Dining in Tampa

Today's Blog post is about the Kobe Steakhouse in Brandon, Florida. Located at 2210 West Brandon Blvd. Brandon, FL 33511. Phone: 813-653-2171. Hours Monday through Thursday 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday 12:00 Noon to 10:30 p.m. Sunday 12:00 noon to 9:30 p.m.   As you walk in, there's a Koi pond which often keeps the kids in your party occupied while you wait for your table. There is two types of seating, one is the standard dining room style seating where you can order off the menu and the food is prepared in the kitchen and brought...

Recently we dined at Cappy's Pizza in the Brandon/Riverview area. Located at 6260 Winthrop Town Center Avenue, Riverview, FL 33578 Phone: 813-662-4811 Hours are Sun - Thurs 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday & Saturday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.   Cappy's is a small neighborhood pizzeria where you will find lots of locals getting their pizza fix for the week. I forgot to get a photo of their menu. So I remade it for the blog in a little easier to read font.  Hubby had this beer. He enjoyed it a lot. It has a sort of homey...

Today we review the Bonefish Grill in Brandon, Fl. Located at 1015 Providence Road. Phone 813-571-5553. We dined here a couple of weeks ago and I didn't want to forget to do the review. We have one of these in Orlando near us as well and the experience was different than we are use to in Orlando. We arrived early for our Saturday evening 8:00 reservation by about 45 minutes and were told we'd have to wait until our actual reservation time and were directed to the bar area were there is seating not at the bar as well as...

The Shrimp Boat Bar and Grill is located at: 1020 Bloomingdale Avenue, Valrico, Florida  Phone 813-571-5858 Hours of operation are: Monday - Thursday 11:30 AM – 10:00 PM Friday and Saturday 11:30 AM – 11:00 PM Sunday 11:30 AM – 9:00 PM They do offer catering and event space. The restaurant is open and inviting with indoor and outdoor (enclosed) seating. The Shrimp Boat has both booths and tables. It has a welcoming fireplace. And a quaint bar with tables as well. They have both a lunch and dinner menu, first up is the lunch menu.  This is the dinner menu.  They started...

From time to time we also get out of town, on occasion we go to Tampa. On this particular day we happened to go to a wonderful little spot in Brandon, Florida known as Tibby's New Orleans Kitchen.  They have three locations in Florida. Winter Park - 2203 Aloma Ave Altamonte - 494 FL 436 Brandon - 1721 West Brandon Blvd. (the one we went to) They do not take reservations at this time. From the street it doesn't look anything like what it is inside. It's a big, exciting, highly decorated restaurant sitting behind two unassuming doors. From the...