Mills 50 Food and District Guide

Where Orlando's Mills 50 Main Street district is, five of its food businesses with the addresses, menus, and hours they post, and the district's documented Vietnamese business history.

Published November 6, 2026

The businesses below are examples, listed by street address. They are not rankings or recommendations. Hours and menus are as posted on each business’s own website, checked Nov. 6, 2026. Hours change, so check before you go.

Direct answer

Mills 50 is a City of Orlando Main Street district. Its office is at 946 N. Mills Ave. The city’s page for the district lists the kinds of locally owned businesses there, including bakeries, restaurants and bars, a brewery, and a meadery.

This guide covers five food businesses in the district: a Japanese pub, a Japanese-inspired bakery, a Vietnamese kitchen, a Thai restaurant, and a Mexican taqueria. Each one appears in the district’s member directory and has its own website, which was live on Nov. 6, 2026. The guide also gives a short history of the area’s Vietnamese businesses, drawn from a 2020 article by a local historian.

Where Mills 50 is

• Main Street program: The city lists Mills 50 District among its Orlando Main Street districts (Orlando Main Streets, checked 2026-11-06).
• Boundaries: The city’s program map, dated October 2020, shows the district’s target area (map PNG). Use that map for the boundaries.
• District office: 946 N. Mills Ave. (Mills 50 District Main Street, checked 2026-11-06).
• Nearby: Loch Haven Park, a 45-acre cultural park, is at N. Mills Ave. and Princeton St. (Loch Haven Park, checked 2026-11-06).

Food businesses

All five are listed in the district’s member directory (mills50.org/directory, checked 2026-11-06). The directory’s listings show different “updated” dates, ranging from months to years ago. The details below come from each business’s own website.

Tori Tori, 720 N. Mills Ave. (Japanese pub)

• About: The pub describes itself as “a local Japanese pub located in the Mills 50 district.” Chef and owner Sean “Sonny” Nguyen created it in 2019.
• Menu:
  • Yakitori, including momo (thigh), sasami (breast), kawa (skin), soriresu (oyster), and tsukune (meatball)
  • Kushiyaki skewers
  • Bar food such as okonomiyaki and chicken karaage
  • Highballs and sake
• Policies: Walk-ins only, with no reservations. Guests must be 21 or older after 9 p.m.
• Posted hours:
  • Sunday–Thursday: 5 p.m.–1 a.m.
  • Friday–Saturday: 5 p.m.–2 a.m.
  • Closed July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

(toritoripub.com, checked 2026-11-06)

KORI Bakery & Dessert, 721 N. Mills Ave. (bakery and dessert)

• About: KORI calls itself a “Japanese Inspired Bakery & Dessert” shop. It sells baked goods, ice desserts, and iced teas and coffees.
• Posted hours: Monday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–11 p.m.
• Contact: info@koridessert.com.

(koridessert.com, checked 2026-11-06)

Pho Bar Vietnamese Kitchen, 1012 E. Colonial Dr. (Vietnamese)

• About: Pho Bar describes itself as an “Authentic Vietnamese Kitchen & Bar” centered on phở. It says its “journey began in early 2020.” It also has locations outside Mills 50.
• Policies: “All locations are first-come first-serve only and do not take reservations.”
• Contact: The Mills 50 location’s phone number is 407-955-9394.
• Hours: The homepage doesn’t show hours, so check the site.

(phobar.co, checked 2026-11-06)

Pop Thai, 1227 N. Mills Ave. (Thai)

• About: The site describes curries and wok-fired noodles, made with herbs such as lemongrass, kaffir lime, galangal, and Thai basil.
• Posted hours:
  • Monday: closed
  • Tuesday–Friday: lunch 11 a.m.–3 p.m., dinner 3–10 p.m.
  • Saturday: noon–10 p.m.
  • Sunday: noon–9 p.m.
• Contact: 407-203-5088.

(popthaiorlando.com, checked 2026-11-06)

Black Rooster Taqueria, 1323 N. Mills Ave. (Mexican)

• Menu:
  • Made-to-order guacamole
  • Salsas: roasted tomatillo, three-chile tomato, and habanero
  • Ahi tuna ceviche
  • A tamale made with organic corn masa and roasted pork
  • Kale Caesar salad
  • Pozole rojo
  • Tacos and add-on proteins such as achiote pork and chicken tinga
• Parking: The site notes “Parking in front & rear.”
• Contact: (407) 601-0994.
• Posted hours: Closed Mondays.
  • Lunch: Tuesday–Friday 11 a.m.–2 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
  • Dinner: Tuesday–Thursday 5–10 p.m.; Friday–Saturday 5–11 p.m.; Sunday 5–9 p.m.

(Mills location, Mills menu, checked 2026-11-06)

History: “Little Vietnam”

The program’s official name is Mills 50 District. On Feb. 25, 2020, Daniel Bradfield, an oral historian at the Orange County Regional History Center, wrote an article in The Community Paper about the area (article, checked 2026-11-06). He describes the informal names “Viet Town” and “Little Vietnam” for the area near Colonial Drive and Mills Avenue. In his account:

• Arrivals: After the war ended in 1975, about 1,100 Vietnamese refugees settled in Central Florida.
• Population: At the time he wrote, more than 10,000 Vietnamese residents lived in Orange County.
• First businesses: City directories suggest the first Vietnamese restaurant there opened in 1983, and the first grocery and pharmacy in 1985.
• By 1987: Vietnamese doctors, dentists, and tailors had storefronts in the area.

These are the author’s figures from 2020. This guide doesn’t report whether the businesses named in the article are operating now.

Getting around

• Crosswalk project: The city is designing a new crosswalk on Mills Avenue at Canton Street as part of its Vision Zero program (Mills 50 Crosswalk Improvements, checked 2026-11-06).
  • What’s planned: a zebra-striped crosswalk, a pedestrian refuge island in the middle of the street, flashing beacons, and curb extensions.
  • Turn changes: left turns across Mills at that spot will be limited.
  • Approvals: Mills Avenue is a state road owned by FDOT, so the project depends on permit approvals.
• Parking: For parking at a particular business, check that business’s own site. For example, Black Rooster lists front and rear parking.
• Murals: The district’s website has an undated list of murals (murals). Murals can change.

Practical tips

1. Check a business’s own site for hours on the day you go. The hours above are as posted on Nov. 6, 2026.
2. Tori Tori and Pho Bar both say they don’t take reservations.
3. Tori Tori is 21-and-over after 9 p.m.
4. Use the city’s 2020 program map to see whether an address is inside the district.

FAQ

Is this a ranking of the best Mills 50 restaurants? No. The five businesses are listed by address as examples of what’s in the district.

Are the hours current? They’re the hours each business posted on its own website when checked on Nov. 6, 2026. Check again before you visit.

Why do people call it “Little Vietnam”? The 2020 article by History Center oral historian Daniel Bradfield describes “Viet Town” and “Little Vietnam” as informal names for the area near Colonial Drive and Mills Avenue. The official program name is Mills 50 District.

Sources

1. https://www.orlando.gov/Our-Government/Departments-Offices/Economic-Development/Business-Development/Orlando-Main-Streets — Orlando Main Streets — checked 2026-11-06
2. https://www.orlando.gov/Our-Government/Departments-Offices/Economic-Development/Business-Development/Orlando-Main-Streets/Mills-50-District-Main-Street — Mills 50 District Main Street — checked 2026-11-06
3. https://www.orlando.gov/files/sharedassets/public/departments/edv/main-streets/2021mills50mainstreetprogrammao.png — Mills 50 Main Street Program map (Oct 2020) — viewed 2026-11-06
4. https://mills50.org/directory/ — Mills 50 member directory — checked 2026-11-06
5. https://www.toritoripub.com/ — Tori Tori — checked 2026-11-06
6. https://www.koridessert.com/ — KORI Bakery & Dessert — checked 2026-11-06
7. https://phobar.co/ — Pho Bar Vietnamese Kitchen — checked 2026-11-06
8. https://popthaiorlando.com/ — Pop Thai — checked 2026-11-06
9. https://www.blackroostertaqueria.com/locations-mills/ — Black Rooster Taqueria, Mills location — checked 2026-11-06
10. https://www.blackroostertaqueria.com/menu-mills/ — Black Rooster Taqueria, Mills menu — checked 2026-11-06
11. https://www.yourcommunitypaper.com/articles/little-vietnam-a-brief-history-of-vietnamese-restaurants-in-mills-50/ — Bradfield, The Community Paper (Feb 25, 2020) — checked 2026-11-06
12. https://www.orlando.gov/Building-Development/City-Projects/Mills-50-Crosswalk-Improvements — Mills 50 Crosswalk Improvements — checked 2026-11-06
13. https://www.orlando.gov/Parks-the-Environment/Directory/Loch-Haven-Park — Loch Haven Park — checked 2026-11-06
14. https://mills50.org/art-projects/murals/ — Mills 50 murals list (undated) — checked 2026-11-06

Sources

• https://www.orlando.gov/Our-Government/Departments-Offices/Economic-Development/Business-Development/Orlando-Main-Streets
• https://www.orlando.gov/Our-Government/Departments-Offices/Economic-Development/Business-Development/Orlando-Main-Streets/Mills-50-District-Main-Street
• https://www.orlando.gov/files/sharedassets/public/departments/edv/main-streets/2021mills50mainstreetprogrammao.png
• https://mills50.org/directory/
• https://www.toritoripub.com/
• https://www.koridessert.com/
• https://phobar.co/
• https://popthaiorlando.com/
• https://www.blackroostertaqueria.com/locations-mills/
• https://www.blackroostertaqueria.com/menu-mills/
• https://www.yourcommunitypaper.com/articles/little-vietnam-a-brief-history-of-vietnamese-restaurants-in-mills-50/
• https://www.orlando.gov/Building-Development/City-Projects/Mills-50-Crosswalk-Improvements
• https://www.orlando.gov/Parks-the-Environment/Directory/Loch-Haven-Park
• https://mills50.org/art-projects/murals/