Stonewood Wins Once more As Your Favourite In New Tampa!  — Neighborhood Information

Las Palmas Wins Favourite Latin & #2 General; By way of Italia Is third & Additionally Wins Fave Pizza & Italian! 

There isn’t rather more we will say about Stonewood Grill & Tavern that hasn’t already been stated every of the previous eight years as our readers’ Favourite Restaurant in New Tampa, so we gained’t even hassle. Suffice it to say that Stonewood’s mixture of high quality meals, a sublime setting, excellent service, New Tampa’s most hopping upscale bar crowd and truthful costs proceed to maintain it on the high of your listing. 

This 12 months’s second-Favourite Restaurant in New Tampa (and Favourite Latin Restaurant in New Tampa & Wesley Chapel) was a minimum of a little bit little bit of a shock, NOT as a result of Las Palmas Latin Grill isn’t an ideal mom-&-pop restaurant, however as a result of homeowners Ramses and Ana Garcia have been nonetheless working out of a meals truck, moderately than their brick-&-mortar location, when final 12 months’s survey was performed. For Las Palmas to nudge previous final 12 months’s second place finisher, By way of Italia, after not making the 2023 top-25 was very spectacular. 

General, seven of your 2023 top-10 Favourite Eating places in New Tampa nonetheless made this 12 months’s Prime-10 (some moved up, others down), however Las Palmas, EggTown and the reopened Kobé moved into the top-10 whereas Recent Kitchen, Olive Backyard & Minerva (which nonetheless gained for Favourite Indian Restaurant) dropped out. — GN 

1. Stonewood Grill & Tavern 

17050 Palm Pointe Dr., Pointe at Tampa Palms 

(813) 978-0388 • StonewoodGrill.com 

So, regardless that it’s a part of a mini-chain with fewer than ten models, nobody ought to be stunned that Stonewood Grill & Tavern — which was the primary upscale restaurant to open in New Tampa and has all the time been at or close to the highest of our Reader Survey rankings ever since — took house high honors once more this 12 months. 

With new menu gadgets like peach bourbon-glazed pork chops (high) and the large tuna poké stack appetizer (backside) all the time being added to the chain’s menu by Tampa Palms government chef Danny Manzur, and probably the most New Tampa of all bar scenes in zip code 33647, it’s not obscure how Stonewood retains itself on the high of our reader rankings (and a minimum of close to the highest of mine) yearly. Kudos to Manzur and working associate Dennis Diaz and their workers for by no means skimping on high quality. 

2. Las Palmas Latin Grill 

6431 E. County Line Rd. 

(813) 991-5500 • LasPalmasLatinGrill.com 

When proprietor and chef Ramses Garcia advised me final 12 months that he offered his Las Palmas meals truck and was on the point of reopen in the identical area his brick-&-mortar Las Palmas Latin Grill had been in earlier than (after closing for a few 12 months due to a kitchen hearth), I knew he was going to achieve success, however I had no concept that he would be capable to go from not making the top-25 within the 2023 Reader Eating Survey to #2 Favourite Restaurant in New Tampa in such a brief time frame. 

After all, including beer and wine had to assist, however including new dishes — like his scrumptious fried complete snapper (high photograph) to go together with his award-winning Tampa- and Miami -style Cuban sandwiches (backside photograph) probably helped much more. 

It doesn’t matter what menu gadgets you’re keen on at Las Palmas, it’s clear that Ramses and his spouse Ana have offered the restaurant comeback story of the 12 months for not simply our readers, however for yours really as effectively. 

3. By way of Italia Wooden Fired Pizza & Bar 

8644 Hunter’s Village Rd., Village at Hunter’s Lake 

(813) 475-4857 • EatViaItalia.com 

Ending intently behind Las Palmas for #2 this 12 months was final 12 months’s #2 finisher, By way of Italia. I don’t imagine that the drop of 1 spot from final 12 months has something to do with former proprietor Roberto Maganuco promoting the restaurant to new proprietor Sonny Patel, because the restaurant nonetheless serves the identical scrumptious Italian fare (just like the tagliatelle Bolognese proven right here). I simply suppose By way of Italia fell sufferer to a brand new wave of help for Las Palmas. 

4. Liang’s Bistro Asian Delicacies 

17515 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. 

(813) 978-1225 • LiangsBistroTampa.com 

Leaping up from #6 final 12 months to the fourth spot this 12 months is Liang’s Bistro, which additionally continues to dominate the “Favourite Chinese language Restaurant in New Tampa & Wesley Chapel” vote, because it has yearly because it opened. 

As I’ve usually stated, whereas not all of Liang’s dishes could be known as “New York-style” (though its crispy egg rolls, proper, are very NY-ish), there’s little doubt that it has been our space’s solely high quality sit-down Chinese language place. 

5. Fats Rabbit Pub 

16029 Tampa Palms Blvd. W., Metropolis Plaza at Tampa Palms 

(813) 252-3004 • FatRabbitPub.com 

There’s little doubt that the Fats Rabbit Pub has been a mannequin of consistency because it opened to rave evaluations a number of years in the past and this 12 months is not any exception. 

Fats Rabbit has repeated as our readers’ #5 Favourite Restaurant in New Tampa, due to nonetheless serving its extra upscale pub gadgets (like its new fattened shrimp appetizer and quite a lot of new rice bowls, together with the Fish Taco bowl with Mojo mahi-mahi), in addition to a few of the greatest wings (photograph) in our distribution areas. 

6. The Grill at Morris Bridge 

10920 Cross Creek Blvd., Cross Creek Commons 

(813) 388-5353 • TheGrillatMorrisBridge.com 

Though it dropped from #2 Favourite Restaurant in New Tampa two years in the past to #3 final 12 months and #6 this 12 months, there’s little doubt that a lot of our readers love proprietor Frank Gouveia’s Grill at Morris Bridge, because it completed just a few votes behind the #3-#5 favorites on this web page, all of which have been considerably forward of #s 7-#10. 

Plus, with the current addition of latest bar menu gadgets (like this chili cheese canine), The Grill isn’t only for “date evening” anymore. It’s additionally an ideal place to observe a recreation, too. 

7. Mr. Dunderbak’s 

14929 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Oak Ramble Plaza 

(813) 977-4104 • DunderbaksBeer.wordpress.com 

After returning to the top-10 (#8) in New Tampa final 12 months, following a mysterious one-year absence from our readers’ top-25, Mr. Dunderbak’s and its German (and American) delicacies continues to be not solely a well-liked place to have a beer, but additionally the whole lot from corned beef Reuben sandwiches (photograph) to jagerschnitzel, because it rose to #7 this 12 months. In brief, Mr. Dunderbak’s remains to be Tampa’s “German Bierhalle, Braueri, Marketplatz und Restaurant.” 

8. Cali Tampa Palms 

17004 Palm Pointe Dr., Shoppes at The Pointe 

(813) 975-1222 • EatCali.com 

Though New Tampa’s authentic “bowl tradition” eatery has risen and fallen a couple of spots 12 months over 12 months, Cali Tampa Palms continues to be one among our readers’ Favourite eating places in New Tampa. 

Identified not just for its tasty bowls (just like the “Lean & Clear” proven right here), but additionally for scrumptious wrap sandwiches, salads and oven-baked pizza — all with high quality substances, Cali is more likely to stay a constant favourite for years to return. 

9. EggTown 

17507 Protect Stroll Ln. (New Tampa) & 27607 S.R. 56 (Wesley Chapel) 

(813) 533-7221 (NT) & (813) 994-9666 (WC) • EggTown.com 

Leaping up eight areas from #17 final 12 months is that this 12 months’s #9 Favourite restaurant in New Tampa, EggTown. 

Regardless of shedding out to Keke’s on this 12 months’s “Favourite Breakfast Place” voting, this rising (now as much as 5 models) mini-chain (with areas in New Tampa and Wesley Chapel) is a superb place for scrumptious breakfast gadgets (just like the egg, rooster & waffles proven right here) but additionally scrumptious lunch/brunch specialties like rooster salad croissants, burgers and grilled rooster sandwiches. It has super-fair costs, too! 

10. Kobé Japanese Steakhouse 

17641 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. 

(813) 680-5800 • KobeSteakhouse.com 

You possibly can’t actually name Kobé Japanese Steakhouse a “newcomer” to our space as a result of it had a New Tampa location for a number of years earlier than shutting all the way down to relocate a couple of miles south on Bruce B. Downs Blvd., however it’s the first time in a few years Kobé has been open and our readers clearly are nonetheless taken with what’s now New Tampa’s solely place for “dinner-&-a-show” teppanyaki-table Japanese fare. Our readers clearly admire that Kobé — now with eleven areas all through central Florida, — has returned with the identical high quality it had earlier than.