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New In Town
Side dish
By CHRIS SHERMAN
© St. Petersburg Times,
published June 14, 2001
Papayas (229 62nd Ave. N, St. Petersburg; (727) 528-6165), opens this week aiming at a new niche -- $5 meals -- in the former Brown Dog Cafe. Greg Hilbert, who formerly fed Aegon office workers in Carillon, will serve breakfast through dinner and takeout of "gourmet fast food." Pizza, pasta, salad and sandwiches are all $5 or less except salmon or steak. With papaya salsa.
CHANGED RECIPE
Sign and feel are the same on the old Cafe Pepe (2006 W Kennedy Blvd., Tampa; (813) 253-6501), but owner and menu aren't. Felix Piedra, who ran Maison Basque, has dropped Russian trout and some other Cuban staples to install more classical Spanish fare and regional dishes such as grouper in squid ink.
OPEN, SHUT
Fans of Bob Spoto's toothsome ribs mourn the closing of Smokey's Texas Bar-B-Que in Pinellas Park. But new owner Dimitri Drivas promises ribs on the menu when it reopens as Parkside Cafe (8180 49th St. N, Pinellas Park) with a wide range of breakfasts, dinners and salads. Of course, Spoto has the same ribs at Spoto's other places, the Steak Joint in St. Petersburg and Dunedin.
I'VE HAD ENOUGH ...
Raspberry vinaigrette. Sure, a few crushed berries brighten olive oil and vinegar; it was crisp fun in the 1980s. Now stash it with the green goddess; get a cookbook and make new vinaigrettes. They're easy, with basil, dill, peppers, garlic, mustard, oranges or different oil. Anything but raspberry jam.
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