Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa

You came, you saw, and drank so much you had to leave in an Uber. Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s Margarita Wars went down last Friday, taking your sobriety along with it.

Tampa restaurant Jotoro stumbled away as winner of the fan-vote, with its “Cloud 9” margarita featuring El Tesoro Reposado, fresh lime juice, fresh orange, and cream soda poured over cotton candy with a dragon fruit dust rim.

Coming in second and third were Booze & Bubbles’ “Spicy Cucumber Margarita” and Hotel Tampa Riverwalk’s “Smokin-Rita.”
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Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
Photos: Margarita Wars 2023 at the TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa
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