What to do when your best friend Jayme Kosar is having a Birthday. We know she loves seafood and she is the owner of the famed Ybor City Wine Bar. What do you do? The seafood part was easy… do a fantastic old fashion Louisiana seafood boil. Not leaving out the crawfishBut the wine part was the harder issue. Then a light bulb went off!!! Trader Joe’s has just opened in South Tampa. They are famous for a line of great inexpensive ($2.97 per bottle) wines. So we purchased 9 different ones and had a Trade Joe Wine Tasting Flight!

     The Sommelier of the evening was Drew Drotleff. He took us thru whites to reds describing and critique along the way. The wines were actually good! Then we took it one step farther and all the appetizers came from Trader Joe’s and used Trader Joe’s reusable bags for place mat’s. At the end of the night everybody took home a goodie bag in the place mats.  Happy Birthday Lady Jayme!!!  Treat yourself to a must visit at the new Tampa’s Trade Joe’s Grocery store today.

    The champagne was flowing and the community came out to celebrate the owner, Jayme Kossar  of Ybor City Wine Bar in Centro Ybor in Historic Ybor City. A truly great asset to any community and boy is Jayme involved with the Ybor community.

    The catered Food spread was spectacular with a wide variety of cheeses, meat appetizers and assorted olives. Jayme has worked hard and it shows off. She is a member of the Board of GaYBOR District Coalition, a serving Board member of the YCDC, a recognized national wine connoisseur instructor in the wine community with many articles written about the newly famous wine & Craft beer shop in Ybor.

    Congratulations to Miss Jayme and the Anniversary of Ybor City Wine Bar.