Enjoy a glass of wine or a beer along with delicious lite bites as you mix and mingle at Mills 50 District’s newest restaurant, Pop Thai!

$10 (cash only please) gets you a glass, a wristband and a map of twelve (12) different stops offering a complimentary tasty tasting! Stroll Mills Avenue and stop in at the participating Mills 50 District businesses for the inaugural Hump Day Happy Hour: BART, City Oasis, Gotkarma, lil indies,, New Horizon Pharmacy, Orchid Cleaners, Propagation Coffee, St. Matthew’s Tavern at the Orlando Beer Garden, Ten 10 Brewing Company, True Serenity – where DJ Frankie Messina will be spinning your favorite tunes, Tumi Collections and Wally’s Mills Avenue Liquor! Don’t forget your ID!

Enjoy a beer or a glass of wine while networking with fellow business owners and residents! Entertainment will be provided by “Another John Markham”.  Free for members; $5 for non-members. RSVP to:  director@mills50.org.

If you haven’t taken advantage of Main Street Restaurant Week (www.mainstreetrestaurantweek.com) don’t wait any longer. Over 50 restaurants in the 8 Main Streets are participating with prix fixe menus from $5 to $30.  Mills 50 restaurants are Firebirds Wood Fired Grill, First Watch – Mills Park, Giraffas Mills Park, Maxine’s on Shine and Shin Jung Korean Restaurant.  Restaurant week runs through Saturday, August 8.

Stop by NiFTE (New Food Truck Experience) in Mills 50 on Thursday, January 9 from 6pm until 9pm and enjoy great eats from Au Naturel, Soup to Nuts and Voodoo Kitchen Food Trucks!  Located at the corner of Mills & Oregon – across from Track Shack – NiFTE in Mills 50 will take place the second Thursday of every month – with a different group of food trucks!  

Join the annual 12 Pubs of Christmas Pub Crawl, hosted by Mills 50 and Ivanhoe Village, on Saturday, December 7 beginning at 8pm.  Purchase a wristband for $10 at either Wally’s in Mills 50 or The Thirsty Topher in Ivanhoe Village and enjoy drink specials at twelve of your favorite bars, including the new St. Matthew’s Tavern and Beer Garden (formerly Paradise) on Mills.  O-Cartz will be available to transport you, included with your wristband!  

District 4 City Commissioner Patty Sheehan presents the “Bad Kitty” Art Show at The Peacock Room, beginning Monday, June 17.  The exhibit features original paintings by Commissioner Sheehan!  A portion of sales will be donated to the SPCA. Admission is free but small bags of cat food for our feline friends would be appreciated!  Meow! 

Picturing Main Street is an exhibit containing the original works of artists living and working in Orlando’s eight Main Street Districts.  Artists were asked to create a piece which depicts “their” district!  Mills 50 is represented by artists Amy Barnickel, Emily Gallagher, Diane Martens, Bethany Myers and Jennifer Payne.  Picturing Main Street opens on Thursday, May 16 with a reception from 6pm until 10pm at CityArts Factory, 29 S. Orange.  Admission is free.  The exhibit continues through Friday, June 14.

Shop the “sidewalk” on Saturday, April 20 from 10 am until 6pm and support independently owned Mills 50 businesses!