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By CHRIS SHERMAN
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 12, 2001
'So Sorry'
So said the note at Mise en Place's casual spinoff on S MacDill Avenue in Tampa. It gave up last week after four tough years as a bistro, winebar, gourmet market and catering center (in varying combinations.)
Owners Marty Blitz and Maryann Ferenc Blitz will refocus on the main restaurant, local pioneer of New American food (442 W Kennedy Blvd., Tampa; (813) 254-5373). Downtown Mise will again serve lunch, which it dropped last September. Lunch was the big hit at the bistro, which fed its upscale neighborhood on Franco-American comfort food at lower prices. Blitzes say the two places cannibalized each other's energy and market.
New in town
Thunderbird Beach Resort gets a Gulfside taste of Mediterranean at Karim's Bistro (10700 Gulf Blvd., Treasure Island (727) 368-9548). Running the hotel kitchen now is Karim Chiadmi, who cooks Continental, Italian and Moroccan flavors.
I'LL HAVE ANOTHER . . .
Helping of regional delicacies . . . Red Mesa (4912 Fourth St. N, St. Petersburg; (727) 527-8728) knows not all Mexican cooking's the same, so it has been serving regional menus at night. From Puebla came corn truffles, pozole and mole; from Jalisco came salads of jicama, orange and watercress. This month it's dishes of Veracruz.
-- CHRIS SHERMAN, Times food critic
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