{"id":10828,"date":"2025-10-19T09:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/10828\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:28:38","slug":"iconic-tampa-bay-restaurant-datz-has-closed-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/10828\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Tampa Bay restaurant Datz has closed in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Among the most popular items was the signature Datz Burger, made with two grass-fed beef patties, lettuce, tomato, red onion, and pickle on an artisan challah bun, served with house-made potato chips drizzled in creamy blue cheese and topped with green onion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Other favorites included the Cheesy Todd (a sandwich with fried mac-and-cheese buns), Yum Yum Wings tossed in Korean BBQ sauce, Buffalo Cauliflower Popcorn, and breakfast staples like the Chicken N\u2019 Waffle Benedict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The dominos started to fall in 2023 when the flagship South Tampa location closed after the property was sold. It has since been replaced by 1983, a nostalgic restaurant and bar that opened in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In June 2024, the Riverview restaurant closed after the sale of its building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And now, the last Datz has closed its doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In addition to Datz, the owners also operated Dr. BBQ in the EDGE District of downtown St. Pete, which shuttered in 2022. That site is <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/20-story-360-unit-mixed-use-development-approved-for-st-petes-edge-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">set to be redeveloped into a residential tower<\/a> as part of PTM Partners\u2019 Edge Collective project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the most popular items was the signature Datz Burger, made with two grass-fed beef patties, lettuce, tomato,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}