WESTCHASE
When Rob Wicker opened Catch Twenty-Three in 2002, Westchase was mostly residential, the village just being erected. Eventually along came Outback, Grille 54, Zen Bistro, Stone Chase and all the little spots in the other center (World of Beer, Burger 21, Maloney's, the Thai place, that panini spot), and …
Does knowing a calorie count stop us from buying that Big Mac?
Not likely, restaurant experts say.
ST. PETERSBURG — When Locale Market opens mid-December in the newly launched Sundial complex, it will be a game changer.
TAMPA —The Acunto wood-fired oven needed to cure slowly, a log loaded into its maw once in a while as the exterior wept moisture, rivulets pooling on Ava's floor. In all likelihood, the Italian-made pizza oven would weep for 14 days until it was ready for use.
Every year, there are predictable things that are bad (taxes, death) and predictable things that are good (monarch butterflies return to the fir trees of Mexico; on the third Thursday of November, Beaujolais nouveau arrives). What is less predictable is just how this vin de l'année ("this year's …
BROOKSVILLE
The white wooden porch chairs are rocking again. The chunky front door is bared to its original pine. And through the door, the glitter and greens of the holiday season bring back the aura of what once was the legendary Rogers' Christmas House Village.
LAND O'LAKES — The site of a former restaurant named for a bug will not become part of a chain named for the female breast.
ST. PETERSBURG — After 16 years, one of downtown St. Petersburg's longest-running restaurants closed its doors Tuesday, leaving employees, vendors and customers rattling the locked door at lunchtime Wednesday. Midtown Sundries at 200 First Ave. S posted a sign on the window, saying, in part, "It has been a great …
In 2013 the real estate blog Movoto ranked St. Petersburg the seventh worst city in the United States for food lovers, citing a tremendous dearth of decent baked goods (it had the fewest bakeries per capita, with one for every 17,500 people). Since that time, Pinellas County has pulled together to clear its good name …
ST. PETERSBURG
The space that was St. Petersburg Wood Fired Pizza will open in early December as Pow, a new pizza concept that takes advantage of collaborations with local sauce purveyors, bringing Asian, Hawaiian and other fusion elements to wood-oven pizzas and wings, announced owner Philippe Theodore on …
TAMPA
I misspoke. When I did a preview story on Del Frisco's Grille, the newest upscale restaurant on Boy Scout Boulevard's tony restaurant row, I inaccurately characterized the restaurant's menu as having a "something for everyone approach." She shoots but doesn't score. Having worked my way through a fair bit of …
ST. PETERSBURG — The partners of BellaBrava restaurant have revealed plans for their new Stillwaters Tavern, coming to 224 Beach Drive NE.
BRANDON — If you represent a school organization, corporate group or anybody in need of promotional apparel and items, Dwayne Lewis is one of the few people in Brandon who can proudly serve you.
Halloween decorations back in the attic, thoughts turn to the holiday season before us. On many people's wish list is a holiday party venue — someplace intimate and memorable that's not going to break the bank. Most Tampa Bay area hotels eagerly court private parties with banquet rooms, in-house catering, event …
TAMPA — Bizou Brasserie, the upscale restaurant in Le Méridien hotel, is undergoing some changes.