What Stogie Had For Lunch

Center Cut Pork Chops
With yellow rice, veggies and a salad
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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Meat Balls with Yellow Rice and Platanos

At Plato Latino in Tampa

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Farm To Table In Seminole Heights

Rooster and the Till

Our local food expert Jon Rector of SOG
With The Belle of Ballast Point and Under Dog and Sweet Polly visited a local restaurant that we are hearing good things about.
Read what he has to say here, Sweet Polly's version
Eat Local - Stay Local

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Palomilla steak with sides.

at Machu Picchu Restaurant.  3974 W Hillsborough Ave, Tampa

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Tacos, rice and beans

at The Taco Bus in Seminole Heights

Alex Sink In Dunedin

 

At The OLDE BAY CAFE & DUNEDIN FISH MARKET

51 Main Street, Dunedin

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Sirloin Tips

Over Rice At Nick's Family Diner on The OBT in Orlando.

Awesome food, more here 

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Chopped steak with rice, salad, bread and a Pepsi $10.00.

2200 Kings Highway, Port Charlotte

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Pepper Steak

With Fried Rice

$4.99 at #1 Wok in Punta Gorda

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Shrimp in Garlic Sauce

With fried rice.

$4.99 at #1 Wok in Punta Gorda.

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What Stogie Had For Lunch

Prime Rib Sandwich

With fries at 

The Burnt Store Grille 3941 Tamiami Trail, Punta Gorda

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Shrimp with lobster sauce 

and fried rice $5.70 at  King House, 27680 Bermont Rd, Punta Gorda

Shop Hop In Seminole Heights

Stay Local, Help Your Neighbor 

What Stogie Had For Lunch

 

Fried Rice

With Palomilla Steak and after meal coffee

At Arco-Iris Cuban Restaurant in West Tampa

What Stogie Had For Lunch

Blackened Red Snapper Sandwich 

With potato salad at Abbott Station in Zephyrhills

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McResources "Help" Line

Why I don't eat at McDonalds.

McDonald's just bought another $35-million-dollar luxury jet. Yet their employees make so little they rely on public assistance just to get by. This costs taxpayers $1.2 billion a year!

Eat local, support our local businesses.Check out tampabaylocavore.com

Once You Go Indie You Never Go Back

Olive Garden saw a 4 percent drop in sales over the summer. Red Lobster is down 5.2 percent. And that’s in spite of efforts to promote new lighter dishes, small plates and better deals. Now their parent company, Orlando based Darden, is replacing its president and cutting 80 to 85 staff positions to save $50 million. Some analysts say the middle class isn’t eating out as much. Post-recession, that is true. The restaurant industry overall is in a battle with the fast-casual options of Noodles & Co., Chipotle and Panera. People want deals and they want quality. And more and more, we want local. Once I was exposed to indie restaurants and learned the awesome that is buying and supporting local, I just wasn’t interested in big-chain dining......more

Also check out Living Off Tips and Tampa Bay Locavore for a full list of local places to eat.

 more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/09/23/4503163/red-lobster-and-olive-garden-cannot.html#storylink=cpy

What Stogie Had For Lunch

One of Brew Town's great burgers

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Underground Fashion Connection

Meet Erica and Cathy. They own this cool shop at the Big Top flea market in Tampa.

Stop by and support them. more