Dining in Tampa

You must try West Tampa Sandwich Shop (Cuban food) and tour the nearby Cigar City Brewing. Bern's Steakhouse for fine dining.

Get a pressed Cuban. The Columbia is also a good place. Agree with Burns for fine dining.

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Columbia is also a good place

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I dined at the Columbia location in the Ybor City part of town about 3 weeks ago. It was very good.

There is a good Persian buffet in Clearwater.

arco-iris is great for cuban food. I also highly recommend ella's american folk art cafe. Never go wrong with Bern's either.

Your list is good. I can't believe you didn't list the Fly Bar.

I go to Bern's every year.
Don't eat too much downstairs. Upstairs is the dessert dining "room".
Bring some extra pocket change & splurge a little on wine, they have ridiculously low markups on an insane list.
Ask for Lee as your waiter, tell him I said hi!

I'm sure there will be an afternoon game, but on Twiggs St. every Friday during lunch time they have some awesome stands and food trucks, just outside the Jerk Hut's restaurant (tasty Jamaican food) if you need to look up the location.

Another fun option is to head to Ybor City for late night entertainment. New World Brewery has some great beer (Florida features Bell's beer!)with good live music, and Samurai Blue is a decent sushi place that's open very late (1:45 on weekends last time I was there).