OPENINGS & CLOSINGS:
Indigo Road Hospitality Group, the Charleston-based firm behind such regional chains as Oak Steakhouse, O-Ku Sushi, Indaco and Colleta, will take over the Park Avenue Tavern space in Hannibal Square. The space is currently being gutted to receive new flooring, lighting, finishes, furniture and bar. Rumor has it the space will be an Oak Steakhouse, but the group has not confirmed it … Tamale Co. Modern Mexican Kitchen & Bar has opened at 2401 Edgewater Drive in College Park, well ahead of its original opening date of Cinco de Mayo … Taco’s Lab, where “every bite is an experiment in flavor,” has opened in the former King Bao space at 1881 W. Fairbanks Ave. in Winter Park … Perkins Restaurant & Bakery is now Perkins American Food Co. and has opened its newly designed 3,500-square-foot flagship restaurant in the former La Boucherie space at 7625 Turkey Lake Road. Along with a reimagined menu, booze is also being offered.
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Speaking of booze, Noir Bar, located through a secret door next to the recently opened Talay at 861 N. Orange Ave., is now pouring Thai-inspired craft cocktails and serving small plates in a striking black-and-gold setting … Tabla Indian Cafe & Sweets, serving breakfast and lunch items as well as sweet drinks and Indian sweets like ladoo, burfi, pakiza and Punjabi cham-cham, has opened next to the restaurant at 5829 Grand National Drive … GEO-82, billed as an “adult-exclusive lounge,” will open inside EPCOT’s Spaceship Earth later this year. “Globally influenced small plates” and “innovative cocktails” will be served amid views of EPCOT’s World Celebration gardens and World Showcase Lagoon.
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Craft & Common, the cute downtown coffee and sandwich shop, has opened a second location at the newly built Stonewood Plaza at 20 Alexandria Blvd. near the intersection of North Alafaya Trail and East Mitchell Hammock Road in Oviedo … Brewlando has opened its Maitland and Sanford locations, the former at Maitland City Centre and the latter at 400 Sanford Ave. The Sanford location, with its 3- and 15-barrel systems, will serve as the brewery’s “innovation hub” … After 15 years, Downtown Pourhouse at 20 S. Orange Ave. has closed.
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This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2025.