principles.”