The Best Italian Food in Orlando
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The best Italian food in Orlando, according to the experts: the Forbes Travel Guide, AAA, and the Michelin Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Primo comes out on top.
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Prato and Ravello hold the next two places. Eater shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with the Michelin Guide close behind.
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Rank 1. Primo
Contemporary Italian
The copper kitchen gleams open to the dining room, so you can watch the brigade work while you eat. This is the hotel restaurant at JW Marriott Grande Lakes, doing contemporary Italian with enough confidence that it doesn't feel like a hotel restaurant. Small plates, housemade pasta, and roast chicken in parmesan brodo sit alongside each other without apology. The room runs to booths and banquettes in soft, muted tones, and the bread arrives before anything needs deciding.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. Prato
Pizzeria
Wood-fired pizzas rotate with the season at this Italian-American restaurant on a tree-lined stretch of Winter Park, where vaulted ceilings, exposed brick, and caramel leather booths make the room feel like someone spent real money on "rustic." The kitchen leans heavily on the pizza oven, and the toppings tend toward the unexpected. A Michelin Selected restaurant, it pulls a reliably well-dressed crowd that fills the central bar as steadily as the booths.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Time Out Time Out: The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 2. Ravello
Modern Italian
The terrace alone, lush and open-air, makes a case for lingering over a second glass. This fine dining room inside the Four Seasons runs on family recipes from the chef's own upbringing, which gives the modern Italian menu a warmer footing than the sleek, high-ceilinged space might suggest. Pastas are made in-house, the limoncello is too, and the crowd here dresses like they have dinner reservations, because they do.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Time Out Time Out: The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 4. Pizza Bruno
Neapolitan Pizzeria
A Neapolitan pizza shop tucked into a strip mall on Curry Ford Road, Pizza Bruno runs a wood-fired oven hot and a menu that takes genuine swings: one pie pairs fresh blueberries with mozzarella, fontina, honey, and bacon, and another makes the pineapple debate feel basically settled. The room is small and bright, with a neighborhood counter-service feel that keeps things casual while the pizza itself is doing something more ambitious.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 5. Piazza Italia Lake Nona
Neapolitan Pizzeria
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Rank 5. Stasio’s Italian Deli
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