Food & Drink

  • Late-Night Street Tacos Are Moving Into New Port Richey’s Old Gone Juicing Cafe Building

    The 1926 building on Main Street that used to pour green smoothies is about to start serving tacos until 2 in the morning instead. Main Street Food is moving into the space that most recently housed Gone Juicing Cafe at 5743 Main Street in downtown New Port Richey, with a late-October opening target. Owner Jason…

  • A 14-Year Bartender Is Opening Her Own Bar on Main Street Before Thanksgiving

    A 14-Year Bartender Is Opening Her Own Bar on Main Street Before Thanksgiving

    Morgan Brown spent 14 years pouring drinks behind other people’s bars. Her own name is about to go on the building at 5811 Main Street instead. Morgan’s on Main is targeting an opening before Thanksgiving, pending the city’s permitting and inspections, according to an Oct. 12, 2026 report — this is Brown’s first restaurant ownership…

  • Cuban Grounds Cafe Brings Niaddi Foods’ Flan Home to Dade City

    Cuban Grounds Cafe Brings Niaddi Foods’ Flan Home to Dade City

    The flan recipe that built Niaddi Foods’ name used to ship out of Zephyrhills. The retail storefront for it now sits on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Dade City instead. Cuban Grounds Cafe is the brick-and-mortar home for two related brands under one roof — Niaddi Foods and Cuban Grounds Coffee — built mainly…

  • Stillwaters Tavern Brings Its Scratch Kitchen and 20 Taps to Bexley in Land O’ Lakes

    The sausage board alone comes with four house-made links and a loaf of Cuban bread from Tampa’s La Segunda Bakery — not what you’d expect to find walking distance from a chain Italian spot in a suburban lifestyle center. Stillwaters Tavern opened in June 2026 at The Hub at Bexley in Land O’ Lakes, its…

  • Cotee River Creamery & Desserts Opens Its Third Location in Land O’Lakes

    Cotee River Creamery & Desserts Opens Its Third Location in Land O’Lakes

    Sixty rotating ice cream flavors now sit inside a storefront on Land O’ Lakes Boulevard that didn’t exist before this spring. Cotee River Creamery & Desserts opened its third location at 6745 Land O’ Lakes Blvd at the end of March, following the original New Port Richey shop and a Spring Hill location. The ice…

  • 1916 Irish Pub Takes Over the Old Beef O’Brady’s Space in Wesley Chapel

    1916 Irish Pub Takes Over the Old Beef O’Brady’s Space in Wesley Chapel

    The Beef O’Brady’s that used to anchor Towne Centre on Wesley Chapel Boulevard is a different pub now. 1916 Irish Pub moved into that space this year, a fourth Tampa Bay-area location for owner Chuck Jamieson, who already runs 1916 locations in Brandon, Plant City and Lakeland. The menu runs long. Small plates cover wings…

  • EggBred Opens a Sandwich-First Breakfast Menu Inside the Hub at Bexley

    EggBred Opens a Sandwich-First Breakfast Menu Inside the Hub at Bexley

    A chorizo chili cheese hash wasn’t on a breakfast menu anywhere in Land O’Lakes until this year. EggBred opened inside the Hub at Bexley at 16916 Focus Loop, building its menu almost entirely around made-to-order sandwiches rather than a diner-style line of eggs-your-way plates. The core of the menu is breakfast sandwiches — bacon egg…

  • Bangkok Sushi Off State Road 54 Is Where We Eat at Least Once a Month

    Bangkok Sushi Off State Road 54 Is Where We Eat at Least Once a Month

    A strip plaza off State Road 54, just past the Suncoast Parkway interchange in Lutz, is where my girlfriend and I end up at least once a month — and if I ever had to pick a last meal, this would be in the conversation. It’s not that we’re chasing something new every time. It’s…

  • First Look: A.R. French Pizzeria & Tavern in Trinity

    First Look: A.R. French Pizzeria & Tavern in Trinity

    There were several specials the day we went, including a salad with salmon and, my favorite, a blue cheese burger — but we skipped those for the wings and pizza instead. The chicken wings came out in a sweet chili sauce, with just enough crunch on the skin before you hit the juicy meat underneath…

  • Trattoria Napoli Is Zephyrhills’ Newest Italian Restaurant

    Trattoria Napoli Is Zephyrhills’ Newest Italian Restaurant

    A $50,000 city grant and 30-plus years of culinary training stand behind the handmade pasta at Zephyrhills’ newest sit-down Italian spot, open on 7th Street since late August. Trattoria Napoli is owner Matthew Zappoli’s full-service trattoria at 5740 7th St., built around roughly 120 seats split across a main dining room, a semi-private “pizza room,”…

  • Rye Street Deli & Dogs Is Doing Real Deli Work on Little Road

    Rye Street Deli & Dogs Is Doing Real Deli Work on Little Road

    The Cuz — it also goes by the New Yorker. Photo by Robert. My girlfriend wanted deli. We found this place online, figured we’d give it a try, and ordered across both halves of the menu. Also this week: 10 things to do in Pasco County, Sept. 8–13. Little Road runs the length of west…

  • Zephyrhills: The Civil War Veterans Colony Behind the Water Bottle

    Zephyrhills: The Civil War Veterans Colony Behind the Water Bottle

    Zephyrhills started as a colony for Civil War veterans. That’s not a metaphor — in 1909, Captain Howard B. Jeffries, himself a Union veteran, bought 35,000 acres and founded the Zephyrhills Colony Company with exactly that plan. Before that it was called Abbott, dating to 1888. Jeffries renamed it Zephyrhills in 1910 — zephyr for…