Salt Shack sits on Old Tampa Bay at the end of West Tyson Avenue, a few hundred feet from Hula Bay, and it is built around the view. Its own writing leans hard on sunsets, calling itself a first stop for waterfront sunset dining in Tampa. The cooking is coastal seafood with Caribbean leanings and tropical drinks. Between this and Hula Bay, Tyson Avenue is the closest thing South Tampa has to a waterfront restaurant row.
Family Friendly Tampa: Ballast Point & Interbay
The south end of the peninsula below Bayshore, from Ballast Point across Interbay to the Westshore Marina District at Gandy. Ballast Point pier and park date to an 1890s trolley line; the whole stretch eats the way you would hope on that water, with fish camps, lobster rolls, a beach bar and a British pub.
Salt Shack on the Bay