Downtown Apopka Mornings: A Coffee House, a Plant-Shop Café and a Friday Night Market
Canon Coffee’s converted house and Propagate Social House’s coffee-and-foliage hybrid anchor the most likeable few blocks in northwest Orange County.
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Downtown
Market Night in St. Cloud: The Last-Wednesday Takeover of New York Avenue
More than a hundred makers and bakers, a young-entrepreneurs season, food trucks and open-late shops: the Downtown Monthly Market is St. Cloud’s modern town square.
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Historic Downtown St. Cloud: A Walking Guide to New York Avenue
Brick storefronts, a 1927 hotel, murals of the Great Fire and a bench of family restaurants: the National Register downtown that the veterans’ colony grew into, block by block.
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Loading… Gastrobrunch: Brunch With Ambition Inside the 1927 Hunter Arms Hotel
Chicken and waffle tacos and Cinni-bun French toast in a Florida land-boom hotel: how Loading… Gastrobrunch became downtown St. Cloud’s destination kitchen.
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Where to Eat in St. Cloud Right Now
A dozen-table Italian room, a steakhouse in a 1909 building, brunch inside a 1927 hotel, barbecue on 13th Street and seafood on the marina: the researched map of St. Cloud’s tables.
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Chimento’s Spaghetti House: The Dozen Tables Downtown St. Cloud Runs On
Family-owned, owner-run and fiercely local, Chimento’s serves the Italian-American canon on New York Avenue to regulars who drive in from two counties away. A profile.
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The Other Lake Mary: A Walk Through the Historic Core
Before the office parks there was a railroad village. Bent’s Station, Crystal Lake and a 1926 museum tell the story downtown still lives in.
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Old Davenport: A 1927 City Hall, a Volunteer Museum and a Blueberry Winery
The National Register historic district, the Historical Society’s museum in the Peter Rust Civic Center, and Polk County’s only winery — the old town, walked properly.
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Suncreek Brewery: The Taproom That Gave Downtown Clermont Its Evening Shift
Clermont’s first craft brewery and distillery has poured on Minneola Avenue since 2018 — part taproom, part community hall, and now the last brewery standing downtown. A profile of the anchor tenant.
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Where to Eat in Clermont Right Now: The Food Hall, the Gastropub and the Main Street Rotation
No rankings have scored Clermont yet — so this is a researched map instead: The Crooked Spoon by the tower, the Montrose Street Market food hall, Pepe’s Cantina, Crafted’s steakhouse room and the Sunday market crowd.
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