Since it opened in 1905 as a humble café that served Cuban immigrants and cigar workers, the Columbia Restaurant has evolved into an award winning landmark in the Latin Quarter of Tampa. It claims to be the world’s largest Spanish restaurant. You are impressed before you walk through the front door because its block-long building is adorned with colorful, hand-painted mosaics like this one of cherubs surrounding a crest of a Spaniard plucking on a bandurria. It was created by Richard Sorrentino in 1982.
