Volunteer Cavalry rode their horses into the dining room.
In 1898, the restaurant was the scene - as the legend goes - of 'the Charge of the Yellow Rice Brigade,' when a detachment of Teddy Roosevelt's 1st U.S. Decades before, the block also was home to the El Dorado, Tampa crime boss Charlie Wall's notorious gambling house and bordello.įarther back still, it was the site of one of Tampa's oldest restaurants, Las Novedades.
