Datz Delicatessen 

The day Datz Delicatessen opened a new Tampa institution was born. This amazing restaurant, on MacDill in Tampa, has to have one of, if not the largest deli sandwich menu's south of Times Square. The restaurant boasts over 40 sandwiches, a 1,700 bottle wine bar, over 75 specialty beers, 150 kinds of cheese, 20 kinds of artisanal breads, 15 varieties of bagels and much more. 

The ‘much more’ includes a market that carries chocolate and candies, pastas, pasta sauces, waters, sodas, all kinds of salads, roasted chicken, gourmet snacks, crackers, and macaroni and cheese that is to die for. There is a no lack of fresh pastries and desserts. Datz even makes their own pickles and “sweet-n-salty” potato chips fresh on premise. The chips are cooked in peanut oil and made with a small amount of sugar mixed in with the salt to give them a slight sweet taste.

We ordered two sandwiches, Sylvester’s Scallion made with hot pastrami, scallion cream cheese and lettuce on pumpernickel. For those of you that have never done a good New York deli style sandwich on pumpernickel, I dare you to try this and not like it. The pastrami was perfectly peppered and the meat was so tender you could cut it with a fork. 

Our second sandwich, Run Silent, Run Beef unbelievably topped the first. What an amazing sandwich. Run Silent, Run Beef is made with herb-rubbed roast beef, provolone cheese, roasted red and yellow peppers, fire roasted New Mexico green chilies and mayonnaise served on a batard. We could carry on about this sandwich all day, period. If you don’t like it, we’ll be amazed. bb 

The menu includes sandwiches made with all sorts of meats and cheeses, a few of the cheeses we had never heard of. On our next visit we intend to try the Datz version of a BLT that adds guacamole to the standard mix. Datz calls the sandwich, Slab It, Grab It. There’s even a sandwich take on pizza called When The Moon Hits Your Eye that includes salami, fresh mozzarella, plum tomatoes, fresh herbs and a zesty marinara sauce on a toasted batard. 

If you’re not into meat found on land there are loads of selections that are deli takes on seafood and vegetarians will have no trouble finding an enormous amount of appealing menu items.  

Datz opens at 6 AM and also serves bistro breakfast. And if all of this isn’t enough, there’s live entertainment that includes fazz vocals, soulful southern pop, acoustic folk rock and world jazz in “The Loft” upstairs almost daily. Datz also does catering and we imagine that it is just as amazing as the dine in. We highly recommend Datz (incredible) Delicatessen and are sure you will thoroughly enjoy it as much as we did.

Datz Delicatessen

813.831.7000