Do You Love The Indian & Thai Food In Our Area?

Our 2026 Reader Dining Survey & Contest continues, with FOUR more chances to win up to $200 in FREE dining at the restaurant of your choice anywhere in the Tampa Bay area! 

All we’re asking you to do in this issue to win FREE dining is the following: 

1) Tell us your FIVE (5) Favorite Restaurants located in Wesley Chapel (WC) — in zip codes 33543, 33544 & 33545, plus locations on Wesley Chapel Blvd. & S.R. 54 in Lutz between WC Blvd. & Oak Grove Blvd. Please do NOT include ANY restaurants located in New Tampa’s 33647 zip code on the WC (top left) entry form HERE. 

2) For another chance to win, tell us your FIVE (5) Favorite Restaurants located in New Tampa (NT) — in zip code 33647, plus locations on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. and E. Bearss Ave. from BBD west to Livingston Ave. in zip code 33613. Please do NOT include ANY restaurants located in Wesley Chapel’s three zip codes on the NT entry form HERE. 

3) For yet another chance to win, tell us your Favorite Pizza Place AND your Favorite Latin (but NOT Mexican) Restaurant in New Tampa or Wesley Chapel on the entry form HERE. 

3) And for still one more chance to win, tell us your Favorite Thai restaurant AND your Favorite Indian Restaurant in New Tampa or Wesley Chapel on the entry form HERE. 

You’ll receive one entry into our random drawings to win up to $200 in FREE dining at the restaurant of your choice located anywhere in the Tampa Bay area for each correctly-filled-out entry form you submit! 

HERE ARE OUR OTHER RULES! 

1) DO NOT write the name of your one favorite place in WC or NT in more than one Top-5 space on their respective entry forms. Only its first-place vote will count. 

2) In order for your votes to count and help your favorite restaurants, you must include your real first AND last name, the community you live in (Palm Cove, Williamsburg, etc.), your daytime phone number where I can reach you (which I will only call if your name is selected to win a prize) and your valid email address. 

4) This year’s FREE dining prizes include the Grand Prize of $200, as well as prizes of $100, $75, $50 & $25. — GN 

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So, this year’s Dining Survey & Contest is all new! For another chance to win, tell us your Favorite Pizza Place AND your Favorite Latin (but NOT Mexican) Restaurant in New Tampa or Wesley Chapel HERE. 

Submit a correctly filled-out form HERE and you’ll be entered into a random drawing to win up to $200 in FREE dining at the restaurant of your choice located ANYWHERE in the Tampa Bay area! 

Here is what you need to know to enter this year’s Survey & Contest: 

In order to be considered to win any of this year’s five dining prizes, you must write the names of both your favorite Pizza and Latin restaurants in the entry form HERE! 

HERE ARE OUR OTHER RULES! 

1) Please look up the restaurant zip code or location to see if it qualifies as a Wesley Chapel or New Tampa restaurant. 

2) In order for your votes to count and help your favorite restaurants, you must include your real first AND last name, the community you live in (Lexington Oaks, Epperson, etc.), your daytime phone number where I can reach you (which I will only do if your name is selected to win a prize) and your valid email address. 

3) This year’s prizes are again FREE dining at any restaurant YOU choose anywhere in the Tampa Bay area, including the Grand Prize of $200, as well as prizes of $100, $75, $50 & $25. 

4) Fill out the entry form HERE! Good Luck! — GN 

Tell Us Your 5 Favorite Restaurants In Wesley Chapel To Win FREE Dining!

So, this year’s Dining Survey & Contest is all new! Below are pictures & descriptions of all of the mom-&-pop and small (10 units total or less) chain restaurants in or near Wesley Chapel (see location info below), with their addresses, phone numbers, websites and a picture of their exteriors and/or signage. 

All we’re asking you to do, as Wesley Chapel residents, in this issue is name your FIVE (5) Favorite Restaurants located in Wesley Chapel — in zip codes 33543, 33544 & 33545, plus locations on Wesley Chapel Blvd. & S.R. 54 in Lutz up to Oak Grove Blvd. 

Submit a correctly filled-out form HERE and you’ll be entered into a random drawing to win up to $200 in FREE dining at the restaurant of your choice located ANYWHERE in the Tampa Bay area! 

Please do not include ANY restaurants located in New Tampa’s 33647 zip code on the entry form HERE. You’ll have a chance to tell us your five Favorite Restaurants in New Tampa by filling out the form HERE! 

Here is what you need to know to enter this year’s Survey & Contest: 

(I hope) every brick-&-mortar restaurant that serves food and is located in & near Wesley Chapel (WC) that is either a true mom & pop or part of a “chain” — whether regional or national — that has fewer than ten (10) total locations, is listed in alphabetical order below. 

Please note that although the restaurant list doesn’t include any chain eateries with 10 or more locations in Wesley Chapel, you can still write the names of your favorite chains in any or all of the five spaces on the entry form HERE. 

But, whether you choose five places from the Wesley Chapel list of nearly 100 restaurants or five chains that don’t appear on the list or some combination thereof, in order to be considered to win any of this year’s five dining prizes, you must write the names of FIVE (5) WC-area restaurants in the five spaces on the entry form HERE! 

HERE ARE OUR OTHER RULES! 

1) DO NOT write the name of your one favorite place in more than one Top-5 space. Only its first-place vote will count. 

2) If the restaurant is on this list below, we consider it to be in Wesley Chapel. If you want to vote for a chain restaurant, please look up its zip code or location to see if it qualifies as a Wesley Chapel restaurant. 

3) In order for your votes to count and help your favorite restaurants, you must include your real first AND last name, the community you live in (Lexington Oaks, Epperson, etc.), your daytime phone number where I can reach you (which I will only do if your name is selected to win a prize) and your valid email address. 

4) This year’s prizes are again FREE dining at any restaurant YOU choose anywhere in the Tampa Bay area, including the Grand Prize of $200, as well as prizes of $100, $75, $50 & $25. 

5) See the Entry Forms HERE and HERE to find out how to have your votes counted & win prizes! Good Luck! — GN 

Enter Our 2026 Reader Dining Survey & Contest & To Win $200 In FREE Dining!

So, this year’s Dining Survey & Contest is all new! Below are pictures & descriptions of all of the mom-&-pop and small (10 units total or less) chain restaurants in or near New Tampa (see location info below), with their addresses, phone numbers, websites and a picture of their exteriors and/or signage. 

All we’re asking you, as New Tampa residents, to do in this issue is name your FIVE (5) Favorite Restaurants located in New Tampa — all of zip code 33647, and Bruce B. Downs Blvd. between Tampa Palms & E. Bearss Ave, as well as on E. Bearss Ave. between Bruce B. Downs & Livingston Ave.) — on the entry form HERE! 

Submit a correctly filled-out form and you’ll be entered into a random drawing to win up to $200 in FREE dining at the restaurant of your choice located ANYWHERE in the Tampa Bay area! 

Please do not include ANY restaurants located in zip codes 33543, 33544 or 33545 (Wesley Chapel) in this month’s Survey. You’ll get to vote for your five favorites in Wesley Chapel next issue. 

Here is what you need to know to enter this year’s Survey & Contest: 

(I hope) every brick-&-mortar restaurant that serves food and is located in & near New Tampa (NT) that is either a true mom & pop or part of a “chain” — whether regional or national — that has fewer than ten (10) total locations, is listed in alphabetical order below. 

Please note that although the restaurant list doesn’t include any chain eateries with 10 or more locations in New Tampa, you can still write the names of your favorite chains in any or all of the five spaces on the entry form HERE. 

But, whether you choose five places from the New Tampa list of more than 70 restaurants or five chains that don’t appear on the list or some combination thereof, in order to be considered to win any of this year’s five dining prizes, you must write the names of FIVE (5) NT-area restaurants in the five spaces on the entry form HERE! 

HERE ARE OUR OTHER RULES! 

1) DO NOT write the name of your one favorite place in more than one Top-5 space. Only its first-place vote will count. 

2) If the restaurant is on this list, we consider it to be in New Tampa. If you want to vote for a chain restaurant, please look up its zip code or location to see if it qualifies as a New Tampa restaurant. 

3) In order for your votes to count and help your favorite restaurants, you must include your real first AND last name, the community you live in (K-Bar Ranch, West Meadows, etc.), your daytime phone number where I can reach you (which I will only do if your name is selected to win a prize) and your valid email address. 

3) This year’s prizes are again FREE dining at any restaurant YOU choose anywhere in the Tampa Bay area, inclduing the Grand Prize of $200, as well as prizes of $100, $75, $50 & $25. 

4) See the Entry Form HERE to find out how to have your votes counted & win prizes! Good Luck! — GNÂ