The scene: The Columbia is the oldest restaurant in Florida and the oldest Spanish eatery in the United States. It's also one of the largest, seating about 1,600 patrons in a dozen different ...

Over half a million bowls of it are whipped up tableside every year at Columbia Restaurants in Sand Key, Sarasota, St. Augustine and Celebration. Tourists munch on the dish at Tampa International ...

The venerable Columbia Restaurant has locations in Sarasota, St. Augustine, Celebration and Clearwater Beach, and two smaller cafes in Tampa, and I’ve eaten at all but two of them.

TAMPA — The owner of Florida's oldest restaurant has been picked to undertake a $2 million privately financed renovation of Tampa's historic Water Works Building.

TAMPA, Fla. — The Columbia Restaurant in historic Ybor City is Florida’s oldest restaurant and the largest Spanish restaurant in the world. What started as a small 60-seat corner cafe in 1905 ...

Ringling Brothers may have been put to bed, but there's another serious big top soon to be erected in Tampa. Tampa's Columbia Restaurant is said to be the oldest restaurant in the state, as well ...

TAMPA, Fla., (WFLA) — The iconic Columbia restaurant in Ybor City is getting a makeover. The famous tiles creating the mosaic on the restaurant’s exterior are being replaced.

YBOR CITY — For more than a century, the Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City has been a landmark of Spanish-Cuban heritage, blending history, cuisine and artistry. One of the restaurant’s most ...

No. 67: Columbia Restaurant, 1903-05, Tampa 2025 E. Seventh Ave., Ybor City. Ivo DeMinicis, and perhaps others, architect ...