Tampa Bay Food Monster

...eating food since 1985.

the Columbia Restaurant

sure, everyone’s been to the columbia restaurant. i’m sure you’ve been. yeah, you. just look at that smug look on your ugly face. think you’re special? well you’re not. you ain’t shit. that is, until you’ve been given an exclusive private tour of the columbia by a fourth generation columbia family member, after being driven there in a tight-azz limousine. …and by ‘tight-azz limousine’, i mean limo/bus hybrid, and by.. Read More

Renzo’s Argentine Steakhouse

alright dude, this is it – time to impress. take a shower. put on that semi-nice shirt. pull out that invitation to that classy gourmet restaurant. and get ready to get laid. you know you’re gonna get some… you fancy as hell and people be buying you shit left and right. this is the life of a food blogger. hitting up renzo’s gourmet argentine steakhouse for their two year anniversary.. Read More

Subway’s BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich

while on the usf campus the other day, i noticed a sign on the window of subway – bbq pulled pork sandwich. i looked around me. …no sign of corpses. no still-living bodies writhing in pain. no puddles of fresh vomit. nothing. could subway be making a pulled pork sandwich that didn’t cause massive sickness, or the dead to rise again? i was dubious. i was also… hungry. i went.. Read More

Arby’s Angus Three Cheese & Bacon

i’m a bit late on this one. a bit a lot late. but that’s alright. we can’t all be perfect. maybe it’s time you lowered your expectations? you go through life expecting things of people, and you’ll only end up getting let down. especially by this review. and you don’t want that. you want this: so arby’s angus three cheese & bacon, first introduced in 1932, is arby’s attempt to.. Read More

Subs-N-Such

subs-n-such. your friendly neighborhood submarine sandwich emporium. they will provide you with both subs and such. and they do both so well. subs-n-such is a little mom & pop joint on the corner of livingston and bearss in lutz. and if nobody ever told you about it, you’d probably never see it. it’s small. so very small. you might wanna just pick some subs up and run. they have some.. Read More