Orlando, Florida — Food and Dining
Restaurants in Orlando, Florida
Restaurants
Recommended restaurants
B-LineDiner
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: $$
CaféTuTuTango
Tapas-style cuisine, with some vegetarian specialties, plus an amazing artist-colony theme, with live entertainment.
8625 International Drive
Tel: (407) 248 2222.
Website: www.cafetututango.com/orlando
Price: $$$
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: $$$$
SweetTomatoes
Salad lovers should make a beeline for this buffet-style diner, which also offers pizza, pasta and fresh breads.
6877 Kirkman Road
Tel: (407) 363 1616.
Website: www.soupplantation.com
Price: $
TchoupChop
American master chef Emeril Lagasse has created a simply superb Asian/Pacific restaurant at Universal's Royal Pacific Resort.
6300 Hollywood Way
Tel: (407) 503 2467.
Website: www.emerils.com
Price: $$$$
Todd English's bluezoo
Bluezoo is another of Orlando's underwater-themed, but gorgeous, restaurants. It's the best example of fusion cuisine, heavy on the fish, with price tags that seem to draw conventioneers whooping it up on an expense account.
Walt Disney World Dolphin
Tel: (407) 934 1111.
Website: www.swandolphin.com
Price: $$$$
Victoria & Albert's
Frette linens, Riedel crystal - this is a pull-out-all-the-stops kind of place. It's on a much more intimate scale than many of the Disney resort restaurants, with only 18 tables in the main dining room and another five in the private fireplace room, plus a chef's table in the kitchen. It's a kind of old-timey fancy restaurant ambiance, but chef Scott Hunnel's culinary vision is emphatically 21st century.
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort
Tel: (407) 939 3463.
Website: www.disneyworld.com
Price: $$$$
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.
