New Restaurants To Open In Former Men’s Wearhouse! New Tampa’s loss when the Men’s Wearhouse off Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. closed right around the time the chain’s new location opened in Wesley Chapel, could end up being, well, New Tampa’s gain. Paperwork has been filed with the City of Tampa to split the old Men’s Wearhouse location into space for two tenants, with both … [Read more...]
Try New Tampa’s Authentic Mediterranean Cuisine At Al-Sham Palace!
Although I always loved gyro sandwiches, which are known more as Greek food anyway, and the occasional falafel when I lived in New York, I never really sampled any authentic Lebanese, Syrian or Jordanian food until I lived in the Tampa Bay area. Here in New Tampa, a couple of Mediterranean options have hung around, while others have come and gone, but one that might just … [Read more...]
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Full Circle Pizza Gets New Owners! It’s always difficult to know how a popular local mom & pop restaurant will go once the original owner sells the business. However, in the case of Full Circle Chicago Pizza, located in the Pebble Creek Collection, it seems that new owners Julia and Freddy Nova are off to a great start. Freddy, who previously worked as a sous chef … [Read more...]
BayScape Bistro At Heritage Isles — Best-Kept Secret No More!
The husband-and-wife team of Eddie and Lourdes Bujarski have helped hundreds of young people learn how to safely prepare and cook food from all over the world during their 18 years of running the Culinary Arts Program at New Tampa’s Wharton High. That era ended at Wharton in December of 2017, after the Bujarskis took over the newly revamped restaurant at the Heritage … [Read more...]
Neighborhood News Online Celebrates Six Months Of Google-Funded Videos!
When we received the first installment of our funding from the Google News Initiative on January 14, we made a number of promises to our benefactors regarding the number of videos we’d put online, the number of people we’d hire to shoot, edit and be on-air talent for those videos and the equipment we would need to fulfill our commitments. As this issue is reaching you, it … [Read more...]
