Food and Drink

This Bay Area coffee and bread shop is introducing customers to tasty new farm-to-table breakfast and lunch delights.

3 Daughters Brewing began crafting its Oktoberfest beer in March and will sell it across the state this fall.

Craft beer is a growing industry in the Tampa Bay area, and particularly Pinellas County. The local non-profit Beer Kulture wants to expand that market by adding diversity and opportunities.

After Julie Fowler lost her mother to cancer she left her job as a hospice nurse and opened her own business selling snowball treats.

Barriehaus Beer Co. is one of the few breweries in the state that focuses almost exclusively on classic European lagers.

Located in Tampa Heights, Flower Crown Kombucha is where experimentation takes place and delicious kombucha flavors are produced.

"We are seeing far less job applicants or people not showing up for their interviews," one Chick-fil-A location wrote, saying they were in the middle of a "hiring crisis." Another location said it was closing its dining room because "our team members are exhausted and there is no relief for them in our roster."

Cookie Munchers sells edible cookie dough, freshly-baked cakes, pints of ice cream and cookies the size of a person’s face. The owner came up with the concept when she had a late-night cookie craving and nothing was open.

In St. Petersburg's Grand Central District, Celine Beltgens is making a mark in the growing vegan industry. The sweet-treat offerings of Valhalla Bakery juxtapose with the savory options at Freya's. Valkyrie Doughnuts is just a few doors down.

Nicola’s Donuts on Busch Boulevard in Tampa is one of the few shops left that still does things the old-fashioned way.