Tigress Restaurant & Rooftop Bar atop The Perry Hotel proves that a restaurant equipped with a superb view can also create food as spectacular as the setting.
Situated seven floors up, on the stylish hotel’s roof, it overlooks a vast expanse of the scenic Cocohatchee River out to the gulf, with patches of homes and high rises sprinkled about.
The Tigress’ top toque belongs to Dale Talde – a Filipino American chef/restaurateur who rose to fame as a contestant on “Top Chef,” while opening award-winning restaurants in New York City and writing a cookbook, “Asian-American: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from the Philippines to Brooklyn.” His skillful and self-described “proudly inauthentic” melding of Filipino classics and American comfort food to spectacular effect won him kudos from the likes of the James Beard Foundation, Food & Wine and Esquire magazines…