Scenes from ABC Action News’ “Good Morning Wesley Chapel” segments on June 14: (above) Anchor Deiah Riley visits with our friends from Retro Dogs and Bakery X at the KRATE at the Grove Container Park (below right).(below left) Roving reporter Sean Daly visits Pasta di Guy. (bottom right) Co-owner Adel Youussef of the Garden of Eden Olive Oil Co. at the KRATEs was featured in a segment. (bottom left) Daly interviews the owners of Sorbo Wesley Chapel coffee shop. (Above photo by Charmaine George; the others are screenshots from the “Good Morning, Wesley Chapel” segments).
Great job, Deiah & Co.! On June 14, WFTS-TV “ABC Action News” anchor Deiah Riley brought her roving “Good Morning” show back to Wesley Chapel, as she set up on the main stage at the KRATE at The Grove Container Park from 6 a.m.-10 a.m.
There were the usual great previously recorded segments with the likes of North Tampa Bay Chamber president & CEO Hope Kennedy and members of the Boyette family (one of the original citrus farming families that settled in the Wesley Chapel area) being interviewed, as well as a discussion of whether “Downtown Wesley Chapel” will actually be located in Avalon Park or the Wiregrass Ranch community and a feature about the increased amenities at the Wesley Chapel District Park.
But of course, what got our attention the most were the live dining segments with Riley interviewing the owners of several of the KRATEs, and roving reporter Sean Daly (right) visiting with some of the better- and lesser-known eateries in Wesley Chapel, including (top photo) the new Retro Dogs, Garden of Eden Olive Oil Co., Bakery X (middle right), Sorbo Wesley Chapel coffee shop (bottom left), Moschella’s Italian Eatery & Market, Florida Ave. Brewing Co., Pasta di Guy (top left photo) and several more.
Although there are, of course, so many other places in Wesley Chapel, I really enjoyed this full morning of local businesses being featured on TV. Again, great job! — GN
Click HERE ToEnter Our 2024 New Tampa Reader Dining Survey & Contest & To Win $200 In FREE Dining!
Although our 2023 Reader Dining Survey & Contest was super successful, we’re changing up the format for this year’s contest yet again.
Instead of putting up different categories every issue, we’re going back to showing you the lists of every local or small chain restaurant in a number of categories in both Wesley Chapel and New Tampa and asking you to name your favorites in each category. One difference is that unlike previous years, you can skip as many categories as you like, but we’re grouping the lists of restaurant by type. Here are those categories:
1) Your Five Favorite (overall) Restaurants in New Tampa (NT)
2) Your Favorite American Restaurant in New Tampa
3) Your Favorite Pizza Place in NT
These same categories also appear on the Wesley Chapel ballot. Both entry forms also include lists of places that ask you to pick your Favorite in New Tampa (NT) AND Wesley Chapel, often (but not always) because there aren’t enough in a certain category in just one of our distribution areas. Here are those other categories:
4) Your Favorite Mexican Place in NT/ WC
5) Your Favorite Latin (but not Mexican) Restaurant in NT/WC
6) Your Favorite Chinese Place in NT/WC
7) Your Favorite Japanese/Sushi Restaurant in NT & WC
8) Your Favorite Thai or Korean Restaurant in NT/WC
9) Your Favorite Italian Food in NT/WC
10) Your Favorite Greek or Mediterranean Restaurant in NT/WC
11) Your Favorite Indian Place in NT/WC
12) Your Favorite Breakfast Place in NT/WC
13) Your Favorite Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt or Gelato Place in NT/WC
14) Your Favorite Bakery in NT/WC
15) Your Favorite Coffee Shop in NT/WC
We’re providing the list of places, although we’ve left out the large national and regional chains (with more than 50-60 total locations), because you have to write (or type) the names of your favorites in the spaces provided and we’re pretty sure you know those if they’re your favorite in a category — and yes, you can still include them (we just wish you would focus on local).
Fill out as many categories as you like, but please don’t put the same name in every category, because those votes won’t be counted and if a restaurant is on our Wesley Chapel list, your vote won’t count if you write the name of that restaurant in any New Tampa-only spaces and vice-versa. You can submit both New Tampa & Wesley Chapel ballots without being DQed. Click HERE to fill out the Wesley Chapel Reader Dining Survey & Contest form!
We have upped the prizes for this year — the Grand Prize is now $200, plus prizes of $100 and $50, chosen at random from among all correctly-filled-out entries received by email or on our NeighborhoodNewsOnline.net website (Note-no U.S. Mail entries will be accepted for this year’s contest!) by Friday, October 18.
Click HERE ToEnter Our 2024 Wesley Chapel Reader Dining Survey & Contest & To Win $200 In FREE Dining!
Although our 2023 Reader Dining Survey & Contest was super successful, we’re changing up the format for this year’s contest yet again.
Instead of putting up different categories every issue, we’re going back to showing you the lists of every local or small chain restaurant in a number of categories in both Wesley Chapel and New Tampa and asking you to name your favorites in each category. One difference is that unlike previous years, you can skip as many categories as you like, but we’re grouping the lists of restaurant by type. Here are those categories:
1) Your Five Favorite (overall) Restaurants in Wesley Chapel (WC)
2) Your Favorite American Restaurant in Wesley Chapel
3) Your Favorite Pizza Place in WC
These same categories also appear on the New Tampa ballot. Both entry forms also include lists of places that ask you to pick your Favorite in New Tampa (NT) AND Wesley Chapel, often (but not always) because there aren’t enough in a certain category in just one of our distribution areas. Here are those other categories:
4) Your Favorite Mexican Place in NT/ WC
5) Your Favorite Latin (but not Mexican) Restaurant in NT/WC
6) Your Favorite Chinese Place in NT/WC
7) Your Favorite Japanese/Sushi Restaurant in NT & WC
8) Your Favorite Thai or Korean Restaurant in NT/WC
9) Your Favorite Italian Food in NT/WC
10) Your Favorite Greek or Mediterranean Restaurant in NT/WC
11) Your Favorite Indian Place in NT/WC
12) Your Favorite Breakfast Place in NT/WC
13) Your Favorite Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt or Gelato Place in NT/WC
14) Your Favorite Bakery in NT/WC
15) Your Favorite Coffee Shop in NT/WC
We’re providing the list of places, although we’ve left out the large national and regional chains (with more than 50-60 total locations), because you have to write (or type) the names of your favorites in the spaces provided and we’re pretty sure you know those if they’re your favorite in a category — and yes, you can still include them (we just wish you would focus on local).
Fill out as many categories as you like, but please don’t put the same name in every category, because those votes won’t be counted and if a restaurant is on our Wesley Chapel list, your vote won’t count if you write the name of that restaurant in any New Tampa’-only spaces and vice-versa. You can submit both New Tampa & Wesley Chapel ballots without being DQed. Click HERE to fill out the Wesley Chapel Reader Dining Survey & Contest form!
We have upped the prizes for this year — the Grand Prize is now $200, plus prizes of $100 and $50, chosen at random from among all correctly-filled-out entries received by email or on our NeighborhoodNewsOnline.net website (Note-no U.S. Mail entries will be accepted for this year’s contest!) by Friday, October 18.
We are planning to start our 2024 Reader Dining Survey & Contest in our next issue, but first, here is the list — that I hope is complete — of all of the sit-down and take-out restaurants located in New Tampa’s 33647 zip code (and south on Bruce B. Downs Blvd. to Bearss Ave. and west to Livingston Ave. After that, we have the list — which clearly is much larger — for Wesley Chapel’s three zip codes (33543, 33544 & 33545). Of course, with two malls located in/adjacent to Wesley Chapel, there were bound to be more total eateries there than in New Tampa, but the difference in terms of sheer numbers — with about 100 in & near New Tampa and more than 150 in & near Wesley Chapel — is still pretty impressive.
And finally, we also have listed separately the places that are bars only, coffee- or dessert-only places & other food-oriented places that can’t, in all good conscience, be called “restaurants,” although some places on the “Coffee or Tea Only” list still also qualified for the restaurant list.
If you feel that any that are missing from this list, please email me at ads@ntneighborhoodnews.com to let me know. We’ve already had to make some additions since just the Wesley Chapel list ran in our June 11 Wesley Chapel issue.
The List Below Includes 150 Currently Open Restaurants Located Between Oak Grove Blvd. In Lutz & All Three Wesley Chapel Zip Codes!
We are planning to start our 2024 Reader Dining Survey & Contest in our next issue, but first, here is the list — that I hope is complete — of all of the sit-down and take-out restaurants located in all three Wesley Chapel zip codes and extending west to Oak Grove Blvd. in Lutz. If you see any that are missing from the list please email me at ads@ntneighborhoodnews.com to let me know. Below this main list are additional lists of places that are bars only, coffee or dessert-only places & other food-oriented places that can’t, in all good conscience, be called “restaurants.”
