If anyone could spice up The Kapok Tree gala’s storybook, it would be Aaron Fodiman. A serial entrepreneur, he purchased an entire restaurant chain that included three Kapok Trees in Florida ...

Editor: When I learned of the closing of the Kapok Tree Restaurant, I felt a profound ... stepped off the plane into the glorious spring of Florida. Perhaps I fell in love with the Kapok because ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA ... wrote on a Facebook post dedicated to the history of the Kapok Tree Inn. The Colonnade was a seafood restaurant that opened in 1935, offering a Colonnade original ...

June Baumgardner Gelbart, who began the Kapok Tree restaurant with her ... contributor to Menorah Manor and the Tampa Bay Holocaust Museum, now the Florida Holocaust Museum. She sponsored the ...