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Tampa Itineraries
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Evening 1
Critically acclaimed for its fresh flavors of Italy with a Mediterranean twist, Pelagia is one of Tampa’s best restaurants. Enjoy Chef Fabrizio’s eclectic creations that will tempt the taste bud and create a memorable dining experience like no other restaurant in the Bay area.
Day 1
Morning
The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center opened its doors in July, 1987, and in the last 20 years has welcomed 10 million guests! TBPAC is located downtown on a picturesque nine-acre site along the east bank of the Hillsborough River. As the largest performing arts complex south of the Kennedy Center, the 335,000 square-foot Center provides an environment for a wide variety of world-class events. It boasts one of the nation's leading Broadway series and is nationally respected for producing grand opera, as well as presenting a wide variety of concerts, performances and events. More than 600,000 patrons attended 3,742 on-site events in TBPAC's 2005-2006 season.
Enjoy lunch at Maestro's Restaurant. Conveniently located above the Jaeb Theater of TBPAC, overlooking the downtown Tampa skyline, Maestro's Restaurant features a unique menu for each show.
Afternoon
Tampa Theatre, located in downtown Tampa was built in 1926 by the famed architect John Eberson. The elaborate movie palace decorated in ornate Florida Mediterranean style, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also rumored to be haunted by the friendly ghost of Foster Finley – the theater’s projectionist who died in the 1970s. Today the theater is one of the largest preservation projects in Tampa and attracts 150,000 people each year with films, concerts and special events and remains the jewel of Tampa.
Evening
The Yacht StarShip is Tampa Bay's premier dining yacht and America's first 3 diamond rated dining yacht by AAA. Yacht StarShip offers live entertainment, four-star cuisine, is a great place to have corporate events, weddings, banquets, conventions, fund,raisers, and celebrate special occasions. Yacht StarShip also offers spectacular dinner and lunch cruises. On Sundays, experience Tampa Bay's largest cruising brunch. Florida's largest dining yacht, the Yacht StarShip, has quickly become one of the most popular dining attractions in Tampa. The newest addition to the fleet, Lady Tampa Bay, offers an intimate setting for group events.
Day 2
Morning
Start the morning with a visit to the Henry B. Plant Museum. Known for its minarets that pierce Tampa’s modern skyline, the former 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel showcases the American lifestyle in the turn-of-the-century-Victorian era and is now part of the University of Tampa campus. The museum transports visitors back to the gilded age and features Henry B. Plant as a man with vision and a desire to shape the state of Florida and awaken a sleepy Tampa Bay.
After the museum, treat yourself to lunch at the Columbia Restaurant. The Columbia Restaurant was founded in 1905 by Cuban immigrant Casimiro Hernandez, Sr., and today is Florida’s oldest restaurant, and the world’s largest Spanish restaurant. The Columbia Restaurant is owned and operated by 4th and 5th generation members of the founding family.
Afternoon
The Salvador Dali Museum is the flagship of cultural tourism on the West Coast of Florida and welcomes over 200,000 visitors each year from around the world. Serving the Florida community, 10,000 students are admitted without charge annually. A new series of small format exhibition catalogs is published to accompany the four new exhibitions mounted each year. The Museum will create a new building to protect its collection and welcome its visitors. It is continually adding to the collection with acquisitions of paintings, drawings and prints. The Museum's extensive archival library is key to the advances in academic research on topics from Dali to Surrealism, to interpretations of contemporary art. Today, the Dali Museum continues to preserve and protect its collection, making it available for the enjoyment and education of all people, with special opportunities for our local community, enhancing the public appreciation of Dali.
Evening
Throughout their 50-year history of one of Tampa’s most famous restaurants, Bern’s Steak House, the Laxer family has displayed a certain obsession with quality. Highlights include specially aged U.S. Prime Beef, a 65-page dessert menu, organic vegetables grown on their own local farm, one of the largest wine lists in the world and a kitchen so spotless guests are welcomed in for a tour. Bern’s has evolved into a “family of legends” with the steak house and its sister restaurant SideBern's, plus Bern’s Fine Wine & Spirits and the annual Bern’s Winefest.
Day 3
Morning
Located along the scenic Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa, the Tampa Museum of Art provides a broad range of art-related experiences for visitors of all ages. The museum collection includes twentieth-century and contemporary art and a renowned collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. A changing special exhibitions program provides a lively mix of classical and contemporary shows. Complementing these exhibitions are a wide range of classes, lectures, seminars, and children's activities. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Tampa Museum of Art was established in 1979.
After visiting the museum, enjoy lunch at Mise En Place. Located across from University of Tampa and the scenic beauty of the former Tampa Bay Hotel, Mise En Place features New American cuisine with fresh local ingredients. Zagat survey says, “Kudos abound for this superb, cutting edge New American bistro in downtown Tampa, where chef Marty Blitz creates dishes that are inventive yet homey, turning each plate into art.”
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