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.
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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The Dora Canal is a mile of cypress tunnel between two lakes, and Mount Dora runs three good ways into it: a narrated pontoon from the Lakeside Inn dock, the Rusty Anchor, or a two-person catamaran you drive yourself.
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A firehouse-turned-history museum, an 1893 Queen Anne landmark and a downtown museum of Memphis Group design: Mount Dora’s three small museums tell one big story about what the town keeps, and what it collects.
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Mount Dora’s antique trade works at two scales — a walkable downtown of dealers and malls, and Renninger’s 117-acre twin markets out on US-441. How to work both without wasting a weekend.
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More than thirty festivals a year in a town of Mount Dora’s size is not a calendar, it’s a personality. The February arts peak, the Scottish games, blueberry season and the December lights — planned in order.
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Thirty-five feet of red-and-white brick at Grantham Point, built in 1988 as a real aid to navigation — plus the Gilbert Park and Palm Island boardwalk walk that turns a photo stop into Mount Dora’s best hour.
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Opened in 1883 as the Alexander House, the Lakeside Inn has hosted a president, survived demolition talk and kept its rocking chairs facing Lake Dora. A profile of the 143-year-old inn.
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A verandah drink at the Lakeside Inn, the lighthouse at golden hour, then 1921 Mount Dora or the book-lined Goblin Market: the complete Mount Dora date night, an hour from Orlando and a world away.
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No rankings yet — Mount Dora hasn’t been scored — so this is a research-led map instead: the 1921 house, the book-lined Goblin Market, lake-view Pisces Rising, a cellar pub and the cafés in between.
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Forty minutes from downtown Orlando, Mount Dora runs on a different clock: an 1883 inn, a freshwater lighthouse, antique shops on Donnelly Street and a festival nearly every month. How the town works, and how to do it well.
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