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.
Orlando’s first historic district wraps 38 blocks of brick streets and century-old houses around the city’s signature lake. How the neighborhood’s two halves — the archive and the front yard — work, and how to do them well.
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A flagship hospital founded in 1918, a 54-room boutique hotel and a 1926 train station rim the brick streets. A guide to Delaney Park’s medical edge.
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Brick streets, century oaks and houses from the 1920s to today, gathered around one of Orlando’s oldest parks. How to do Delaney Park well — its park, lakes, tavern and hospital edge.
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A stretch of Curry Ford Road southeast of downtown that developers named for Hourglass Lake — and then filled with a brewery, doughnuts, tamales and MICHELIN-listed pizza. How a deliberate invention became a real neighbourhood.
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A city of 7,000 that is more than half water, incorporated to protect a chain of lakes. How to do Belle Isle well — the ramps, the parks, the piers and the honest limits.
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Brick streets, bungalow porches and a borrowed lake for a front yard: Thornton Park is downtown Orlando with its shoes off. A complete guide to the neighbourhood — its history, its morning-to-midnight circuit, and how to do it well.
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T.G. Lee started a dairy in 1925 with one cow and twenty acres. A century later his plant still anchors Orlando’s most independent neighbourhood. How to do a morning and an evening there properly.
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South of Downtown has quietly become the neighborhood downtown workers actually live in. Here is how to do SoDo well — its corridors, ranked anchors and quiet corners.
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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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Antique Row and lake sunsets or pho and craft beer? Compare Ivanhoe Village and Mills 50, the two indie main streets just north of downtown Orlando.
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