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  1. These are the 20 best dishes I ate in 2025
    • Food
    Senior food and dining critic Helen Freund breaks down her favorite bites of 2025.
  2. Tampa Bay’s Top 50 Restaurants of 2025
    • Food
    An assortment of dishes are pictured at Ash on Oct. 14, in Tampa.
  3. Tampa Bay’s Top 50 Restaurants of 2025
    • Food
    Chef and owner Julie Sainte Michelle Feliciano and her husband, Seanissey Loughlin, pose for a portrait at their restaurant, the Lucky Tigre, alongside their their daughter, Juniper Loughlin, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025 in Tampa.
  5. Tampa Bay’s Top 50 Restaurants of 2025
    • Food
    The smoked mussels toast at Pulpo Kitchen & Lounge, 2147 Central Ave, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in St. Petersburg.
  6. Tampa Bay’s Top 50 Restaurants of 2025
    • Food
    A dessert dish at Good Intentions on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025 in St. Petersburg.
  7. Tampa Bay’s Top 50 Restaurants of 2025
    • Food
    The shrimp toast and a glass of the Sidekick Chardonnay at Estuary on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in New Port Richey.
  8. How I reported Tampa Bay’s Top 50 Restaurants of 2025
    • Food
    Helen Freund, Tampa Bay Times food critic, eats a salad.
  9. Stop trying to sell me plastic souvenir cups! | Column
    • Viewpoints
    Life is a never-ending cycle of plastic souvenir cups.
  10. Tampa’s Bar Terroir isn’t the French bistro you’re expecting. It’s better.
    • Food
    Steak frites is served at Bar Terroir, a contemporary French bistro in South Tampa.
  11. Tampa’s Olive Tree restaurant is already good. Now, it’s about to get big.
    • Food
    Olive Tree by Chef Yousef in Tampa is expanding to form a much larger restaurant.
  12. Is this Tampa’s best Thai restaurant?
    • Food
    Sakaewan Pansaen delivers a dish of drunken noodles to Ashley Rey, at Royal Thai restaurant in Tampa. The restaurant opened last fall and has already developed a strong following for its approach to regional Thai cuisine.
  13. The Vinoy’s new restaurant blends luxury with history in St. Petersburg
    • Food
    Elliott Aster, the new restaurant inside the Vinoy Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg, features an expansive dining room and a swanky lounge.
  14. This big, pink coffee cup on wheels is slinging drinks around Tampa and beyond
    • Food News
    Amr Sharaki, 29, of Westchase, offers a menu to Raegan Gautreau, 26, who visited the The Big Coffee Cup Cafe mobile espresso bar with her baby, four-month-old Murphie Gautreau, during a stop at the Cypress Grand Apartments on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Tampa.
  15. Wait, you call this aioli? This new French restaurant is a head-scratcher
    • Food
    Cognac, a new French bistro in downtown St. Petersburg, opened in February.
  16. This chicken from a Plant City food truck is the best thing I ate all week
    • Food
    The specialty at Pollos el Carboncito in Plant City is chargrilled chicken, served with frijoles charros, grilled onions, rice and tortillas.
  17. Is this Tampa’s best smashburger?
    • Food
    A Classic Boi double burger with waffle fries is served at Mighty Fine, a new restaurant from chef Nathan Hardin in collaboration with Late Start Brewery in Tampa.
  18. Slim Charmer is St. Petersburg’s hottest new restaurant — here’s why
    • Food
    Patrons sit at the bar at Slim Charmer in St. Petersburg, the newest spot from the owners of Wild Child.
  19. She reviewed a Tampa restaurant on Yelp. Then came a lawsuit.
    • Food
    A Tampa chef sued a local woman after she posted a negative restaurant review on Yelp and other platforms. The case was eventually dismissed, but illustrates the fragile, often contentious, relationship that exists between chefs and diners.
  20. 10 places to get a breakfast sandwich in Tampa Bay
    • Food
    The Uptown breakfast sandwich served at Uptown Eats features a fried egg, white cheddar and Uptown sauce on a griddled brioche bun with cracked-pepper bacon, sauteed smokey collard greens and tomatoes.
  21. Lara in Ybor City is the most exciting restaurant to open this year
    • Food
    Chef Suzanne Lara is back in the kitchen, this time with her very own restaurant, Lara, which recently opened in Ybor City.
  22. Love arepas? This Gulfport restaurant is a tribute to the Venezuelan staple
    • Food
    Arepas are the highlight at 1 Chick, 1 Bro Cafe Bistro, a Venezuelan restaurant on 49th St. S in Gulfport.
  23. Meet the man behind Taco Wizard, Tampa Bay’s most talked about pop-up restaurant
    • Food
    Chef Michael Roberts runs the popular pop-up Taco Wizard, a nomadic taqueria that's garnered a solid following in Tampa Bay.
  24. Tampa Bay’s best pizza, according to us
    • Food
    A Margherita pizza from Bavaro's, which has multiple locations throughout the Tampa Bay area.
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