Friday, February 1, 2013
A full-service restaurant featuring more than 11 specialty pizza pies and several varieties of chicken wings is becoming a tradition with shoppers and movie theater goers at The Largo Mall.
What do you recommend at Beach Pizza? Tell us in the comments section below! In almost a quarter century, Shaun Guerin, owner of three Beach Pizza shops, has found the recipe for success in a highly competitive business. A Seminole High graduate whose family moved to the Sunshine State when he was 10, Guerin has been in the restaurant business all his life. He recalls his first job was working as a bus boy for the Red Cavalier Restaurant when he was just 14. Working his way up as a cook, at 18 he became one of the youngest kitchen managers at the Careless Navigator. Then, in 1989, he opened his first Beach Pizza on Gulf Boulevard in Redington Shores, with what was then a unique notion to feature wings along with pizza. “Being born in …
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Anthony's Deli Warehouse on Clearwater-Largo Road sells bread, meat, cheese, olives and much more.
Walking into Anthony's Deli Warehouse is like stepping back in time 30 years, and that's the way owners Joey Leo and Paul Mendel like it. The Clearwater-Largo Road business sells bread, meat, cheese, olives and much more. "We are a small old-time business. We make our own mozzarella fresh. We grind our sausage fresh. Everything is old time except there's no sawdust on the floor," Mendel said. "Everything is sliced and made to order ... and wrapped in butcher paper." Jars of olives with ladles line one wall, and a counter is filled with lasagna, fresh mozzarella, pasta salad, clam shells and other home-style-prepared foods. Pastry, bread, noodles and other staples fill shelves. Sandwiches can be made to order. The deli meats, which are …
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Anthony's Deli
1435 Clearwater Largo Rd N, Largo, FL
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The benefit will help the family of a Largo man who died in a car crash Dec. 26.
Finley's Irish Pub is hosting a benefit Jan. 29 to help the wife and young children of a Largo man who died in a car crash Dec. 26 in Tennessee, said Finley's owner Mark Ternes. The fundraiser, which starts at 5:30 p.m., will include appetizers and a silent auction with gift baskets collected from local businesses, said Carmen Abadji, who is helping with the fundraiser. The fundraiser is being organized by Applebee's co-workers of Melissa Johnson, who lost her husband Chris on Dec. 26, Abadji said. "She's a good friend and a great person, anything I can do to help," Abadji said. The Johnson family went up to visit family around Christmas. They had only been in Tennessee a couple of hours when Chris and his brother-in-law went to get gas, …
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Finley's Irish Pub & Eatery
13477 Belcher Rd S, Largo, FL
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Love crepes and homemade soup? Consider Salt N Pepper Bistro on Clearwater-Largo Road for lunch.
Soup and a sandwich or soup and a salad are popular lunchtime specials. At the Salt N Pepper Bistro patrons have the unique opportunity of ordering soup and a crepe. The Clearwater-Largo Road restaurant's lunch special is the 3-Cheeses Crepe with the soup of the day for $8.95. Lunch is served Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. The cheesy-square-shaped crepe filled the plate and came with a hearty crock of tomato bisque soup. The tomato and cheese combo brought back childhood memories of grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. Chef J.C. Lepretre has been making crepes and other French cuisine for more than 50 years. Lepretre loves the diversity of crepes. "It's a breakfast food. It can be a fancy dinner food. It's …
Saturday, January 26, 2013
The Proino Breakfast Club plans to open sometime in February.
A new restaurant that specializes in breakfast and lunch has plans to open sometime in February in the former Crispers location in Largo. For the last eight years, George and Diane Soulellis have visited Clearwater on vacation. George Soulellis owns restaurants in Quebec and plans to open a new restaurant in Largo at 201 West Bay Dr. George's "dream was to open a restaurant in Florida and he is finally making his dream come true," wrote Diane Soulellis in an email. "The restaurant should be open and ready to serve sometime in February," she said. The Proino Breakfast Club plans to offer many different types of meals, including crepes, eggs Benedict, yogurt cups, waffles and healthy breakfast choices. "Proino means breakfast in Greek," …
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Are chicken wings part of your Super Bowl plan?
Chicken wings are a popular pick for Super Bowl Sunday as football fans watch the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens compete for the Lombardi Trophy in New Orleans on Feb. 3. But will there be a chicken wing shortage for this Super Bowl? Americans eat 1.23 billion chicken wings over Super Bowl weekend, but this year prices have gone up, and fewer chicken wings are available "due in large part to record high corn and feed prices" last summer, according to the National Chicken Council website. The average cost for a pound frozen chicken wings at the grocery store last week was $2.52, compared to $1.97 per pound during the same time frame last year, according to the Huffington Post. Restaurants plan ahead of time and buy extra wings …
Monday, January 21, 2013
The longtime sub shop offers seven different types of steak subs.
Since 1987, Largo Subs, the family-owned sandwich shop near the corner of Missouri Avenue North and East Bay, has served an array of subs, gyros, wings, salads, burgers and more. A section of the menu is devoted to steak subs with various options to add cheese, mushrooms, hot peppers and bell peppers. Or, customers can swap out the steak for marinated chicken breast. The 12-inch steak sub, which comes with fries, is plenty for two people to eat for lunch. The sub shop has plenty of booth seating. Or if you feel like a picnic, order the sub to go and walk the short distance across East Bay Drive to Largo Central Park. Largo Subs offers daily specials. Most of the 12-inch steak subs cost less than $6. Related Coverage: If you go to Largo …
Sunday, January 20, 2013
OK, so you had a busy week. We understand. Let us catch you up on all the highlights from Patch!
Nate Dogg's Pizzeria opened in November in the Winn Dixie Plaza near the intersection of Walsingham Road and Seminole Boulevard in Largo. After 17 years, a local mom "re-invents" herself and opens her own consignment shop on West Bay Drive in Largo. Largo's asphalt pavement roadways have a replacement value of over $50 million, according to a city report. Check out the map of the projects tentatively planned through 2015. Largo Police seek the public's help in identifying a suspect in a Jan. 7 robbery at the Hess Gas station. A Pasco County man is accused of entering a Largo residence around 12:30 a.m. Dec. 16 and destroying the flat screen TV, mirror and window.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
A new line of dog treats is keeping a Largo company busy making treats.
When Josh the dalmatian kept getting sick from eating store-bought dog treats, his family made him all-natural dog snacks. The effort to help Josh led to a family business that has grown to a full-time job now for Josh's owner, Craig Morse, and a few part-time employees, Morse said. Josh's All Natural Firehouse Dog Treats, which started in 1994, are hand-made and slow-baked in Largo. Although Josh died in 2000, the treats inspired by his need for treats he could safely eat are still produced in five flavors: beef, chicken, vegetable, peanut butter and lamb and rice. New at the Largo-based business are the all-natural chicken jerky bites. Morse was approached to create them when issues with contaminated jerky treats first came up a few …
Friday, January 18, 2013
A Largo deli is known for its clean kitchen, according to a letter from the governor.
Known for its pastrami sandwiches, Largo's Deli Diva is one of just 62 restaurants in Florida to earn perfect scores in its state restaurant inspections for 2012. The downtown Largo deli is the only one in Pinellas County to receive no safety or sanitation violations for 2012 from state restaurant inspectors, according to ABC Action News. "When we were told we were also the only restaurant in all of Pinellas County to receive this distinction, we realized that the long hours and hard work are very much worth the effort," wrote Chef Anne Money Buck in an email. Buck also posted the news in an announcement on Largo Patch. Gov. Rick Scott sent the deli a congratulatory letter in December for "having no safety or sanitation violations within …
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