A Tampa institution since 1956 — Bern Laxer's family-run restaurant earned the James Beard Outstanding Wine Program award in 2018, anchored by a wine cellar that holds over 500,000 bottles and runs deep into rare vintage selections. Prime dry-aged beef, the upstairs Harry Waugh Dessert Room as its own destination experience, and the underground kitchen tour that's become a Bern's ritual for serious diners. Less reinvented than the newer steakhouse destinations, more about decades of Tampa's most genuinely institutional dining experience. For one of America's most distinctive steakhouse formats, in the city it has anchored for nearly 70 years.