Downtown St Pete: Central Ave

If you're planning on visiting Downtown St Pete, there's 2-hour free parking but be careful, the parking enforcement is pretty and they're always on their game.

Central Avenue, Downtown St Pete, kind of like the Brooklyn of... Downtown St Pete. It's basically the only street where anything is going on. Well, that's not true. If you dig deep enough, you'll find anything anywhere (or interesting things everywhere).

This is a fast runthrough of things we know about and cool places we like or can vouch for:

• Lonni's Sandwiches, good place for lunch. Good sandwiches, good prices, cool stuff.
• Wok Pin & Bowl, also good for lunch, good deals, good lunch specials on sushi rolls and stuff like that.
• 9 Bangkok Thai, again super good for lunch. Yummy food, healthy and very affordable.
• Maple Street Biscuit Company, good breakfast, good biscuits.
• Buya Ramen, good ramen. Plus Ane is down the street for people who like ramen.
• Independent Bar, this one in St Pete is one of two locations in the Tampa Bay area. Delicious craft beer for the beer snob and regular... snob alike.
• Intermezzo, great cocktail place, great ambiance, great cocktails (did we mention that?) - couldn't ask for more.

Unfortunately Intermezzo was unavaiable for us to highlight this but we found a suitable replacement right across the street.