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Astor, FL · Food & Drink
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Families Drive For Hours For The Fried Chicken At This Old Florida Restaurant In Kissimmee
Deer heads, rooster figurines, and fishing rods watch over the fried chicken here. The chicken itself gets marinated first, then coated in a blend of spices before it hits the fryer. That secret blend is the part that gets me. I like how a family-run kitchen can keep one recipe...
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This Charming Orlando Tea Room Brings A Taste Of Britain To Florida With Its Delicious Scones
Every guest gets their own teapot, and the refills of loose-leaf tea never stop. That alone made me sit up straight. Then I learned there are more than a dozen blends to try. The lineup includes names like Buckingham Palace, Butterscotch, and Pumpkin Pie. A Certified Tea Sommelier picks every one of them.
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Milk District Food Truck Albatross Stuffs French Baguettes With Silk Road Spice
Albatross, a new collaboration from Giovanny Artiga, Eliot Hillis and Seth Parker, is preparing to bring a French-style doner sandwich to Milk District events. Its menu draws on Silk Road spices and dishes spanning ancient and contemporary food traditions. As Orlando Weekly reported, the centerpiece is Big Bread, a French-style...
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Steak Sandwiches Have Been Stacked High At This Old-School Florida Sub Shop Since The 1950s
Acrylic letters on a menu board were the first clue that lunch was about to get a lot more interesting than planned. From the road, the little building looked like just another quick stop on a busy Florida avenue, the kind you pass a hundred times without a second glance.
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Marco’s Pizza Opens Operations Center in Orlando
Orlando, Fla. — Marco’s Pizza, one of the nation’s fastest-growing pizza brands, celebrates the opening of its Operations Center of Excellence in downtown Orlando, Fla. The center provides franchisees with a hands-on place to train and creates an operational hub that helps support systemwide growth. “Great brands...
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Solita Tacos Abruptly Closes Downtown Orlando Restaurant
Solita Tacos & Margaritas has closed its downtown Orlando restaurant at 222 S. Orange Avenue after nearly four years in business. The restaurant, located on the ground floor of The Exchange on Orange building at Church Street, closed Friday, October 23. Solita opened in December 2022 in the former Wahlburgers...
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Trader Joe's Eyes Colonial Drive Spot Next to Target for Sixth Orlando Store
Trader Joe's has filed building permits with the City of Orlando to convert a former Burlington store at 3001 E. Colonial Drive into its next Central Florida grocery store, tucked inside Colonial Marketplace between a SuperTarget and an LA Fitness. The proposed 12,500-square-foot location sits west of Orlando Fashion Square Mall, and if it moves forward, it would mark the specialty grocer's sixth store in the Metro Orlando area.
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Parramore Market opens Oct. 28
It started with 20 turkeys. That’s how Jennifer Desir Hillaire describes the humble beginnings of the Parramore Market, which opens to the public on Oct. 28. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 27, Hillaire said that serving a Thanksgiving meal to 80 people in 2020 was the inspiration for the 5,000 sq. ft. grocery store.
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We Came for the Amish Ice Cream but This Florida Shop’s Biscoff Menu Stole the Show
What if I told you one of Orlando’s most tempting dessert spots is hiding in a little shopping plaza near UCF? And we’re not talking about ordinary ice cream. Imagine thick, velvety Amish-style scoops buried under layers of Biscoff cookie butter, warm bubble waffles dripping with pistachio chocolate, and sundaes so loaded you’ll have trouble finding the ice cream underneath.
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Firebirds Wood Fired Grill Location Proposed for Orlando Vineland Outlets Area
The chain known for hand-cut steaks and fresh catch seafood is growing in the South. Garnett Station Partners looks to be pursuing a new Firebirds Wood Fired Grill location at 11506 Regency Village Drive. The company continues to favor the Florida market following their Jacksonville debut. An opening date has not yet been set.
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You Better Hurry If You Want to Try the Honey Lime Chipotle Chicken Sandwich at Aquatica Orlando
We tried the limited-time Honey Lime Chipotle Sandwich (officially the Honey Lime Chipotle Chicken Sandwich Platter) at Mango Market in Aquatica Orlando. This limited-time menu item will not be around for long (we think). Chicken sandwiches aren’t exactly plentiful at Aquatica Orlando, so a new one at Mango Market caught...
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The All-You-Can-Eat Mexican Buffet In Florida That Locals Can’t Stop Raving About
Somewhere in Orlando, there’s a Mexican restaurant that makes people forget they ever had lunch plans anywhere else. El Patron Restaurante Mexicano is the kind of place that turns a regular Tuesday into something worth talking about, and locals have been spreading the word for good reason. You know...
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The Fresh Doughnuts At These 8 Small-Town Florida Bakeries Have Locals Lining Up Every Morning
Some of the best doughnuts in Florida are not found in big cities or at national chains. They come from small-town shops where the fryers start before sunrise and the cases can look pretty empty by late morning. This list covers eight of those places, from a Gulf Coast island...