This post is a bit overdue, due to limited Net access until just days ago, but I thought some of you would still be interested in how our last two weeks of dining in Tampa went before our move up to Gainesville. The weekend before last, we decided to stop into Castellano & Pizzo Italian Gourmet [...]
We’re now down to less than two weeks before we make the move to Gainesville. So instead of reviewing one restaurant this week, I thought I’d provide brief summaries of the places we’ve eaten at the past two weeks. Thanks again to everyone who posted suggestions of restaurants to visit one last time [...]
We only have about three more weeks in Tampa. Traci and I will be moving at the end of the month up to Gainesville. I’m starting work in the fall on a Ph.D in mass communication at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. We didn’t think we’d be moving until the [...]
After a little bit of a break, we’re back. Over the past few weeks, we’ve checked out two Tampa institutions when it comes to Cuban food – Arco-Iris and La Teresita. Both restaurants are located off of Dale Mabry on W. Columbus Drive or “Boliche Boulevard” – sort of the Tampa equivalent of [...]
Thanks in part to a reader suggestion last week, we decided to check out the weekly food fair at Wat Mongkolratanaram off Palm River Road this past Sunday. We had first heard about Wat Tampa’s food fair in an article by Chris Sherman of the Times a few months ago. The place sounded [...]
Looks can be deceiving. Especially at the dully-named-but-tasty Thailand Restaurant on S. Dale Mabry, SOG and just a couple of blocks from the base.From the outside, the restaurant looks semi-abandoned with paint badly peeling (could this be the original coat of paint from when the place first opened in 1979?) and with letters missing from [...]
Thanks to Cappy’s Pizzeria on Bay to Bay in Palma Ceia for being rude to us this past Friday evening. If it wasn’t for you, we wouldn’t have stumbled upon little Vino E Pasta on Gandy instead. Our original plan for dinner on Friday had been to try out Cappy’s again. This time we [...]
On Monday, I headed over with a friend to Boizao, a newly opened Brazilian steakhouse on Boy Scout Blvd across from International Plaza and Bay Street. Last week I went to the opening of Boizao and was impressed. The food was great and the service tried to please. Of course, this was [...]
After a mediocre experience last week at flashy corporate-owned Dan Marino’s, we were looking for more of an independent, neighborhood place this past weekend. A place where the focus was on good food and it didn’t matter what you were wearing. Everything I had read about Las Margarita’s, a little Cuban restaurant in [...]
