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Orlando BBQ: Winter Park

The city just north of Orlando, centered on Park Avenue and Central Park, with sidewalk cafes, a gastropub whose owners were James Beard semifinalists four years running, and restaurants that have been on Park Avenue since the 1980s and 1990s.

4 Rivers Smokehouse (Winter Park)

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Where 4 Rivers was born: John Rivers left a healthcare career, started with a 2004 charity cookout he called the Barbecue Ministry, and flipped the Hot Brisket Now sign on Fairbanks Avenue in 2009. Now a 16-store group, still family owned, with vegan burnt ends and a kids menu.

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