Don’t Skip Out On Orlando’s Food Scene
Don’t just assume that the best food in Orlando can be found at its theme parks! There’s theme park Orlando, and then there’s the actual city itself, about 15 miles north of Disney and Universal Studios.
Here, thriving neighborhoods like Thornton Park, College Park, Winter Park, and the Mills 50 district, known for its great Asian eats, are just a few of the destinations for eating exceptionally well in this city of eclectic culinary influences ranging from Laotian and Indian to Ethiopian and Moroccan.
MICHELIN Guide Florida recently awarded several restaurants in Orlando with their first Michelin stars, including the Japanese omakase spot Soseki and seafood and a hot spot for stake: Knife & Spoon. But you can also eat very well at some other Orlando faves, like gastropub The Ravenous Pig and Prato, which is well known for Italian wood-fired grub.
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Opa resturant in Orlando near the convention center , usually requires reservations, but the food is so great, be a mistake to miss.
We came here the first time in August 1970. WE came back in December then relocated the following year.The two best choices in my life were marrying my wife and having a family and moving to Florida! I am retired now and have been in heaven on earth most of my life!
Siesta public beach on Siesta Key Sarasota is a great place to go,
but stay away during Spring Breaks and major holidays. The traffic
comes to a complete halt on Midnight Pass Rd and in Siesta Village.
The Gulf water is a little too warm from June thru Sept. but very nice
the rest of the year. The white sand on Crescent Beach is like nothing I’ve seen before. There are so many great places to see
and restaurants to eat at in the Sarasota area you will surely enjoy
your stay.
My husband and I wintered in the Florida Keys for several years until we got too old to drive down and back from Minnesota. Make sure you go south and spend some time going through the Keys. What a beautiful trip that is!
In answer to your first question in the article, my reply is the last two times I visited the state were in May ’19 to visit WDW and 6 months earlier in December to visit Miami before sailing aboard Allure of the Seas. I took a Hop-on, Hop-off tour of Miami that included a walk through Little Havana, but got sick from inhaling cigar smoke from the locals. As for fave crustaceans, mine is coconut-battered shrimp. It isn’t stone crab, and to my tastebuds, NOTHING is tasty when dipped into mustard; au contraire, everything seafood is tasty when it’s sprinkled with lemon juice or dipped into drawn butter.