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Madeleina Cottage Restaurant

February 11, 2010
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exterior Madeleina Cottage Restaurant
This is a repost of material buried in a much longer, earlier post about something else: Gulfport Trolley Day. I’m extracting this material and reposting it here to give the Madeleina Cottage Restaurant the focus it deserves.
At the end of a long day of exploring various trolley servies in St. Petersburg, a [...]

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Stella’s Deli & Gelato

February 4, 2010
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The Tampa Bay area has a large number of first class restaurants, but not as many New York style delis as I would like. (Admittedly, I’d like one on every block.) There’s Jo-El’s Delicatessen & Marketplace (Jewish), European Goodies (Polish), and Mazzaro’s Market (Italian) plus a number of ethnic markets (Bosnian Bakery, Cafe Mozart, Dong [...]

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Gulfport Trolley Day

January 17, 2010
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Gulfport Hideaway Apartments
 
A good friend recently bought a home in Gulfport, Florida. Attached to this home, in which she will be resident, are four apartments. She calls her complex the Gulfport Hideaway Apartments.
 
Her target clientele are seasonal visitors from abroad. She wanted to confirm that her visitors would not need a rental car, even to [...]

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LocalShops1.com

October 24, 2009
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ESTER VENOUZIOU, FOUNDER OF LOCALSHOPS1.COM

The tagline of Inkwatu is “Delights, Near and Far.” Many of these delights are independently owned food establishments (restaurants or markets) with tasty food, pleasing ambiance, friendly staff, ethnic authenticity, inventive dishes, and reasonable prices. Some of these delights are activities, events, locations, artists, buildings, aspects of nature, books, and non-food [...]

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Jazzy’s BBQ

October 17, 2009
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OPEN HEARTH BBQ AT JAZZY’S
There is a gold standard for barbecues: Leatha’s, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (6374 U S Hwy 98; 601-271-6003). I had the privilege of tasting that standard when my Mississippi Cuzn Don treated me and part of his family to supper there. I got to experience, first hand, the prodigious memory of Miss [...]

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TC Choy’s

September 26, 2009
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A FEW KITCHEN SPECIALS: (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) SALT & PEPPER SHRIMP, FRIED TOFU STUFFED WITH SHRIMP PASTE, CHINESE BROCCOLI IN OYSTER SAUCE, EGGPLANT STUFFED WITH SHRIMP PASTE

I’m proud to announce that the September 2009 issue of Asia Trend Magazine carries my first article and photos as one of their contributing food writers. Asia Trend [...]

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Banyan Coffee & Tea Co.

September 12, 2009
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BANYAN COFFEE & TEA CO.
When a friend asked me more than once if I’d “been to Banyan yet,” I should have known I was missing out by not going. I finally went and discovered the charm that had my friend so enthused.
Banyan Coffee & Tea is another one of those recession startups that I’ve seen [...]

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Shish Kebab & Turkish Cuisine

September 5, 2009
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TURKISH TEA
Two friends of mine are planning an extended trip to Turkey this spring. They will be spending 10 whole days in Istanbul, allowing themselves to get to know the place a little deeper than the typical tourist. They did something similar with Finland a few years ago. They make the experience last well beyond [...]

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Nicko’s

July 25, 2009
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NICKO’S
Diners
Whenever I get back over on the Tampa side of the bay, I always try to eat at one of my old hangouts from my days of living over there. One of my absolute favorites spots–and I’m surprised it’s taken me so long to write it up–is Nicko’s. Nicko’s is a well known favorite among [...]

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Thai Kitchen

May 20, 2009
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On 62nd Avenue North, not far from Phat Phap Temple, the Vietnamese Buddhist temple, is a small, but very good restaurant, the Thai Kitchen (1126 62nd Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33702-7422; 727-525-8748). I definitely recommend it, not only because it’s very good food at reasonable prices in a very congenial atmosphere, [...]

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Jo-El’s kosher deli

May 13, 2009

A good friend tipped me off to a great, local culinary experience. He’d emailed me the name and address. I plugged those into Google to see what I could find and got this: www.americandreamhotdogcarts.com. What?! He wants me to review a hot dog cart up in the industrial park area?
Well, he knows I do [...]

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Munch’s Sundries and Restaurant

May 2, 2009
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serving areas inside Munch’s
 
Munch’s is truly old Florida and old St. Pete. It’s a breakfast and lunch place that’s been in business over 50 years. It is very much a favorite of locals. The waitresses have been there forever, one 30 years, another 31 years. You won’t feel like a stranger for long in this [...]

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the waning Moon passes Venus

April 25, 2009

THE WANING MOON PASSES VENUS OVER TAMPA BAY
 
The picture above doesn’t capture the optical illusion that we humans witnessed early this past Wednesday morning. The Moon and Venus appeared to be at least 10 times larger than they really were and Venus was so bright it had pointy spokes like a child’s drawing of a [...]

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