Tampa Bars: Hyde Park

Hyde Park · $$ · italian, pizza

Forbici sits on Snow Avenue in Hyde Park Village and takes its name from the Italian word for scissors. Its own story is about a family table rather than a chef: sharing meals was our family's language of love, and the restaurant is meant to put guests at that table. Practically, it runs Italian food and pizza with handcrafted cocktails and live entertainment through the week, opening at 10 for weekend service. There is a second Forbici at 183 2nd Ave N in St. Petersburg, which is Pinellas and out of scope for this property.

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.

Hyde Park

Jekyll is a hidden cocktail room in Hyde Park built on the split-personality conceit, with plush velvet seating, dim light and drinks that are as much performance as pour. The house signature, 'Lost in Translation', is brewed and smoked at the table. The soundtrack runs to nostalgic hip hop and rap rather than lounge jazz. It also runs themed high tea seatings with a full afternoon service made by its own pastry kitchen, which sell out fast. Jekyll is the sister bar to Ciro's Speakeasy, which closed in 2026.

Hyde Park · new american

On Swann opened on 29 May 2016 in Hyde Park Village and serves contemporary American food from a seasonal menu. Its own site says the room was built so guests can watch the cooking happen in an open kitchen, and that the interior is meant to nod to Tampa's past while matching the neighbourhood around it. The partners listed are John Cooper, Trudy Cooper, Chris Arreola, and Chris Ponte with Michelle Ponte. Ponte is the executive chef and partner: he started at Clearwater's Pepper Mill in 1991 after Johnson and Wales, then studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris on the kindness of a Pepper Mill regular and apprenticed at Taillevent.

Hyde Park · new american, coffee, tea

The building went up in 1891 across the street from Henry B. Plant's Tampa Bay Hotel, held an arcade of local shops from the 1920s, then sat empty for decades until the century-old brickwork was restored. Brother and sister Blake Casper and Allison Adams reopened it as Oxford Exchange on September 24, 2012, and Casper's line for how it started is that it started with a bookstore and an office. Under one roof now are the restaurant, the bookstore and shop, a coffee bar, the TeBella Tea Bar, a champagne bar, the Commerce Club membership workspace, and the OE Studio and podcast room. The design takes its cue from the old London clubs and shops, and the stated intent was a place to belong.

Hyde Park · mexican, agave spirits

Quiote is an agave-focused bar and dining room at 2109 Bayshore Boulevard, open evenings only from Wednesday through Sunday. The address matters: it is the room that was Ciro's Speakeasy and Supper Club, whose own site now carries only a farewell note. A quiote is the flowering stalk an agave sends up once in its life, which is a fair name for a tequila house.