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.
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 National Register town hall that was moved in 1938, Orange County’s only one-room schoolhouse, a 1911 civic cottage and streets kept unpaved on purpose — a two-hour walk through a century of small-town Florida.
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Every Friday, Town Square Park fills with produce, fresh bread, homemade pasta and local honey in front of the historic Town Hall — a market ranked No. 3 in Orlando with a Net Score of 90.0.
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Denied a permit as a wine bar, Arjun and Sara Kumar built something better — a bottle shop, a public courtyard and a members’ dining room that give Windermere its most serious wine program.
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Born from the lakes and five years in the making, this house-like taproom on Fifth Avenue pours small-batch beer, hosts trivia and live music — and brews a house beer for the pizzeria across the block.
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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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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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The Scialoia family of Dr. Phillips fame opened a wood-fired pizzeria on Main Street in December 2025 — 48-hour dough, handmade pasta, cornetti in the morning — and ended Windermere’s oldest running joke.
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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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