Posts in Sunday Meatball Chronicles

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,... [+]

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, 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... [+]

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... [+]

Whitney Houston is dead and it’s time for brunch. Sunday’s Fine Dining has been in Ybor for quite some time now and while we always talk about “trying it out,” we’ve never actually made it there. Today is the day. It’s a Sunday kind of... [+]