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6 days ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
“Sumer is icumen in,” goes one of the oldest songs in our language, and with it, various celebrations and festivals also are a’comin.
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1 week ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
Sysco, a major food distributor, lowered its sales growth projection for 2025, citing factors like wildfires, weather, and weakening consumer confidence. Brevard County restaurateurs are bracing for the impact of tariffs and rising costs on imported goods and supplies. Some restaurant owners express hope that the situation will improve, while others are taking a "wait-and-see" approach.
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3 weeks ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
Lyn DowlingFor FLORIDA TODAYThe story of Mystic Lobster Roll Company in Cocoa Village is a tale of two restaurants, or maybe more. We traveled there with much anticipation, for it’s not often that a restaurant makes lobster its signature item and takes on, we were told, the feel of one of those lovely restaurants Down the Shore to which you brought your family after a hot day sunning at, say, Lavalette or Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
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1 month ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
Lyn DowlingFor FLORIDA TODAYHere we go again. In the early days of FLORIDA TODAY’s Facebook group, 321 Flavor: Where Brevard Eats, just about every week you could find an argument about “authentic” ethnic or ethnic-style dishes and why said dishes were fakes because they were nothing like what the poster got at Grandma’s house or their favorite restaurant Up North. Never mind that even the smallest countries may have vast culinary differences, region to region or even neighborhood to neighborhood.
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1 month ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
What a pleasant surprise El Tesoro Cocina Mexicana has turned out to be. Granted, our expectations weren’t high, considering the history of its location, in what started as Uno Pizzeria & Grill near I-95 in Viera and since its demise, became Where Restaurants Went to Die. And it took El Tesoro some time to transform the place into the bright, immaculate, cheerful Tex-Mex restaurant it has become. Cease all doubts.
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1 month ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
Scott Earick remembers in vivid detail the night the restaurants closed. “We got the news at 4:45 p.m. on March 20, 2020, as we were just getting ready to open (Scott’s on Fifth in Indialantic) for our busiest night, a Friday,” he says. “The governor announced that all restaurants, and some other businesses, had to close, immediately.
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1 month ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
As we entered Nomad's Canteen, the phone rang, a call from a restaurateur who was supposed to have joined us but couldn’t. He had been to the restaurant, through, and said all he needed to know about it, he could tell by the table. “Typical Mexican restaurant dishes,” he said. “Multicolored and ready for tacos.”So they were, but that was not all there was to Nomad’s.
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2 months ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
As the old Irish song says, get you ready, quick and soon. Lá Fhéile Pádraig is about to be celebrated at Walt Disney World, as well as at local venues. It is that, in Gaelic, because Raglan Road, one of Disney Springs’ mainstays, is a pub and restaurant owned by two actual Irishmen, John Cooke and Paul Nolan; general-managed by another, Rachael Conroy, who grew up in Tullamore; and visited often by Brevardians.
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2 months ago | 
floridatoday.com | Amber Olesen |Lyn Dowling
Amber Olesen and Lyn DowlingFlorida TodayIn March 2020, Governor DeSantis ordered Florida restaurants to close dining rooms to slow the spread of COVID-19, allowing only takeout and delivery services. Many restaurants adapted by offering special takeout menus, outdoor dining, crowdfunding campaigns, and even grocery delivery. The pandemic led to staffing shortages and financial strain, forcing many restaurants to close permanently. March 20, 2020.
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2 months ago | 
floridatoday.com | Lyn Dowling
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