Oakley's Grille Has New Tampa's Best Burgers & Fries
When you CRAVEÂ a great hamburger, whatâs the first place you think of here in New Tampa? Fast food? One of those burger chains? Your own backyard grill?
Those are all reasonable answers, but if youâre like me â and literally hundreds of our readers â you might say âOakleyâs Grille,â which is located on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. in the North Palms Village area, next to Dairy Queen.Continue reading
Hunterâs Green Country Club Is NOT For HG Residents Only!
When I moved to Hunterâs Green in 1995, Hunterâs Green Country Club (HGCC) was already a few years old and the centerpiece of an exciting new community in an area which was first referred to as âNew Tampaâ only a year or so earlier.Continue reading
Former Macaroni Grill Could Become National Mexican Chain

For more than a year, the former Romanoâs Macaroni Grill location has remained vacant on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. in New Tampa. However, that may not be the case for long, as a national Mexican restaurant reportedly is in negotiations to lease the former Italian restaurant space, just north of Highwoods Preserve Pkwy.Continue reading
Cantina Getting Ready To Open
 In the Cross Creek Center plaza on Cross Creek Blvd. at Kinnan St., the former location of La Fuente Mexican Restaurant will again be home to a Mexican restaurant to be called Cantina. Continue reading



