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.
No gate, no wristband — CityWalk is free to enter, parking is free after 6 p.m., and dinner, a movie and mini-golf make a full night of it. Here’s the math and the route.
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When the park crowds go home, CityWalk’s upper level wakes up — Rising Star, Pat O’Brien’s, The Groove, Red Coconut Club and the rest of the strip, venue by venue.
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A wood-fired dinner, dueling pianos or karaoke with a live band, and a pink doughnut box at midnight — CityWalk assembles into a complete date night with free parking after 6.
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Consensus dinners, two themed mini-golf courses, escape rooms and the doughnut throne — how to run Universal CityWalk as a family evening, not a walk to the car.
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Fifty-plus doughnuts, a walk-up milkshake counter, ice cream and cinnamon rolls — CityWalk after dinner is a dessert district, and the pink box is its flag.
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Cherry, pecan and oak, a lakeside-lodge room and s’mores finished at your table — Bigfire is CityWalk’s serious dinner, and its smoke is the real thing.
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Half sushi bar, half burger grill, and home to the Burgushi — The Cowfish is the CityWalk restaurant built to end the group-dinner argument.
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The smokestacks are theater, but the kitchen underneath them is serious — a full savory menu, roaming characters and milkshakes built like architecture.
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Wood-fired steaks, a steampunk chocolate factory, sushi-burger fusion and tableside guacamole — CityWalk’s twenty-plus kitchens, sorted into the order we’d book them.
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Most visitors walk through CityWalk on the way to somewhere else. That is a waste of a 30-acre dining and nightlife district that charges nothing to enter — here is how to do it as the destination.
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