Developer brings fine dining restaurant to new mixed-use district

TAMPA — Aficionados of French cuisine will soon be able to enjoy a new restaurant in Tampa featuring a menu designed by Chris Ponte, a chef trained at the famed Le Cordon Bleu school in Paris.

The yet-to-be-named, 5,000-square-foot eatery will be part of Bromley Cos. 22-acre Midtown Tampa development, according to a press release. Ponte’s firm, the Ponte Group, has also developed popular restaurants On Swann, located in Tampa, and Café Ponte in Clearwater.