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Restaurants & Food in the Tampa area

Tampa eats across a wide spread of kitchens, from Ybor City's Cuban and Spanish traditions to Caribbean, Vietnamese and Southern cooking in Seminole Heights and out toward Brandon. The listings run from sit-down dining rooms to counters, trucks and caterers who mostly work private events. If you are ordering for a group, check the caterers and takeout-first kitchens before you try to book a table.

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7th + Grove
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Restaurants & Food

7th + Grove

Tampa, FL

In the heart of historic Ybor City, 7th + Grove has become one of Tampa's most talked-about tables, and one of its warmest. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Vondalyn Crawford, Dr. Jamaris Glenn, and Khalilaa McDuffie, the restaurant grew from a simple observation: Tampa had all the soul of the South, but few places serving truly authentic Southern cooking. Their answer is a menu of elevated comfort food threaded with Guyanese influence, plates that feel like a family gathering and look like art. The kitchen leans into the classics and then pushes them somewhere new. Braised oxtails, the dish guests come back for again and again, arrive fall-apart tender. Collard green egg rolls, fried catfish and Gulf shrimp, smoked gouda grits, and pimento cheese fritters round out a menu that treats Southern staples with real care. It is food meant to be shared, lingered over, and remembered. The space matches the plates. Bold murals, teal velvet seating, and an open kitchen give the dining room an energy that carries from a weekday lunch into a late-night weekend crowd, where a thoughtful cocktail program takes over. The name says it best: Eat. Vibe. Flourish. 7th + Grove is Black-owned, women-owned, and LGBTQ+ owned, and it wears that identity as an invitation. Community sits at the center of everything here, from the way the room fills with regulars to the owners' belief that food is a universal storyteller with a way of bringing people together. Whether you are stopping in for shrimp and grits at midday or gathering friends for oxtails and cocktails after dark, you are welcomed like you belong, because here, you do. Next door, the same team runs Roast on 7th, a coffee shop and bakery, making the block a small hub of Southern hospitality in Ybor City.

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Bars & Nightlife in the Tampa area

Bars, lounges, dance floors and neighborhood spots in Tampa, with the densest run in Ybor City along Seventh Avenue. The mix goes from nightclubs to quieter wine bars and kava lounges that stay open late without serving alcohol. Hours move with the season and with events, so check the night you plan to go.

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Retail & Shops in the Tampa area

Independent retail in Tampa clusters where the walkable streets are: Seventh Avenue in Ybor City, the Heights north of downtown, Hyde Park Village and the Seminole Heights stretch of Florida Avenue. Expect bookstores, apparel, gifts, home goods and specialty stock the malls do not carry. Hours tend to be short midweek and long on weekends, so check before you drive over.

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Beauty & Personal Care in the Tampa area

Salons, barbers, braiders, estheticians and spas across Tampa, including studios that specialize in textured hair and in gender-affirming cuts. Many are single-chair or suite-based, which means you book a person rather than a shop. Several are appointment-only and book weeks out, so ask about walk-ins before you count on one.

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Home Services in the Tampa area

Contractors, cleaners, landscapers, pest control and repair trades serving Hillsborough County homes. Florida work has its own calendar, from storm season prep to humidity, roofs and air conditioning, so ask when a company last did a job like yours. Confirm license and insurance before anything starts.

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Professional Services in the Tampa area

Accountants, consultants, bookkeepers, HR and marketing firms working with Tampa businesses. Much of this is done remotely, so an address matters less than whether a firm takes clients at your stage. If you want ongoing support rather than a single project, ask how they price a retainer up front.

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Health & Wellness in the Tampa area

Clinics, therapists, dentists, fitness studios and wellness practitioners around Tampa, including practices that say plainly they offer affirming care. Insurance participation varies between practices and sometimes between providers inside one, so check coverage before booking. For therapy, many now see clients anywhere in Florida by video as well as in person.

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Marketing & Creative in the Tampa area

Photographers, designers, video crews, marketing studios and printers working out of Tampa. Most take projects across the bay as well, and several travel for weddings and events. Portfolios differ more than prices do here, so look at recent work in the format you actually need.

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Jillian Abby

Marketing & Creative

Jillian Abby

Tampa, FL

Brave stories told here. Jillian Abby is a collaborative ghostwriter, book coach and Hay House author in Tampa who helps writers get the non-fiction book they have been carrying around out of their heads and onto the page. She takes on a small number of clients each year so that every project gets her full attention, and every engagement starts with a conversation rather than a contract. Collaborative ghostwriting is your story, in your voice, written in months rather than years. It opens with clarity on the real heart of the idea and the purpose of the book, then interviews to capture the story and learn how you sound, a detailed outline so you know exactly where it will go, collaborative edits, a professional line edit, and a completed full-length manuscript ready for self-publishing or for submission to agents. Every ghostwriting engagement includes a confidentiality agreement. Your name goes on the book, and the work stays between the two of you. It suits business leaders, wellness professionals, public speakers and memoirists who have a vision and a reader in mind but not the time to write it themselves, and one project is accepted each quarter. Book coaching is for the writer who has a draft and knows something is not working. Structure, voice, pacing, clarity: Jillian finds what is broken and helps you fix it from the inside out, in 60-minute sessions that meet you where you are in the process, as often as you need them, with no constricting or generic frameworks in the way. Free virtual writing sessions run twice a week on her Substack. Book proposals and query letters get the same attention, from a former CPA who understands that a proposal is a business plan for a book. That means a strategic approach to the proposal itself, identifying the book's unique selling proposition, making the case for why you are the right author and why now is the right time, and support with the comparative analysis research, with as little or as much help as it takes to get the job done. It is written for writers seeking a literary agent or a traditional publishing deal, including Hay House Writer's Community, Authorpreneur and VIP Bootcamp members submitting to the contest, from a previous winner of it. What do you get when you combine a CPA, a craniosacral therapy practitioner and a Hay House author? One very effective collaborative ghostwriter and book coach. Accounting taught Jillian to ask the questions that matter and to find the patterns underneath them. Craniosacral therapy taught her how to hold space for vulnerable storytelling. Ghostwriting across memoir, wellness and business taught her how to connect to a voice and deliver a message to the reader it was meant for. Her career has never stayed inside a box and neither has her story, which is exactly why yours does not have to either. She wrote her own memoir because she believes that sharing real, honest stories is the best way to bring about positive change. Perfectly Queer, published by Hay House after it was chosen as a winner of the publisher's global contest, is the book that started it all, and the personal transformation and sense of fulfillment it brought her is what she wants for every author she works with. You might be her person if you have a story you have been afraid to tell, you care about the energy and emotion in your storytelling, and you are ready to go deeper rather than only faster. What you can count on is deeper meaning rather than finished pages, someone who stays with you through the hard parts instead of handing you an outline and wishing you luck, and a shame-free space where the messy, complicated, true version of your story is exactly what you are both after. It begins with a free 30-minute discovery call over Zoom to hear the story and decide together whether it is a fit, with no obligation either way. A custom scope and timeline follow, agreed before any work begins. Most full manuscript projects run six to twelve months depending on length and complexity, and book doctoring usually runs two to three months. First-time authors are welcome, because what matters more than experience is commitment to the story and the courage to tell it honestly. Jillian Abby is a woman-owned and LGBTQ-owned business, certified as an LGBT Business Enterprise through the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Tampa Bay LGBT Chamber.

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Education & Training in the Tampa area

Tutors, coaches, trade instruction and enrichment programs around Tampa and east into Hillsborough County. Some work one to one, others run cohorts, camps and classes on a schedule. Ask about age ranges, and about sliding-scale or scholarship spots, which several offer without advertising them.

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Every Dollar Countz / We Gonna Learn Today
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Education & Training

Every Dollar Countz / We Gonna Learn Today

Tampa, FL

We Gonna Learn Today is a Tampa-based, Black-owned 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a simple mission: empowering minds one student, one family, one neighborhood at a time. We do it by teaching the subjects that build strong, self-reliant communities: Black History, Civics, Financial Literacy, and Coding. Founded by retired U.S. Marine and disabled veteran Matthew D. Hale, our platform grew out of a belief that every child deserves access to knowledge that too often gets left out of the classroom. What started in 2020 has grown into a full learning ecosystem built around our Black Historical Figures workbook series and a free, interactive website anyone can use. Our programs meet learners where they are. The Digital Library and Interactive Library put lessons, activities, and stories right at your fingertips, while our Paperback Library brings the same material home in print. Younger learners sing and remember with our Sing Along Songs, and our WGLT-TV video content turns history and money lessons into something families can watch and talk about together. Our mobile app is available on the Google Play Store, with an Apple release on the way, so learning can travel wherever you go. Financial literacy sits at the heart of what we do. We believe understanding money is a form of freedom, and we teach it in plain language alongside the history and civics that help young people understand their place in the world. Coding rounds it out, opening doors to the skills that shape the future. Everything we build is designed to be welcoming, affordable, and rooted in pride. We serve students, parents, and whole neighborhoods, and we keep our core online resources free so cost is never the reason a child goes without. As a veteran-founded, Black-owned organization, we carry the values of service and community in everything we create. We are an online-first platform serving the greater Tampa Bay area and beyond. Whether you are a parent looking to start the money conversation early, a teacher searching for culturally grounded material, or a young learner curious about the figures who shaped history, there is a place for you here. Reach us anytime at info@wegonnalearntoday.com, and come learn with us. We gonna learn today.

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Nonprofits & Community Organizations in the Tampa area

Nonprofits around Tampa for getting help, getting involved and giving back: community centers, youth programs, health services, Pride, the arts, disability services and career support.

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