Tampa's trendiest dining corridor along South Howard Avenue, Bern's Steakhouse since 1956, Salty Donut, Koya omakase and the Hyde Park Village Sunday market.
Bern's Steak House in Tampa's Hyde Park has dry-aged beef in house since 1956 and pours from the largest restaurant wine cellar in the world.
Signature: Dry-aged Delmonico, Chateaubriand for two, Caviar service
Order: Dry-aged Delmonico medium rare with French onion soup and a tour of the kitchen and wine cellar after dinner.
Tip: Every table gets a kitchen tour and an upstairs dessert-room cubby; book the dessert room as a separate reservation if Bern's is full.
Koya on West Platt Street in Hyde Park holds a Michelin star for Chef Eric Fralick's 8-seat omakase, with bluefin tuna and uni flown from Toyosu weekly.
Signature: 15-course omakase, Bluefin tuna, Uni handroll
Order: The full tasting menu ($295); the bluefin tuna course and uni handroll are the benchmarks.
Tip: Reservations open the 15th of each month at 10am for the following month; the 8-seat counter sells out in minutes.
Forbici in Hyde Park Village runs modern Italian from a Roman-pizza-cut-with-scissors angle, with handmade pasta and a bistecca alla fiorentina that serves.
Signature: Roman-style pizza al taglio, Cacio e pepe, Bistecca alla fiorentina
Order: Roman-style pizza al taglio, the cacio e pepe and the bistecca alla fiorentina for two.
Tip: Hyde Park Village location with a patio facing Village Circle; weekday happy hour 4 to 6pm.
Forbici in Hyde Park Village runs modern Italian from a Roman pizza al taglio angle, with handmade pasta and a bistecca alla fiorentina that serves two.
Order: Roman-style pizza al taglio (cut with scissors), cacio e pepe and the bistecca for two.
Tip: Patio facing Village Circle; weekday happy hour 4 to 6pm at the bar.
Buddy Brew Coffee on Kennedy in Hyde Park opened in 2010 and now anchors Tampa's specialty coffee scene with locally roasted beans and espresso classics.
Signature drink: Cortado
Buddy Brew's Swann Avenue cafe in Hyde Park sits across from Bern's Steak House and pours specialty coffee from morning into the steakhouse pre-dinner.
Signature drink: Iced latte
Buddy Brew's roastery cafe on Kennedy Boulevard runs both the flagship cafe and the in-house roasting operation that supplies all five Tampa locations.
Signature drink: Pour-over single-origin
Le Macaron in Hyde Park Village pulls French espresso with rotating macarons, a French-style pastry counter and a tiny patio. A Tampa table worth booking.
Signature drink: French macarons and espresso
La Segunda's Kennedy Boulevard cafe brings the 1915 Cuban bread tradition to South Tampa with table service, Cuban sandwiches and pastelitos.
Worth the queue: Pressed Cuban sandwich
The Salty Donut on Swann Avenue in Hyde Park serves artisan donuts and specialty coffee in an enclosed indoor-outdoor living room with custom Tampa motifs.
Worth the queue: Maple bacon donut
Buddy Brew Coffee on Kennedy Boulevard has roasted Tampa's specialty coffee since 2010, with five locations and wholesale supply to Oxford Exchange.
Sources from: Ethiopia, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras
How they serve: Espresso, Filter, Cold brew, Whole bean retail
Buddy Brew's Hyde Park Village location runs the smallest of the Buddy Brew cafes, with espresso classics and a patio facing the Village Circle.
Sources from: Ethiopia, Colombia, Guatemala
How they serve: Espresso, Filter, Whole bean retail
Bern's Wine Room runs the in-cellar dining experience at Bern's Steakhouse, with table service inside the 500,000-bottle, 6,500-label wine cellar.
Signature pour: Vintage Burgundy by the glass
Wine focus: World's largest restaurant cellar
Food: Steakhouse pairing menu
Wine and Wood pairs more than 100 wines and a wine-on-tap program with wood-fired pizza and seasonal small plates in a brick-walled SoHo room.
Signature pour: Italian red flight
Wine focus: 100+ bottles, wine by the tap
Food: Wood-fired pizza and small plates
Jekyll in Hyde Park Village runs rare vintage spirits and hand-crafted molecular cocktails, with smoke domes, dehydrated garnishes and a serious whiskey list.
Signature drink: Molecular Manhattan
Food: Small plates
Irish 31 on Swann Avenue runs a classic Irish pub with proper Guinness pours, traditional pub food and the largest Irish whiskey list in the Tampa Bay area.
Signature drink: Guinness pour
Food: Pub food
Palihouse Hyde Park's lobby bar runs creative cocktails in a hotel lounge setting, with a velvet-banquette room and a curated whiskey program.
Signature drink: House Negroni
Food: Lobby snacks
Bar Below 1208 sits underneath Bern's Steakhouse and runs creative cocktails using the Bern's cellar inventory, with vintage vermouth and rare amari.
Signature drink: Aged Manhattan with Bern's wine vermouth
Food: Bar snacks
Edison Food and Drink Lab on Kennedy is Chef Jeannie Pierola's five-time James Beard semifinalist restaurant with innovative cocktails and bar service.
Signature drink: Chef Pierola seasonal cocktail
Food: Experimental New American
The Hyde Park Cafe on Platt is a Friday and Saturday nightclub with DJs, dancing and a bottle-service crowd in South Tampa's Hyde Park district.
Signature drink: Bottle service cocktails
Food: Bar food
Tiny Tap Tavern on Morrison is one of Tampa's oldest dive bars, a converted 1930s gas station with a foosball table, pool tables and a non-smoking room.
Signature drink: Cash-only domestic beer
Food: No kitchen
The Fresh Market at Hyde Park Village runs first Sundays of each month with 80+ local vendors selling produce, handcrafted goods and plants in Village Circle.
On Swann in Hyde Park Village runs weekend brunch with a Saturday-Sunday 11am-2pm service, with an Italian-American menu and a SoHo patio. Open year-round.
Order: Avocado toast plus a mimosa at the patio facing Swann Avenue.
Elevage at the Epicurean Hotel runs hotel brunch with modern American plates, a strong cocktail program and across-the-street access to Bern's wine cellar.
Order: Eggs Benedict plus the Bern's cellar mimosa flight.
Ava on Howard Avenue runs weekend Mediterranean-Italian brunch with wood-fired pizzas, eggs in purgatory and a SoHo Negroni program. The patio fills first.
Order: Wood-fired pizza, eggs in purgatory and a Negroni Sbagliato.