"My Must Try Restaurants TPA" Food Tour 2024 Calida Kitchen and Wine Stop # 3 | Midi Dress (Re-styling)

"My Must Try Restaurants TPA" Food Tour 2024

1.Rakki Noosles & Rice Seminole Heigjts

2. The Lure DTSP

3.Calida Kitchen and Wine

St.Petersburg is home to many family run small businesses and restaurants. Featuring local non-chain restaurants is my favorite thing to do. 

You can find that these businesses have a very different approach to service and the overall dining experience. Tonight, the focus is on Calida. Now, when I visited Calida they had been open for about six months. Calida is a very small and intimate restaurant located off of MLK in St.Petersburg. There, you are going to find Chef Ian who is opporating in a very small kitchen space and turning out amazing meals from their small, but great menu.

The menu does change as items become seasonally available, but in general the set up is the same. Below is the crudo we had.

BEANS & GREENS... WHITE BEAN, MARKET GREENS, GARLIC, HERBS, OLIVE OIL (V,GF)

MARKET FISH (ARTIC CHAR)... CARROT SOUBISE, GRILLED PALM HEARTS, MARKET VEGETABLE, CHILI OIL MP

(GF)

CHOPPED SALAD...ROMAINE, RADICCHIO, CUCUMBER, TOMATO, KALAMATA, FETA, RED WINE

CHOW NOODLES... LONG NOODLE, MARKET VEGETABLE, FRESH GINGER & GARLIC, TAMARI,

SESAME oIL, CHILI FLAKE 

NOT GLUTEN-FREE 

BEANS & GREENS... WHITE BEAN, MARKET GREENS, GARLIC, HERBS, OLIVE OIL (V,GF)