The Fat Rabbit Pub

This is a suburban sports pub, not a night out — an independent, locally owned spot in a Tampa Palms plaza that has quietly outlasted the chain restaurants around it since 2016. You come for burgers, wings, a genuinely deep Florida-brewery tap list, and enough TVs to catch whatever game matters. It suits New Tampa locals who want a real bar within a five-minute drive instead of a franchise, and it works best if you treat it as a hang rather than a scene.

Friday or Saturday after 9pm, when the dinner families clear out and it settles into a bar rather than a burger joint — or any game night if you want it loud.

Skip the imports and work the local taps — they lean hard into Florida breweries like Cigar City, so ask the bartender what just got tapped rather than ordering off the printed list.

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