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The Daily City – #48 – Members Only Coffee

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkTRANSCRIPT: Highwoods Properties, Inc  submitted a request for a Major Certificate of Appearance Approval to the Appearance Review Board for the renovation of the Eola Park Centre office building site 200 E. Robinson Street, at the corner of Robinson and Rosalind. Improvements most visible and useful to locals looking for a new place to eat lunch or hang the construction of shade pavilions, increased plaza space, outdoor recreating space.

Gratitude Coffee Shop is now open in College Park at 1307 Edgewater Dr. Hours will be Monday thru Friday 7am-3pm and Saturdays 8am-2pm. The shop will sell coffee, used books, local art, plants and more.  The business had been running as a coffee truck for years.Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #47 – Amazon Rekognition

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkTRANSCRIPT: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will deliver the 2018 State of the City Address August 7th at 10:30am at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The Mayor will share the City’s current and future plans with the community. Locals can watch the presentation live as well as watch the recording of it later at cityoforlando.net.

The new area code for new phone customers in Orange, Osceola, Seminole, and parts of Lake and Volusia counties will be 689 within about 10 months. Customers with the 407 area code will retain it. The new code was supposed to be introduced in 2002 but because of an “aggressive push for number conservation plans,” it wasn’t.Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #46 – Bubble Egg Waffles

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkTRANSCRIPT: 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.

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The Daily City – #45 – Epic Axe Throwing

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkTRANSCRIPT:

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.

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