{"id":786,"date":"2010-06-06T20:52:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2010-06-06T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T00:50:27","slug":"tropical-smoothie-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Smoothie Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tropical Smoothie Cafe<\/strong><br \/>\n1201 4th Street North<br \/>\nSaint Petersburg, FL 33701<br \/>\n(727) 821-3100<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Front-of-Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-787\" title=\"Front of Tropical Smoothie Cafe\" src=\"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Front-of-Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Front-of-Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Front-of-Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Front-of-Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe-1023x621.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Front-of-Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe.jpg 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;d like to thank Google Streetview&#8217;s camera-van for grabbing a great picture of the front of Tropical Smoothie Cafe. \u00a0When I went and grabbed a bite to eat there, I didn&#8217;t have any plan to review the place. \u00a0In fact I wasn&#8217;t even planning on eating there. \u00a0I wound up swinging over there to meet up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/profile.php?id=100000346206223&amp;ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Werner<\/a> to show him my new bike, the Harley Davidson\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WImomobidsc\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Iron 883<\/a>. \u00a0As a great man about town, Chris comp&#8217;ed me a delicious meal on his tab as well as a smoothie while I was there.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-786 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Front-of-Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Front-of-Tropical-Smoothie-Cafe-150x90.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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Matt, why the fuck are you talking about the healthiness of your meal?&#8221; \u00a0Well, good sir, I bring this up because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tropicalsmoothie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical Smoothie Cafe <\/a> appears to pride itself upon &#8216;Eating Better&#8217; and &#8216;Feeling Better&#8217;. While I didn&#8217;t necessary feel better about myself or my health after eating said wrap, I certainly enjoyed it. \u00a0What I did like was that the meal was served with a freshly cut orange which is a great substitute for french fries. I believe I also received a Caribbean Breeze smoothie and it basically tasted like mangos&#8230; but I&#8217;m not sure exactly what was in there. Either way it was sweet and cold on a sweltering day, just what the doctor ordered. \u00a0I don&#8217;t really know for sure what I had as I basically told Chris to &#8220;make me something good.&#8221; \u00a0 As you can see above they have a somewhat goofy decor, going for an island theme which feels a little less contrived in Florida than it would feel in Michigan&#8230; nothing like snow on the ground in March to make you feel Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Due to my circumstances of receiving a free meal, I&#8217;m going to give a jaded rating. \u00a0I would rate my experience as [rating:4].<\/p>\n<p>I may have to give this one a more impartial review, but I&#8217;m not itching to drive 35 minutes to have a smoothie and a wrap, so this will have to wait for some future date.<\/p>\n<p>-Matt in Tampa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Smoothie Cafe 1201 4th Street North Saint Petersburg, FL 33701 (727) 821-3100 First, I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,26,197,22,215],"tags":[219,218,358,217,216,221,220],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-enjoyable","category-fast-food","category-mattreview","category-st-petersburg","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-chicken-wrap","tag-chicken","tag-mango","tag-smoothie","tag-tropical-cafe-smoothie","tag-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfton.withbloodandthunder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}