A South Tampa favorite has moved a few miles north, but it's still dishing out the fusion fare that loyal customers love.
Lucky Tigre now slings loaded Filipino plates, dumplings, egg rolls, milk teas and more out of a food trailer parked at 1713 N Albany Ave. in West Tampa.
The locally-owned eatery served the last customers at its flagship location on South Tampa's Howard Avenue on July 1, and soft opened a few days later in West Tampa with an expanded food menu.
While there’s a few dishes that didn’t make it over to to the new location—like its bola bola dumplings, halang halang na gulay (snow pea tips and green papaya in a savory coconut broth) or chicken adobo bao buns—there are a few newcomers on the Lucky Tigre menu, too.
A few additions include its mochi-fried, adobo-glazed chicken or lechon kawali plates complete with rice, atchara and cucumber salad, plus a few more plant-based options like its veggie-filled pancit, lumpia made with Impossible pork, and vegan chili oil dumplings.
A range of plant-based milk teas, iced coffees, fruit teas and plant-based halo halo are still available at Lucky Tigre’s new location, too.
Tampa native Julie Sainte Michelle Feliciano—who owns and operates Lucky Tigre with her husband Sean Loughlin—opened their flagship, "sari sari-style" location in the fall of 2022 out of a former shipping container that offered less than 200 square-feet of kitchen space. Over the past two years, Lucky Tigre’s menu has seen some dishes come and go, but its range of offerings have always remained true to Feliciano’s Filipino-American heritage.
“Our menu reflects Filipino roots and flavors from experiences growing up in the diaspora,” she writes on Lucky Tigre’s website.
Feliciano’s new West Tampa food trailer resides on the property of Lucky Tigre’s upcoming brick and mortar and final destination, which is currently undergoing a complete build out. She told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay earlier this year that this new restaurant will be “modeled after a classic Filipino diner.”
Head to @theluckytigre on Instagram for the latest news on Lucky Tigre’s menu, events and operating hours. During the summer, Lucky Tigre is open every day from noon-8:30 p.m., but its hours may expand later this year.
Its new West Tampa location hosts a breakfast party with Cuban-Colombian pop-up Una Más on Saturday, July 27 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m., as well as a collaborative "End of Summer Cookout" on Saturday, August 10.
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Lucky Tigre now slings loaded Filipino plates, dumplings, egg rolls, milk teas and more out of a food trailer parked at 1713 N Albany Ave. in West Tampa.
The locally-owned eatery served the last customers at its flagship location on South Tampa's Howard Avenue on July 1, and soft opened a few days later in West Tampa with an expanded food menu.
While there’s a few dishes that didn’t make it over to to the new location—like its bola bola dumplings, halang halang na gulay (snow pea tips and green papaya in a savory coconut broth) or chicken adobo bao buns—there are a few newcomers on the Lucky Tigre menu, too.
A few additions include its mochi-fried, adobo-glazed chicken or lechon kawali plates complete with rice, atchara and cucumber salad, plus a few more plant-based options like its veggie-filled pancit, lumpia made with Impossible pork, and vegan chili oil dumplings.
A range of plant-based milk teas, iced coffees, fruit teas and plant-based halo halo are still available at Lucky Tigre’s new location, too.
Tampa native Julie Sainte Michelle Feliciano—who owns and operates Lucky Tigre with her husband Sean Loughlin—opened their flagship, "sari sari-style" location in the fall of 2022 out of a former shipping container that offered less than 200 square-feet of kitchen space. Over the past two years, Lucky Tigre’s menu has seen some dishes come and go, but its range of offerings have always remained true to Feliciano’s Filipino-American heritage.
“Our menu reflects Filipino roots and flavors from experiences growing up in the diaspora,” she writes on Lucky Tigre’s website.
Feliciano’s new West Tampa food trailer resides on the property of Lucky Tigre’s upcoming brick and mortar and final destination, which is currently undergoing a complete build out. She told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay earlier this year that this new restaurant will be “modeled after a classic Filipino diner.”
Head to @theluckytigre on Instagram for the latest news on Lucky Tigre’s menu, events and operating hours. During the summer, Lucky Tigre is open every day from noon-8:30 p.m., but its hours may expand later this year.
Its new West Tampa location hosts a breakfast party with Cuban-Colombian pop-up Una Más on Saturday, July 27 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m., as well as a collaborative "End of Summer Cookout" on Saturday, August 10.
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