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The Daily Sun
'Taste of Venice High' gives delicious experience
VENICE — Students in the AICE program at Venice High had the opportunity last month to hone their writing skills with real world practice thanks to a collaboration between the English department, the culinary classes, and local restaurants.{/span}
bradentonmag.com
hoodline.com
Gulfshore Opera Brings Sold-Out Madama Butterfly to Naples, Then Tours SW Florida
Gulfshore Opera is launching its 13th season with Puccini's Madama Butterfly, staging the tragic tale of a young geisha and the American naval officer who betrays her across three Southwest Florida counties. The company's performance at Artis—Naples is already sold out, but tickets remain for stops in Punta Gorda and Fort Myers in the coming weeks.
macaronikid.com
unearththevoyage.com
Hunting for Fossilized Shark Teeth on Caspersen Beach in Venice, Florida Costs Nothing
Shark teeth wash up here so often that some beachcombers leave with more than a hundred in a single morning. And the hunt costs exactly nothing. The sand is dark and scattered with black stones. That sounds gloomy until you learn many of those dark specks are fossils. Tiny, glossy,...
everafterinthewoods.com
whatnow.com
A Tampa Chef-Owned Restaurant Announces Its Permanent Closure
Lara, a chef-owned restaurant in Tampa’s Ybor City neighborhood, has announced plans to close permanently. Owner and chef Suzanne ‘Suz’ Lara cited a lack of customer support and difficult economic conditions in her closure announcement. Ybor City’s Lara Announces Permanent Closure. Owned and operated by local...
Lakeland Gazette
Tampa Bay Times
Tampa Bay Times
10 unexpected places around Tampa Bay to get great food
Food and discovery go hand in hand, and there’s a lot to discover around this area — if you know where to look. There are diligent folks throughout Tampa Bay crafting Colombian-style empanadas steps away from one of St. Petersburg’s oldest beach towns; assembling Taiwanese-style rice rolls and hawking them via Facebook groups — all of them making the food they grew up eating, and crafting it with love and care.
Tampa Bay Times
10 of the prettiest plates and places in Tampa Bay’s restaurant scene
By now, you’ve dived into the Tampa Bay Times’ Top 50 Restaurants list. There is so much to see; so many reservations to make. This roundup is different. Throughout the course of reporting, Times photojournalists visited restaurants to photograph the food, the chefs and the spaces.
Tampa Bay Times
Tampa steakhouse makes OpenTable’s Top 100 list for 4th straight year
OpenTable has again named a lauded Tampa steakhouse on its list of the Top 100 Restaurants in America. Bern’s Steak House is one of two Florida eateries and the only Tampa Bay spot recognized this year by the restaurant reservation platform. The local icon also made the Top 100 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, putting it among at least 18 restaurants on the 2026 list that’ve earned honoree status four years in a row.
unearththevoyage.com
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
After losing openers and backing band in ‘Free Palestine’ fallout, Ed Sheeran arrives in Tampa to close US stadium tour
Embattled singer-songwriter closes his U.S. tour in Tampa on Nov. 7, 2026. The post After losing openers and backing band in ‘Free Palestine’ fallout, Ed Sheeran arrives in Tampa to close US stadium tour appeared first on Creative Loafing Tampa .