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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the cooler aspects of living in the Tampa area are the number of Cubans living here. What Puerto Ricans are to Orlando, Cubans are to Tampa. The cultural vibes they bring to Tampa area palpable every where you turn from Ybor City to murals on various buildings to Cuban sandwiches. And this is [...]
Disclaimber: My assiness might come out in this blog posting but so be it. This past weekend I was hanging out with Randy, aka the brewer and owner of Three Palms Brewing, the newest brewery to come to the Tampa area. I was helping him out with a little painting in hopes of getting his [...]
I began looking back at some of last posts before the “silent period.” It has been a little over two months since I wrote a blog, so I thought I’d catch ya’ll up on some of the happenings in the life of Suwannee Refugee (me) and SR’s wife. March 14–My last post was about dining [...]
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