The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Sparrow Wine Bar and Lounge
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Rank 2. Reyes Mezcaleria
Mexican
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Sue Chin and Jason Chin - Good Salt Restaurant Group
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Wendy Lopez
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 3. The Monroe
Comfort
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Sue Chin and Jason Chin - Good Salt Restaurant Group
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 4. Kaya
Modern Filipino
A small bungalow in Mills 50 frames the open kitchen where Filipino traditions meet Florida's seafood and produce. The tasting menu pivots on dishes like kinilaw na isda—raw fish and fruit suspended in vinegar, bright and vital—and kare kare, oxtail braised tender in peanut sauce, grounded by garlic rice. Cooking that speaks quietly but carries conviction.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Lordfer Lalicon
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 5. Tori Tori
Izakaya Japanese
A Mills District izakaya where Sean Nguyen's focused menu of yakitori and bar bites unfolds in a cutting-edge room designed to seduce. Chicken karaage arrives glossy with garlic-confit mayo; fragrant fried rice tumbles with sweet crab and bright lemon. No reservations means arriving early, but the eclectic energy and precise execution justify the inconvenience.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 6. The Pinery
American
A first-floor room overlooking Lake Ivanhoe trades on the area's pineapple-growing past with genuine warmth: earthy tones, plush booths, a pimento cheese and cinnamon sugar butter served alongside smoked peanut soup. The fire pit outside catches the sunset while the kitchen mines local produce with an unpretentious hand.
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Rank 7. UniGirl
Japanese
Inside Mills Market, Chef William Shen's casual onigiri shop moves through daily specials and a rotating menu that sells out before closing—crispy fried chicken thighs, unagi glazed in sweet sauce, tuna spiked with mustard all nestled in warm, well-seasoned rice and sealed in bags for the road. The triangles are best eaten immediately, still steaming, a quick hit of precision in a market stall.
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Rank 8. EDOBOY
Sushi
A standing sushi counter from the team behind Tori Tori where diners arrive by time slot and choose a dozen pieces of nigiri and hand rolls in quick succession. Sweet Hokkaido scallop with Tasmanian uni and seared bream with uni butter demonstrate a kitchen that understands restraint and precision.
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Rank 9. Strand
Southern
Alda and Joe Rees run this corner spot in an Art Deco building where mint-green walls and hanging Mason jars frame a seasonally driven menu of nostalgic Southern cooking. Chilled shrimp against hot fried green tomatoes, cobia with mustard sauce—the restraint lets local ingredients speak for themselves.
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Rank 10. Sushi Saint
Japanese
A lounge-y downtown spot with its own entrance, Sushi Saint specializes in hand-rolled temaki cones built from carefully sourced rice and nori. The cone fillings range from avocado with serrano-lime miso to aburi scallop with brown butter, while small plates like Sichuan cucumbers with chili crunch round out a menu that trades formality for approachable precision.
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Rank 12. Bánh Mì Boy
Vietnamese
Bánh Mì Boy occupies a corner of Mills Market with Vietnamese rigor, its sandwiches built on French bread with the kind of layered savory depth—crispy pork belly, house patė, roasted garlic mayo—that justifies the obsession. The construct-your-own summer rolls and fusion detours like pho-broth dips suggest a kitchen unafraid to pivot while respecting its foundation.
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Rank 13. Zaru
Japanese Noodles
Zaru occupies a sleek Mills 50 storefront where Japanese wheat noodles arrive chewy and purposeful, broth layered with smoke and umami depth. The kitchen treats ikura onsen and A5 wagyu with the same careful attention it gives tatsuta-age, each element placed with visible intent.
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Rank 14. Black Rooster Taqueria
Mexican
John and Juliana Calloway's compact Mills Avenue taqueria marries farm-sourced ingredients with striking creativity, from slow-roasted pork achiote to smoked greens with ricotta and shiitake. Industrial chic meets neighborhood warmth in a chef-designed space anchored by a bold black rooster mural.
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Rank 15. Kai Kai BBQ
Cantonese Chinese
Inside Mills Market, a Cantonese kitchen that graduated from food-truck success offers roasted meats sold by the pound or plated with rice and vegetables—the soy sauce chicken and char siu are reliable anchors—alongside noodles, rice dishes, and dim sum that runs from the expected to the revelatory, like roast duck bao and fried mochi pork dumplings with a whisper of sweetness.
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Rank 28. Z Asian
Vietnamese
Black walls and hanging lanterns frame a casual space where Vietnamese cooking arrives with bold flavor and careful balance. The phở tái sings with classic beef broth and aromatics, while bánh xèo—crispy and tangy—confirms that restraint here means precision, not timidity.
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Rank 30. Maxine's on Shine
American
Maxine and Kirt Earhart's Colonialtown café serves unfussy comfort food—fried green tomatoes, crab cakes, chicken and waffles—in a whimsical, art-filled space where weekend crowds spill onto the sidewalk. The dark bar and eclectic décor match the unpretentious warmth of a neighborhood institution.
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A spare room with communal tables fills daily with the smell of charred chicken wings and lime-dressed pork laab, its walls livened by a mural and hanging baskets that nod to the place's namesake. The purple sticky rice here—coconut-sauced, mango-studded, topped with toasted flakes—suggests a chef thinking carefully about a modest form.
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Rank 32. Shin Jung
Korean
Dark wooden booths and tabletop grills set the stage at this Korean stalwart, where K-Pop flickers across mounted screens and the kitchen executes classics with quiet confidence. The kimchi pancake arrives properly crispy, the house-made banchan speak for themselves, and a bubbling dolsot bibimbap sustains even the solitary diner.
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Otto's High Dive, a whitewashed rum bar with Cuban leanings, trades swagger for the kind of genuine service and unfussy cooking that makes a neighborhood place stick. The kitchen moves easily between shrimp cocktail with Bloody Mary sauce and ropa vieja, before cinnamon bread pudding closes the bill with a tangy cream cheese finish.
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Rank 35. Soseki
Omakase Sushi
Chef Mike Collantes stages an intimate ten-seat omakase where traditional sushi meets Florida ingredients, the counter glowing like a theater beneath dark walls and sleek wood. Each course—from scallop with caviar to corn chawanmushi to foie gras flan—arrives scored and garnished with the precision of someone who believes technique is generosity.
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Rank 36. Camille
Vietnamese
Chef Tung Phan's Lake Baldwin dining room pairs sleek modernism with Vietnamese-French refinement, where counter seats command the full multicourse experience. A phở reimagined with wagyu tartare and pastry, salmon over king trumpet noodles, and a red bean "cake" riffing on cheese courses signal a kitchen unafraid of playful disruption.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · World's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Jimmy and Johnny Tung
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Rank 37. Kadence
Omakase Sushi
At an eight-seat counter in Winter Park, Chef Mark Berdin builds each course directly before you with the ease of someone who has earned your trust. Sashimi and nigiri flow into warm ramen and restrained sweets, orchestrated by a sommelier's attention to sake pairings and a kitchen's quiet precision.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Jennifer Berdin and Mark Berdin
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 38. Ômo by Jônt
Japanese-inflected French
Ryan Ratino's Winter Park outpost marries classical French rigor with pristine Japanese ingredients, letting the seasons dictate each refined plate. Chawanmushi arrives with braised sweet potato and brown butter; a two-part scallop course and chocolate kakigori showcase kitchen precision with quiet confidence.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- Wine Enthusiast 2025 · Top 50 New Restaurants
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Rank 39. Coro Restaurant
Contemporary New American
In Audubon Park, Tim Lovero builds an intimate dining room where each shared plate arrives with genuine warmth and creative intent. A tilefish cioppino and a deconstructed fries-and-shake dessert suggest a chef who respects tradition while gleefully subverting it.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Wine Enthusiast 2025 · Top 50 New Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 40. Domu
Noodles
Sonny Nguyen's ramen house operates across two rooms of concrete and marble, where bold bowls arrive steaming and uncompromising. The Tokyo ramen—shoyu broth enriched with duck fat, crowned with fried chicken thigh—tastes like appetite itself made edible. Creative without affectation, it's the kind of place where a bowl and a side of blistered shishitos feel entirely sufficient.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Sean "Sonny" Nguyen
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 41. Kabooki Sushi
Sushi
Hexagonal tiles and a neon-lit green wall set the stage for sushi that abandons convention—torched salmon with truffle pâté, smoked trout roe with aji amarillo, uni crowned with seared lobster. The marble counter and central booths pulse with activity, a contemporary shell housing cooking that treats Japanese tradition as a starting point rather than a rule.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: South · Henry Moso
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Henry Moso
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 42. Nikki's Place
Southern
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Rank 43. Sorekara
Japanese
Chef William Shen's tasting menu at this Baldwin Park restaurant channels Japan's 72 micro seasons through playful, refined dishes that upend convention—a convenience store course, an unorthodox nigiri—each course building across multiple rooms over several hours with the precision of a chess match and the spirit of a prank.
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Rank 44. Juju
Izakaya Japanese
A six-seat kappo counter tucked into a retro izakaya space serves sashimi aged anywhere from days to weeks—rock fish with citrus zest, skin-on snapper, otoro finished with Kaluga caviar—alongside chawanmushi steamed in lobster head dashi. The approach is seasonally driven and deliberately oblique, treating raw fish like an experiment rather than tradition.
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Rank 45. Papa Llama
Modern Peruvian
A strip-mall kitchen window frames Kevin and Maria Ruiz working through a compact Peruvian menu that honors tradition without fussing. Grilled shrimp anticuchos and lomo saltado with skirt steak arrive straightforward and sourced close to home, while sweet potato picarones dusted in spiced syrup feel like family dessert. The natural wine list outweighs the modest room's pretense.
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Rank 46. Prato
Italian-American Pizza
A tree-lined storefront opens onto a cavernous room of exposed brick and Edison bulbs, where Chef Brandon McGlamery's kitchen excels at wood-fired Italian-American cooking. Crispy pumpkin arancini arrive enriched with celery root and apple mostardo; rotating pies layer crab béchamel with potatoes and artichoke-pepper conserva. The formula is straightforward and durable.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 47. The Osprey
Seafood
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Sue Chin and Jason Chin - Good Salt Restaurant Group
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 49. Stasio’s Italian Deli
Italian
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Rank 50. The Ravenous Pig
Modern Southern
A moody gastropub beside its own brewery, all charcoal walls and exposed ductwork, where Chef Clay Miller reworks pub classics through a Southern lens: pork burnt ends over cornbread pudding, pastrami brisket with pickled cabbage purée. The cooking is precise but unstuffy, treating familiar forms as a foundation for genuine invention.
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Rank 51. Smokemade Meats + Eats
Central Texas-style Barbecue
Concrete floors and butcher-paper menus announce the Texas playbook at Tyler Brunache's smoke shop off Curry Ford Road, where pork ribs wear their black pepper crust like armor. The jalapeño-cheddar sausage and house-sliced white bread settle a score with authenticity that most barbecue joints only claim.
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Rank 52. Swine & Sons
Southern American
Swine & Sons occupies a warehouse-like corner of the Milk District with high tables and a long bar, serving a compact menu of American Southern cooking with global inflections. The fried chicken sandwich arrives Thai-style; the smoked wings sport Floribama white barbecue sauce; the chocolate chip cookie is finished with flaky salt.
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Rank 53. Taste of Chengdu
Sichuan Chinese
The kitchen at this long-standing Sichuan specialist shows discipline: chili oil carries real flavor rather than mere heat, silky mapo tofu arrives generously portioned, and cumin lamb brings earthy warmth. Chef Xiong Tang balances spice with depth across a sprawling menu, whether in crisp laziji or cucumber salad's vinegar snap. Fair prices and substantial portions explain the devoted regulars.
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Rank 54. AVA Mediterraegean
Mediterranean Greek
At the heart of Winter Park sits a sleek Mediterranean room built for sharing—mezze and raw preparations set the tone, but the kitchen's real statement comes via crispy eggplant and zucchini in delicate stacked layers, seafood mains, and a baklava that remixes phyllo and spiced nuts with pistachios and orange blossom ice cream into something that feels simultaneously classical and new.
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Rank 55. Pizza Bruno
Neapolitan Pizza
A strip-mall pizzeria with a wood-fired oven and neighborhood ease, Pizza Bruno balances restless creativity—blueberries and fontina on one pie, roasted pineapple on another—with the discipline of Neapolitan tradition. The meatballs and garlic knobs arrive first, but the pies themselves, burnished and unpredictable, are what linger.
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Rank 56. Se7en Bites
Southern
A bright green bakery-café off Primrose Drive announces itself with Bundt cake pans on the walls and a corrugated metal ceiling that recalls a cheerful warehouse. The fried chicken biscuit arrives tender and loaded with cream cheese and pepper jelly, a small-price proposition that tastes like generosity.
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Rank 57. Gyukatsu Rose
Japanese
At a counter in East End Market, the team behind Domu tends a single obsession: breaded beef cutlets that you sear and season yourself on a tabletop grill, sided with cabbage, rice, and soup. The formula is nearly unchanging, the execution precise, and the frozen matcha pudding with Oreo crumble a small flourish of restraint.
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Rank 58. Hunger Street Tacos
Mexican
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Rank 62. Chuan Fu
Sichuan Chinese
A sleek dining room in Winter Park where Sichuan cooking arrives with restraint and warmth—the cucumber salad snaps with soy and garlic, the Chongqing chicken glows with chili and peanut, and a white fish in savory broth layered with pickled cabbage and glass noodles shows real discipline in how heat and spice are balanced. The service matches the food's generosity.
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Rank 63. Walala Hand Pulled Noodles
Lanzhou-style Noodles
A father-daughter operation serving hand-pulled Lanzhou noodles in clear, savory broths, visible through kitchen glass as dough stretches before your eyes. The beef shank version is definitive; pickled vegetables and dry-style variants with pork offer counterpoint.
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Rank 64. Isan Zaap
Northeast Thai
While Orlando's Thai restaurants peddle familiar curries and pad Thai, Isan Zaap pivots toward northeast Thailand and Laos, offering whole fish larb fried crisp with toasted rice powder and a prickly-sweet sauce. The som tam variations—topped with fermented crab or sausage—and durian sticky rice suggest a kitchen unafraid of funkiness and precision in equal measure.
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Rank 65. Luke's
Seafood
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Bright orange booths and cheerful walls set the scene at Amit Kumar's South Indian spot, where the kitchen executes well-seasoned small plates with care. The street special dosa arrives stuffed with potato, cabbage, and paneer; the kathal masaledar showcases tender jackfruit in a zesty tomato masala. A neighborhood restaurant that takes its fundamentals seriously.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 69. Kai Asian Street Fare
Noodles
In a Winter Park shopping center, Thai and Vietnamese cooking merge at a modest counter where noodles arrive smoking from the wok. The tonkotsu shio ramen—pork broth deep from hours of simmering, noodles slender and yielding, a shoyu egg—shares the brief menu with stir-fried noodles and spicy Korean-style wings, each dish tasting like it matters.
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Rank 70. Knife & Spoon
Steakhouse
Inside the Ritz-Carlton, Chef John Tesar's chophouse unfolds across a modernist room of weathered wood and coastal tones, open kitchen visible beyond the dimly lit dining floor. Dry-aged beef from 44 Farms anchors the menu alongside inventive detours—ube cacio e pepe, pristine seafood—while an assured cocktail program and attentive service sustain the indulgence throughout.
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Rank 71. Primo
Contemporary Italian
Primo serves contemporary Italian cooking with Mediterranean accents in a composed dining room anchored by a gleaming copper kitchen. Unfussy technique shines across small plates, pastas like cacio e pepe, and roast chicken in parmesan brodo.
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Rank 74. Capa
Spanish Steakhouse
From the 17th floor of the Four Seasons, Capa surveys Orlando with the confidence of a place that doesn't need to choose between spectacle and substance. The menu roams Spanish tradition—gambas gleaming with garlic and paprika, bone-in ribeye cooked to order, gazpacho deconstructed into sorbet and meringue—each plate executed with enough polish to justify the views and the occasion.
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Rank 76. Victoria & Albert's
Contemporary
Within the Grand Floridian, Victoria & Albert's conducts a three-hour service with the precision of seasoned hands and a kitchen that moves fluidly between classical technique and global idiom. Tuna arrives with caviar and lychee, venison comes crusted in juniper and porcini, and every plate reads as deliberate—the kind of cooking that justifies the difficulty of getting a table.
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Rank 78. Bull & Bear
New York Steakhouse
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Rank 79. BACÁN
Latin American
Bacán's soaring dining room—all warm wood and vivid colors—frames contemporary Central and South American cooking with tropical inflections, from lobster tacos to fish with grapefruit mojo. Desserts like chocolate cake melted tableside justify the theater of the space.
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Rank 80. The Dining Room at Victoria & Albert’s
New American
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 81. YH Seafood Clubhouse
Chinese
Behind an unremarkable strip mall façade lies a dining room of genuine sophistication, where dim sum arrives piping hot to order rather than from carts. The sticky pork dumplings—crispy-sweet outside, mochi-textured within—are a revelation; the siu mai and egg tarts execute Cantonese tradition without flourish. Come hungry and in company, prepared to order with abandon.
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Rank 84. Kabooki Sushi
Sushi
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: South · Henry Moso
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South · Henry Moso
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 85. Nile Ethiopian
Ethiopian
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Rank 86. Ravello
Modern Italian
Ravello's bright dining room—high ceilings, muted walls punctuated by orange accents, a verdant terrace—cultivates an unhurried elegance befitting its Four Seasons perch. Chef Fabrizio Schenardi mines his family's recipes for grilled melanzane studded with ricotta, calamari in tomato and caper sauce, and spinach-veal ravioli that channels his grandmother's kitchen.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 87. Sear + Sea
Steakhouse
Sear & Sea occupies a marble-and-neutral luxury pavilion within the JW Marriott, where a wood-fired grill produces steaks with chimichurri and Alaskan crab arrives with dill and onion. The menu cleaves to surf-and-turf classicism, each plate finished with the same indulgent hand—potato purée, goat cheese polenta, s'mores bread pudding—that suggests restraint has no place here.
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Rank 89. Four Flamingos
Coastal New American
Chef Richard Blais draws inspiration from tropical shores and American ingredients, crafting dishes like passion fruit–topped tuna tostada and mojo chicken within a serene waterfront pavilion. The bright, airy space—with its pink entrance and bridge approach—offers an unhurried setting for celebration.
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Rank 90. Morimoto Asia
Asian
Morimoto Asia sprawls across two levels beneath twenty-foot chandeliers, with an open kitchen where hanging ducks hang visible from balcony seats above. The pan-Asian menu balances accessible pleasures like orange chicken with subtler ambitions—black truffle sushi rice, delicate technique—that justify the Disney Springs setting.
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Rank 91. Norman's
Caribbean
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Rank 92. Shiraz Market
Persian
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Rank 93. Norigami
Sushi
Eight seats at a counter in a market hall, where Chef David Tsan plates sushi onto colored washi paper that guests fold into cranes for a shared bowl. The fish arrives with modern restraint—goldeneye dusted in tomato powder, scallop with tobanjan aioli and lime—anchored by rice that's seasoned and loose enough to feel alive. Small, unfussy, priced fairly.
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Rank 94. Selam
Ethiopian
Selam brings the bold, subtly layered flavors of Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine to a shopping-center corner, its incense-scented dining room warmed by turquoise seating and woven fabrics. Spongy injera arrives alongside meat-forward stews and vibrant vegetable dishes like gomen, best explored via the combination platter.
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Rank 95. Piazza Italia Lake Nona
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 96. Twenty Pho Hour
Vietnamese-Korean Noodles
The pho broth here justifies the waits, especially the short rib version where bone and meat collapse into the bowl. Beyond pho, kimchi noodles and Korean fire noodles expand the menu into braver territory.
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Rank 97. Nami
Contemporary Japanese
In a hotel dining room with soaring ceilings, Nami splits its ambition between a contemporary Japanese à la carte and a chef's counter devoted to playful reinterpretations—crispy wagyu beef and broccoli four ways, caviar corndog, citrus-cured buri. The cooking is precise and occasionally whimsical, anchored by quality ingredients and a confidence that elevates even familiar forms.
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Rank 98. The Polite Pig
Barbecue
At this Disney Springs barbecue counter, the industrial space and glassed-in kitchen put you in the mood for soulful cooking. The thin-sliced brisket, black-pepper rubbed and served with creamy potato salad, justifies the casual order-and-eat setup.
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Rank 99. Cítricos Lounge
Coastal New American
On the second floor of the Grand Floridian, Cítricos marries coastal American cooking with a sleek, playful aesthetic informed by early twentieth-century charm. Corn bisque arrives whimsical with popcorn; duck sits precise atop celeriac and tagliatelle; the kitchen's control of salt and acid suggests a place more interested in balance than spectacle.
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Rank 100. Toledo
Spanish
On the 16th floor of Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, Toledo serves Spanish tapas and braises chicken in Rioja while fireworks light up Epcot beyond floor-to-ceiling windows. The geometric tiles and bold colors feel designed for the view, and the prices, mercifully, lag behind other Disney tables.