Tampa, Florida offers locals and visitors alike a rich and diverse culinary and coffee cultural scene.
In our quest to discovery just why the foodie scene is raging in Tampa, associate producer Jennifer Simonson and producer Tom Wilmer visit with chef Ferrell Alvarez at the Rooster & the Till restaurant in the up-and-coming Seminole Heights neighborhood. Roberto Torrez the visionary behind the virally successful Blind Tiger Coffee speakeasy cafe in downtown Ybor City shares the numerous reasons why Tampa’s population is exploding and why people savor living here.Alvarez was a James Beard Foundation semi-finalist--Best Chef South, and the Tampa Bay Times ranked the Rooster & the Till Tampa Bay’s #1 restaurant (2018 & 2019).
Underwriting support for Journeys of Discovery provided by Nashville's Big Back Yard economic initiative focused on rural communities in the southwest quarter of Tennessee and the Shoals Region of Northern Alabama.
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