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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Bad Monkey Ybor
Military-themed bar on 7th Ave in Ybor. Its home page calls it the Sports HQ and posts weekend slates for FSU, college football and the Bucs, plus Rays playoff games. Happy hour runs Monday to Friday, 3 to 6 pm.
Charann's Tavern
A tavern on Memorial Highway known for its cheesesteak. Its own site says it has more than 20 TVs and a patio, and it runs a football Sunday wings and pitcher deal.
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.
District Tavern
District Tavern is the neighborhood bar of the Channel District, a block off Channelside Drive, and it is the room downtown workers and residents use when they want a kitchen open late rather than a show. Its posted hours run from late morning to three in the morning Tuesday through Saturday, which is later than almost anything else in the district.
Front Porch Grille & Bart's Tavern
Front Porch Grille has been on North Florida Avenue since 2002, which makes it one of the longest-running independent restaurants in Seminole Heights. It works out of a converted two-storey bungalow, the kind of house the neighbourhood is built from, with Bart's Tavern as the bar side of the same operation. Weekend service starts at 8am, so it is a breakfast room as well as a dinner one, and the kitchen keeps its own daily specials and happy hour separate from the main menu.
Gaspar's Grotto
Gaspar's Grotto sits on Seventh Avenue in the middle of Ybor City and builds its whole identity on Jose Gaspar, the legendary Gulf pirate Tampa throws Gasparilla for every January. Its own site says the bar pays homage to the legendary local pirate Jose Gaspar and celebrates Tampa's immigrant past. There is an indoor bar and dining room plus two outdoor patios with live entertainment weekly, and Sunday brunch has become the thing it is known for. The bar also runs a pig roast, a VIP bottle lounge, weddings and its own Ybor Gift Company merchandise shop.
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.
Hattricks
Hattricks is the hockey bar of downtown Tampa, an Irish pub and sports room on South Franklin Street that has been there for years and fills before and after everything at the arena. Its own description is the number one spot for Lightning pregame parties, postgame celebrations, and any concert or event at the arena or the convention center. The posted closing time is honest about how that works: eleven in the morning until as late as three, according to volume.
Hattricks South Tampa
The second Hattricks, on Henderson Blvd. The company's site is built around game days and says both rooms are open every day.
Henderson's Bar & Kitchen
Henderson's is the neighbourhood bar next door to The Blind Goat on Henderson Boulevard. Its website is gone, and its own Instagram now goes by Henderson Live and calls the room an entertainment bar in South Tampa, with open mic night every Monday at 7 p.m. The newest post we could date is from 19 September 2026.
Irish 31 Pub House & Eatery, Hyde Park
The original Irish 31 pub in Hyde Park. Its own page says any game on goes up on the flatscreens and LED walls, and it shows UFC Fight Night live on the big screen. Happy hour runs 3 to 7 pm Monday to Friday.
Longbar Pub & Grill
A neighborhood sports pub that says it has 25+ TVs for college, NFL, Lightning and MLB games, plus pool, darts and shuffleboard. Happy hour is Monday to Friday 11 to 5 and Saturday 11 to 3. Open until 2:30 am.
Lowry Parcade & Tavern
Lowry Parcade is a barcade on Waters Avenue whose own tagline is 'Classic Arcades. Craft Beer.' It keeps a floor of arcade cabinets and pinball machines, publishes a high scores board, and runs trivia and events. There is no kitchen: Rene's Mexican Kitchen parks outside seven nights, 7pm to 10pm most nights and to 11pm on Friday and Saturday. Creative Loafing calls it Tampa's first tavern and arcade, opened in 2016.
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.
Mackenzie's Sports Tavern
A South Tampa sports tavern since 1995, open 11 AM to 3 AM every day. Its site calls it the best place to watch the Rays, Bucs and Lightning.
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Mad Dogs & Englishmen is a British-style pub that has been part of Tampa's dining scene for more than thirty years and now occupies a purpose-built home on South MacDill Avenue, having moved from its long-time address. It runs a full week of service from late morning, with weekend opening at 10am. It joined the MICHELIN Guide in the 2025 Florida selection and is Recommended again in 2026.
North 30th Sports Pub & Grille
A sports pub and grille in University Square, north of USF. Its site counts 40+ big screens and lists football, hockey and baseball playoff viewing on its events page.
Press Box Sports
Also called Walter's Press Box Sports Emporium. A South Tampa sports bar since 1978 with 42 screens, a patio with screens, and hours of 11 AM to 3 AM every day.
The Independent Bar & Cafe
The Independent has been the beer bar of Seminole Heights for about fifteen years, a European-inspired pub on North Florida Avenue with a cafe attached that serves the same kitchen menu plus coffee and baked goods. The draft list is built from imported and American craft beer, and the kitchen runs from Bavarian brat platters to tempeh reubens. Visit Tampa Bay records 50 seats indoors and a total capacity of 150 with the outdoor space, and lists live music, gallery openings and beer and wine events as the regular calendar. The bar stays open to 1am at weekends, which in this stretch of Seminole Heights is unusual.
The Patio Tampa
A South Tampa neighbourhood bar that calls itself Tampa's best local bar, with a full bar, darts and games, a food truck instead of a kitchen, and live music. It leans hard on sport, billing itself as the home for UFC, Bucs, Lightning, Bills and Sabres games, and runs weekly and monthly promotions and viewing parties.
The Pearl
The Pearl is a restaurant, tavern and oyster bar in the Water Street district, serving made-from-scratch entrees, shareable plates and seasonal oysters with a long cocktail and beer list. It runs lunch on weekdays, brunch at weekends and dinner seven days, with a weekday happy hour from 2pm to 5pm. Its own site records inclusion in the 2024 through 2026 MICHELIN Guide.
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