Food guides for Florida

Anna Maria Island Restaurants: Pier, Beach and Sunset

Anna Maria Island restaurants range from a fishing pier to a toes-in-the-sand sunset spot. Meet four places and plan a day from breakfast to dinner.

Become a Local Champion in Miami

Earn a Local Champion in Miami title by rating five places, answering three Top 3 questions and making a list, from cafecito windows to Haitian tables.

Best Bakery in Hialeah: Rate Your Pick

Best bakery in Hialeah is a question for the people who eat there. How to judge pastelitos, bread and cafecito, and answer the Best in town bakery question.

Best Cuban Food in Orlando, With Puerto Rican Favorites

A guide to the best Cuban food in Orlando: the sandwich, the bakeries, mofongo and other Puerto Rican plates, and how to order away from the theme parks.

Best Cuban Sandwich in Tampa: What Goes In and Where

A guide to the best Cuban sandwich in Tampa: the Genoa salami that sets it apart from Miami, the bread from Ybor City bakeries and where to start.

Best Key Lime Pie in Key West: What Makes It Real

A guide to the best key lime pie in Key West: what the filling should look like, why color gives it away, the shops that come up and a pie on a stick.

Boat-Up Dining Fort Lauderdale: Eat on the Water

Boat-up dining Fort Lauderdale style: tie up or arrive by water taxi, then eat on the Intracoastal. How to plan, what to ask and how to rate a waterfront meal.

Brickell Lunch Spots and Downtown Miami Eats

Brickell lunch spots range from quick counters to long business lunches. How to plan a weekday lunch in downtown Miami, beat the rush and rate each dish.

Brunch in Tampa: Three Places and How to Choose

Brunch in Tampa runs from a Hyde Park bookshop cafe to a riverside patio and a seasonal dining room. Meet three places and rate the dishes you try.

Build Your Miami Neighborhood Food List

Build a Miami neighborhood food list: sections for Hialeah, Doral, Little Haiti, Sweetwater and Homestead, a note on every place and friends who can add theirs.

Central Avenue St. Petersburg Restaurants Guide

Central Avenue St. Petersburg restaurants run from modern Italian to farm-to-table and Cuban sandwiches. Walk the avenue block by block and rate each dish.

Cheap Eats Near Florida International University

Cheap eats near Florida International University: Latin counters, bakeries and plate lunches in Sweetwater. How students eat on a budget and rate each dish.

Coconut Grove Restaurants: Patios by the Bay

Coconut Grove restaurants cluster in a shaded village by Biscayne Bay. Outdoor dining, brunch, lunch and dinner by the water, and how to rate each dish.

Coral Gables Miami Restaurants: A Dining Guide

Coral Gables Miami restaurants explained: the pedestrian Giralda Plaza strip, Miracle Mile breakfast stops, Spanish and Peruvian kitchens and outdoor tables.

Cortez FL Fishing Village Seafood: Docks, Fish and Sunsets

Cortez FL fishing village seafood comes straight off the docks: a market with picnic tables, a sunset fish-taco spot and a deck with live music. Plan a visit.

Cruise Day Food in Miami Before You Board

Cruise day food in Miami is about timing: a meal near downtown or your hotel before you board. How to plan the hours before PortMiami and rate what you eat.

Deviled Crab in Tampa: Where to Eat Tampa’s Croquette

Deviled crab in Tampa is a fried croquette of blue crab and sofrito in Cuban bread crumbs. Meet three places that serve it and learn how to rate the crab.

Dog-Friendly Restaurants in Fort Lauderdale

Dog-friendly restaurants in Fort Lauderdale are mostly outdoor tables. How to ask before you go, what to bring for your dog and how the Dog-Friendly tag works.

Dog-Friendly Restaurants in St. Petersburg, FL: A Guide

Dog-friendly restaurants in St. Petersburg depend on a local permit. Learn what makes a patio good for a dog, what to ask and how to keep your own notes.

Dunedin FL Restaurants: Main Street, Pinellas Trail and Beer

Dunedin FL restaurants line Main Street beside the Pinellas Trail: Mexican, French-leaning seafood and a trailside bistro. Plan lunch or dinner and rate dishes.

Epiphany in Tarpon Springs Food: A January 6 Guide

Epiphany in Tarpon Springs food means a glendi festival after the cross dive on January 6. Learn the day's order and where to eat on Dodecanese Boulevard.

Everglades City Stone Crab and Gator Tail Guide

Everglades City stone crab season, gator tail and frog legs at the edge of the Ten Thousand Islands. What to order, when to go and how to rate a seafood lunch.

Family Friendly Restaurants in Orlando: How to Choose

How to choose family friendly restaurants in Orlando: inside and outside the parks, what to look for on a kids menu, when to eat and how to plan around queues.

Food Worth a Drive in Florida: Panhandle Oysters to Key West

Panhandle oysters, Cedar Key clams, Mayport shrimp, Tampa Cuban sandwiches and Key West pink shrimp: food worth a drive in Florida, by coast.

Food Allergies in Miami: Cuban Bread and Stone Crab

Food allergies in Miami follow the Cuban bread, the stone crab claw and the empanada. Learn what each is made from, what to ask a kitchen and how to keep notes.

Food Trucks in Tampa: Where to Find Them and Rate Them

Food trucks in Tampa gather at a monthly downtown lunch event and roam the rest of the week. Learn where to look, what to eat and how to rate a truck dish.

Gluten-Free Restaurants in Miami: How to Find Them

Gluten-free restaurants in Miami take care to find. How to ask the right questions, what Cuban and Latin menus offer and how the Gluten-Free tag works.

Gluten-Free Restaurants in Tampa: What to Ask and Where

Gluten-free restaurants in Tampa range from fully gluten-free kitchens to places with options. Learn what to ask, two names to start with and how to keep notes.

Grouper Sandwich in Tampa Bay: Where to Start

A grouper sandwich in Tampa Bay is a Gulf coast lunch with a long history. Meet three places to try one, learn to spot real grouper and rate it by the dish.

Gulfport FL Restaurants: Where to Eat on Beach Boulevard

Gulfport FL restaurants sit along Beach Boulevard and the waterfront: a pasta house, a village-courtyard diner and a beach patio. Plan a day, rate each dish.

Haitian Food in Miami: Griot and Soup Joumou

Haitian food in Miami runs from griot and pikliz to soup joumou on New Year's Day. A dish-by-dish guide to what to order, when to go and how to rate it.

Hialeah Cuban Food Guide: Bakeries and Counters

Hialeah Cuban food lives in bakeries, window counters and cafeterias. What to order for breakfast and lunch, what good pastelitos taste like and how to rate it.

Hollywood Beach Broadwalk Food: What to Eat

Hollywood Beach Broadwalk food in Hollywood, Florida: breakfast, lunch, ice cream and dinner along a beachfront walk. How to plan a day and rate what you eat.

Homestead Tropical Fruit Stands and Redland Farms

Homestead tropical fruit stands sell mamey, lychee, mango and more along the Redland farm roads. How to shop by season, taste first and rate what you try.

How to Find Good Food in Jacksonville, Florida

Find good food in Jacksonville by following the water: Mayport shrimp, fish camps and waterfront tags, then use dish ratings and lists to remember each meal.

How to Find Good Food in Orlando, Florida

Find good food in Orlando by looking past the tourist corridor to its neighborhoods, choosing a dish to follow and rating by the dish. A practical plan.

How to Rate a Cuban Sandwich in Tampa, Dish by Dish

Learn how to rate a Cuban sandwich in Tampa: judge the bread, pork, ham, salami and press, then rate it by the dish in the Mosey app and add it to a list.

International Drive Orlando: A Food Guide

International Drive Orlando is a long tourist strip. How it grew, how to plan meals along it, the traffic and trolley, and how to rate what you eat there.

Jacksonville Fish Camps: What They Are and What to Order

Jacksonville fish camps are casual, often dockside seafood restaurants that grew from fishing camps. What they are, what menu words mean and how to rate a meal.

Jewish Deli Food in Miami Beach: What to Order

Jewish deli food in Miami Beach means pastrami, matzo ball soup, bagels and lox. What to order, how to judge a deli counter and how to rate each dish.

Las Olas Boulevard Restaurants: A Dining Guide

Las Olas Boulevard restaurants run from downtown Fort Lauderdale to the beach. Plan lunch, outdoor seating and dinner along the boulevard and rate dishes.

Late Night Food in Miami After Midnight

Late night food in Miami runs from Cuban windows to all-night diners. How to find a meal after midnight, what to order and how to rate it for the next person.

Little Haiti Miami Restaurants: A Neighborhood Guide

Little Haiti Miami restaurants serve Haitian and Caribbean food at counters and sit-down rooms. What to order, how to pick lunch and how to rate each dish.

Mayport Shrimp: Jacksonville’s Local Catch Guide

Mayport shrimp is wild-caught at the mouth of the St. Johns River and has shaped a Jacksonville village for over 150 years. How to order it and what to rate.

Brunch in Miami and how to eat outdoors in the heat

From a Cuban breakfast of tostada and cafe con leche to a long weekend brunch, how to do brunch in Miami and how to eat outside comfortably in the city's heat and rain.

The Miami Cuban sandwich: what goes in it and where it came from

What goes in a real Miami Cuban sandwich, why Tampa adds salami and Miami does not, how the medianoche differs, and how to tell a good one from a tired one.

Latin American food in Miami: Venezuelan, Colombian, Peruvian, Haitian

Miami eats far beyond Cuban food. Where to find Venezuelan arepas, Colombian bakeries, Peruvian ceviche, Nicaraguan fritanga and Haitian griot, and what to order.

Little Havana food guide: Cuban food and how to order a cafecito

Little Havana, along Calle Ocho, is Miami's Cuban heart. What to eat, how the walk-up coffee windows work, and the difference between a cafecito, a cortadito and a colada.

Where to eat in South Beach without falling into a tourist trap

How to eat well in South Beach: what to watch for on Ocean Drive, how service charges and the resort tax show up on the check, and where locals actually go.

Stone crab season in Miami: when it is, and how to eat them

Florida stone crab season runs from October 15 to May 1. Why only the claws are eaten, what the sizes mean, how they are served with mustard sauce, and how to crack them.

Where to eat in Wynwood and the Miami Design District

Wynwood is murals, breweries and casual food at every budget; the Design District next door is luxury shops and destination restaurants. How to eat well in both.

Mills 50 Orlando Restaurants: A Neighborhood Guide

Mills 50 Orlando restaurants explained: the Little Vietnam roots, a ramen shop with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, the Mills Market food hall and how to plan a visit.

Nicaraguan Food in Miami: Sweetwater and Fritanga

Nicaraguan food in Miami centers on Sweetwater: fritanga plates, vigorón, gallo pinto and tres leches. See what to order and how to rate each dish you try.

Orlando Citrus: The Orange Heritage Food Guide

Orlando citrus history in plain terms: the Golden Era groves, the great freeze, orange juice as the state drink and how to read a citrus menu today.

Plant City Strawberry Festival Food: A Plan for Shortcake

Plant City strawberry festival food starts with shortcake and runs to deep-fried novelties. Plan the grounds, a farm market stop and how to rate each dish.

Turn Rated Places Into a List in Tampa Bay

Turn rated places into a list in Tampa Bay: rate three places that share a tag and the app offers a list, or build a seafood list by hand and share it.

Shellfish Allergy in Jacksonville: A Seafood-City Guide

A shellfish allergy in Jacksonville means careful questions in a seafood city. What to ask about fryers, broth and sauces, with no promises about any menu.

South Tampa Restaurants: Hyde Park and Beyond

South Tampa restaurants range from a historic steak house to a British pub and a seafood fish camp. Plan Hyde Park, SoHo and dinner, then rate each dish.

St. Petersburg Craft Breweries With Food: Brewpubs to Try

St. Petersburg craft breweries with a real kitchen are few. Meet three brewpubs known for their food and learn how to rate the dish instead of the pint.

St. Petersburg Saturday Morning Market Guide

The St. Petersburg Saturday Morning Market fills a downtown lot each fall to spring with farmers and food stalls. Plan breakfast and rate a dish.

Tampa Heights Restaurants: A Riverfront Food Guide

Tampa Heights restaurants line the Hillsborough River: a Riverwalk food hall, native Floridian cooking and an Italian dining room. Plan a day and rate dishes.

Tarpon Springs Greek Food: A Sponge Docks Eating Guide

Tarpon Springs Greek food centers on Dodecanese Boulevard and the sponge docks: a family restaurant and bakery, a lamb-shank classic and a dockside gyro window.

Vegetarian Eating in Orlando: Ask About Lard and Sofrito

Vegetarian eating in Orlando means knowing where pork hides in Latin and Caribbean cooking. What to ask about beans, sofrito and plantains, and how to note it.

Venezuelan Food in Doral: Arepas and Tequeños

Venezuelan food in Doral centers on arepas, cachapas and tequeños. See what to order, how to tell a good bakery counter and how to rate each dish you try.

Ybor City Restaurants: Cuban Bread, Bakeries and History

A guide to Ybor City restaurants in Tampa: a century-old Cuban dining room, the bakery that bakes the bread, cigar-era streets and how to plan a visit.