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Columbia Restaurant is a restaurant in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. It is the oldest continuously operated restaurant in Florida, [2] as well as the oldest Spanish restaurant in the United States. [3] The 15 dining rooms cover 52,000 ft seating 1,700 customers. It is the largest Spanish restaurant in the world and occupies an entire city block.
La Segunda Central Bakery is a purveyor of Cuban bread, pastries, and other baked goods in the historic neighborhood of Ybor City in Tampa, Florida. It was founded in 1915 as part of a co-op of three bakeries in the Ybor City area: La Primera , La Segunda and La Tercera (literally the First, the Second, and the Third).
Ybor City (/ ˈ iː b ɔːr / EE-bor) [2] is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.
Explore Ybor City to try authentic Cuban food at the historic Columbia Restaurant and visit America’s oldest family-owned cigar maker at J.C. Newman Cigar Co. Where to stay: Hotel Haya, Tampa ...
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The Museum is housed on the site of what is likely the earliest U.S. bakery to produce Cuban bread, La Joven Francesca bakery. [2] Established in 1896 by the Sicilian-born Francisco Ferlita, of Cuban-Spanish-Italian descent, bread sold for 3 to 5 cents a loaf, mainly to the Ybor City market. [3] Historic display at the museum
The restaurant on the second floor of the downtown hotel debuted its new Latin-Caribbean focus in September after a renovation that updated everything from the menu to the furniture to the ...
A grocery market is located on the other side of the side street off West Columbus Drive from the restaurant and the bakery. Founders Maximino and Coralia Capdevila emigrated from Cuba in 1962 after Fidel Castro came to power. [4] [6] They established the business as a grocery store and sold sandwiches. The family business gradually grew over ...