Sunday’s Fine Dining

Food is excellent. Customer service is also good. Hope this place sticks around, ybor can be tough but this restaurant is bangin. Food is on point.

Why 5 stars? Because I friggin’ love it!
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Sunday’s…why did it take me so long? I used to work in Ybor and before that, I lived there on two different occasions for a year and a half. I never once stumbled into Sunday’s. For shame.
When I worked in Ybor, my office was very close to Sunday’s, and anytime we walked down 7^th Ave to lunch — we would just skip right on past it. I’m really not sure why this happened, I guess I just got an unappealing vibe from my view across the street. For some reason I got the impression that it was catered to older people and was a place that was not going to last in an area that is already pretty crowded with restaurants.
When I actually got the nerve up to hit this place up… my eyes were opened! As I walked in, I quickly learned that my impression that this place was for blue-​hairs, was overwhelmingly false! The interior and décor are as cool and hip as they come!
I went with the Knuckle Sandwich and was very pleased! The crisps that come with it are an excellent side. This experience was probably 4-​stars for me, because it was very good.
I returned a few days later for breakfast… and this is where my rating was bumped up to 5-​stars. I went with the Eggs Benedict and she had the French Toast. You can call these two pairings Simon & Garfunkel, Michael & Scottie, Tom & Jerry, Sonny & Cher… whatever successful duo-​pun that fits your demographic is an accurate one.
Overall, I have thoroughly enjoyed Sunday’s and I hope you do as well!

Sunday Meatball Chronicles
White linen tablecloths, numerous conversations, and just when it’s quiet enough, occasional choruses of Van Morrison, Dave Matthews, and Otis Redding playing on the radio.
Eclectic art covers the walls and even I think this place is romantic. I like how their chalk board displays the daily breakfast booze specials…
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Dont let the name fool you-​they are open more days than just sunday, and although this is a nice restaurant, its not «fine Dining» you can Go in florida wear and be just fine. We went to Sunday’s fine dining for Easter brunch/​breakfast menu. Although I think the brunch buffet was not worth the $ 24, my $ 10 frittata with a complimentary cup of coffee was a great deal.
I ordered the frittata with goat cheese, Carmelites shallots and spinach. It was accompanied by home fries and toast and like a said, unlimited coffee.
Although I don’t think the frittata was baked (it seemed more like an open face omelette), it was a great meal with quality ingredients for a good price.

I can’t speak for the entire menu, but the duck entrée was the best duck I had ever had. Not even the high end Asian restaurants do it better. The sides of plum sauce and the rice added a nice touch as well. I will have to go and order something else to round out the review.
Service and overall décor is great as well… I like the feel of simple elegance.

Great food, huge portions. Great atmosphere, nice and open. I’ve only been for bruch, but have great things about dinner as well. I had the eggs Benedict, yum!

I put off writing this review in the hopes that letting some time pass after my brunch there might temper my reaction. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case. I’d like preface this by saying that writing a bad reviews is the exact opposite reason that I joined Unilocal.However, this was quite possible the worst brunch I’ve ever had.
I will start with the positives. The coffee is really good. Our server was knowledgeable and courteous; always around when we needed her to fill up water glasses and top off the coffee. The space is decorated beautifully and the atmosphere is fantastic inside. The sidewalk seating is perfect for a fall morning in Ybro. We were seated promptly and the food did come out of the kitchen pretty quickly. Unfortunately, that is when our experience at Sunday’s (on a Sunday morning) took a 180 degree turn for the negative.
We both ordered omelets, and maybe that was our big mistake. The home fries were soggy and luke-​warm, as if they’d been cooked hours ago and left to sit in a hot drawer to be served at a later date. They were also very bland, but thankfully not greasy. The grits I ordered as my side were completely unseasoned and dry, and they may have been the most bland thing I’ve ever eaten. And the omelet. Oh my. I ordered the smoked salmon & dill one with Havarti cheese. It was giant and looked appealing as the plate was delivered, but failed to deliver. It was very tough on the outside and steaming hot on the inside. I suspect (although cannot confirm) that it may have been pre-​prepared and then microwaved. I have no clue how else they would have gotten it into the state it was in when I tried to eat it. On top of that, there was hardly any cheese in or on it, and I didn’t see or taste any dill. Ultimately the toast and jam that was served on the side turned out to be the best part of our meal.
I hope that perhaps we came in on a bad day, where they were training someone new in the kitchen or the chef was just having a bad day. Their dinner menu does look fantastic. But after the disappointing brunch experience I’d be hard pressed to return. Personally I feel like omelets may be one of the easiest food to prepare. They are certainly the item that young chefs are taught to cut their teeth on. So if you can’t get an omelet right, how can I trust anything else on the menu?

My girlfriend and I had liked what we’d seen on Sunday’s website, especially the menu, so we bought the Creative Loafing deal on it and tried it out.
The place is simple and comfortable brick wall interior and various Florida artists have their artwork displayed for sale on the walls, which is nice if you really care about that kind of stuff.
The menu was easy to read and very direct the wine list was short and simple, no cabs was offered, which I did found odd, but they did have a few easy hits like Hob Nob Pinot.
We were made to understand it changes quite often and is always kept short. Unfortunately, unless you request a bottle to be opened freshly for your glass, you risk getting a refrigerated glass of red.
The warm, soft, herbed focacia and infused olive oil brought to the table is delicious. We started off with the cheese and fruit platter which had nice presentation, was generous and came with even more yummy, warmed breads pita & crostini was the winner of our experience.
We settled on one of the specials which was a plate full of sea food accompanied by rice and roasted vegetables, since we wanted to share it we added a sirloin to the platter.
The wine, cheese and easy going atmosphere we were both enjoying, but the main course we found to be a huge disappointment. There was nothing special about the rice i mean it was just rice, the shrimp were over cooked, the ahi tuna was! lets put it this way we didn’t eat it, the salmon was cooked perfectly, as well as the large diver scallop, the large stuffed oyster had a strange earthy grittiness and flavor to it, the seasonings were nothing special your straight forward salt and pepper, the platter was very much like the basic fair you get at your average seafood place on Cape Cod, we were fortunately already full from the breads and cheese platter and made due with the salmon and scallop.
Lastly I will say the place was very accommodating to special requests made by the guest and our server was the other highlight of the experience.
She was gracious, polite and totally let us enjoy ourselves without being all over us or rushing us.
I wish I could remember her name, because she was really great. We had high hopes for the place, but unfortunately the food wasn’t up to par.
I will give it a next try maybe next time the food will be on par.

I’m so glad to know about Sunday’s. The hubby and I went to an early dinner (we went to a play at 8), so we wanted to find a nice place on our way to the Straz. Thanks to the other reviews we took a chance on Sunday’s and we were not disappointed. Here is what we had that night…
–field greens salad, nice dressing not heavy
–I had the Diver Scallops which were quite large, they were served atop roasted corn and mashed cauliflower. I ate every bite, so so good!
–we noticed a Roasted Tomato Risotto offered with a different entrée and our server said we could get a side order. This was by far the best risotto I have ever eaten. I’ve already tried to replicate it at home.
–My husband had the Bison which was served on Spaghetti Squash purée. It was delish, but just could’ve been more tender.
The desserts were tempting but alas we had to get on to the play.
We will be back to enjoy another fine meal soon I hope!
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I really wanted to like Sunday’s. I mean I REALLLLLLY wanted to like Sunday’s.
I had the opportunity to check in on a Saturday night and then I was also scheduled for a birthday brunch the next day.
I have two seperate events I will describe.
First, the Saturday night adventure. We had reservations for the evening and when we arrived, there were a few tables in there but the place was not busy yet.
We get service from a waiter who was already scattered and overwhelmed. Not sure why, as it was not very busy. He takes our drink orders and we wait for them. And we wait for them. And we wait for them. And we wait for them. We can see them sitting there getting watered down for like 15 minutes. I was tempted to grab them off the bar but I wanted to see what the issue was. Well, I would have asked HIM but he never returned. So a female server comes to the next table. They are complaining they ordered their cocktails about 15 mins ago and asked her if she could check on them.
I sorta piped in from my table and stated we were also waiting for ours.
She came back and delivered everyones drinks. Still — our waiter is a miss. Yet I have seen take care of like 3 tables that have since come in after us and who are getting appetizers already. Us… well we haven’t ordered.
So then about 40+ minutes, he comes to us as we are done with the small bread basket and says our meals will be right up and takes our menus. WHOA — We are WAITING for YOU to take our order.
So table next to us is complaining and I was fed up but not rude.
Owners lady/​server comes over and is very nice and takes care of things.
She states that since they just won Best of The Bay in CL — they were not prepared to be so busy.
I totally understand that but then you should have stopped with the 40 other people coming in if you couldn’t handle the 25 already in there.
Food — by the time we received it was ok. Not bad, but after waiting an hour, we were scarfing it down to catch our concert.
I had a salad. Fresh but barely any dressing.
I had the mussels and frittes app as a dinner with the salad. Would have been decent but was fed up at that point.
—– So then we left. I was apprehensive about returning the next day but owners lady/​server who was very nice made sure to let me know they would be FULLY staffed the following day and she guaranteed a better experience.
So Sunday come’s… We have a large table (about 12 – 14 people). I have a feeling that Dugg (review below) came in when we were there. There were actually two large parties that day.
The wait was crazy for people who came in even tho there were plenty of tables. They couldn’t handle the amount of guests.
Food for breakfast was subpar. Overcooked eggs, greasy bacon, super hard foccaccia as the base for the benedict. Another bad day.
So I chalk a lot up to the place being very overwhelmed while they are experiencing growing pains. They are not able to handle the customers that are coming in with one cook.
I would call this place Sunday’s Dining and NOT Sunday’s Fine Dining until they can work out the kinks. There were a LOT of unhappy people on both experiences.
From other reviews, I think the place has definite potential but I just think they need to get in a groove. I MAY (or may not) try them again in a few months but for right now, I would rather go elsewhere when I am in Ybor.

If I could give a negative I would but that’s Unilocal scoring problem
We went for Sunday brunch based upon a best of review in creative loafing. We were told a birthday party just came in so it would be 15 minutes but we could sit. So we did. For about 5 minutes and the waiter 1 came over and took our orders. Bacon and eggs and one of the salad combinations. Waiter 2 brought us a water and coffee after another 20 minutes and said our order was good. About 30 minutes later we got refills. It was then i commented that the folks beside us to the left had arrived about 15 minutes ago and had just been served Finally after 1 hour and 15 minutes we got served.
Then when the bill came we were charged $ 10 for an $ 8 item and $ 10 for a $ 6 item. That took about 10 minutes to correct.
All in all an absolutely MISERABLE experience. Nothing would make me go back. First time I my life I left a zero tip. The final nail was when I was trying to get the bill corrected waiter 1 was comping the other table for drinks because of the wait. I wish I had read the other Unilocal sunday reviews before going there because they are absolutely correct.
Might I suggest closing for Sunday until you can do it right cause it’s going to catch up

Judging by the other reviews here, this establishment must do better with breakfast… i, however, made the mistake of coming to Sunday’s for dinner last night. To start off, most of the menu items were in the $ 25 price range, which would be great if the food and service were up to par. Between myself and the two others I dined with, I’d have to say that my entrée was by far the best of the three (i ordered the bacon and onion covered pork, served with grilled asparagus and over mashed yukon/​sweet potatoes). A friend ordered Scallops and they came out so hard and rubbery they were inedible, so she politely explained, asked them to take them back and to have the Gnocchi instead. She was later charged the more expensive entrée of the two– which was pretty tacky in my opinion. Moving on, my boyfriend ordered another special– roasted chicken with asparagus and herb-​garlic potatoes. His chicken had zero flavor, even with all of the herb-​yogurt topping they had all over it. We all tried it and agreed it was so watery in the middle, it HAD to have been frozen chicken. In our opinion, the place would have been much more tolerable at a lower price point. However, if they want to be considered fine dining, they need to step it up.

Fantastic breakfast. I had the French toast and it didn’t disappoint. My fiancé had a chrizo fattata and it was perfect aside the home fries. If we were locals we would keep coming back.

Went in for breakfast after a night in Ybor and enjoyed our meal. We will be going back for sure cause I want the French Toast next time.

Very excited this place exists in Tampa! Come visit them!
White linens, truffled hollandaise, fresh lobster salad slider, fresh shrimp/​lemon/​avocado slider, locally owned, brunch for two was $ 30 with tip!
Come eat here asap!

The service quality of our Sunday brunch experience was utterly unacceptable. In our large party, fewer than half of our plates were made as ordered and delivered to the right people. I ordered a goat cheese omelette with rye toast (no substitutions) and was served the salmon omelette with foccacia toast, and I’m allergic to fish! I also ordered orange juice, which never came, and our party did not have enough time to eat before our afternoon engagement. Our server was unfamiliar with the menu, and he refused to accept responsibility for the misserved orders. All this said, the food that was delivered correctly was delicious, especially the french toast with spiced rum bananas. However, I would return only if I learned that the service has improved.