North Hyde Park Splits Its Day Between Two Streets: Bagels on North B, Dinner at Rome Collective

In North Hyde Park, the time of day decides which street you're on. Before 3 p.m., the new food is on the 1500 block of West North B Street, where a bagel shop and a Jersey-style deli share a building. After 4 p.m., it moves a couple of blocks west to Rome Collective, the new development at North Rome Avenue and North A Street. Neither of its two restaurants serves breakfast or lunch. The next tenant due there brings Rome Collective onto North B Street.

If you live within walking distance, mornings and evenings each have one street to head for.

North B Street opens at 7 a.m.

The morning anchor is Homesick Bagels at 1528 W. North B St. Creative Loafing listed its hours as 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily when it covered the shop's opening in February. It's Travis Kaiser's shop. He told Fox 13 the concept comes from growing up on the Jersey Shore, and the bagels are made in-house with the traditional boil-and-bake method.

Homesick shares the building with Kaiser's earlier project. Giancarlo's Cafe & Spirits opened at 1528–1532 W. North B St. in December 2025. The Tampa Bay Times described it as a New Jersey-style deli, coffee shop and bar. It comes from the team behind Santoro's Pizzeria on West Cass Street. Its posted hours date from opening week, so check them before you plan a late visit around them.

A morning on North B comes down to two doors at one address:

• Homesick Bagels for bagels and coffee from 7 a.m., with the kitchen closing at 3 p.m.
• Giancarlo's next door for the deli counter, coffee, and a bar menu that runs past Homesick's closing time.

Rome Collective doesn't start until late afternoon

Rome Collective is Asana Partners' project at the northwest corner of North Rome Avenue and North A Street, according to That's So Tampa. Tidal Construction Group, the builder, describes it as a converted warehouse plus three new retail buildings. Two restaurants are open there now, and both are dinner places.

V opens on Saturdays at 3 or 3:30 p.m., so call ahead if you're planning around the earlier time. Read the table from the top and Monday is when the two differ most. Lumbre is closed, and V is the only one of the two serving that night.

Lumbre: no reservation, so sit at the bar

Lumbre opened Wednesday, July 15, according to Creative Loafing. It comes from Tastes Pretty Good, the group behind Rocca, Bar Terroir and Streetlight Taco. Executive chef and partner Nick Orr spent several months cooking his way across Spain after working as Rocca's chef de cuisine. In its October review, the Tampa Bay Times called Lumbre "easily the best restaurant to debut in Tampa this year."

A review like that fills reservation books, so the neighbor's move is the bar. The Times notes that reservations are recommended for the dining room and chef's counter, and walk-ins are welcome at the bar. There are two bars, one of them a long chef's counter facing the live-fire kitchen.

The menu works for a quick weeknight visit as well as a planned dinner. The Times listed bocados, or snacks, at $7 to $13 and shared entrantes at $10 to $21. The larger platos principales run $55 to $135. The paper also noted that Lumbre costs considerably less than its sister restaurants Rocca and Bar Terroir. Sitting at the bar with pan con tomate at $8, croquetas de jamón at $11 and the matrimonio, two kinds of anchovy on brioche at $12, makes for a light dinner after work. The pan de cristal behind the pan con tomate is baked fresh every day.

For drinks, bar manager Kristian Rodriguez's program uses vermouth blended in-house and aged in the casks you can see around the room. The menu also has a choose-your-own gin and tonic list.

V Modern Italian keeps the corner open late

V Modern Italian opened Thursday, Oct. 8, and the Tampa Bay Times called it the second restaurant to open at Rome Collective. Lumbre closes by 11 p.m. every night. V stays open until midnight on Thursdays and 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, according to its website. That makes V the late-night stop on the corner.

The menu comes from Michelin-starred chef Stefano Ciotti, whose restaurants include Nostrano in Pesaro, Italy, and Veritas in Doha. The 7,000-square-foot room has dark walnut, velvet upholstery and murals by the Spanish artist duo PichiAvo. A replica of a fruiting olive tree stands in the main dining room. The bar list includes a lighter twist on the Negroni made with Ford's Gin, Luxardo Bitter Bianco, Cocchi Americano and Italicus.

Neighbors who drive have one easy detail to know. V's website says free guest parking is on the east side of its building. The restaurant also has two private dining rooms and takes inquiries for private events. That's useful to know before the holidays if you're hosting a family dinner or a small office party close to home.

Kingfish brings Rome Collective onto North B Street

So far the two halves of the day are a couple of blocks apart. The next restaurant due at Rome Collective closes that gap.

Kingfish, Tastes Pretty Good's Japanese restaurant, is set to take about 3,390 square feet at 1706 W. North B St. That's the same street as Homesick and Giancarlo's. Tampa Bay Business & Wealth reported in July that it's expected to open in the first quarter of 2027. Tastes Pretty Good CEO Nick Reader described it to the magazine as "a full-service sushi bar that takes a minimalist approach to Japanese cuisine, complemented by a curated selection of cocktails and sake."

Other tenants on the project's list point to daytime uses as well:

• The NOW Massage at 1717 W. North A St., which lists its North Hyde Park location as "Opening This Winter" on its website.
• Handel's Homemade Ice Cream, Calore Club, Next Health and a Southern Veterinary Partners clinic, all named as Rome Collective concepts in a January roundup from What Now Tampa.

Ice cream, a massage studio, a vet clinic and fitness and recovery concepts would bring people to Rome Collective during the day.

One Saturday on two streets

Here's how a full Saturday works with the two streets as they are now:

1. Morning on North B. Homesick opens at 7 a.m. at 1528 W. North B St., with Giancarlo's next door.
2. Midafternoon on North A. V's weekend hours start in the afternoon at 1701 W. North A St. Park in the free guest lot east of the building for an early cocktail.
3. Dinner on Rome Avenue. Lumbre opens at 5 p.m. at 220 N. Rome Ave. Without a reservation, go straight to the bar.
4. Late on the corner. V is open until 1 a.m. on Saturdays, two hours after Lumbre closes at 11.

Kim's first career was in kitchens, so a street where you can find good bread at 7 a.m. and a seat at a chef's counter at 9 p.m. is her kind of block. If you're thinking about a home within walking distance of North B Street and Rome Avenue, or you'd like a neighbor's take on where the next opening fits, Kim Guillory would love to sit down with you, maybe over a bagel on North B. Let's Get You Home.