Charann's Tavern
A tavern on Memorial Highway known for its cheesesteak. Its own site says it has more than 20 TVs and a patio, and it runs a football Sunday wings and pitcher deal.
Over 50 Tampa: Town 'n' Country
The unincorporated stretch west of the airport toward the causeway, and one of the best places in Hillsborough County to eat food the roundups never cover: Vietnamese, Honduran, Filipino, Colombian, most of it in strip plazas.
Pal Campo Restaurant
Pal Campo is the Tampa room of a four-restaurant Florida family operation cooking Puerto Rican food, sitting on Anderson Road in Town 'n' Country. The menu is the island's standards done properly: mofongo, arroz mamposteao, stuffed churrasco, chuletas kan kan, with sangria, pina coladas and mojitos behind it. Its own site says the traditions are 'deeply rooted ... from our home land of Puerto Rico' and sells its own house coffee, Cafe Nenito, described as 100 percent Boricua. The Tampa location lists Best of Tampa Bay wins for Best Puerto Rican Restaurant in 2019, 2021 and 2023.
Thinh An Kitchen, Tofu & Bakery
Thinh An makes its own tofu fresh every day, which is the thing to know about it: it is a tofu producer with a Vietnamese kitchen and a bakery attached, in a plaza on Waters Avenue in Town 'n' Country. Creative Loafing's chef-sourced guide to Tampa Bay's Asian kitchens and markets lists it as a homemade tofu maker that has been at it since 2016. The catering menu is built around that, with customisable tofu and vegetarian choices for weddings and parties, and the restaurant runs a happy hour Monday through Thursday from 2 to 5pm. It closes on Tuesdays and opens at 9am the rest of the week, which makes it one of the few kitchens on this side of town serving a Vietnamese breakfast.