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Aurora at the Celeste Hotel, near UCF, serves plates that break the astral plane  Seeing stars Mike Trudnak is incredibly down to earth for someone overseeing a space-themed restaurant. In fact, you'll see him running food directly to guests at the Aurora inside the Celeste Hotel, then chatting with them about the techniques used to prepare those dishes. When Trudnak swung by our table to see how things were going, we posed the same question back to him. "Well, we're short-staffed, so if you don't see a server or the hostess, they're probably running food to a guest in the hotel," he said.

$$ I've got a soft spot for restaurants that opened mid-pandemic, particularly those run by Asian Americans — who, as we all know, have been the target of racist hate, thanks in no small part to the garbage spewed by the former man-baby in chief. Mei's Kitchen, a Taiwanese restaurant in East Orlando, opened in the not-so-merry month of May to very little fanfare, but those who visited for takeout, or ate inside the dining room when it opened back up to the public, knew they had stumbled onto a true find. That dining room, by the way, underwent a thorough de-Orientalizing from its former da...

The very nondescript Crystal Lake Plaza on Curry Ford Road has established itself as a bazaar for bon vivants of sorts, and not just because of "The Beef People" at Winn-Dixie. Over the past few years, Theo's Kitchen, Roque Pub, Papa Llama and JJ's Fresh have all burrowed themselves into the plaza's aging (and affordable) confines, bringing a plurality of flavors to a rapidly diversifying Curry Ford West. In that mix is Uncommon Catering, the boutique company run by Tara Vernau-Smith and her husband, Travis. It originated at East End Market before the couple moved operations here to Camp Cry...

Mirasty had pled guilty to manslaughter last October in connection to the death of 22-year-old Sequin Mooswa in North Battleford. North Battleford RCMP reported that on March 8, 2020, they received a call to conduct a welfare check at a residence on the 1900 block of St. Laurent Drive in North Battleford. There they found Mooswa deceased. Mirasty was originally charged with second degree murder, but ultimately entered a guilty plea to the manslaughter charge. There have been a number of court dates since then and multiple adjournments. For Mirasty’s latest court date, the Crown and defen...

Rob Bair, founder of Tin & Taco and Gringos Locos and el jefe of the downtown taco scene, makes an effort to bring a little South Beach glam to his latest effort — a barbecue beach bar with all the proto-'80s revivalist style of a vaporwave screensaver. Neon Beach is the name, and walking into the downtown haunt had me wishing I still owned a white linen suit, pastel tee and Carrera 5512 aviators. Well, the Carreras anyway. Not throwing, um, shade at Neon Beach, but there are, um, shades of beach-themed taco chain Bartaco here — the whitewashed walls, the light woods, the hanging basket...