i am a big fan of late-night dining. unfortunately, the tampa area is rather limited in its late-night dining options. best of the bunch, of course, is the TACO BUS… but that’s for another day. last night’s adventures took me to our local IHOP, just off of fowler near i75. of the “big three” chain breakfast places (dennys, village inn, and ihop… waffle house just doesn’t make the list), ihop.. Read More
Del Valle Restaurant & Market
DEL VALLE, restaurant and market on fowler and 15th street, next to trang viet cuisine. behind this unassuming, blend-into-the-background storefront, lies a wealth of delicious mexican food, groceries, and some DELIGHTFUL western apparel. and i probably never would have noticed it had my friend not told me about it. the inside is kind of sad. there’s hardly any room to eat, with maybe nine tables for diners. the majority of.. Read More
Twizzlers Sweet and Sour Filled Twists
okay, so in general, i’m not a big fan of twizzlers. i do not like black licorice, and their regular strawberry is merely tolerable, and pretty much anything else twizzler has made that i’ve purchased has to be eaten over the course of a week, because it’s so easy for me to get sick of that stuff (except twerpz… mm twerpz). but i am a big fan of things filled.. Read More
Ruben’s Cubans
sandwiches kick ass. we all know it. portable food is THE FOOD OF THE FUTURE (and/or the neolithic era, according to that liar wikipedia). so when i heard about a place that sold BOTH reubens and cubans, i was PUMPED to check it out. and i was even more pumped when i found out what a creative name this place had been given: yeah, that’s right: ruben’s cuban cafe. this.. Read More
Mr. Dunderbak’s
My friend Phil just turned 21. And that means booze. Lots and lots of totally legal booze (which is, debatably, less fun than totally illegal booze). So we needed to get our friend some quality beer to drink in a public forum. Now, there is, no doubt, something to be said for the charm found in a dive bar, but we were looking for variety, and quality. We needed look.. Read More