How do you get into The Blind Tiger Cafe?
We have not confirmed it. The Blind Tiger Cafe is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at The Blind Tiger Cafe
How the venue describes itself: “Blind Tiger Coffee Roasters – Specialty coffee crafted with precision, bold character, and rich aroma. Designed for those who appreciate coffee beyond the ordinary.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Blind Tiger Cafe sits
The Blind Tiger Cafe is in Tampa, Florida, in Hillsborough County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists fourteen speakeasies and hidden bars in Tampa. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Tampa.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Blind Tiger Cafe are Blind Tiger Coffee Roasters, about 2.3 km away, The Blind Tiger Cafe – International Plaza Mall, about 2.3 km away, and Blind Tiger Coffee Roasters, about 4.5 km away.
Florida holds 100 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Florida speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Florida
Florida did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1919, one year before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Florida already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Florida.
What the newspapers recorded in Tampa
Searching the Library of Congress run of Florida newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Tampa:
- La gaceta, March 6, 1929 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La gaceta, August 31, 1928 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La gaceta, June 11, 1928 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La gaceta, March 6, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Blind Tiger Cafe by phone on (813) 603-6031, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.
The address is 219 Westshore Plz #C29, Tampa, FL 33609. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Tiger Cafe we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold opening hours, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a coffee shop.