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Vegan Tampa: Ybor City

Tampa's National Historic Landmark District, built from 1886 by cigar factory owner Vicente Martinez Ybor to house his factories and the Cuban, Spanish and Italian workers who filled them. Seventh Avenue still runs on brick and wrought iron: a restaurant that opened as a corner saloon in 1905, a macaroni factory turned trattoria, cigar counters that serve Cuban coffee, and the breweries and late rooms that took over the warehouses.

Blind Tiger Cafe

Ybor City · $ · coffee, sandwiches, bakery

Blind Tiger is a Tampa coffee roaster with cafes around the city, roasting since 2014. The Ybor City room on East 7th Avenue is the one most visitors meet, and there are others in Seminole Heights on North Florida Avenue and in Westchase on Montague Street. Visit Tampa Bay lists it on its plant-based guide for the vegetarian sandwiches and vegan desserts that sit alongside the coffee, which makes it one of the few Tampa places open from half past seven in the morning with something for a vegan to eat.

Grassroots Kava House

Ybor City · $ · kava, coffee, tea

Grassroots is a kava house on East 6th Avenue in Ybor City serving Vanuatu kava, locally roasted coffee, kratom, herbal teas, kombucha and hand-crafted natural sodas. It is built for sitting still: free wifi for remote work, a shelf of board games, and a room that runs from morning coffee through to a late hangout. Its own words for the place are that every visit feels like home, and that it is more than a cafe. The kitchen side is small, and the food that is there is deliberately vegan and gluten free friendly.

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