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Tampa Korean Guide

FRI public-record essay for korean restaurants in Tampa.

Tampa's Korean scene separates into public-record tiers by licence age and menu format, defined in the classification legend below. FRI classifies format and discipline from public records only. It does not infer cultural ownership from names; owner/operator references are limited to Sunbiz and DBPR entities.

Updated 2026-09-30 15:09 UTC

By FRI Editorial Desk ยท Classification guide

Price and service-format claims are withheld. License seating, OSS category, and chain footprint are not observed menu prices; a future price analysis must use sourced menu/check data and local-market normalization.

Validated open entries 23 ยท ยท
Confirmed closures 0 ยท ยท
Inspection/safety overlays 7 ยท ยท
Filtered candidates 0 ยท ยท
High-turnover addresses 2 ยท ยท

Classification Legend

Moderate

No other signal matched. The default tier, not a middling score -- most venues land here because the public record simply says little about format.

Tradition-Focused

A named traditional format appears in the record -- sushi, ramen, bbq, tandoor, dosa, kimchi or pho. A menu signal, not a claim about authenticity or ownership.

Modern Creative

The record describes the venue as fusion or modern, and no earlier rule matched.

FRI does not infer cultural ownership from names. Classifications are based on public-record entity, license age, category, and format signals.

Moderate

2016

Sarione Restaurant

3940 W Cypress St, Tampa

Chef/operator credit from public record: SARIONE RESTAURANT 1.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range. Emergency-order history: 1 event(s) (Temperature violations (storage)).

2016

Soul of Korean

7612 N 56 St, Tampa

Chef/operator credit from public record: SOO CHEA CHUNG.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range. Emergency-order history: 1 event(s) (No restrooms).

2016

One Family Korean Restaurant

7030 B Hillsborough Ave, Tampa

Chef/operator credit from public record: ONE FAMILY TAMPA INC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is running 3.3x the peer alert threshold.

2026

Yumsem Eats

11802 Bruce B Downs Blvd Unit 103, Tampa

Chef/operator credit from public record: KFNR GROUP LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is elevated at 1.5x the peer alert threshold.

2025

Sweet Krunch Korean Fried Chicken

  • Unverified

1520 E 7 Ave, Tampa

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2023

Bb.q Chicken

  • Unverified

3805 Northdale Blvd, Tampa

FSQ popularity 0.99

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2024

Gangchu

6618 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa

FSQ popularity 0.97

Chef/operator credit from public record: RNLK LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2026

Bimbimgo & Mochinut

25704 Sierra Center Blvd, Lutz

Chef/operator credit from public record: BIMBIMGO & MOCHINUT LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2026

Bonchon of Wesley Chapel

27093 Halter Loop, Wesley Chapel

Chef/operator credit from public record: KYROMINA LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2026

Dosi Rak

1441 E Fletcher Ave #133, Tampa

Chef/operator credit from public record: DOSI.RAK LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Tradition-Focused

2025

Matjoa House

8568 Gunn Hwy, Odessa

Chef/operator credit from public record: NEXTWAVE DINING CONCEPT LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is elevated at 1.1x the peer alert threshold.

2017

Kogi Grill

  • Unverified

7161 Ulmerton Rd, Largo

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2016

Manna Korean Japanese Restaurant

3970 Tampa Rd Unit Q, Oldsmar

Chef/operator credit from public record: MANNA PARK ,LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2020

Korean Bbq

4500 Park Blvd, Pinellas Park

Chef/operator credit from public record: SUN SIK SAE.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2023

4ks Bbq & Catering

721 Lakeview Rd, Clearwater

Chef/operator credit from public record: KEON M WILLIAMS.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2025

Bb.q Chicken Ppark

  • Unverified

7860 Us Hwy 19 N, Pinellas Park

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

2024

Sweet Krunch Fried Chicken

1832 Bruce B Downs, Wesley Chapel

Chef/operator credit from public record: SWEET KRUNCH WESLEY CHAPEL LLC.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Modern Creative

2024

Bonchon

  • Unverified

2320 E Fletcher Ave, Tampa

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range. Emergency-order history: 1 event(s) (Roach activity).

2022

Emone

  • Unverified

2080 Badlands Dr, Brandon

Chef/operator credit from public record: not resolved.

Takeout & Markets entry; inspection severity is within the typical peer range.

Methodology and Audit

Entries clear the FRI cascade on DBPR status, closure vetting, and cuisine attribution. Identity enrichment (DBPR/OSS/Sunbiz name agreement, geocoded address, city/county consistency, plus cached Google/Foursquare/Yelp verifier context) refines a listing but is no longer a publish gate: a DBPR record that fails only enrichment is still shown rather than dropped. A record that cannot be matched to an identity is marked "Unverified DBPR Record" and its unverified corporate/website/social attribution is withheld; a record that cannot be geocoded is recorded as un-located. Failures and enrichment levels are written to output/cuisine_essay_audit.parquet for operator review.

23 of 23 candidate evaluations published (100.0%); 7 marked unverified (no identity match), 2 recorded as un-located (no geocode). Audit log: output/cuisine_essay_audit.parquet.

Data sources: FRI Cuisine Essays. Built from DBPR public inspection records, Florida Sunbiz business filings, and Foursquare/OSS location data. All counts are derived from public records โ€” no estimates or projections unless labeled as forecast.

Time-series forecasts and anomaly detection use NVIDIA NV-Tesseract. Model output is labeled separately from official records.

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