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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.
The original bakery is located just north of the officially designated Ybor City Historic District. In 2018, La Segunda opened a cafe-style location on Kennedy Boulevard in South Tampa which offers prepared food such as Cuban sandwiches and café con leche in addition to baked goods and includes a seating area for diners. [4]
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.
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The first such group to be founded in Ybor City was El Centro Español de Tampa, in 1891. Its membership primarily consisted of Galician and Asturian cigarmakers. After El Centro Español, other clubs founded included the Italian L'Unione Italiana (1894), [ 7 ] the Centro Asturiano , [ 8 ] and the Cuban El Club Nacional Cubano (1899).
El Circulo Cubano can trace its history back to an earlier organization called El Club Nacional Cubano which was founded October 10, 1899. [3] The organization changed its name to El Círculo Cubano in 1902 with the goal of a being a fraternal organization of Cubans in Tampa and to assist each other and help with medical care like other mutual aid societies in the city. [3]
As with Cuban bread, the origin of the Cuban sandwich (sometimes called a "Cuban mix," a "mixto," a "Cuban pressed sandwich," or a "Cubano" [12]) is murky. [13] [14] In the late 1800s and early 1900s, travel between Cuba and Florida was easy, especially from Key West and Tampa, and Cubans frequently sailed back and forth for employment, pleasure, and family visits.
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