The 11 Best Places to Eat in Winter Park

Classic French technique run through a Japanese sensibility, with a few Florida ingredients slipped in quietly, is the organizing idea at this fine dining tasting menu restaurant in Winter Park. Chef Ryan Ratino's D.C. flagship, Jônt, is the spiritual blueprint, and the Michelin star followed. Three tasting menus scale from edited to full luxury, so the room draws both the occasion crowd and the regulars who already know which one to pick.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
3. Wine Enthusiast Top 50 New Restaurants

Ten seats at a counter lit like a stage, dark walls and bright spotlights framing every course. Soseki is an omakase in Winter Park where chef Mike Collantes folds Florida produce into a progression that moves from small modern dishes into a faultless run of nigiri, each piece scored and sauced with quiet precision. A Michelin star hangs over the room, and dessert gets the same serious treatment as the fish.

1. AAA Four Diamonds
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando

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.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Time Out The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
3. Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando

Frosted glass panels half-obscure the open kitchen, which is either atmospheric or a tease, depending on how curious you are about what's happening back there. This moody, industrial gastropub in Winter Park earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand for modern Southern cooking that treats pub classics as a starting point rather than a ceiling. The menu leans into charcoal, smoke, and pickle in ways that feel considered without feeling fussy.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
2. Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando

A sleek modern Greek restaurant on Winter Park's main drag, AVA runs a shared-plates menu rooted in the Cycladic islands, mezze to seafood mains to a baklava that arrives with pistachio orange blossom ice cream and makes a strong case for dessert. It's a bit of a scene, so the crowd dresses for it. Come as a duo or a group; the format rewards both, and the Michelin Guide has taken notice.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando

Sleek, polished dining room in Winter Park where the Sichuan menu runs long and the family-style format rewards indecision. The kitchen leans into layered heat rather than straight-up fire, coaxing complexity out of chili oil, fermented cabbage, and bold broths. Service keeps things warm rather than formal, which the room's clean lines might otherwise suggest. A Michelin Selected pick for the Orlando area.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A dark granite counter and a handful of tables in a Winter Park strip mall, and the smell hits you before you sit down. This is a compact noodle shop where the crew works in plain view and the menu stays deliberately short: stir-fried noodles, spicy Korean-style chicken wings, and a tonkotsu shio ramen built on slow-simmered pork bone broth. The Michelin Guide has taken notice, which the no-frills room does nothing to suggest.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando

Tortillas pressed from imported blue Oaxacan corn are the foundation at this Winter Park taco shop, where the kitchen fries in beef tallow and avocado oil. The menu runs toward veal cheeks and chorizo-and-potato fillings, the kind of combinations that suggest the team grew up eating this food, not just studying it. Eater named it among Orlando's 38 best restaurants, and the regulars who show up on a Tuesday seem to already know that.

1. Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Orlando

1. James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Jimmy and Johnny Tung

1. James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Jimmy and Johnny Tung