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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Awards run one calendar year and renew only if the business clears the bar again. Selection is by published criteria, never for sale.
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