Two Top-Ten Coffee Shops, One Road: Alafaya’s Caffeine Corridor
Vespr (No. 4, 92.3) is the specialty laboratory; DUO58 (No. 10, 91.5) is the philanthropic community table. Alafaya Trail holds both — here is how to use them.
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Breakfast in Mount Dora: Cody’s on 4th, a Balcony Café and the Slow-Morning Rules
Quiche and French toast casserole at Cody’s, coffee above Donnelly Street at One Flight Up, and the inn verandah for the unhurried: how Mount Dora does the first meal, before the antique shops open.
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Paloma Parlor: Windermere’s Coffee Shop Grows Into Its Name
After eight years as Paloma Coffee Co., the Hoyo family’s Main Street cafe has moved into the historic Parramore House as Paloma Parlor — scratch syrups, grass-fed milk, and now ice cream.
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Dixie Cream Cafe Is Windermere’s Front Porch
Since 2010, this Main Street cafe in a 1950s saw-tooth-roofed building has served scratch breakfast and lunch — brisket hash, oatmeal brûlée, homemade pies — to a town that treats it as its living room.
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Breakfast and Coffee on Plant Street: Rosallie, Axum, Foxtail and the Morning Crowd
A French café, a for-purpose coffee shop and a local roastery walk into one brick street — Winter Garden mornings are better caffeinated than most.
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Mills 50 Runs on Coffee: Haan, Qreate and the District That Roasts Its Own
Orlando’s No. 1 coffee shop, a photo-studio café and a bench of independent roasters sit within a few blocks of East Colonial Drive. This is Mills 50’s coffee culture, cup by cup.
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The Best Coffee in Orlando Right Now
From the roaster that started it all to the downtown workhorse, a thoroughly caffeinated ranking of the cafes that built Orlando’s serious coffee scene.
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