This Friday, April 11 4-7 PM
Grand Opening
Cristino’s Coal Oven Pizza & Italian Restaurant
Corner of 8th & 17th in Ybor City
This Saturday, April 12th
This SUNDAY, April 13th
The MUST DO Event
Tickets on sale at MC Film
A Crazy Dream
So I have this crazy dream. Carrie & I were out taking photos of Ybor. We wanted to take a photo from the guard lookout on top of the Homeland Security building on 7th Ave in Ybor. We walk in and ask if we can go to the roof to take photos. They ask us for our drivers licenses then say OK. They point us to the elevator. Once inside we see a button on the top that says roof. Then below the ground level button there is a basement button. We look at each other surprised. Then push the basement button. The doors close then open. There in front of us are the tunnels of Ybor. There is a sign pointing one direction that says Orlando and in the other direction on that says MacDill Air Force Base. Just then a transport pulls up. That’s when I wake up. WOW was that crazy or not? Maybe, Just maybe that explains why they have a huge building on 7th Ave. Just Say n
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Italian Fest Ybor Style
Again, the Annual Festa Italia Weekend in Historic Ybor City brought out another record crowd. The weather was superb with sunny skies and 80 degrees with warm breezes. The hundred of Italian restaurants & food vendors scored big with the 15,000 locals and out of town visitors. It was like being an Italian for a day even if you weren’t Italian! A combination of authentic flavors, distinct wines, cultural sounds and ambient traditions of being in Italy.
A large tour group of Italians flew over from Italy on a charter just to attend the growing popular International Festival. Including in the attendees the winners of TV’s Italian Idol (like our American Idol TV show) and a top 5 contestant from the American Idol show.
Movies, Italian teaching classes, fierce Bocce Ball competition, music festival, wine making and tasting and the Sunday all day food festival. Dressed in native attire, elementary school choirs singing in Italian, and dance groups provided great entertainment for the watching masses.
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn welcomed the large crowds sitting in chairs under tents and trees in Centennial Park.
Seeing many of our Ybor friends restaurants including, Bernini, Carne’s, Cristino’s Coal Oven Pizza, Ybor City Wine Bar, Hamburger Mary’s, Tony’s Restaurant and Stone Soup all supporting the Italian Club event.
Pics tell the story.
