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Best Dance Club: The Castle

The Senator

The Senator

Previous Winners

2011

Czar

Readers' Poll 2011

Best Local Alt-Rock Act: Basic Rock Outfit

Annual Event: Gasparilla

Best Bakery: Alessi Bakery

Best Barbecue Restaurant: Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q

Best Bargain Restaurant: La Teresita

Best Beach: Fort DeSoto

Best Beer Bar: The Independent

Best Bizarro Local News Story: Teacher/student sex scandals

Best Breakfast: First Watch

Best of the Bay Slideshows

Everyone who stepped into Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay 2022 photo booth

Everyone who stepped into Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay 2022 photo booth

Photos from Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's 2022 Best of the Bay party

Photos from Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's 2022 Best of the Bay party

Best Non-Alcoholic Cocktails
Winner: Willa's Tampa
Runners-up: Ciro’s Speakeasy, The Saint
Photo via Willa’s Tampa/Instagram

Tampa Bay's best restaurants, food and drink of 2022, according to our readers

Wicked Oak Barbeque
wickedoakbbq.com

All of the Tampa Bay restaurants and brands sampling at the Best of the Bay Party (9/29)