Chef Brandon McGlamery — whose time at Luma on Park, Prato and Luke’s Kitchen + Bar have been instrumental in shaping Orlando’s culinary scene — will bring a new restaurant to Winter Park in 2026.
The Reverie, a “refined yet approachable American brasserie,” will be McGlamery’s first new concept in six years and since parting ways with Park Lights Hospitality in early June.
The Reverie will open in a legacy location, as well: that which Chez Vincent, and its namesake Chef Vincent Gagliano, have called home for the last 28 years.
Both chefs seemed delighted with their respective new paths as Gagliano, whose last day of service at Chez Vincent is Dec. 21, prepares to enjoy his first Christmas Eve off in 35 years.
Meanwhile, McGlamery, along with his partners at the Columbia, S.C.-based Foundry Hospitality Group, plans an exciting new space in the city he’s called home for two decades.
“It’s reinvigorating,” McGlamery told the Orlando Sentinel. “I think as a chef and a businessperson you’re always thinking about what everything is leading to.
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Chef Brandon McGlamery in “The Vault” at Luma back in the day. (file photo)
“Coming from a restaurant group where I was responsible for three concepts, to be scaling back to one and poised to grow again, that’s where I was aiming.”
Foundry founder Brandon Manly, McGlamery’s friend for the better part of a decade, was in a pivotal place, too.
“When [McGlamery] and I started talking it just kind of clicked,” says Manly. “He’s one of the best chefs in Florida, someone I respect deeply … and the opportunity to do something here with Vincent is just spectacular.”
It’s a fantastic location, he says, a neighborhood in which Gagliano, who grew up in the Auvergne region of France, was a pioneer.
“I was the first one here,” says Gagliano. That was in 1997.
“Dexter’s came two years later … and all these restaurants and businesses from there. It was a good challenge and it’s been a great journey … [McGlamery] is the best chef in town and he’s going to continue my legacy, so he is the perfect person for me to pass the torch.”
The admiration is mutual.
There will be love letters to Chez Vincent at The Reverie, says McGlamery, “but it will be a brand-new restaurant, a neighborhood place, a convivial place … Not a bistro, not a tavern, but a blend of all those feels that plays on what an American restaurant is.”
And one with a new look brought to life by architect Michael Weinwick and designer Dave Thompson. Renderings, says Manly, should be available within a month’s time.
Though Foundry — a young restaurant development and management company — has popular, replicable brands like Chicken Salad Chick and Nothing Bundt Cakes in its portfolio, the plan for The Reverie is a one-and-done.
“This one, with its location and character, with someone like [McGlamery] on the team, is the perfect platform to launch what we’re planning down here in Florida, but not to be duplicated,” Manly says. “It’s going to be a truly special place.”
For McGlamery — whose resume includes culinary icons like The French Laundry, Chez Panisse, Bacchanalia and multiple Michelin-starred restaurants — a new venue in Winter Park is a new chapter in a town that’s quite different than it was when Luma opened and elevated the scene to new levels.
“Winter Park has progressed a lot. It has grown. People are more worldly. We have to deliver on their wants and needs and meet their anticipations,” he says.
He looks forward to doing so, and bringing all the parts of his journey, Luma and otherwise, to a new home just two blocks away.
“The sky’s the limit in a lot of ways,” says McGlamery, “but you don’t lose all the things that came before as you move forward.”
amthompson@orlandosentinel.com