Have you actually looked at the sign in front of 5323 Commercial Way lately, or have you just kept calling it My Nanny's out of habit?
If you've lived in Weeki Wachee or Spring Hill for a while, you probably have a version of My Nanny's Restaurant filed away in your head: the little breakfast spot near the state park entrance, worn booths, big Cuban sandwich, the kind of place where a server named Chrissy or Ronnie already knows your order. That place is still there. The building hasn't moved. But the name on the door now reads The Siren's Spoon, and the reason most regulars haven't clocked the change is that almost everything else, staff, food, the shabby-charm feel of the place, stayed exactly the same.
The Sign Changed Before Anyone Said Anything
The ownership shift actually happened back in 2021, when new owners took over the restaurant that had operated as My Nanny's since 2010. For a while, the name stayed put. Reviews on Tripadvisor from 2024 still show the business responding to guests under the My Nanny's name, with the new owners explaining they'd cleaned up decor and updated old red carpet and dull paint without touching what made the place work.
Sometime after that, the rebrand went all the way through. The restaurant became The Siren's Spoon, and it leaned hard into a mermaid theme that fits Weeki Wachee better than almost any name could: aquatic silk-print artwork on the walls and a screen behind the counter locals have started calling Siren TV, cycling through the day's specials with cartoon mermaids attached. It's a small, specific detail, but it's the kind of thing you only notice if you've walked in recently rather than just driven past.
What Dinner Has to Do With It
The bigger change isn't cosmetic. It's the clock.
My Nanny's built its reputation on breakfast and lunch. Under the new name, the restaurant now runs a genuinely different schedule: Monday through Thursday it's still a 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. breakfast-and-lunch counter, but Friday through Sunday the hours stretch to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with a dedicated dinner block from 4 to 7 p.m. That's not a small tweak. It means a restaurant that used to shut its doors mid-afternoon every day of the week now gives you three nights a week to show up after 5 and actually eat dinner there, something the old identity never offered.
If you've been driving past assuming it's still a breakfast-only stop, that assumption is now three days a week out of date.
The Same Hands, Different Sign
What hasn't changed is arguably the more interesting part. Server names that show up in reviews from years ago, Chrissy, Ronnie, Crystal, keep showing up in reviews written after the rebrand too. The current ownership, in responding to guests, has pointed to a zero-violation health inspection as one of just six restaurants out of 26 in the area to post a perfect score, a detail from the same team that ran the kitchen under the old name. The continuity is the whole point: this isn't a new restaurant that replaced a beloved one. It's the beloved one, still staffed by people you'd recognize, wearing a new name that finally matches the town it's in.
A Few Addresses Up Commercial Way
Commercial Way itself has filled in around that rebrand rather than being upended by it. A short drive from Siren's Spoon, at 4670 Commercial Way, sits Boss Ladies Gastrobar & Billiards, a gastropub-and-pool-hall combination that's carved out its own identity separate from the diner scene. It runs on regulation Diamond tables fitted with Simonis felt, the same setup serious pool players look for, paired with a bar menu built for both families dropping in during the day and a 21-and-up crowd after 11 p.m. It currently holds a 4.4 out of 5 rating across reviewer platforms, and locals who've found it describe it as an unexpectedly affordable, easygoing stop that doesn't advertise itself as anything fancier than it is.
Then there's Jabo's BBQ & Seafood, which doesn't try to compete with either of the above so much as fill a gap neither one covers: hand-smoked barbecue over a blend of oak, cherry, and pecan wood, plus live and steamed blue crab available by pre-order two days ahead, sold by the dozen or the bushel. Jabo's has also added a new Cajun menu line, stretching its identity past barbecue-and-crab into gumbo-and-etouffee territory, another example of an existing local business quietly expanding rather than a brand-new storefront appearing out of nowhere.
Here's how the three compare if you're deciding where to go this week:
| Spot | What changed | What it's known for | Hours worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Siren's Spoon (5323 Commercial Way) | Renamed from My Nanny's, added weekend dinner | Homestyle breakfast, Cuban sandwiches, mermaid decor | Mon-Thu 7-3:30, Fri-Sun 7-7 with dinner 4-7 |
| Boss Ladies Gastrobar & Billiards (4670 Commercial Way) | Established gastropub-and-pool-hall combo | Diamond pool tables, bar food, family hours by day | 21-and-up after 11 p.m. |
| Jabo's BBQ & Seafood | Added new Cajun menu | Smoked barbecue, live and steamed blue crab | Blue crab requires 2-day pre-order |
What Didn't Change
It's worth saying plainly that none of this replaced anything. Masa Asian Bistro and Bar is still the go-to for Thai and Chinese along the same corridor. Mr Hot Pot still runs its conveyor-belt setup for lunch crowds looking for something cheaper and quieter. Richie's Cheesesteak still turns out the sandwich that's earned comparisons to Philadelphia originals from transplants who'd know. None of these longtime spots needed a rebrand to stay relevant, and none of them show signs of going anywhere.
That's really the shape of what's happening on Commercial Way right now. It isn't a corridor where old businesses are getting pushed out by new ones. It's a corridor where the businesses that were already there are either staying exactly as they are or leaning further into what Weeki Wachee has always been about, springs, mermaids, a slower pace than the highway a mile over. The Siren's Spoon didn't need to become a different restaurant to fit that story. It just needed a name that said it out loud.
If you've been meaning to stop into any of these spots and kept putting it off because you assumed you already knew what was there, this is the week to go find out you were wrong about at least one of them.
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