Where are some must eat at Restaurants in St. Pete/ Tampa area?

Columbia. Get the Paela.

Chicken tadik, a Persian dish that is awesome. Rice cooked with saffron, raisins, onion, seasoned boiled deboned chicken meat prepared a la a layered casserole(lasagna) that is poured into a bed of a yogurt/egg/butter bottom. The liquid goes in first, then a layer of rice followed by the other ingredients, and then a bit of the liquid is poured along the edges of the casserole dish. When it is baked the liqiud cooks as if a crust. It is then served in the manner of an upside down cake, and properly done eaten with your fingers, and other fruits and veggies.