1983
South MacDill restaurant, bar and arcade from a Tampa hospitality group. Publishes Bucs and Gators schedules, NFL and college football all season, and Premier League on weekends. Says it has 80 TVs.
7th + Grove
7th + Grove sits on East Seventh Avenue in Ybor City and describes itself as the flagship of the 7th + Grove Hospitality group. The cooking is Southern comfort food crossed with Guyanese flavours, served with what the site calls creatively crafted cocktails, and the room runs late on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It is one of the Ybor rooms Creative Loafing Tampa Bay lists among Tampa Bay's restaurants, and it leans into events... a Saturday day party with hookahs and small bites, NFL Sundays, private parties and catering.
Angry Chair Brewing
Angry Chair is a Seminole Heights brewery known well beyond Tampa for big pastry stouts, but its own line about itself is about the name: everybody has an angry chair, work or traffic or whatever, and the beer is the getting away from it. The brewery says it does not always brew to style and calls its beers forward thinking, then notes drily that it won a gold medal for its pilsner, so it can follow the rules if it wants to. The taproom is on North Florida Avenue, has its own food menu and takes private event bookings.
Armature Works
Armature Works is a 1910 streetcar barn on the Hillsborough River in Tampa Heights, rebuilt into the Heights Public Market with close to twenty independent food counters under one roof. Above the market are private event rooms and Rooftop 220, which looks back at the downtown skyline. The lawn outside it runs down to the Riverwalk, and Creative Loafing lists it as a kid stop for the giant chess boards and the family events it runs through the week. Chill Bros keeps an ice cream counter inside.
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Bella's Italian Cafe
Bella's opened on South Howard in 1986, when Bill Shumate and Joanie Corneil set out to give Tampa authentic Italian cooking, and its own site now counts 40 years of service. Shumate had run restaurants around the country since 1964 and served as president of the Florida Restaurant Association and chairman of its Hillsborough County chapter. Corneil came to the partnership having run two of her own places in Oklahoma. The restaurant sells its own cookbook, which is the sort of thing only a kitchen with a long back catalogue bothers to do.
Corner Bar SoHo
Corner Bar is the casual stop across from the louder dance rooms. The official site posts a midnight close from Monday through Thursday, 3am on Friday and Saturday, and midnight on Sunday. Weekly trivia gives the room a reason to visit before the weekend crowd arrives.
EDGE Rooftop Cocktail Lounge
EDGE is the calmer rooftop choice above the Epicurean Hotel. Go for cocktails, small plates, and an open-air view rather than a dance floor. It is open Tuesday through Saturday, with a 1am close on Friday and Saturday. Hotel valet is free before 7pm and costs 10 dollars after.
Elevage SoHo Kitchen & Bar
Elevage is the restaurant inside the Epicurean Hotel on South Howard, directly across the street from Bern's Steak House, whose group helped create the hotel with Mainsail Lodging. It serves from 7 in the morning, running brunch into mid-afternoon, then a lite bites window, then dinner to 10. Valet is free before 7 PM and 10 dollars after. It was in the 2025 Florida MICHELIN Guide as Recommended and is not in the 2026 selection, so it carries no Michelin designation now.
Good Luck Chuck's
Good Luck Chuck's works two shifts on South Howard: a football bar by day, with TVs through the room for NFL Sundays, Monday and Thursday night games and full Saturdays of college football, and a late-night bar after. It stays open until 3am six nights a week, which is as late as anywhere in Tampa posts. The kitchen does wings and burgers and the bar splits its drinks list into Frontstage and Backstage menus.
Green Lemon
Green Lemon is the margarita-and-tacos stop in the middle of South Howard. It works best when food matters as much as the first round. The official site posts an 11pm close on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday, with a 10pm close on the other nights.
Grove SoHo
SoHo bar on S Howard. Its Instagram bio calls it a Seminoles bar and an Eagles bar, and it hosted an FSU watch party on Aug 29. Its own site lists Wednesday to Saturday evening hours, open to 3 am Friday and Saturday.
Howard & Platt
Howard & Platt is the polished early-evening choice at Howard and Platt. The full bar, covered patio, dinner menu, and weekend brunch make it better for a seated first round than a 3am finish. Happy hour runs Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 6pm in the bar area.
LALA Tampa
LALA gives SoHo a built-in activity instead of another stand-and-talk bar. Book one of eight themed private karaoke rooms or use the open mic in the main room. Tampa hours reach 3am Thursday through Saturday, and the late-night menu runs until 2am Friday and Saturday.
MacDinton's Irish Pub
MacDinton's is the long-running Irish pub at the center of the South Howard crowd. It is the easy pick for soccer, football, karaoke, and a packed late finish. Current public posts show nightly specials and activity through 3am, while the official site confirms the SoHo address and phone.
Renzo's SoHo
Renzo's moved its original Tampa steakhouse into a new South Howard room with an Argentine wine and spirits program built for this location. Choose it for Malbec, dinner, and a slower start to the night. It closes at 9pm Monday through Thursday, 10pm Friday and Saturday, and 8pm Sunday.
Sunset Rodeo
Sunset Rodeo is the country night on South Howard. The room has live bands, line dancing, late DJs, a patio, and a mechanical bull. It is 23 and over except for its 21 and over Thursday program. The current event calendar carries live music through October 2026, and posted hours run to 3am from Tuesday through Sunday.
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