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Week 47: No Brunch: Just Some Vows, Goat Cheese Balls, and Neil Diamond.

Fly Bar & Restaurant, Tampa FL: A place for hipsters, young professionals, and all those in between to gather and indulge in food, booze and one another. The music is great 50% of the time and after the sun goes down the interior lighting is... [+]

Week 46: Welcome to Funedin: Kelly’s, Chic A Boom Room and Blur.

A day long vacation awaits us just 25.6 miles from Ybor City. In anticipation of a semi-romantic, handholding day I have purchased 4 scratch tickets and two Mike’s Harder Lemonades. Mike’s Harder Lemonade is not to be mistaken for Mike’s Hard Lemonade, as it’s harder,... [+]

Bad news: it’s not Smoke BBQ.  Good news: it’s Boca Kitchen Bar!

Boca… “local, thoughtful, and most importantly, delicious.” I’m always skeptical of restaurants that go this trendy route of claiming they only use fresh, local, ingredients to create the foundation of a “world-class” menu. Perhaps my skepticism comes from my unpleasant experience at the Refinery …... [+]

Martha’s Place, Warm Southern Soul on Nebraska Ave

Martha’s Place, the great transcend of cultural divide. Here I sit, on Nebraska Avenue proudly wearing my Piggly Wiggly shirt from America’s first true self-service grocery store. (Tidbit of knowledge: Piggly Wiggly, a primarily Midwestern/Southern grocery chain, was founded in 1916 and prior to the... [+]

Bromance at the Bungalow, South Tampa

The word bungalow originated in India, or some other extraordinary country, and describes a type of house, with various meanings depending on what part of the world you’re in. Such houses are traditionally small and include common features such as being low-rise, with one and... [+]