Food Tour: Young & Hungry Pt Two: It's New & Maybe For You/"Airie In the City" The Landon

 We are coming down to the last few stops on my second food tour this year!

Isu St.Pete 🌼

Yugen SRQ🌼

Kurō Lakewood Ranch 🌼

Bosc on Platt St.🌼

Ceiba Orlando 🌼

Quiote Tequilaria 🌼

Mei St.Pete 🌼

The Landon 🌼

The Landon has been open for about four weeks and it is highly busy and booked. I could not get a reservation here during the times from 6 to 8pm at all no matter what day it was; rain or shine. I actually just decided to chance it and come in and try first come first serve seating at the bar and to my chagrin, they have a very large bar.

The overall vibes of the restaurant are noice. It isnt pretentious, but it isnt business. Now, I say this because the menu is definitely giving business and I guess if you live in the business district of Tampa you will be familiar with the restaurants and the people who largely have business meetings at restaurants as well as business dinners and networking events. The menu was giving that which made me pause, but I wanted to say, this isn't it.

OK, so first and foremost, I was born and raised here and I never left as in lived in another place other than Hillsborough County. Some might think that is close minded, but I actually love where I live and I never wanted to move. 

What I can say is that I am so in tune with this city, with Florida. Now, this restaurant is located in Soho and that makes all the difference when I make a comparison to the business district of South Tampa. Vibes are different. The restaurant renovation is beautiful, it's nice, it makes you feel like you are in Italy, there is a lot of space so there is not a lot of tables crowded in the restaurant. 

The menu does remind me of Ocean prime, Eddie V's, Flammings or even Ponte...but they are all different in subtle ways and those ways matter as well. So, with that being said we gave it a try as stop number in the food tour: Food Tour: Young & Hungry Pt Two: It's New & Maybe For You.