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Every city has a legendary restaurant that everyone knows and recommends to visiting family, friends and strangers alike.
When it comes to iconic restaurants, Florida has plenty, including several open for more than a century, including Tampa s original Columbia Restaurant and Miami Beach s Joe s Stone Crab.
While some are special-occasion restaurants, others are everyday favorites.
Here s our list of some of Florida s most enduring (and endearing) restaurants, presented in alphabetical order, from USA TODAY Network contributors from across the state.
Billy s Tap Room & Grill, Ormond Beach
58 East Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach, 386-672-1910, www.billystaproomormondbeach.com
Billy s Tap Room and Grill s founding date is noted proudly noted on the blue awning above its front door: est. 1922. The first version of the bar/restaurant/banquet hall was down the street at the old Ormond Hotel, which used to be part of Henry Flagler s empire, but it moved to its current ho
Who said that? | 4/12/2021 I couldn’t tell you whether it’s 30 or 50, but there are a good number of them that make that flight on the way south and again on the way north.
Ron Smith
Smith, 63, a retired St. Petersburg police officer and author of A Birder’s Guide to Pinellas County (Florida), has been an avid birder since 1987 and has sighted more than 700 bird species out of an estimated 850 found in North America. He said some 400 species have been spotted in Pinellas, considered one of the best birding spots in the Southeast.
Smith, who leads birding tours at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in St. Petersburg the first Saturday of every month, talked with the
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Monday s Daily Pulse | 4/12/2021
Florida sues CDC: Governor demands cruise ships be allowed to sail immediately
DeSantis said the no-sail order is outdated and hurts the state as the industry generates billions for the economy and employs tens of thousands of Floridians. “We don’t believe the federal government has the right to mothball a major industry for over a year based on very little evidence and very little data,” the Republican governor said at a news conference at the Port of Miami. [Source: WJW]
Florida will get more than 550,000 COVID vaccines this week. Here’s where they’ll go
Florida will receive 554,370 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from the federal government this week, a significant drop from the previous week as production issues all but halt shipments of Johnson & Johnson doses. Last week, the state received 811,400 doses that included the largest shipment of Johnson & Johnson doses to date. Next week, only 43,000 of the single-shot doses will come