When it comes to cookies, our judges are all in. When it comes to vanilla wafers, most of them admitted to reaching for the familiar Nilla Wafers in the bright yellow box. Surprisingly, they liked the well-known brand least of the seven wafers sample...
TAMPA — Appropriately enough, a local distillery is releasing a hemp vodka on Friday, 4/20.After more than a year of planning and research, Fat Dog Spirits — the parent company of Touch Vodka — is releasing its new Nirvana vodka.Served in 750-millile...
TAMPA HEIGHTS— Graze 1910 upholds the comfortable and relaxing, yet elegant setting of Armature Works with its "comfort food" offerings and dedication to serving breakfast all day."It’s the way I eat. I graze all day," said owner Raymond "Ray" Menend...
As a person who has no intention of ever going into the bar business, I spend a good amount of time thinking about what makes bar concepts work. I think about themes, branding, menus, location and myriad other factors that ultimately play into a bar’...
To celebrate the birthday of its owner, Richard Gonzmart, Tampa’s Ulele restaurant tapped its most ambitious brew yet (with a name to match): Richard’s Rockin’ Birthday Starfruit Lambic.Unlike traditional Belgian lambics — sour ales spontaneously fer...
Sparkling water, much like when you shake it before opening, has exploded in the United States the past few years. The fervor for fizzy water has soft echoes of the meteoric rise of bottled water during the early 2000s, just with more pastels perfect...
Published: 04/18/18
Updated: 04/20/18
For nearly 60 years it was breads, cakes and pastries, up before dawn for the Perrone family in Armenia Garden Estates. For a minute it looked like Tampa’s Housewife Bake Shop was going to close, but third-generation owner Tena Perrone said on Wednes...
TERRA GAUCHATerra Gaucha Brazilian Steakhouse, a classic churrascaria-style Brazilian meatery — you know, where the guys in South American cowboy attire walk around with the swords of meat until you capitulate in a carnivorous haze — has opened a loc...
Okay, really, how much water do we need? The Mayo Clinic says there’s no one-size-fits-all answer for this because of differences in exercise, environment, overall health and factors like pregnancy or breast-feeding. The National Academies of Science...
BROOKSVILLEThey brought it in glass carboys, in jars, in 2-liter bottles. It stacked up at the entrance to the auditorium, some of it just slightly murky but most of it crystal clear.Water. For more than 15 years the members of Region IV Florida Sect...
![A line of customers forms along Central Avenue in St. Petersburg on Wednesday morning as Cycle Brewing Co. released its new Rare DOS Whiskey Barrel Aged Imperial Stout beer. The beer is aged in Woodford Reserve barrels. Patrons paid $25.00 per bottle for the beer with a limit of eight per person. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]](http://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20160518/ARTICLE/305189372/AR/0/AR-305189372.jpg?MaxW=2000&cachebuster=346666 "A line of customers forms along Central Avenue in St. Petersburg on Wednesday morning as Cycle Brewing Co. released its new Rare DOS Whiskey Barrel Aged Imperial Stout beer. The beer is aged in Woodford Reserve barrels. Patrons paid $25.00 per bottle for the beer with a limit of eight per person. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]")
![Russell Pittman of Clearwater shows off his Rare DOS Whiskey Barrel Aged Imperial Stout after buying two bottles at Cycle Brewing Co.'s release Wednesday morning on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg. Each bottle cost $25.00. "Really loving this," Pittman said, asking the photographer, "Did you get some for yourself?" [SCOTT KEELER | Times]](http://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20160518/ARTICLE/305189372/EP/1/1/EP-305189372.jpg?cachebuster=239488 "Russell Pittman of Clearwater shows off his Rare DOS Whiskey Barrel Aged Imperial Stout after buying two bottles at Cycle Brewing Co.'s release Wednesday morning on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg. Each bottle cost $25.00. \"Really loving this,\" Pittman said, asking the photographer, \"Did you get some for yourself?\" [SCOTT KEELER | Times]")
