Florida

Some restaurants get passed down like family heirlooms, celebrated at birthdays, engagements, retirements, and every milestone in between.…

By David Coleman · Aug 15

Driving through Florida means passing plenty of hand-painted signs promising fresh oranges and hot boiled peanuts. Some of…

By David Coleman · Aug 14

Florida is famous for its packed boardwalks and busy resort strips, but the state still hides plenty of…

By David Coleman · Aug 14

Florida has a special kind of seafood spot that skips the fancy tablecloths and goes straight for the…

By David Coleman · Aug 14

Somewhere in North Central Florida, tucked among towering trees and a slow-moving river, sits a set of springs…

By David Coleman · Aug 14

There is a corner of Florida where brick streets, wrought-iron balconies, and old bakery buildings tell a story…

By David Coleman · Aug 14

Along a busy country road in Florida sits a set of stone and iron remains that once powered…

By David Coleman · Aug 14

Some retirees spend years hunting for a place where the pace slows down and the neighbors actually wave…

By David Coleman · Aug 13

Some people plan an entire trip around a single sandwich. In one Tampa neighborhood, folks map their route…

By David Coleman · Aug 13

Some meals are worth a short trip across town. Others convince people to climb into the car and…

By David Coleman · Aug 13

Just off the buzz of Highway 192 in Kissimmee, where theme parks pull most of the crowds, sits…

By David Coleman · Aug 13

Somewhere in Orlando sits a shopping destination so big that people pull out their phones just to find…

By David Coleman · Aug 13

Some restaurants come and go with the seasons, but a handful in South Florida have quietly kept their…

By David Coleman · Aug 13

Just a short drive from the theme parks and the crowded strips full of chain restaurants, there is…

By David Coleman · Aug 12

Barrier island roads have a way of tempting you off course, and one turn near Siesta Key village…

By David Coleman · Aug 12

Somewhere in central Florida, there is a place where cypress trees have stood for a thousand years, dark…

By David Coleman · Aug 12

Somewhere along a quiet stretch of Duncan Road in southwest Florida sits a weathered little building that most…

By David Coleman · Aug 12

Some of the best seafood along Florida’s Forgotten Coast hides on a second-floor deck where fishing boats slide…

By David Coleman · Aug 12

Some of the best meals in Florida hide along quiet stretches of two-lane road, in towns most travelers…

By David Coleman · Aug 12

Some Florida spots trade on fancy menus and modern design, and then there is a wooden roadside stand…

By David Coleman · Aug 11

Some counters win people over one order at a time, and this one has quietly turned first-time drop-ins…

By David Coleman · Aug 11

Some of the best seafood in Florida does not come with cloth napkins or a fancy dining room.…

By David Coleman · Aug 11

Some meals are worth a short drive. Others are worth clearing your whole afternoon, gassing up the car,…

By David Coleman · Aug 11

Some of the tastiest seafood in Florida shows up not on fine china but inside a cardboard box…

By David Coleman · Aug 11

Most people who cross central Florida stick to the highways lined with the same familiar chain signs, never…

By David Coleman · Aug 11

Some meals are worth rearranging a whole trip around, and there’s a weathered little smokehouse near St. Petersburg…

By David Coleman · Aug 10

There is a spot in central Florida where rolling green pastures stretch toward the horizon and horses graze…

By David Coleman · Aug 10

Some road trips end with a meal you keep talking about for weeks, and this one lands right…

By David Coleman · Aug 10

Somewhere in central Florida sits a small city where a house that is ready to move into can…

By David Coleman · Aug 10

There is a stretch of Hollywood Beach where the water laps against an old dock, and a former…

By David Coleman · Aug 10

Some meals are good, and some meals stick with you long after the plates are cleared. Along a…

By David Coleman · Aug 10

There is a place in South Florida so large that regulars suggest snapping a photo of the entrance…

By David Coleman · Aug 9

Some winter mornings in Central Florida, the water fills up with hundreds of round, gray shapes drifting quietly…

By David Coleman · Aug 9

Somewhere in a quiet corner of Winter Garden, tucked into a modest strip mall off a road you…

By David Coleman · Aug 9

There is a barbecue stop just past the Florida line that keeps road trippers turning around for a…

By David Coleman · Aug 9

Tucked away in a quiet corner of central Florida sits a place where century-old locomotives still roll along…

By David Coleman · Aug 9

Some of the best food in Florida hides in towns you might zip right past on the highway.…

By David Coleman · Aug 9

Some meals stick with you because the fish practically swam to your plate. Along a working waterfront in…

By David Coleman · Aug 8

Some of the best meals in Florida hide behind screen doors and hand-painted signs, far from the tourist…

By David Coleman · Aug 8