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Creative Loafing kicks off their annual tournament food competition. This year is the search for Tampa’s best ribs. First round voting in the Tournament of Ribs ends Monday, so get your votes in. *** CL also has top-notch food historian Andrew Huse writing about Tampa’s [hot as the] devil crab. *** Grid 57 (a hyperlocal crime-watch blog for Tampa’s [...] The Official Unofficial Seminole Heights blog notes that Smokin A’s BBQ recently opened at the corner of Florida and Hanna. Yum. *** Speaking of new restaurants, it’s now official. The Refinery has replaced the Bungalow Bistro. The new owners kept the name and menu for a couple of weeks while they planned their renovation, ordered signage, and [...] What if your business or organization is already on Facebook and you didn’t put it there? Visual Alliance Media has some great tips on how to handle fake Facebook pages. First, don’t panic. Second, don’t assume the worst. They may be fans and happy to turn over the reins. “Fake groups, pages and profiles have [...] Part two of UC Tampa’s February issue is up. Included in this issue is a report on Ybor City’s Secret City Walks. “I had this desire to get the word out about our local awesomeness,” says Gorkza. “It drives me crazy. There are so many interesting things here that are not part of the collective consciousness [...] Over at Sticks of Fire Tommy and Clark are reporting from the State Fair. Here’s Clark’s first update. Coming soon are more images, video, interviews, and reports from behind the scenes. *** Tommy in Seminole Heights reviews local restaurant Reservations Gourmet-to-Go. “Reservations Gourmet- to-Go is often overlooked at as a Seminole Heights eatery but shouldn’t be. Reservation offers [...] Sticks of Fire and Lakeland Local get a mention at PBS’s MediaShift. *** Speaking of Sticks of Fire, Tommy has started running a regular music feature, looking at local music and musicians. *** Philip Booth reviews Tim Dorsey’s Gator-a-go-go. *** Dawn Elliott at Tampa Do-Gooder attended (and helped organize) Your 15 Minutes of Fame at the Florida Museum of Photographic Art [...] Are you working on a novel? Head over to Readin N Writin with Patricia to commiserate on the challenges of the writing life. Patricia writes book reviews, offers tips for writers, and chronicles her efforts to get the words down on the page. *** Alliedow at Alliedow’s Blog recently completed her first year of blogging. Good [...] I should be happy it’s Friday, but instead I’m miserable about the cold weather. I’m too cranky to get any work done, so I’m taking a spin around the Tampa blogosphere. Urban Corridor Tampa Magazine gives us a behind-the-scenes look at pizza making at Pizzaiolo Bavaro. (And also let’s us know that Hamburger Mary’s is now [...] Hmmm, since I’ve started Facebook I realize that it takes up some of my blogging oxygen. There’s only so much time to browse and post. Here are some of the links I’ve pointed to recently on FB. Kitintale skates 2008 *** Catherine Durkin Robinson of Out [...] It’s the end of lunch, I should really be getting back to work, but this morning was insanely productive so I’m going to take a spin around the Interwebs and see what’s going on. The Ybor City Stogie has been blogging up a storm lately, including this link about Commissioner Kevin Beckner asking for a pay [...] I want to thank Brian Ries at Creative Loafing for hosting their recent little shin-dig for local foodie bloggers. It was great to finally meet all of the food bloggers I’ve been reading for so long. I also want to thank everyone for the kind things you said about Eating Tampa – Thanks! After hearing such nice [...] Louis Thornton at Louis Loves Food, and Andy Huse at Delicious History have joined Creative Loafing’s food blogging army. *** Jaden cooks some Kobe steak burgers on CBS. *** “Find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area” at Local Harvest. *** Michael Pollan is disappointed with Obama’s choice of Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture. *** Alex [...] Delicious History is still resolving some image issues, but in the meantime has posted a review of Gio’s Italian Grill without images. *** Inexact Science gets a “pretty damn good” sandwich at Philly Flava, but is overwhelmed with his first Mountain Dew in months. *** Congratulations to Tampa I Am on his second blogiversary! TIA reflects on what he [...] I still have a few tedious end-of-the-semester chores to finish up, but mostly this semester is over. That means it’s finally time to get to all the stuff in my life that gets neglected while I’m writing papers, doing homework, and the other nonsense that comes with being a student. Someday this too shall pass. Since [...] If you still need ideas for Thanksgiving (umm, like I do) then here are some Thanksgiving tips and news. Local good guy Mike Alstott is giving a bunch of groceries to local fire stations. This is even more generous when you remember that Floridians overwhelmingly voted to cut budgets for first responders back in January. *** Mike at [...] Tampa-area foodie Jim Webster made it to semi-finalist in the Mario Batali Ultimate Grilling Challenge. Congratulations Jim! You may remember from an earlier post that Jim is a local food blogger (Gastroblog) and sometimes food writer at the St. Pete Times. Here are the ingredients for his recipe, the instructions can be found here. At the Mario [...] If you have some spare testicles in the freezer and you’re bored with all your old ball recipes, you might want to pick up a copy of The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls by Ljubomir Erovic. Erovic includes recipes for testicle pizza and battered testicles. The e-book comes with video guides! “Erovic, 45, is self-taught in [...] Yowza! I’ve been neglecting my blogging side of life. I think my body returned from my long weekend at the beach, but not my brain. I wonder if anyone will notice? Anyway, in an attempt to get back in the swing, how about a quick spin around Tampa’s electronic food space. I admit it. I ate a [...] Jay Cridlin and Laura Reiley find 10 Tampa Bay pizza joints worth exploring. *** Jeff Houck posted a video of Greg Culinary Sherpa frying some chicken. The Sherpas provide some background and the recipe. *** Brian Ries offers up some suggestions on what you need if you’re thinking about using your kitchen for cooking instead of storage. *** Tampa I Am loves [...] The Trib pays a visit to Ganesh Market & Chaat Cafe at 6204 N. Armenia Ave. I’ve eaten a couple of lunches there. I liked it. *** Some high-end restaurants are offering discounts. *** Laura Reiley notes another soon-to-be-open restaurant (in St. Pete) MJ’s Martini Jazz & Tapas. *** Mary Patrick reviews Vizcaya “a Spanish restaurant and tapas bar nestled under [...] Laura Reiley finds three more new restaurants. With the four that I’ve pointed to recently and Laura’s three, plus Smoke, that makes for 8 new restaurants in the past month or so. I thought people stopped eating out because of the rise in costs. Is this really the time to start a new eatery? Evidently. *** Jeff [...] (I’m still on hiatus, but I dropped the following post at the blogspot address, and figured that for consistency’s sake I should post here as well.) Yikes! I’ve been spending so much time futzing around with a new design I forgot to put up new content. The other day I even went to Carrollwood Cafe & [...] We Are Never Full provides a recipe for an astonishingly delicious-looking Sandwich de Merguez. *** It’s an hour long, but if you haven’t read Pollan’s work this is a good way to get the gist of what he’s writing about. Michael Pollan speaks at Google. *** A flexitarian is – “a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat.” *** Local Quizno’s not doing [...] (This post was originally written by JackieB for Eating Tampa.) (Update – Malena’s is no more.) Though I tend to be very resistant to change I have a happy update on one of my favorite restaurants. Previously featured on Adventures in Food, Malena’s Mexican Restaurant has moved to a permanent location! While I miss the ambience of [...] Tampa I Am starts the new year with a list of his favorite Tampa dining. *** Zingo helps you get home if you’ve been drinking. They show up on a foldable scooter, drive you home in your car with their scooter in the trunk, then take-off on their scooter. Great idea, Zingo. Now how about getting rid [...] I hope your 2008 is better than your 2007. Here’s the last spin around the internet before the end of the year. The Tampa Tribune reveals the mystery behind the new ownership of El Taconazo – The Taco Bus. Cousin Is New Driver of the Taco Bus. *** Rumors are that El Jalapeno is closed. I meant to [...] Lucy D. Jones at My Florida History points to the 1995 Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook about “Florida’s oldest restaurant” by Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco. The Columbia is in Ybor City. Lucy also points to this 2002 release of Bern’s Steak House: Reflections & Recipes from a Remarkable Restaurant by Joyce LaFray. A couple [...] Tampa I Am passes along some rumors about a new club in Ybor, and eats at Tampa Bay Brewing Company. ***Brian Ries points to this morbid page of Texas death row prisoner last meals. The page was pulled years ago, but thanks to the wonders of the internet it remains archived. ***Tommy in Old Seminole Heights [...] The Mouth (aka Laura Reiley) has been thinking lately about pesticides. 1, and 2. She’s also started a new blog feature called “Outtakes” about restaurants she tries that don’t quite make the cut for review. *** Jeff Houck heads to Clearwater and eats at the Pierogi Grill. *** The Bungalow Bistro is now open for dinner. The Seminole [...] |
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