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The Daily City – #52 – CineMark Baratelli

August 20, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: The City of Orlando Police Department has been given $54,792 to pay for officer overtime to conduct high visibility enforcement campaigns in conjunction with other education efforts to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety within the city. The funds come from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), through a Task Work Order with the University of North Florida. This is part of the Mayors Consent Agenda which goes before City Council for approval Monday August 20th.

The movie theatre at Universal Citywalk will transition from AMC to Cinemark with a grand opening set for September 15th. Moviegoers can expect “Cinemark Luxury Lounger” seats, and one new Cinemark XD auditorium which will bring “expansive wall-to-wall screens, custom-engineered surround sound with multichannel speakers and state-of-the-art projection systems capable of delivering 35 trillion colors.”Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #46 – Bubble Egg Waffles

July 9, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: The steakhouse chain Mannys Chophouse has opened a location in downtown Baldwin Park at 4979 New Broad Street, next door to Colibri Mexican Cuisine. The Mannys Menu is a family friendly collection of basics: buffalo wings, onion rings, potato skins, steaks, seafood, chicken, burgers and chocolate cake. Manny Nikolaidis opened the first Manny’s Original Chophouse® in Haines City, Florida, in 2004. Between 2007 and 2013, Manny opened three more locations in the same part of the state. There’s one Manny’s already in the Central Florida region and that one is located in Altamonte Springs.

A new restaurant called Blended Cafe Bar serving bubble tea, bubble egg waffles, banh mi, bao, coffee, wine and wine cocktails, and craft beer is coming to College Park in a 5,064 sq ft. space at 2306 Edgewater Drive next door to the College Park Diner. One item on the menu, the bubble egg waffle is a dish I’d never heard of. Perhaps if you’re as food-ignorant as I am, you may find the next sentence of value. A bubble egg waffle is an egg-based square waffle divided into giant pull-apart bubble pieces. Hmmm. Blended Cafe Bar will join two other dessert shops along College Park’s Edgewater Drive: Jeremiah’s Italian Ice and Trevi Pasta.

The Daily City – #45 – Epic Axe Throwing

July 1, 2018 By Chris

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Big Time Street Food Co. will open July 4th at at 805 E Washington Street in Thornton Park next door to a laundromat and Burtons Bar and 2 doors down from the soon-to-be-built 2 story half residential half retail building. Big Time Street Food Co. is a self-described food stand serving buffalo cauliflower, fried cheese curds, pesto fries, KFC wings, “The Burton Burger,” hotdogs, salads and three dollar sodas.

Epic Axe Throwing is currently under construction at 47 E. Robinson Street Suites 104 & 105 just two doors down from the newly opened Craft & Commons coffee and gift shop.

Ax throwing is a 2.5 hour, booked-in-advance, $35-$45 group activity for 6 to 24 people recommended for birthday parties, team-building events, bachelor/bachelorette parties, reunions or just a night out with friends. According to Forbes, axe throwing venues are a trend that started in 2011 in Canada. One chain called Urban Axes has locations in Philadelphia, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati and Durham. Tampa already has two. If you want to experience ax throwing before this first Orlando location opens, head to Tampa’s Raider Axe Lodge or Axe Throwing Tampa.

The Daily City – #44 – A Prismatic Upgrade

June 23, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: Orlando Flea is coming September 16th to downtown at Celine Orlando. There will be live music, local eats, full bar and of course a large curated group of local and regional vendors flooding your sense with creativity. Follow the event on instagram for updates at the orlando flea.

The @citybeautiful is going to SHAKE UP the old downtown Information center with the help of the local creative company at Prismatic. The redesigned center will feature a retail shop with locally made goods, a circular information desk, digital walls, large murals by the formally local and internationally known artist Boy Kong and more. The space will expand from 1,950 sq. ft. to 3,800 sq. ft. During construction the Info Center will operate a new temporary location starting Tuesday, July 10 at the CityArts Factory at the corner of Orange Avenue and Pine Street Tuesdays-Fridays from 11 a.m.-5pm.Continue Reading …