Popular bagel chain, The Bagel Dudes (Instagram | Website), will be opening a new location in downtown Orlando. The new outpost will be located in Suite 131 in the 55 West building on Church Street, just behind Crepe Delicious, facing the pedestrian walkway that connects Church to Central, as shown in the image below. The […]
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Posted inArt and Culture, Buildings, Civics and Participation, Coming and Going, Real Estate, Winter Park
Winter Park Playhouse looking for new home
After 21 years of operating out of the same space on Orange Avenue, the Winter Park Playhouse is being forced to find a new home. The Winter Park Playhouse (Website) has been located at 711 N. Orange Avenue [GMap] since it first opened in 2002. The non-profit organization is billed as the only professional musical […]
Posted inBuildings, Coming and Going, Milk District, Retail
Milk District’s tiniest building gets new tenant
Kick Bright Shop and Buttons (Instagram | Website) is now open at 2436 Robinson Street [GMap]. The building could be hard to find though if you’ve never been to a Milk District event or screamed at the sky at The Nook. It’s located in a small blue block building in the back of the parking […]
Posted inComing and Going, Downtown, Food & Drink, I Wish This Was, I Wish This Was
I Wish This Was … an incubator kitchen
“I Wish This Was” is a semi-regular series that transforms ignored, vacant lots and properties in Orlando into something the City Beautiful can be proud of. A prime, second-generation restaurant space in downtown Orlando has sat vacant for almost three years now, and it doesn’t look like it will be occupied any time soon. And there […]
Posted inApartments, Church Street, Crime, Featured, News
Crime at 55 West continues to cause problems downtown
Orlando Sentinel‘s Trevor Fraser shared a story in late February about a particular apartment building in downtown Orlando that has been making a name for itself for all the wrong reasons. Fraser’s piece shared some troubling testimonials from people who live at 55 West (Website) in the Church Street District painting vivid pictures of people […]
Posted inComing and Going, Downtown, Food & Drink, People
Papi Smash Burger now open downtown
Papi Smash Burger (Instagram) opened for business in downtown Orlando on March 3. The popular Caribbean-influenced food truck, headed by Chef Christopher Hernandez, has opened a new brick-and-mortar location at 68 E. Pine Street [GMap] in the former home of Jimmy Hula’s. The menu features Hernandez’s take on boozy milkshakes (including a coquito one), burgers, and smashburgers […]
Posted inEvents, People, Sports, West Orlando
Brahmas beat Guardians in home opener
The Orlando Guardians lost to the San Antonio Brahmas this Sunday in the Guardians’ home opener here in Orlando. An estimated crowd of 12,000 people watched the Guardians rake in 13 penalties and lose 30-12 at the Camping World Stadium, which can hold roughly 65,000 people on a busier day (like Monster Jam). Coach Terrell […]
Posted inCivics and Participation, Downtown, Featured, Food & Drink, Quality of Life
City Hall launching new mobile food cart pilot program
The City of Orlando is launching a new Mobile Food Cart Pilot Program in the Downtown Entertainment Area/Central Business District. Orlando City Council unanimously approved the pilot program which will allow for up to 12 mobile food carts to operate downtown between the hours of 6 p.m. and 2:30 a.m., seven days a week. The […]
Posted inCollege Park, Coming and Going, Eyes on the Street, People, Retail
Eyes on the Street: Guitar Factory in College Park is closed
We often get photographs and tips from our Bungalower readers of things that are happening around town, so we have started featuring them on the site in a series called “Eyes on the Street,” in honor of our favorite urbanist Jane Jacobs. Hello, don’t know if you heard but the Guitar Factory in college park on edgewater […]
Posted inCivics and Participation, Downtown, Food & Drink, Quality of Life
City District Main Street releases downtown “Safety Survey” in response to city hall policy shift
The City District Main Street (Website) has just released an online survey to help gauge perceptions Orlandoans may have with the downtown core in response to recent policies and ordinances coming out of Orlando City Hall. As we recently shared HERE, the mayor’s office is looking to put two new ordinances into place that will […]
Posted inCivics and Participation, Downtown, Food & Drink, News, Quality of Life
Alliance of bar owners downtown pitch surcharge to pay for added officers
Following a sudden push by City Hall to shift the bill for added police officers away from the city and onto downtown bars located in the Central Business District/Downtown Entertainment Area, a group of downtown operators is clapping back with a proposal to levy a new 5% surcharge to help with the added costs and […]
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Virginia Drive Live returns on February 11
The Mills 50 and Ivanhoe Village Main Streets will host their annual joint event, Virginia Drive Live, on Saturday, February 11 from 5-9 p.m. The event features pop-up vendors and musicians along Virginia Drive between Orange and Mills avenues between the two districts (though primarily in Ivanhoe Village), as well as a pub crawl component […]
Posted inAbout Bungalower, Events, Featured, Food & Drink, Orlando, Photos, Video
PHOTOS: Faded Kingdom beer festival
Tactical Brewing (Website) and Brewed Events (Instagram) hosted their inaugural Faded Kingdom beer festival this past Saturday at the cul-de-sac by World of Beer – Downtown and an estimated 1,000 people attended with countless lookee-loos peering at the event through the bushes in adjacent Lake Eola Park. The event showcased over 40 breweries from across the country in […]
Posted inCivics and Participation, Downtown, Featured, Food & Drink, News, Quality of Life
City Council passes first reading of downtown bar ordinances
Orlando City Council voted to move forward today on two ordinances that could potentially change the game for downtown bar and nightclub operators. We told you HERE that city staff had been workshopping some possible ordinances that would make it more difficult to operate nightclubs past midnight without a set of required safety measures in […]
Posted inArt and Culture, Buildings, Civics and Participation, Real Estate, Winter Park
City of Winter Park staffers urge commission to vote no on proposed redevelopment of old library
The City of Winter Park has been courting a proposal to convert its former public library building at at 460 E. New England Avenue [GMap] into a new wellness-focused incubator of sorts, but city staffers are now urging commissioners to reject the project at an upcoming public meeting. The City of Winter Park issued a Request For Proposals […]