FIRST THE GILGAMESH AND NOW HANNIBAL'S:

Pack your trunks and march to Hannibal's

Scott Joseph | [Orlando] Sentinel Restaurant Critic
June 29, 2007

Winter Park has a stylish new lounge for cool drinks and light nibbles. But if you're on Park Avenue, you're going to have to cross the railroad tracks to get to it.

Hannibal's on the Square is, it shouldn't be a surprise to learn, on Hannibal Square. What might be a surprise to learn is that Hannibal Square is more of a street than a square. I had always assumed it was the name of the park that sits catty-corner to Dexter's, but that's called Shady Park. It has been my observation that if you're opening a business, you don't want the word shady in your name.

And as long as we're digressing here, let's go a little further afield. Did you know that Hannibal Square is named for that famed Carthaginian military commander known for crossing the Pyrenees and Alps on elephants to start the Second Punic War? The Second Punic War was also known by the Romans as the War Against Hannibal, which shows you what kind of grudge the Romans could hold. This all happened around 218 B.C., so my memory is a little fuzzy. As far as I know, Hannibal never visited the Winter Park location that is named for him. Neither did his elephants.

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The food sounds okay too.