Aurora at the Celeste: East Orlando’s One Dress-Up Dinner
Inside The Celeste Hotel on the UCF campus edge, Aurora serves modern American cooking, zodiac cocktails and a chocolate-dome Supernova — the corridor’s only true occasion table.
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Fine Dining
Solvino: The Wine Restaurant Windermere Accidentally Got Right
Denied a permit as a wine bar, Arjun and Sara Kumar built something better — a bottle shop, a public courtyard and a members’ dining room that give Windermere its most serious wine program.
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Sorekara: Two Stars on a Quiet Street
Orlando’s only two-Michelin-star restaurant hides between a sushi counter and a coffee shop in Baldwin Park. Inside chef William Shen’s 72-micro-season tasting room.
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Date Night in Winter Garden: Dinner, a 1935 Theatre and a Brick Street After Dark
Winter Garden does date night the old-fashioned way — a prix-fixe dinner, a show under a star-painted ceiling, and a slow walk down Plant Street to finish.
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Chef’s Table at the Edgewater Is Winter Garden’s Special-Occasion Room
Inside the historic Edgewater Hotel on Plant Street, Chef’s Table turns a three-course prix fixe into Winter Garden’s definitive celebration dinner.
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Eleven Stories Up: Dinner Above Reunion
Reunion Resort’s rooftop restaurant pairs small plates and craft cocktails with fireworks views — and a No. 2 finish in our Orlando rooftop rankings. The catch, honestly stated, is the gate.
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Osteria Ester: The Red-Sauce Love Letter That Rebuilt Central Boulevard
Good Salt’s Italian-American osteria in the former Soco space — housemade pasta, a chef cooking his grandmother’s brief, a Michelin listing in year one, and our No. 2 Italian ranking. Why Ester is Thornton Park’s new anchor.
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Kadence: No Sign, Few Seats, One Star
Mark and Jennifer Berdin’s unmarked omakase counter on Winter Park Road began as a stall inside East End Market and became Audubon Park’s Michelin-starred splurge. What the meal is, and how to get a seat.
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BACÁN Is the Dinner That Proved Lake Nona
Inside the Wave Hotel’s open-kitchen dining room, Chef Guillaume Robin turns Central and South American flavors into Orlando’s No. 4 fine-dining experience.
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The Chef Tables: Disney Springs’ Best Restaurants Right Now
Morimoto, José Andrés, a Master Sommelier and the waterfront classic — several of the best tables at Walt Disney World need no park ticket. These are the ones we’d book first.
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