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Food
Restaurant Roundup: Meet your new favorite Lakeland restaurants
Dining in Lakeland is always a fresh experience, with new restaurants popping up all the time — and more on the way.
October 16, 2025 04:12 PM
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Staff
A hand holds a starfruit pastry in front of a paper bag with "Bandidas" written on it.
Food
Eat down the street: Edgewood Drive restaurants
Discover one of Lakeland’s hidden gems or try a local favorite restaurant for the first time on the next street in this series.
October 22, 2024
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Connor Jacobson
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A Lakelander’s travel guide to Boston, MA
Find out what to do and where to stay in one of the top new destinations Avelo Airlines will fly to from Lakeland.
October 1, 2024
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Amelia Grooms
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Travel and Outdoors
A Lakelander’s travel guide to Rochester, NY
Find out what to do and where to stay in one of the top new destinations Avelo Airlines will fly to from Lakeland.
September 19, 2024
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Amelia Grooms
The exterior of a white and black building on North Massachusetts Avenue in Lakeland. A sign reads "The Yard on Mass."
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What should come next to the former Yard on Mass space?
The City of Lakeland’s Community Redevelopment Agency is on the hunt for the next tenant to take over the space on North Massachusetts Avenue.
August 30, 2024
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Amelia Grooms
The exterior entrance of S&L Restaurant in Lakeland. Signs painted on the building read, "Warning! Our burgers are habit forming!"
Food
Eat down the street: Combee Road restaurants
Discover a hidden gem or try a local favorite restaurant for the first time in this series.
August 29, 2024
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Connor Jacobson
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Culture
Reader recommendations for “third places” around Lakeland
We asked our followers where their “third place” was in Lakeland — here are the spots they called out.
August 14, 2024
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Amelia Grooms
The reflection of the Uptown Charlotte skyline is seen in the water of a pond surrounded by trees.
Travel and Outdoors
A Lakelander’s travel guide to Charlotte, NC
Find out what to do and where to stay in one of the next destinations Avelo Airlines will fly to from Lakeland.
August 14, 2024
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Amelia Grooms
A cuban sandwich with avocado.
Food
The Cuban sandwich’s connection to Florida and where to get one in Lakeland
This classic Florida menu item was created just down the road in Ybor City — since then, it’s become a favorite for Lakelanders on lunch.
August 1, 2024
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Katelyn Lewis
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Food
Drink through the rainbow at these Lakeland establishments
You’ve never learned Roy G. Biv like this before.
July 25, 2024
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Amelia Grooms
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Business
The 25-year history of Lakeland’s oldest coffee shop
Mitchell’s Coffee Shop has been serving up coffee and gourmet food since 1998. See what inspired the coffee shop’s founder to open the first shop of its kind in Lakeland 25 years ago.
July 24, 2024
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Connor Jacobson
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