The most fabulous 10 days of dining in Orlando begins today — and although all the participating restaurants are offering fantastic deals and menus, I've picked my top 10 dinners to help you do your planning. That's one for every night!
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Restaurant Week starts TODAY! My top 10 picks, plus two bonus lunches
more meals on wheels: upcoming food truck events
Just a quick dispatch from the Tuesday trenches: There are two big food truck festivals happening soon (Sunday and next Tuesday), and a new weekly food truck pod in Maitland starting tonight.
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And speaking of roach coaches … UPDATED
The origin of the "buggy nugget" has been revealed.
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Big Wheel Mobile food truck opens for business today
Chefs Tony Adams and Tim Lovero bring local, lovely lunch to downtown Orlando today! Visit the Big Wheel truck at the corner of Orange Avenue and Washington Street — starting Wednesday, March 16, they’ll be there from 11:30 to 2:30 weekdays. If you can’t make it downtown for lunch, they’re planning late-night hours Thursday...
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grease is in the air
Congrats and lucky you: Orlando has been named Fast Food Capital of the United States. PROUD, PROUD MOMENT. I’m wiping away a tear. No wait, that’s ranch dressing. The Daily Beast compiled a list of the top 40 fast-food-chain-havin’ cities by comparing number of fast-food outlets to population, so rest assured: We EARNED it....
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Local theater: Launch 2011 ends this weekend
There’s still time to catch Launch 2011, a micro-festival of short plays by local playwrights sponsored by Playwrights Round Table. This year Launch features works from seven local writers (Stephen Miller, Sandra Lacey, Jamie Cline, Al Pergande, George Loukides, Andy Haynes and David Strauss) and the plots are all over the place: One of...
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simplifried is on your side
Two sites to get you cooking, whether you're a newbie or a zombie
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eddie “four loko” huang serving bao in orlando!
Chef Eddie Huang (of the infamous zero-star New York Times review) will be cooking at his parents' Orlando restaurant Sunday.
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more holiday books! hurry hurry!
A few books that didn’t make it into my gift guide: How to Cook a Wolf, M.F.K. Fisher: It may seem old-fashioned — and it is, with its WWII focus on cooking around food rationing and keeping a Victory garden — but reading about techniques used before microwaves, food processors and bread makers were...
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7-Eleven doing it wrong
Proof: banh mi are SO OVER. *
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