Shuffle is more than a bar and sports venue.
“It’s everything all the time, all at once,” Jennifer Evanchyk told WMNF public affairs program “The Skinny,” last Friday.
She lauded the neighborhood bar’s full kitchen, live music stages and function as a gathering place for groups political and otherwise. Once an award-winning “vagina-forward” watering hole, Shuffle, at 2612 N Tampa St., is also home to a Tampa Period Pantry and a very-coded Equality Florida mural on the front facade.
Ownership used to post a special promising to add 20% to the bill of anyone who wears a MAGA hat on President’s Day—although no one’s taken them up on the offer, according to Danielle O’Connor who opened the bar with Evanchyk eight years ago.
“It’s all of these really unique combinations of things, but we play shuffleboard all of the time,” Evanchyk added.
The run, especially as doom and gloom surrounds so much of the narrative around small business ownership, was made possible because Shuffle was founded to be more than a bar.
“We just like to be part of the community more than just a business,” O’Connor said, adding how the outdoor area has been a welcoming space for families looking for a place for their kids to just be free. “Because of all that, I think people stay and they come back.”
This weekend, Shuffle celebrates another turn around the sun with three days of events, kicking off Friday with pre-St. Patrick’s Day concert with Paddy O’ Furniture playing traditional Irish music. A Saturday concert includes sets from five homegrown artists, and Sunday festivities go all day with Wally Rios’ Wu-Tang and Biscuits brunch happening ahead of the evening Women in Music Concert.
All events are no-cover, but Shuffleboard is just $8 a game all weekend.
There’s no cover for Shuffle Turns 8 happening Friday-Sunday, March 13-15 in Tampa.
Shuffle Turns 8!
Time March 13-15, 7-9 p.m.
Location Shuffle, 2612 N Tampa St., Tampa
This article appears in Mar. 05 – 11, 2026.