Michael Buttacavoli News Today

Over the last eight years, Feeding Tampa Bay’s “Epic Chef” “Chopped”-style cooking competition has become a familiar sight inside the Epicurean hotel’s culinary theater. But last Monday in South Tampa featured a few unprecedented events.

Over the last couple of years, the City of Clearwater’s Tree Assessment and Inventory program deemed some trees as either dying, diseased, hazardous, or invasive species.

Updated May 5 ST. PETERSBURG — For the second time in just a few months, a Tampa Bay chef is headed to the small screen. David Benstock, the executive chef and owner of Il Ritorno in St. Petersburg, will compete on Beat Bobby Flay, the popular Food Network competition show, on May 20. Even though the show was taped back in October 2019 — before the coronavirus pandemic — the network waited until this year to release the episodes of Flay’s hit show, now in its 28th season. T...