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.
Split by East Colonial Drive into an 1883-platted historic south and a 1911 Highland Grove north, Colonialtown hides its best tables in its houses and its services along the corridor. The complete guide to Orlando’s most residential neighborhood.
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Antique Row on Orange Avenue, ranked tapas and pizza on Virginia Drive, a 45-acre cultural park and the best sunset skyline in Orlando — how to do Ivanhoe Village like a neighbor.
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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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Fort Gatlin, a British citrus colony and a brick highway in 1914 — Conway’s layers run from the Seminole War to the ranch-house lake suburb of today.
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Settled in the 1850s, replanted by British citrus growers and tied to town by a 1914 brick road — Conway is a lakeside suburb that predates the suburban era. How to do it well.
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A boot camp of 650,000 sailors became Orlando’s walkable village of porches, restaurants and a lake loop. How Baldwin Park was built, and how to do it well.
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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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Streets named for colleges, a chain of small lakes and one independent main street — a local’s guide to doing Orlando’s most walkable neighborhood well.
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Records since 1984, two top-five boutiques, a roastery in a gas station, a food hall and a lake at the end of the street. The complete walk down Audubon Park’s award-winning Main Street.
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