Spanish cooking in Tampa is inseparable from the Spanish immigrants who built Ybor City and its mutual-aid social clubs. The Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City, founded in 1905, remains Florida's oldest restaurant and the flagship of the tradition. The historic Centro Asturiano de Tampa nearby carries the same heritage in its dining room.
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Columbia in Ybor City has plated 1905 Salad, paella and Spanish-Cuban classics since 1905, Florida's oldest restaurant under five Gonzmart family generations.
Centro Asturiano de Tampa on N Nebraska Ave is the 1888 Spanish mutual-aid club building in Ybor that opens to public on club nights for sangria, tapas.
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