The Gasparilla Bar — Restaurant in Tampa

Worst experience I've had in a long, long time. I am 26 but have a bit of a baby face. I sat at the bar and ordered a drink and the bartended proceeded to call me a "youngin." This is normally not an issue but when combined with the other issues, it was incredibly disrespectful. I ordered a drink (way overpriced but just kind of went with it because that's how airports are) and it was okay. I also ordered a turkey sandwich. My server then gave me a thumbs up and turned around to the register. I assumed he was putting my order in at this point. Over an hour later, I still didn't have my sandwich. Instead, there was ONE lady making sandwiches despite FOUR men behind the bar (a total of 5 employees). In addition, the men were consistently checking on other customers but did not once check on me or my fiance to see if we were still okay or needed anything. After finishing my drink, I loudly slurped the last bit up (unintentional) and one of the servers turned around. He glanced at me and my fiance and then continued to have a conversation with other patrons. I finally asked for the check, and the the bartender near us asked who we were. The first bartender called "don't worry about them, they're mine." We left, I gave a better tip than they deserved (I'm still young enough to acknowledge people need a fair wage) and promptly walked down to Cigar City Brewing Co.

It's incredible what a difference this bar was considering there is ONE bartender/server who immediately walked over, was patient, and super kind. Don't waste your time at the The Gasparilla - just go straight to Cigar City. Much cheaper and much...

1.) I ordered a Turkey Club Sandwich and the sandwich was made by this woman (not my server) with ear gauges, is about 5’3” or 5’4”, has brunette hair, white, wears winged eyeliner, and looks to be in her late 20s maybe early 30s. Her name tag was flipped and I was unable to catch her name. When she was about to serve the food to me, the top piece of bread fell. She then picked up the piece of bread and put it back on the sandwich in front of me, and then thought it was okay to serve it to me. I then asked her if she can give me a sandwich where the bread didn’t fall, and she looked at me with an attitude. I do appreciate her not saying anything back and fixing her mistake. However, what she did was absolutely disgusting and I would just keep an eye on her if she is your server to make sure you aren’t getting dirty food.

2.) My actual server was named Julius and for the first 20 minutes after I ordered, he was serving a few people who came after me drinks, and was taking payments from people who were done, but forgot to bring me my drink. I actually received my food before I even received my drink. I had to ask him for my drink and he kindly did make it and apologized for the wait. He was kind for his mistake and I appreciate that, unlike the young woman who tried to serve me dirty food.

Overall, this place has terrible service and hire employees that have no consideration for others. Also, the sandwich was decent but not $17 worthy. Because of almost being served dirty food if I did not catch it and the long wait for my drink, I will not be eating or drinking here ever...

Bartender Dennis was horrible. Me and my wife were made fun of after leaving the bar, because of our political beliefs, he didn't realize that we could hear him run his mouth. It does not matter what anybody believes doing a job and taking care of your customers should be the only thing that matters. What a horrible bar with horrible workers. I had to update this review after I got home the sandwich that I had the Cubano breakfast sandwich made me and my wife so deathly ill that both of us almost threw up on the airplane we have been sick since we got home. So not only did we get treated like garbage but the food tasted like garbage and made us feel...