Tampa Bay Restaurant Week Is Back
We hope you’re hungry because Tampa Bay Restaurant Week is back! Celebrating it’s 16th year, Creative Loafing’s gastronomic celebration features 51 restaurants offering affordable three-course prix fixe meals. All you…

MIAMI, FL – FEBRUARY 25: Food on display during 2016 Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival Presented By FOOD & WINE at Vagabond Restaurant &…
(Photo by Dylan Rives/Getty Images for SOBEWFF®)We hope you're hungry because Tampa Bay Restaurant Week is back!
Celebrating it's 16th year, Creative Loafing's gastronomic celebration features 51 restaurants offering affordable three-course prix fixe meals. All you have to do is ask for the special Tampa Bay Restaurant Week menu. Check out some of the pics from the delicious meals you can get:
Here are all the participating restaurants:
- 211 Restaurant & Lounge (Tampa)
- 400 Beach Seafood and Tap House (St. Petersburg)
- 717 South (Tampa)
- American Social (Tampa)
- Ava (Tampa)
- Barterhouse Ybor (Tampa)
- BellaBrava (Tampa, St. Petersburg)
- Bulla Gastrobar (Tampa)
- Caracara (Dunedin)
- Catch Twenty-Three (Tampa)
- Cool Vibes Pub & Grub (St. Petersburg)
- Corazon Bar & Restaurant (Tampa)
- CW's Gin Joint (Tampa)
- District South (Tampa)
- Dr. BBQ (St. Peterburg)
- Elevage (Tampa)
- Gigglewaters (Safety Harbor)
- Harry Waugh Dessert Room at Bern's Steak House (Tampa)
- Islands Flavors and Tings (Gulfport)
- Islands Pizza Tavern (Tampa)
- King of the Coop (Tampa, Wesley Chapel, St. Petersburg, South Tampa)
- Lolita’s Wine Market (St. Petersburg)
- Luna Lux (St. Petersburg)
- Macaroni Grill (Tampa)
- Mad Dogs & Englishmen (Tampa)
- Madison Avenue Pizza (Dunedin)
- Noble Crust (St. Petersburg, Wesley Chapel, Tampa)
- Rooster & the Till (Tampa)
- Sea Dog Cantina (Gulfport, Clearwater)
- Sloppy Joe’s (Treasure Island)
- Social House (Tampa)
- Social Roost (St. Petersburg)
- Stillwaters Tavern (St. Petersburg)
- TASTE Downtown Tampa (Tampa)
- The Birch & Vine (St. Petersburg)
- The Brinehouse (Safety Harbor)
- The Brisket Shoppe (Tampa)
- The Cork Room (Tampa)
- The Dunedin Smokehouse (Dunedin)
- The Living Room (Dunedin)
- The Nest at Caracara (Dunedin)
- The Spaniard (Tampa)
- Tibby's New Orleans Kitchen (Brandon)
- Vizcaya SoHo (Tampa)
Tampa Bay Restaurant Week actually goes on for 10 days, starting Thursday, June 16 through Sunday, June 26. So get ready to eat and eat very well!
[SOURCE ABC Action News]

If you’re looking for a place that takes you to “paradise” you’ve stumbled upon the right list! The Travel Channel's Food Paradise traveled the U.S. looking for the best of the best and they stopped in the Tampa Bay area quite a bit.
The website tvfoodmaps.com has put together a complete directory of all the restaurants that have appeared on some of the Travel Channel's most popular shows.
So we decided to highlight the stops Food Paradise hit up.
Check out the list of Tampa Bay area restaurants featured on the show and be sure to add them to your list of must stop places.
Frenchy's Rockaway Grill
7 Rockaway St, Clearwater, FL 33767
The Grouper Sandwich was featured on an episode.
But not to be missed are the Garlic Crab Fries or the She Crab Soup!
Gaspar's Grotto
1805 East 7th Avenue, Tampa, FL 33605
The Cuban Sandwich was featured on an episode.
Bern's Steak House
1208 South Howard Avenue, Tampa, FL 33606
The Strip Steak was featured on an episode.
Nitally's
1163 9th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Five Bucks Drinkery
247 Central Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
The Mac & Cheese Melt was featured on an episode.
Datz
2616 South MacDill Avenue, Tampa, FL 33629
The Mac & Cheese Stuffed Meatloaf was featured on an episode.




