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Restaurants with great bars include Mise en Place, SideBern's and the Sono Cafe in the
Museum of Art. For nightlife, Ybor City is party central, though SoHo and Seminole
Heights have a more grown-up vibe. Most clubs are open from 10pm to 3am Thursday to
Saturday and charge a cover of between $10 and $30. Tampa Bay's alternative weekly is
Creative Loafing (
www.cltampa.com
)
, with event and bar listings.
Ybor City is also the center of Tampa's GLBT life; to connect with it, check out the
Cigar City Brewing
BREWERY
(
813-348-6363;
www.cigarcitybrewing.com
; 3924 West Spruce St;
11am-11pm Sun-Thu, to 1am
Fri & Sat)
This is Tampa's premier craft brewery. It has dozens of crafted brews on tap, some exclus-
ive to the brewery. On Friday nights there are food trucks in the parking lot and you can
take tours of the brewery for $5 (with one beer included).
You'll find it west of downtown, north off I-275.
Independent Bar
BAR
(
813-341-4883;
www.independenttampa.com
;
5016 N Florida Ave;
noon-midnight Sun-Wed, to
1am Thu-Sat)
If you appreciate craft brews, roll into this converted gas station, now a low-key hip bar in
Seminole Heights. You can count on one or more local Cigar City Brews, and it serves
some mean pub grub.
Anise Global Gastrobar
COCKTAIL BAR
813-225-4272; 777 N Ashley Dr;
4-10pm Mon-Thu, to midnight Fri,
11am-midnight Sat, 11am-10pm Sun)
Located at the base of the soaring SkyPoint building, Anise has a long sleek bar and a
short, smart cocktail list. Even mixers are taken seriously here, from Fever Tree Tonic to
Mexican Coke (sweetened with sugar cane not high-fructose corn syrup). There's also a
globetrotting wine list and an Asian-inspired tapas menu (from $8 to $11).
Four Green Fields
IRISH PUB
