All the beautiful people in Tampa Bay came to the Hard Rock Event Center on Thursday and joined winners of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s Best of the Bay 2022 for a night to celebrate the best our community has to offer. Thank you to every bar, restaurant, hospitality worker—and to all the attendees—who made it such a truly special night. Together we also helped make a $2,200 donation to ongoing Mutual Aid Disaster Relief efforts in the most underserved parts of Southwest Florida.

Denis Phillips (R) and his wife Robyn during the Best of the Bay awards at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Sept. 27, 2023. Credit: Photo by Caesar Carbajal

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...