The Refinery Restaurant Review:
Crowds congregate at The Refinery for a friendly round of local beers or wines and a weekly changing menu crafted largely with locally sourced ingredients. Table settings are designed to be very casual and homey, think Mason jars and mismatched plates, and a Brooklyn hipster ambience prevails. Typical first courses might be grilled quail with mustard greens, lentils, smoked paprika oil and...
"Each visit provides a delicious, new dish to discover" thanks to the weekly changing American menu at this homey, "relaxed gem" in Tampa where a real "artist" of a chef is "continually inventive" with local, seasonal ingredients; add in an "informed", "über-courteous" staff, "awesome" craft beer and "top-notch" wine and most agree that "for the price, you can't beat it"; P.S. the "rooftop deck...
Hands down the most popular restaurant to hit the Tampa area since, well, we're not sure, The Refinery's culinary MO is "sustainably and ethically right." Ingredients come from farmers, not cans. And those ingredients are assembled into menus that change every Thursday night, but on any given night you may be offered a starter of pork belly with tamarind, roasted radish, pumpkin mole, pepitas,...