Florida Eats · Tampa, Florida
Tampa restaurants: MICHELIN & James Beard and more
What Tampa has on our lists: 28 MICHELIN or James Beard honorees, 9 hand-checked Cuban sandwich and cafecito spots, 3 Latin and Caribbean restaurants and 2 of Florida's oldest restaurants (back to 1905). Each hand-checked place had a 2025 or 2026 source when we looked in fall 2026. In all, Florida Eats maps 2,228 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries in Tampa, nearest first on your phone.
MICHELIN & James Beard in Tampa
Restaurants in the MICHELIN Guide Florida 2026 or named by the James Beard Foundation, reported as facts rather than scores. Across Florida: 217 Florida MICHELIN and James Beard restaurants.
Rocca
323 W Palm Ave, Tampa
1 MICHELIN StarJames Beard finalist
James Beard: Best Chef: South finalist 2026 (Bryce Bonsack)
Bern's Steak House
1208 S Howard Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended On the menu: dry-aged steaks, dessert room, wine list · Since 1956
South Tampa steakhouse famous for its huge wine cellar and upstairs Harry Waugh Dessert Room, with wine lists dated 2026.
Ebbe
1202 N Franklin St, Tampa
1 MICHELIN Star
Koya
807 W Platt St, Tampa
1 MICHELIN Star
Kōsen
307 W Palm Ave, Tampa
1 MICHELIN Star
Gorkhali Kitchen
10044 Cross Creek Blvd, Tampa
Bib Gourmand
Psomi
701 N Howard Avenue, Tampa
Bib Gourmand
Rooster and the Till
6500 N Florida Ave, Tampa
Bib Gourmand
Streetlight Taco
4004 Henderson Blvd, Tampa
Bib Gourmand
Bar Terroir
3636 Henderson Blvd, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Big Ray's Fish Camp
6116 Interbay Blvd, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Bistro BT
4267 Henderson Blvd, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Cousin Vinny's Sandwich Co.
1331 W Cass St, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Fat Beet Farm Kitchen and Bakery
13830 W Hillsborough Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN RecommendedMICHELIN Green Star
Flaming Mountain
13520 University Plaza St, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Kinjo
Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Lilac
500 Channelside Dr, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
4914 S Macdill Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Mise en Place
1229 E 8th Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Noble Rice
615 Channelside Dr, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Olivia
3601 W Swann Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Ponte
1010 Gramercy Ln, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Predalina
1001 E Cumberland Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Restaurant BT
2507 S Macdill Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Supernatural Food & Wine
811 N Tampa St, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
The Brisket Shoppe
3501 N Armenia Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
The Pearl
823 Water St C100, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Yummy House
2620 E Hillsborough Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended
Cuban sandwiches & cafecito in Tampa
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 56 Florida Cuban sandwich and cafecito spots.
Columbia Restaurant
2117 E 7th Ave, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban sandwich (house-baked ham, mojo pork, Genoa salami, Swiss, pickles, mustard on La Segunda bread), Spanish-Cuban plates, flamenco dinner show · Since 1905
Block-long Spanish-Cuban dining hall in Ybor City, run by the founding family and known for its tiled rooms, flamenco show and Tampa-style Cuban.
La Teresita Restaurant
3248 W Columbus Dr, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: ropa vieja, roast pork, Cuban sandwich, cafe con leche · Since 1972
Long-running two-story West Tampa Cuban restaurant with an adjacent cantina, open from 6 a.m., known for its café con leche and Cuban plates.
Carmine's Restaurant & Bar
1802 E 7th Ave, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban sandwich, deviled crab, Spanish bean soup
Ybor City corner bar and restaurant serving Tampa's Cuban-Italian-Spanish standbys like Cuban sandwiches, deviled crab and bean soup.
Flan Factory
1718 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: flan, Cuban sandwich, cafecito and café con leche, pastelitos
Quick-service Cuban counter near Ybor City built around flan, with a second stall at Armature Works; closed Mondays.
La Segunda Bakery & Cafe
4015 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban bread, Cuban sandwich, pastries, cafe con leche
South Tampa cafe outpost of the Ybor bread bakery, serving its Cuban sandwiches, pastries and coffee.
La Segunda Bakery & Cafe
2512 N 15th St, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban bread, Cuban sandwich (mojo pork, smoked ham, Genoa salami, Swiss, pickles), pastries, café con leche
Ybor City Cuban bread bakery, still family-run, that supplies loaves to many Tampa Cuban-sandwich counters and runs a cafe at the bakery.
La Segunda Bakery & Cafe
5150 N Florida Ave, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban bread, Cuban sandwich, pastries, cafe con leche
Seminole Heights cafe outpost of the Ybor bread bakery with its Cuban sandwiches, pastries and coffee.
Soul de Cuba Cafe
6428 N Florida Ave, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban sandwich, lechón asado
Seminole Heights Cuban cafe listed on the tourism bureau's Cuban sandwich page, known for a mustard-mayo pressed Cuban.
West Tampa Sandwich Shop
3904 N Armenia Ave, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban sandwich (roast pork, ham, salami, Swiss), honey-brushed "Obama" Cuban
West Tampa sandwich counter pressing Tampa-style Cubans with salami, plus a version brushed with honey on top that it calls the Obama Cuban.
Latin & Caribbean in Tampa
Each one checked in fall 2026 against a 2025–26 source. For all of Florida: 35 Florida Latin and Caribbean restaurants.
Antojitos Latin Cravings
2300 W Columbus Dr, Tampa
Latin & Caribbean On the menu: Colombian classics
West Tampa Colombian restaurant on Columbus Drive, in business for more than a quarter century.
El Puerto Restaurant & Grill
1623 E 5th Ave, Tampa
Latin & Caribbean On the menu: churrasco with chimichurri, Peruvian dishes
Ybor City Argentine-Peruvian grill from chef Nelson Umaña known for churrasco.
La Pequeña Colombia
6312 N Armenia Ave, Tampa
Latin & Caribbean On the menu: tostones, arroz con camarones, parrillada, entraña
Colombian restaurant with an attached cafe and bakery on North Armenia Avenue.
Oldest restaurants in Tampa
In business at this address since 1960 or before, going by the place itself or a published history, listed from the oldest. Each note gives the source of the year. Across Florida: Florida's oldest restaurants.
Columbia Restaurant
2117 E 7th Ave, Tampa
Cuban & cafecito On the menu: Cuban sandwich (house-baked ham, mojo pork, Genoa salami, Swiss, pickles, mustard on La Segunda bread), Spanish-Cuban plates, flamenco dinner show · Since 1905
Block-long Spanish-Cuban dining hall in Ybor City, run by the founding family and known for its tiled rooms, flamenco show and Tampa-style Cuban.
The restaurant says Casimiro Hernandez Sr. founded it in 1905 in a 1903 corner saloon that is part of today's block-long Ybor building; it calls itself "Florida's Oldest Restaurant℠" (its service mark, an attributed claim).
Bern's Steak House
1208 S Howard Ave, Tampa
MICHELIN Recommended On the menu: dry-aged steaks, dessert room, wine list · Since 1956
South Tampa steakhouse famous for its huge wine cellar and upstairs Harry Waugh Dessert Room, with wine lists dated 2026.
Bern's says it was founded in 1956 and created from a business block on Howard Avenue that held a grocery, barber shop and dime store; it marks its 70th anniversary in 2026.
Inspections in Tampa
Florida DBPR has an inspection on record for 2,020 places we list in Tampa. At their latest visit, by DBPR's own result groups: 1,870 places Met Inspection Standards, 149 places Follow-Up Inspection Required and 1 place Facility Temporarily Closed. Florida doesn't grade restaurants, and neither do we. Records through September 30, 2026. Each place's results are in the web search; what the results mean: Florida restaurant inspections, explained.
What Tampa eats
Kinds of food among the 2,228 places we list in Tampa, counted from DBPR's licenses and open map data.
| Kind of place | Places |
|---|---|
| Bar & Pub | 277 |
| Coffee & Café | 215 |
| Latin & Caribbean | 147 |
| Pizza | 145 |
| Mexican | 120 |
| Burgers | 110 |
| Sandwiches & Deli | 98 |
| Bakery & Sweets | 97 |
| Chicken & Wings | 87 |
| Chinese | 78 |