Helen Freund is the food and dining critic, reporting on and reviewing restaurants throughout Tampa Bay. Reach her at [email protected]. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must ...

This year, not unlike other years, included a whirlwind tour of Tampa Bay restaurants. Our annual Top Restaurants guide was ...

The restaurant that sits across the street from the Ritz-Carlton Naples is the nightly spot for Jeeno Thitikul.

The Times asked Thai restaurant owners, Buddhist monks, social workers and other community members to share how they seek ...

On Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times released its 2025 list of food critic Helen Freund’s top 50 local restaurants. The top 10 included Rooster & the Till, Rocca, Koya, Bar Terroir and Royal Thai in Tampa; ...

For this year’s Top Restaurants list, I went big. Big, as in 50 restaurants compared to last year’s 30. This would be easier to do, I told myself. Thirty is such a small number when considering Tampa ...

Tampa, Florida, has a secret dining scene that most tourists never discover. While visitors flock to the big-name spots on Bayshore Boulevard, locals quietly slip into tiny strip-mall kitchens, family ...

Thai is a pillar cuisine of Los Angeles. The largest Thai population outside of Thailand calls Los Angeles home. The community designation in East Hollywood is the only officially recognized Thai Town ...

Tampa’s food scene is a flavorful mix of tradition and creativity. It’s the kind of place where Cuban sandwich loyalty runs deep, mom-and-pop spots hold decades of stories, and some of the tastiest ...

Nadia Chaudhury is a born-and-raised New Yorker who is an editor for Eater’s Northeast region and Eater New York, was the former Eater Austin editor for 10 years, and often writes about food and pop ...