Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Downtown is the one part of Orlando where you can leave the car behind — two SunRail stations, a free LYMMO circulator and the region’s bus hub, all within a few blocks. How the pieces fit, and the Sunday catch.
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A sinkhole lake, a 0.9-mile loop, a fountain that became a city’s logo and a Top 5 city-park ranking. Our full profile of the park Orlando is built around — its shores, its history and its calendar.
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Four floors of science in Loch Haven Park, a concert hall that reshapes itself, a lake with a skyline, an 1889 depot and a museum campus under the oaks. Downtown’s day out, for people who think Orlando ends at the theme parks.
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A hand-roll bar with a Bib Gourmand, a 1930s chophouse, a mezcaleria in the North Quarter, tacos on Washington Street and a hotel dining room that still dresses up. The downtown table, set properly.
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CREDO roasts with a conscience on North Orange, Stemma pours espresso over house horchata, and Craft & Common keeps the Lake Eola end bright and unpretentious. Downtown’s three ranked coffee shops, and which one fits your morning.
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AC Sky Bar floats on the 18th floor with tapas and sunset; Aero turns its roof into a nightclub; One80 watches over Church Street from the arena’s roof. Downtown’s ranked rooftops, compared without mercy.
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House-aged prime beef hand-cut to order, a Filet Wellington, Florida seafood, a serious vegan menu and a red-accented room in a 1930s landmark. Why Kres remains downtown’s defining special-occasion dinner — and its smartest power lunch.
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Visitors get Church Street at midnight. Residents get CREDO at eight, the lake at dawn, North Quarter dinners and a farmers-market Sunday. A field guide to telling the two downtowns apart — and crossing over.
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Downtown Orlando hides its best drinks: a parlor behind a bookshelf at Mathers, a password at Hanson’s Shoe Repair, a green door at The Treehouse and a hidden room in the North Quarter. Four dens, four different nights.
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Broadway in the 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater, acoustics in Steinmetz Hall, dinner on Church Street and a nightcap behind a bookcase. The complete downtown evening, built around a curtain time.
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