1983
South MacDill restaurant, bar and arcade from a Tampa hospitality group. Publishes Bucs and Gators schedules, NFL and college football all season, and Premier League on weekends. Says it has 80 TVs.
220 East
220 East sits on Davis Boulevard in the small village strip at the top of Davis Islands, and its own site calls it a locally owned American kitchen 24 years strong. The menu runs wider than most neighbourhood rooms: shrimp and grits, a hand-cut New York strip, pizzas including a dill-pickle one the site tells you to trust it on, and a weekend brunch with chicken and waffles. Its Cuban sandwich is built on Cuban bread from La Segunda, which it names on the menu. Several dishes are marked GF on the menu itself.
7th + Grove
7th + Grove sits on East Seventh Avenue in Ybor City and describes itself as the flagship of the 7th + Grove Hospitality group. The cooking is Southern comfort food crossed with Guyanese flavours, served with what the site calls creatively crafted cocktails, and the room runs late on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It is one of the Ybor rooms Creative Loafing Tampa Bay lists among Tampa Bay's restaurants, and it leans into events... a Saturday day party with hookahs and small bites, NFL Sundays, private parties and catering.
Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.
Al's Finger Licking Good Bar-B-Que & Soul Food
Al's cooks Tennessee-style barbecue in Ybor City, dry-rubbed ribs smoked over wood with a tomato-based sauce, and it has won best barbecue in Tampa more times than anyone bothers to count. The food is family food in the literal sense, with dishes on the menu named for the people they came from ... Uncle John's smoked sausage, Aunt Nita's black eyed peas, Sparky's pulled pork, Mazie's serve-it-up yellow rice and chicken. The business started as a concession stand in 2003 and became a sit-down restaurant in 2009, and it now runs barbecue and soul food out of one address on East Seventh Avenue after folding the two shops together.
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Bar Terroir
Bar Terroir is a French bistro and wine bar on Henderson Boulevard in South Tampa that opened in 2025 and calls itself 'a francophiles' celebration of french cooking and service'. Press in the area has described the cooking as French-ish rather than strictly classical. It entered the MICHELIN Guide for the first time in the 2026 Florida selection as a Recommended restaurant, one of four Tampa additions that year.
Cru Cellars
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.
Kinjo
Kinjo opened in 2025 on South Boulevard from Eric and Adriana Fralick, the couple behind Koya and Noble Rice, serving what they call itameshi wafu Italian: 'Italian food made with Japanese sensibilities.' The room is small and the site asks for reservations, calling it 'a very intimate dining experience'. It entered the MICHELIN Guide in the 2026 Florida selection as a Recommended restaurant, and its chef, Jada Vidal, took Michelin's 2026 Young Chef Award for Florida the same day.
Pour House at Grand Central
Pour House sits in the Grand Central at Kennedy building in the Channel District and works as both a small brewery and a beer and wine bar, with about forty taps running and a shared outdoor seating area with the other businesses in the complex. It has a pool table and a popcorn machine, no kitchen of its own, and food trucks the third Thursday of every month. Guests are welcome to bring food in from neighbouring restaurants.
Renzo's SoHo
Renzo's moved its original Tampa steakhouse into a new South Howard room with an Argentine wine and spirits program built for this location. Choose it for Malbec, dinner, and a slower start to the night. It closes at 9pm Monday through Thursday, 10pm Friday and Saturday, and 8pm Sunday.
Supernatural Food & Wine
Supernatural Food & Wine is a small daytime counter on East Polk Street in downtown Tampa, built around sandwiches at breakfast and lunch with a short list of sides and salads and wine alongside. That's So Tampa calls it the city's hotspot for sourdough donuts and breakfast sandwiches. It has been a MICHELIN Recommended entry in both the 2025 and 2026 Florida selections.
Ybor City Wine Bar
A wine bar on the Seventh Avenue strip that sells itself as a neighbourhood room rather than a nightlife stop, with small plates alongside the list and staff who are expected to talk you through it. It runs a weekly Wine Society gathering at 7pm on Wednesdays and four tiers of wine club membership. The site also advertises franchise opportunities.
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