About Us

Exceeding your expectations is what we strive for every day.

5th Avenue Café is an exciting eatery in Mount Dora that redefines cafe dining brought to you by a local Mount Dora woman who had a dream of creating a warm, inviting place for you to dine and share the knowledge of "clean cuisine". 

Since its opening in late 2003, 5th Avenue Café is the only local restaurant dedicated to serving delicious dishes, using only the freshest, purest, most natural ingredients. 

We're committed to and care about our customers, the community and the earth!  We support the notion that you are what you eat, and have followed this lifestyle for years, consuming natural & organic foods and knowing the difference it makes.

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Our Business Philosophy

     - Delight our customers by offering high quality, fresh, natural & delicious foods

    - Provide a high level of customer service, taking a very personal approach to satisfying our guests

    - A commitment to transacting business with our customers, employees & suppliers with the highest degree of honesty & integrity

    - Being active participants and making contributions to support our local community, our friends and neighbors

Our Food

Each menu item is made to order to ensure your quality dining experience.  Our  kitchen uses stainless steel cookware, so your food is pure - start to finish.  Our water is reverse osmosis and triple-filtered and is used in all beverage and food preparation.

So what does this mean for you? We serve food without chemicals, dyes, pesticides or unwanted additives.  Simply put, food the way it used to be!  Our menus change often, reflecting the freshest ingredients available from our growers & suppliers.

So we invite you to come and experience the difference it makes when Great Food begins with Great Ingredients!

The Owner

Leigh Love is the owner of 5th Avenue Café. Her business career span of close to 25 years has focused on marketing, sales and customer development with Fortune 500 companies as well as with, most recently, a prominent Gainesville, Florida, fine dining establishment. Positions such as manager, director and vice president have prepared her for her current undertaking in the restaurant world.

Leigh's restaurant experience encompasses the gamut of managerial operations, from financial management to employee training to house supervision, catering, marketing and menu development & management.

Leigh, a Mount Dora resident, is active in the community as a member of the Mount Dora Area Chamber of Commerce and a Board Member of the Mount Dora Village Merchants & Business Association.