Monday, November 25, 2024

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













Dress: Zara, not recent

Fox Earrings, Ring & Bangle: Kate Spade, not recent

Necklace & bangle: Kendra Scott Rayne in Red Magnisite 

Heels: Jimmy Choo Romy

Lipstick: MAC Ruby Woo




"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 Tuna crudo we had.





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





"Every dish comes with a story. The Chow Noodles, one of their most popular items, tell their love story. For the squash and chorizo starter, it’s a tale about Tasmania, where they first came across the combination of zucchini and chorizo.

“Pretty much our whole menu is based on our travels,” Bennett said. “We remember something that we tried somewhere, an ingredient or dish we’ve had in another country, and then Ian takes that and finds local products and makes his own creation.”

Tampa Bay Times


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





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