The Hub Bar ★ 4.6
The Hub on North Franklin downtown has run a dive bar since the 1940s, known for the strongest cocktail pours in Tampa and a no-frills room.
Signature drink: Strong pour Old Fashioned
Food: None
Rome and Fig Cocktail Bar is a bar in North Hyde Park, Tampa.
Editorially verified June 3, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Mediterranean small plates
Address: 1701 N Howard Ave, Tampa, FL 33607
The Hub on North Franklin downtown has run a dive bar since the 1940s, known for the strongest cocktail pours in Tampa and a no-frills room.
Signature drink: Strong pour Old Fashioned
Food: None
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
The Bricks on East Seventh runs a daytime cafe by morning and a cocktail bar by night, with the same Ybor brick-walled room across the day. Open.
Signature drink: Espresso martini
Food: Charcuterie
Steelbach at Armature Works runs a bourbon-forward Southern cocktail bar with 200-plus whiskeys, a roof patio over the Hillsborough River and small Southern.
Signature drink: Manhattan with rare bourbon
Food: Southern small plates
Kettle of Fish downtown runs a dive-style cocktail bar with creative drinks, a slim seating room and a strong late-night crowd from the Franklin Street strip.
Signature drink: Vesper martini
Food: Bar snacks
Palihouse Hyde Park's lobby bar runs creative cocktails in a hotel lounge setting, with a velvet-banquette room and a chosen whiskey program.
Signature drink: House Negroni
Food: Lobby snacks