2025 Centurion Award winner
Columbia Restaurant
Best Spanish Restaurant in Tampa · Tampa, FL
Best Spanish Restaurant in Tampa · Tampa, FL
The Columbia is Florida's oldest restaurant, opened by the Hernandez-Gonzmart family in Tampa's Ybor City in 1905 and now the largest Spanish restaurant in the world, filling an entire city block of tiled dining rooms. The 1905 salad, Spanish bean soup, and nightly flamenco shows are as much a tradition as the paella.
Five generations on, the Columbia remains the crown jewel of Ybor City — a hand-painted-tile monument to Tampa's Spanish and Cuban heritage.
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Open since 1905, the Columbia is Florida's oldest restaurant, a Ybor City landmark run by the Gonzmart family for five generations.
Yes — Columbia Restaurant is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Spanish Restaurant in Tampa, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best Spanish restaurant in Tampa for 2025 for 120 years of Cuban-Spanish cuisine and flamenco in Florida's oldest continuously operating restaurant.
Columbia Restaurant is in Tampa, FL.
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