Jeff Houck

The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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Gary And Amy Moran Plan Their Next Move At Wimauma [Life After Knife & Co.]

Posted Dec 12, 2011 by Jeff Houck

Updated Dec 12, 2011 at 09:26 AM

When we last saw chef Gary Moran and wife Amy in early November, they were walking away from the Knife & Co. restaurant they helped open.

The big news wasn’t that they had left, but that they had done so during service just four days after its opening.

Even as they left, they were promising to open another restaurant, possibly on Davis Islands.

During the subsequent weeks, the couple took off for Thanksgiving and scouted new opportunities. Knife & Co. moved on, elevating Allison Beasman to executive chef and letting Kitchenbar use its space for the month of December as a pop-up restaurant.

I heard from Amy over the weekend. They’ve taken the keys to the space on South MacDill formerly occupied by Delizie Bakery.

The new restaurant’s name: Wimauma.

Unlike Knife, which played with rustic southern flavors, their menu this time will emphasize fresh, local, Florida ingredients.

Plans are for a “pre-construction pop-up” opening this weekend.

A pop-up in south Tampa to go up against the Kitchenbar pop-up? Stay tuned for more details.