The owners of three iconic fun spots in Tampa Bay — serving up wings, pizza and cold beer — are uniting to create a new restaurant, FLocale. The Newzroom’s reporter Jeremiah McKay took a look at the combination and the foods and drinks they bring to the table.
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Reporter/Producer/Editor: Jeremiah McKay
Anchor: Skyler Brackett
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Pizza, wings and a cold brew are foods you can get at almost any restaurant. But when you are getting it from three local favorite spots all at the same time? That is when you are living FLocale [FLOW-kahl].
Jeremiah McKay joins us with more on this exciting new venue.
[FLocale is the brain baby of three Tampa Bay brands: Joe Dodd of King of the Coop, Joey Redner of Rock Brothers Brewing and Travis Masters of WestShore Pizza.
After Joe closed down his flagship location, he made like an Avenger and assembled a team of three to form what is FLocale.
The venue was formerly home to the Refinery, a local farm – to – table restaurant but has now been remodeled to bring what Dodd describes as the vibes.
With a full-service kitchen and bar and original murals painted by local artists Topped with live music on the weekend; the vibe is certainly delivered.
But this location is more than just good food and music and Joe Dodd had this to say about what Flocale means to him and his team.
DODD: “Flocale is Seminole Heights right? It is Tampa. It’s It’s, I guess its a representation of who we are, and what we want to see in the neighborhoods and stuff.”
Dodd says they’ll eventually incorporate karaoke, which will be my time to shine of course.
I’m Jeremiah McKay, reporting for the USF Newzroom.]
