We don't use paper towels. Christopher Dueno serves lunch to Jenny MacLeod in Carlino's Restaurant. The menu features Bourbon grilled T-bone steak, Chilean sea bass, crispy duck and chocolate truffle cake. At the Ybor Don, on the corner of Ninth Avenue and 14th Street, guests get a view of the Hillsborough Community College student parking lot and construction at Ybor Square. But it's a short walk to Ybor's nightlife, and you can keep the robe and slippers when you check out.
Gold is the color guests see as they enter through a gold-handled glass door.
The opulence is exactly what Shiver wanted. His business card is gold-embossed. Executives with Red Baron Pizza, one of the sponsors of this January's Gasparilla, have booked the entire inn for Super Bowl week. Other than that, the vacancy sign hangs. Placing a luxury hotel in party-hardy Ybor may seem risky, but Shiver isn't worried.