In keeping with everything else in Orlando, there is massive dining choice - more than 4,000 restaurants and counting, and virtually every type of cuisine known to man. There are breakfast buffets, all-day diners, steakhouses and five-star gourmet restaurants. Every theme park offers multiple standout full-service restaurants, while areas like Downtown Disney, Universal’s CityWalk and International Drive all feature a high concentration of dining outlets. You will find well-known chains like Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Café and Outback Steakhouse, and one-off hot newcomers like Joachim
Splichal’s Tutto Italia Ristorante in Epcot.
Vegetarians are not well served, but there are a few exceptions like Sweet Tomatoes and Café Tu-Tu Tango.
The restaurants below have been listed alphabetically and classed into four pricing categories:
$$$$ (over US$45)
$$$ (US$30 to US$45)
$$ (US$15 to US$30)
$ (up to US$15)
The price ranges quoted below are for a three-course meal for one, including sales tax but excluding tips, unless otherwise stated.
B-Line Diner This 24-hour diner features an amazing range of comfort food around the clock and is located inside the lovely Peabody Hotel.
9801 International Drive
Tel: (407) 352 4000.
Website:
www.peabodyorlando.com Price: $$
Café Tu Tu Tango Tapas-style cuisine, with some vegetarian specialties, plus an amazing artist-colony theme, with live entertainment.
8625 International Drive
Tel: (407) 248 2222.
Website:
www.cafetututango.com/orlando Price: $$$
Jiko At Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge is their signature African-themed restaurant which features superb African-Asian fusion cuisine.
2901 Osceola Parkway, Walt Disney World Resort, Bay Lake
Tel: (407) 938 3000.
Website:
www.disneyworld.com Price: $$$$
Sweet Tomatoes Salad lovers should make a beeline for this buffet-style diner, which also offers pizza, pasta and fresh breads.
6877 Kirkman Road
Tel: (407) 363 1616.
Website:
www.soupplantation.com Price: $
Tchoup Chop American master chef Emeril Lagasse has created a simply superb Asian/Pacific restaurant at Universal’s Royal Pacific Resort.
6300 Hollywood Way
Tel: (407) 503 2467.
Website:
www.emerils.com Price: $$$$
Todd English’s bluezoo Bluezoo is another of Orlando’s underwater-themed, but gorgeous, restaurants. It’s the best example of fusion cuisine, heavy on the fish, with price tags that seem to draw conventioneers whooping it up on an expense account.
Walt Disney World Dolphin
Tel: (407) 934 1111.
Website:
www.swandolphin.com Price: $$$$
Victoria & Albert’s
Frette linens, Riedel crystal - this is a pull-out-all-the-stops kind of place. It’s on a much more intimate scale than many of the Disney resort restaurants, with only 18 tables in the main dining room and another five in the private fireplace room, plus a chef’s table in the kitchen. It’s a kind of old-timey fancy restaurant ambiance, but chef Scott Hunnel’s culinary vision is emphatically 21st century.
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort
Tel: (407) 939 3463.
Website:
www.disneyworld.com Price: $$$$
Nightlife:Orlando boasts a surprisingly vibrant and active night-time bar and club scene, with three main venues, Downtown Disney’s Pleasure Island, Universal’s CityWalk and Downtown Orlando, where there is an ever-changing line-up of nightclubs.
At Pleasure Island, seek out the
Adventurers Club for eclectic live comedy and
Mannequins for pure dance; at CityWalk, don’t miss
Bob Marley’s for live music and
the groove at their standout dance club; and in Downtown Orlando, don’t miss bars like
Sky 60,
Eye Spy and
Wall Street Cantina (all on Orange Avenue) and excellent nightclubs like
The Social (on North Orange Avenue), with live music (blues, rock and jazz) and resident DJs or the
Monkey Bar (on Wall Street) for its suave cocktails. Other one-off clubs worth noting are the duelling pianos of
Jellyrolls at Disney’s Boardwalk Resort and
House of Blues at Downtown Disney.
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