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Every city has a legendary restaurant that everyone knows and recommends to visiting family, friends and strangers alike. When it comes to iconic restaurants, Florida has plenty, including several open for more than a century, including Tampa s original Columbia Restaurant and Miami Beach s Joe s Stone Crab. While some are special-occasion restaurants, others are everyday favorites. Here s our list of some of Florida s most enduring (and endearing) restaurants, presented in alphabetical order, from USA TODAY Network contributors from across the state. Billy s Tap Room & Grill, Ormond Beach 58 East Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach, 386-672-1910, www.billystaproomormondbeach.com Billy s Tap Room and Grill s founding date is noted proudly noted on the blue awning above its front door: est. 1922. The first version of the bar/restaurant/banquet hall was down the street at the old Ormond Hotel, which used to be part of Henry Flagler s empire, but it moved to its current home, in a Tudor style building on East Granada Boulevard, in 1926.
Ulysses everywhere as “Bloomsday” and has become an annual day of pilgrimage and celebration. Ulysses is the epic hour-by-hour account of one day in Dublin June 16, 1904. In the novel, the hero, Leopold Bloom an ordinary Dubliner is a modern-day Odysseus wandering through the urban landscape which is alternately charming, beguiling, stultifying and oppressive. Joyce himself said that in Ulysses it was his intention “to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.” In many countries around the world, Joycean scholars, as well as the not so scholarly, come together to celebrate the life and works of Joyce in a variety of ways. Dublin itself, of course, can probably claim the most exuberant celebrations. Every year, fans of Joyce get together for a reenactment of Leopold Bloom’s day. The extra-hardy start at six a.m. for a breakfast of coddle (bacon, sausages, potatoes and onions simmered together) at the Martello Tower in Sandycove followed by a splash in the “snotgreen, scrotumtightening sea” at the Forty Foot bathing spot (yes, even in June the scrotumtightening properties of the waters of the Irish Sea have a particular resonance). A second breakfast can be enjoyed at the more civilized hour of eight a.m. at the James Joyce Centre on Dublin’s North Great George’s Street to the accompaniment of readings from