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.
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Order Dry-aged Delmonico medium rare with French onion soup and a tour of the kitchen and wine cellar after dinner.
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.
Order The full tasting menu ($295); the bluefin tuna course and uni handroll are the benchmarks.
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.
Order Roman-style pizza al taglio, the cacio e pepe and the bistecca alla fiorentina for two.
Forbici in Hyde Park Village runs modern Italian from a Roman-pizza-cut-with-scissors angle, with handmade pasta and a bistecca alla fiorentina.
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Order Cortado
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.
Order Iced latte
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.
Order Pour-over single-origin
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.
Order Brown butter latte and a donut
The Salty Donut on Swann Avenue in Hyde Park Village pairs a Counter Culture espresso program with its artisan donuts in an indoor-outdoor living room.
Order Pressed Cuban sandwich
La Segunda's Kennedy Boulevard cafe brings the 1915 Cuban bread tradition to South Tampa with table service, Cuban sandwiches and pastelitos.
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Buddy Brew Coffee on Kennedy Boulevard has roasted Tampa's specialty coffee since 2010, with five locations and wholesale supply to Oxford Exchange.
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.
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.
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.
Drink Molecular Manhattan
Jekyll in Hyde Park Village runs rare vintage spirits and hand-crafted molecular cocktails, with smoke domes, dehydrated garnishes and a serious whiskey list.
Drink Guinness pour
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.
Drink House Negroni
Palihouse Hyde Park's lobby bar runs creative cocktails in a hotel lounge setting, with a velvet-banquette room and a chosen whiskey program.
Drink Aged Manhattan with Bern's wine vermouth
Bar Below 1208 sits underneath Bern's Steakhouse and runs creative cocktails using the Bern's cellar inventory, with vintage vermouth and rare amari.
Drink Martini Hour martinis and champagne cocktails
Cocktail-first restaurant in Hyde Park Village with a raw bar, baked oysters, a lobster roll and a cellar that hosts DJ brunches and bourbon tastings.
Drink Bottle service cocktails
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.
Drink Cash-only domestic beer
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.
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.
Order Eggs Benedict plus the Bern's cellar mimosa flight.
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 Wood-fired pizza, eggs in purgatory and a Negroni Sbagliato.
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.