After three weeks, 64 competing restaurants and 60 polls, the Final Four in the Breakfast Bowl has been chosen.
Wait, make that the Final Five — we'll explain in a minute.
When time was up and the polls were closed on Monday, Three Coins Diner had taken the win for North Hillsborough/Ybor, sweeping Tre Amici by over 700 votes. Pinky's claimed the title for the South Hillsborough region, with over 450 more votes than Moxie's Cafe. After a weekend-long, back-and-forth contention, Banyan Coffee & Tea barely took the lead in the end over Cafe Alma for the South Pinellas/ Downtown St. Pete/Beaches region title. And Bowled won the North Pinellas/NE St. Pete region with just a few hundred more votes than Lenny's.
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2011.