Here's a fun Florida drinking game: find a bar with outdoor seating, order a pint and drink it before it gets warm. If you've mastered this, then you're ready for our latest best bets, the beer garden bar crawl. On your marks... get set.... craaawwwwllll!!!
New World Brewery
This Ybor City brew pub boasts an extensive beer menu, delicious pizzas and a laid back atmosphere.
The Crowbar is one of the few venues around Tampa that consistently brings in original rock bands. On busy nights, or if you want to give the ringing in your ears a rest, there is some outdoor seating in the large patio area that leads out to 8th Ave.
Skipper's Smokehouse
Tampa's award-winnining blues bar is beloved for its Florida ambiance. Southern cuisine and live music in a tropical setting.
Nestled in the outskirts of the Tampa Bay area near Clearwater is the Dunedin Brewery, where the atmosphere is friendly and the hometown beer is refreshing.
An English pub located near downtown St. Pete. Popular with younger, livelier crowds.
The biggest Irish Pub in trendy South Tampa. Live music, outdoor tiki bar, and dog friendly.
The Dubliner adds to the triple threat of Irish Pubs in the Hyde Park area along with MacDinton's and Four Green Fields, located on neighboring streets.
Dine on Mediterranean cuisine while sitting out in the garden area and listening to Buster Cooper.
Four Green Fields is the kind of bar you expect to see nestled away in the hills of Ireland.
Perfectly located for a beer before or after a game at the Trop. Ferg's takes advantage of the Florida weather with a large open air patio that's covered to keep the sun from being too brutal.
Gourmet entrees, live music every night and a superb wine list, not to mention daily happy hours and signature mojitos.
Hopping beach restaurant/bar
Rick's on the River
Boaters and land lovers flock to Rick's for a taste of Old Florida on the water just minutes from downtown Tampa. Rick's is one of the few Tampa restaurants with it's own marina and dock. As for food, they have a menu than includes bar staples: wings, burger, and all the fried appetizers you'll ever need. Oysters on the half shell from the oyster bar are a great treat to go with a view of the water.
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
British, Asian, and Indian inspired dishes with a gastro pub sensibility
Sample homemade brews in this Ybor restaurant and bar.
Making the most of it's location along Ybor City's celebrated 7th Avenue, Gaspar's Grotto is awash in a pirate theme. Named after Jose Gaspar, patrons there try to live up to the swashbuckling lifestyle especially on the city's wildest nights: Guavaween and the Gasparilla Night Parade.
