Many Landmark Restaurants, Bars Won’t Reopen After Virus

Many Landmark Restaurants, Bars Won’t Reopen After Virus
People walk by the Paris Cafe in New York's South Street Seaport on Aug. 4, 2020. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
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TAMPA, Fla.—La Tropicana Cafe has been a cornerstone of Tampa’s historic Latin-influenced Ybor City neighborhood since the 1960s, well known as a gathering spot where movers and shakers and even mobsters mixed with construction workers over Cuban coffee and sandwiches.

Now its doors are likely closed for good, like so many other bars and restaurants done in by the coronavirus pandemic.