By Gary Nager
Tarekās CafĆ© & Grill Opens 2nd Location…In Our Old Location!
Considering that Iām celebrating my 22ndĀ year of owning and editing this publication (as of the day before this issueās cover date), I canāt help but be impressed by someone who has been doing something great in our area for even longer than I have been serving this community.
Case in point ā Tarek Elsayed, who has been the owner of Tarekās Cafe & Grill near the intersection of Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. and Fletcher Ave., on the USF Tampa campus, for 24 years!
I hope some of you may already have tried Tarekās new place which ā because he expanded into our former location in the Shoppes at Amberly plaza in Tampa Palms, actually has our old address ā 15345 Amberly Dr.! Tarek promises to serve great American cuisine with a Mediterranean flair at his now-open Tampa Palms cafĆ© & grill!
Whether youāre craving a great hamburger or sandwich, or maybe want to try a tomato and mozzarella salad with a side of homemade couscous (photo) or authentic Middle Eastern pastries, Tarek has been keeping USF students, professors and staffers happy for nearly a quarter of a century and his Tampa Palms location is a lot bigger and nicer than his hugely popular takeout counter at USF.
For more info, visit TareksCafe.com, call 252-3238 or see the ad on pg. 47 of our current issue.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Congratulations to everyone at CentraCare Florida Hospital Urgent Care, which hosted a Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting at its location in front of the Wesley Chapel Target on Feb. 9. For more info, visit CentraCare.org.
Irish 31 To Open Next To Panera In Wiregrass Mall!
As nearly 22,000 of you already viewed on our Facebook page, former USF football star Jay Mize, who already has four successful Irish 31 restaurants (in Hyde Park Village, Westshore, Westchase & at the Amalie Arena), says he hopes to open his fifth & sixth locations by the end of 2016.
One of those new locales is on Clearwater Beach & the other is in The Shops at Wiregrass mall, in a shared building that just began site work next to Panera Bread.
Mize says the Irish 31 at Wiregrass will be 2,800 SF & will feature the same great chef-inspired (I call it āIrish-plus-gourmetā) cuisine as the other Irish 31 locations. āItās sort of a race to see which of our new stores opens first,ā Mize says. āBut we hope both will be open by the end of 2016.ā
Visit Irish31.com and stay tuned to NTNeighborhoodNews.com for updates.
RGA Promises Great Networking & Fun!
I hope you will start joining me and dozens of other happy business networkers at the next RGA Network weekly networking luncheon or monthly networking Happy Hour, both of which are held at the Shops at Wiregrass mall. The lunch events are held every Thursday at GrillSmith (2000 Piazza Ave.), 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., and the Happy Hours are held the third Tuesday of every month at Pinchers Crab Shack (28330 Paseo Dr.), where $5 gets you free appetizers and free chances to win great prizes given away by other happy networkers. Iāve already made several great, new contacts at Pinchers, where I recently gave away about a dozen gift cards.
For more info, visit RGANetwork.net and please tell them I sent you! ā GN
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