Over 50 Tampa

Midtown Tampa · italian, cuban, bakery, sandwiches

Alessi has been baking in Tampa since 1912, working from 'family recipes passed down through four generations'. It is a Sicilian bakery that grew up alongside the Cuban and Spanish bakeries of West Tampa and Ybor, and it sells both traditions ... Italian pastries and cannoli on one side, fresh Cuban bread and scachatta on the other, plus a deli counter, custom cake studio and rotisserie chicken. The business has moved into a single new building on West Cypress Street that puts the bakery, cake studio, deli and cafe 'under one roof'.

Tampa Heights · food hall

Armature Works is a 1910 streetcar barn on the Hillsborough River in Tampa Heights, rebuilt into the Heights Public Market with close to twenty independent food counters under one roof. Above the market are private event rooms and Rooftop 220, which looks back at the downtown skyline. The lawn outside it runs down to the Riverwalk, and Creative Loafing lists it as a kid stop for the giant chess boards and the family events it runs through the week. Chill Bros keeps an ice cream counter inside.

Palma Ceia · wine bar, small plates

Cru Cellars is a wine bar and bottle shop on South MacDill that describes itself as specialising in small-production bottles. It runs two sets of hours, one for the retail shop and one for the kitchen, which is a fair signal of how it works: people buy a bottle to take away and people sit and eat from the same room. The retail side opens earlier than the kitchen on Fridays.

University Area · asian, chinese, vietnamese, filipino, korean

MD Oriental Market is the large pan-Asian grocery on East Fowler that the rest of the USF food corridor shops at, with its own departments for fresh produce, live seafood, a bakery and a hot deli. The hot deli and bakery counters are why it belongs on a food list rather than only a shopping one: people come in for roast meats, mochi and custard cakes without buying groceries. Its own recipe section is organised by country, running China, India, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, which is a fair description of what the aisles carry. Local chefs and food writers named it to Creative Loafing's guide to Tampa Bay's best Asian markets.

University Area · german, swabian, deli, brewpub

Dunderbak's has been serving Tampa since 1974 and sits in the Oak Ramble Shopping Center on Bruce B Downs, which is a plain strip plaza and exactly the point: this is a German beer hall, brewery, deli and European market behind a strip-mall storefront. It started as one of about 30 franchise locations nationally, and co-owners James and Christina Ellis bought this one in the 1990s; the franchise folded and they turned it into a brewery with a dozen or so house beers on tap, told to That's So Tampa. The kitchen cooks from family recipes, with the potato pancakes made fresh every morning from James's Oma's recipe and the coleslaw from his mother's. Live polka plays on weekends, the beer hall room on the left seats 32 for private bookings, and the site's own parking advice is to arrive by 6pm on a Friday if you want a space.

Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.

Hyde Park · new american, coffee, tea

The building went up in 1891 across the street from Henry B. Plant's Tampa Bay Hotel, held an arcade of local shops from the 1920s, then sat empty for decades until the century-old brickwork was restored. Brother and sister Blake Casper and Allison Adams reopened it as Oxford Exchange on September 24, 2012, and Casper's line for how it started is that it started with a bookstore and an office. Under one roof now are the restaurant, the bookstore and shop, a coffee bar, the TeBella Tea Bar, a champagne bar, the Commerce Club membership workspace, and the OE Studio and podcast room. The design takes its cue from the old London clubs and shops, and the stated intent was a place to belong.

vegan, prepared foods, breakfast

Pure Kitchen is a 100 percent vegan grab-and-go kitchen on West Kennedy Boulevard. The menu changes every morning and the food is made in small batches from fresh ingredients, so this is the practical stop when you want a prepared meal without ordering from a fixed restaurant menu. The kitchen posts the day's choices on Facebook and Instagram, and its September 26, 2026 Instagram post confirmed that the shop was open that day.

Temple Terrace · palestinian, middle eastern, bakery

Ramallah Market has anchored N 56th Street in Temple Terrace for years as a Middle Eastern grocery with its own in-store bakery, turning out knafeh, baklava and ma'amoul alongside fresh produce and spices. In May 2026 the family that runs it opened a cafe inside the shop called Sufrat Ramallah, which translates as the table of Ramallah, serving a full traditional Palestinian breakfast spread with ingredients imported from Palestine and homemade halal dishes. The coffee comes from Barakah Beans, an Orlando Arabic coffee brand, pouring pistachio and Dubai chocolate lattes. The market's own site describes the whole thing as 'a story of tradition, family, and delicious Middle Eastern flavors.'

University Area · vegan

Vegan International Co. is a fully vegan kitchen and small market on North Nebraska Avenue in north Tampa, near the University area. Its own about text is unambiguous: it says it is a 100% Vegan restaurant with market items, and that the store offers express service for take-out as well as limited outdoor dining. The kitchen says the meal you are eating was prepared the same day by committed and knowledgeable vegans, and the business also runs a food truck called the Vegan Halal Cart. It is open seven days a week, which is unusual for a small vegan kitchen in this city.

Westchase · vietnamese

Vuon Xoai is a Vietnamese farm, tropical nursery and restaurant on a residential street off Westchase, and the name translates as Mango Garden. From the road it reads as an ordinary block; behind it are fruit trees, thatched huts, hammocks and vintage Vietnamese scooters, and walking the grounds costs nothing. The kitchen serves whole grilled chicken, crawfish, snails, chicken feet salad, noodles, fresh sugarcane juice and coconut water, and the farm sells tropical fruit in season with mangoes usually ready in July. That's So Tampa found it in July 2026 and called it a hidden Vietnamese farm most of the city has never heard of.