The last bundle of items in the annual CL Holiday Auction for The Children's Home premiered Wednesday, and the offers and packages are gnarly.
While everyone's bidding on the suds-tastic Cigar City Brewing deal (around 5 p.m. Saturday the item was going for more than $1,330), here's a lineup of the auction's other food- and drink-inflected one-of-a-kinds that would make great gifts this season.
Take your honey out for a stress-free night on the town in Tarpon Springs after the holidays. You'll enjoy dinner at the Sponge Docks District's Costas Restaurant, followed by a guitar performance by David Burgess at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center.
The Tampa Museum of Art package gets you brunch for two at Sono Café, the Mise en Place-produced eatery inside the museum that's got a killer view of the city, alongside way more TMA exclusives.
For gluttonous gastronauts, this South Tampa journey through grub and wine comes with $50 Wine Exchange and Mad Dogs and Englishmen gift cards, a $40 one to Square 1 Burgers & Bar and five more $10 cards for Fruitwood Standup Market.
Help CL Restaurant Critic Jon Palmer Claridge prepare a 10-course meal for you and three others. At Claridge's Dunedin condo overlooking the marina, you'll sip on wines from his private cellar as you chow, and more.
If you've never visited the Tampa site of Yuengling, America's oldest active brewery, now's the time. Grab 24 family members and friends to accompany you during a behind-the-scenes tour of the joint. There will be beer samples afterward.
A year of delivery fee-free Food Now orders. Need we say more?
Stop by Pinky's in Tampa for a $25 breakfast for two before joining Larry Schiller, of Schiller's Architectural and Design Salvage, on a tour through his favorite spots to forage for vintage. You'll have a $25 credit at the Sherry's YesterDaze vintage shop in Seminole Heights, too.
A $20 brunch at Ricky P's Orleans Bistro for you and your compatriot and a $50 gift card to Green Bench Brewing Co., as well as a bottle of Van Gogh PB&J Vodka, a $10 bar tab and 25 percent-off cards from Enigma, are included in this exclusive St. Petersburg EDGE District bundle.
This article appears in Dec 4-10, 2014.