Columbia Restaurant
Columbia Restaurant. Featuring Cuban and Spanish cuisine. "The Columbia Restaurant is Ybor City's most famous and oldest continuously operating eating establishment. Casimirio Hernandez founded it in 1905 as a corner bar and coffee shop, still intact within the restaurant. Later he added a dining room and other facilities, and by the 1930s the restaurant had taken on its present dimensions. ... Occupying an entire block, the restaurant consists of a 2-story center section and adjoining 1-story wings. This masonry edifice shows the combined influences of Spanish and Moorish architecture".
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