Flashbacks Café may be in its infant stage, but it has the layers of a decades-old diner. It is an eclectic museum, boasting a collection of retro radios, local art, yard-sale collectibles, books, board games and walls coated with every color of the rainbow.

If you’re looking for a good burrito, visit a Tex-Mex restaurant.  If you’re looking for the freshest ingredients, stuff-the-tortilla-until-it-bursts size and some of the best-seasoned meats in town, visit the new Willy’s Mexicana Grill on Archer Road.

The Paramount Plaza Hotel’s new executive chef worked in restaurants ranging from Asian American fusion to molecular gastronomy before settling down in Gainesville. Born in Miami to Cuban and Guatemalan parents, Danny Gomez, 25, never considered cooking professionally until he worked as a dishwasher at a local diner.

The windows at Phil Nick’s cry out to Main Street that it’s “A Good Place to Eat.” The old-style gold letters do not lie. Phil Nick’s has some of the best Southern food (and Italian-African-American-Carribean) around town. Read more...

Those of us who have lived in Gainesville “since the days of Tim Tebow” think we know this town inside and out. It’s easy to visit the same places and fall into a routine, rarely surprised by anything we see.

Looking for lunch? With a variety of soups, salads and sandwiches using Gainesville's best, Tempo Bistro To Go is sure to hit the spot.

Dragonfly put together its most extravagant dinner ever for Valentines, a five-course meal created with a month of planning and a week of prep. Former Dragonfly chef Hiroo Nagahara returned to coordinate the dinner, says Dragonfly co-owner Hirofumi Leung.

Dishes included albacore tuna flown in from Hawaii and Tasmanian King Salmon.