About Tampa Picks
Who is behind Tampa Picks and why: a guide to Tampa local businesses built around the questions customers actually ask.
Tampa has grown into a big city that still runs on word of mouth. Friends swap names for a good AC tech or a pediatric dentist, and newcomers have nobody to ask. Tampa Picks is that friend in written form: short lists, checked first, for the things people go looking for every day.
What’s inside
Lists for Tampa restaurants, from deviled crab to Peruvian ceviche, along with dentists, skin clinics, tile installers, insurance brokers, daycare centers, wedding venues and many other trades. Fresh lists appear every week.
Built from your side of the counter
We pick the way a careful customer would: who really knows this trade, what past customers say, how easy the business is to reach and how far it is from you. That is why every list keeps only a handful of names.
Who reads it
Families who just moved to Riverview or Wesley Chapel, snowbirds back for the winter, students at USF and the University of Tampa, and anyone in town for Gasparilla or a Bucs game who would rather skip the tourist traps.
About money
Appearing on a list is free and can’t be bought. Some businesses pay for extra reach: a Pro plan gives them a richer profile with their own photos and contact buttons, and a Top plan moves a business that is already listed into one of the first places. Both show their label and leave the order of the others untouched.
Say hello
A place has closed, or you know one we should look at? Email info@tampapicks.com.