As many of you loyal Florida Blogger readers, I love to travel to Key West. And I also love going to the Front Porch, a quaint microbrew bar in Key West. However, the Front Porch to which I refer to in this post is located in the Seminole Heights area of Tampa. I’ve been meaning [...]
Datz is the restaurant name and the title of this posting is their twitter handle. And their twitter handle is how I found them. Twitter continues to be a treasure trove of place and people that make my life better and more interesting. Last weekend the wife and I were headed over to St. [...]
I had a friend tell me months ago that someone was renovating the old Floridan Hotel in downtown Tampa. I got excited. The Floridan Hotel, now known as the Floridan Palace Hotel, is located in an almost residential part of downtown Tampa. So I knew that its renovated presence would make downtown Tampa even better. [...]
I’m not for posting recipes but since this is simple and manly, I got you covered. Pairing food and drink is as old as time. Pairing the right drink with the right food is heavenly. So, my wife and I paired Cigar City Tocobaga red ale and hot Italian sausage this past weekend. We wanted [...]
Blogging is a love of mine. I don’t get paid. But there are times when great companies like Volusia Van and Storage approach me wanting to be a sponsor on The Florida Blogger. It is times like these that I really like blogging, because their sponsorship allows me to do more in Florida. So enjoy [...]
Last year around July when the bay scalloping season opened in Florida, my wife and I took our yaks up to Steinhatchee to find those suckers. We knew where to go because of a tip from PaddlingFan, who lives in Miami. So, we went out there, found them, and saw that scalloping was actually able [...]
This past weekend some friends and I went out biking around downtown Tampa in what we like to call a Wobbly Wheeler (basically drinking a riding bicycles). We went to the Hub, Sea Dog Cantina, Sail Pavilion, Hattricks, and finally ending up at The Fly Bar. When our route stopped at Sea Dog Cantina, which [...]
This past Thursday marked the kickoff (yes, that’s a pun because Ryan Nece, former player for the Buccos was in attendance) of Dine Tampa Bay’s Restaurant week. I’ve been to events like this one only on a much larger scale (see Taste of the Nation.) This restaurant event was held at A La Carte Pavilion [...]
Up until a few months ago, I was on the water in my yak just about every other weekend. I’d get up at my regular time, say about 7am, load the yak up, and hit the water about 8am. That was when the night temperatures were low; and the fish would put on a regular [...]
A few months ago when my wife was involved in a car accident, she was med evacuated to Tampa General Hospital on Davis Island. Davis Island was one of the first islands populated around Tampa. There are two main islands in the Tampa area: Davis and Harbour Island. I’ve talked with many Tampa natives who [...]
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