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.
The Senator, a roughly 3,500-year-old cypress, was lost to fire in 2012. Its companion Lady Liberty, about 2,000 years old, still stands at the end of Big Tree Park’s boardwalk in Longwood — along with The Senator’s clone, The Phoenix.
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Ranked barbecue and craft beer, a Korean institution since 1982, lakefront Italian since 1980, and a deep SR 434 bench — Longwood’s dining corridors reward anyone who eats where the locals do.
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The Longwood 4 Rivers Smokehouse — the group’s third location and home of its original Sweet Shop — holds the No. 6 spot in our Orlando BBQ rankings on brisket, burnt ends and the Texas Destroyer.
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Built in 1885 as a Boston architect’s Queen Anne winter cottage, saved from demolition by a 1973 move from Altamonte Springs, the Bradlee-McIntyre House is now the museum at the heart of Longwood’s historic district.
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Founded in 2012 in a 12-seat tasting room, Hourglass Brewing is now a 200-plus-seat Longwood taproom with a glass-walled brewhouse, a barrel program and a No. 8 ranking among the region’s best craft breweries.
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Arrive by SunRail, start at the clock tower, and walk a National Register district of 1880s cottages, a moved Queen Anne mansion and a church from about 1880 — Longwood’s historic core in one unhurried hour.
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Thirty lakes, seventeen parks, a sculpture garden around City Hall and a ranked brewery on SR 436: how Casselberry — Seminole County’s fern-born crossroads city — actually works, and how to do it well.
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Before the guard gates and fairways, Heathrow’s muck grew celery for Chun King. How Jeno Paulucci — who sold his pizza-roll empire in 1985 — turned Seminole County farmland into a gated community the same year.
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Two top-ten steakhouses, a wood-fired seafood landmark and a TownPark full of range — the honest map of Lake Mary’s restaurant scene.
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Lake Mary’s secret is that it has two centers — a historic downtown around Central Park and the TownPark dining district by I-4. Here is how to do both well.
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