re: Tampa Bay

Bern’s... Not necessarily because it’s the best steak. That may be found at Charlie’s or Del Frisco; but, its the rest of the Bern’s experience that makes it worth it.

You’ll certainly have a great steak. It’s decidedly old school. The chateaubriand is amazing.

Afterward you’ll get a tour of part of the wine cellar. Bern’s has the largest privately held wine collection on the planet. It’s the size of a high school gymnasium. You can literally put your hand on a bottle of Port made when Abraham Lincoln was still alive. You can order it too.

Afterward off to the Dessert Room. They’ll drop a dessert wine and spirit menu on you the size of the Yellow Pages. Want a Port from 1960? They’ve got it. Old school tableside Banana’s Foster. House roasted Cuban coffee.

I’m a huge fanboy, old school cool and the kind of service you seldom see any more.