Start from 99 curated places around Tampa, FL, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Rooster & the Till
Ferrell Alvarez's seasonal small-plates room that's been a James Beard semifinalist multiple years running. Lamb ribs, daily-changing pastas, and a wine list that punches well above the Seminole Heights neighborhood it sits in.
Boca Kitchen Bar Market
Farm-to-table Hyde Park staple that helped start Tampa's serious-local restaurant wave a decade ago. The brunch is where the neighborhood actually shows up — bottomless mimosas without the chain-brunch energy.
Trails & outdoors
Tampa Riverwalk
The 2.5-mile paved waterfront walk from the Convention Center north to Water Works Park, threading past the art museum, history center, and the cable-stay bridges that light up purple at dusk. The civic showcase walk.
Bayshore Boulevard
The 4.5-mile continuous sidewalk along Hillsborough Bay — locals' claim is world's longest. Flat, unshaded, with the downtown skyline view across the water at sunset. Better as a walk-or-run than a destination on its own.
Things to do
Tampa Museum of Art
Riverfront contemporary museum with a metal-mesh facade that glows blue after dark and a permanent collection of Greek and Roman antiquities that's stronger than the city's size suggests. The Stanley Saitowitz building is half the experience.
The Florida Aquarium
Channelside aquarium that's notably better than the city's size would suggest — the Wetlands Trail walk-through, the working-coral exhibit, and the shark-tank dive program are the standouts. Top-tier for families with kids.
Landmarks & sights
Tampa Theatre
1926 atmospheric movie palace with a twinkling-star ceiling and a working Wurlitzer organ that still gets played before classic-film screenings. It's a working cinema, not a museum — buy a ticket and you've seen Tampa's most-loved interior.
Ybor City Historic District
The 1880s cigar-worker district where brick streets, wrought-iron balconies, and free-roaming legally-protected chickens still set the tone. Skip the cruise-ship hours on 7th Avenue and walk the residential side streets to feel what's left of the immigrant Cuban-Spanish-Italian Tampa.