The Burger Jawn: Mills 50 Mop Up
It is 6:30 p.m. on a Friday in Orlando’s Mills 50 District, and I have had some drinks.
I am not an anomaly. This is what people do here. And as this Main Street neighborhood continues its steady march toward bar crawl mecca, the food scene has stomped right along with it.
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There are food truck events ( Orlando Parking Lot Party ), trendy izakayas ( Tori Tori ), soaring pan-Asian palaces ( Hawkers ) and quasi-American catch-alls with absolutely stellar cocktails ( Death in the Afternoon ). There’s also The Strand’s newish and adjacent offering, d.b.a. , which is where I have found myself, talking shop with rock star restaurateur Pom Moongauklang, in the 90 minutes or so before she heads to a Halloween party, and I spin over to walk the trails at A Petrified Forest .
We’re in need of mop-up. And so, across the street, we go. To the all-new permanent parking spot for The Burger Jawn , a popular burger pop-up whose spanky new trailer calls to Mills Avenue wanderers like a Saharan oasis. Only it’s the hooch, not the heat, that makes them look all wavy-like in the distance.