The Goblin Market Restaurant

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The Goblin Market is Mount Dora's storybook gastropub, a cozy, book-lined hideaway on Dora Drawdy Way where guests love being surrounded by books. Regulars insist you have to have the Irish Whiskey Onion Soup, followed by the crab and lobster bisque, the Irish Cheddar Burger or a strawberry salmon salad praised as fresh and generous. The secret-garden courtyard under the camphor tree turns the room romantic, and while prices run high, nobody seems in a hurry to leave.

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