Tampa is teeming with great ways to spend your evenings, be it relaxing with some live music in a rustic bar, checking out the view with a fruity cocktail downtown or dancing the night away to some of the best DJs in Florida. Tampa has lots to explore and to give you a sneak peak, we have collated our favourite after-hours establishments. Check them out and let us know what you think!
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Franklin Manor
At Franklin Manor, combine two part infectious social atmosphere with one part craft booze for a thoroughly enjoyable evening. This establishment offers deliciously fresh, handcrafted cocktails that flirt with the experimental at times. Their ‘Tea for Two’ cocktail is an example of just this. Served in hand-decorated, vintage-inspired tea-cups, this berry, fruity, vodka-based cocktail infused with jasmine tea is a fun chance to try something unique. They also serve a selection of premium beers and all of this can be paired with the moreish bar bites from Carriage House Patio Kitchen. With an outside patio space, this spot is great for a group catch-up or to get sociable with the locals of Tampa.
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Edison: Food+Drink Lab
Hardly ostentatious about its awards, Edison: Food+Drink Lab is undoubtedly one of Tampa’s best spots for food, beer, wine and cocktails. This place has the whole package. Winner of TimeOut’s Tampa best restaurant award in 2018 and best spot in the Metro Area 2018 and 2019, winner of the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for the past 5 years and Restaurant Hospitality’s best cocktails in America two years on the trot, Edison is fast running out of space in its trophy cabinet. With heady libations and indulgent food to pair, this chic warehouse establishment is one to savour in Tampa.
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If you prefer your beverages some storeys up, Tampa has some great rooftop bars to enjoy the extraordinary bay scenery.
Rox Rooftop Bar
Rox takes its cocktails seriously. With a rum-based Old Fashioned, smoked sage elixirs and some served in a rose gold chalice, Rox exemplified the mixology artform at its best. It stands atop the Current Hotel in downtown Tampa, with views overlooking the bay, St. Petersburg and Clearwater. Perfect for a date-night drink with your significant other, the bar staff’s showmanship uses mixology as performance art to make for a riveting introduction to your cocktail. With top-quality alcohol, sourced from both widely-known and independent distillers, the cocktails are a delight worth visiting.
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EDGE Rooftop Bar
Located within the Epicurean Hotel, this classy cocktail lounge is an upmarket establishment perfect for a quiet drink at sunset or a business drink with out-of-town colleagues. The cocktails are all carefully concocted using fresh fruits, garden herbs and deep spices. The wine list, although short, is expertly selected to offer a faultless array of good wines, and the beer, sourced from local microbreweries, is refreshing and always rotating with new ales.
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Luna Lounge
Situated at Bulla Gastrobar in the heart of the trendy SoHo and Hyde Park neighbourhoods in Tampa is this rooftop gem. Enjoy a breezy cocktail in the height of the Florida summer and retreat from the heat of downtown to this little Latin enclave. Enjoy bespoke sangrias, frozen rosé, signature cocktails whilst nibbling on upmarket bar bites from the gastrobar.
Naturally, some evenings are so enjoyable and prolonging the inevitability of tomorrow is so appealing, that the only progression is to shake off that tasty food and fruity cocktails down at Tampa’s best nightclubs.
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Club Prana
This five storey venue situated in the heart of the Ybor City area of Tampa is unlike any other in Florida. Each floor is specific to a genre of music where you will encounter like-minded revellers in their celebration of life. With a strong resemblance to European-style nightclubs, the red-carpet treatment in VIP is a luxury that comes with attentive service and bottle service to your exclusive table. Featuring a rooftop bar to top it off, Club Prana is the after-hours destination in Tampa.
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Blur Nightclub
Located in downtown Dunedin, north of Clearwater, this bar is exuberant with showmanship, live music, drag shows and karaoke. Opened in 2007, it has become a designation spot for revellers from across Tampa and further afield. This cheerful spot spreads with infectious enthusiasm with its live shows, great sound-system and sociable atmosphere.
Tampa has a bountiful nightlife with so many ways to spend your evenings. Life is about exploring, so take the opportunity to explore Tampa with Propeterra. Contact Propeterra today to find out more about property investments and homes in the Tampa area.
