Café Olé Restaurant & Tapas Bar – New Tampa’s Place For Spanish (Cuisine), Seafood & Salsa!

*DSC_0574By Gary Nager

It’s been the winner of my favorite restaurant in New Tampa the last couple of years and it’s always done pretty well in our annual Reader Dining Survey, so I’m still kind of surprised when people tell me that they’ve never heard of or never tried Café Olé Restaurant & Tapas Bar in the Cross Creek Center plaza on Cross Creek Blvd. at Kinnan St.Continue reading

Editorial: Focus On Sports — The U.S. Women, Capt. Dave’s Snub & Jimmy Jones

An editorial by Gary Nager
An editorial by Gary Nager

It was only a few years before the last U.S. Women’s World Cup win in 1999 when I saw my first-ever girls high school soccer game. In the years before Paul R. Wharton High opened in New Tampa, most New Tampa kids attended King High on N. 56th St. in Temple Terrace and several New Tampa girls were on the King team.Continue reading