One of Florida\u2019s booming culinary scenes is nestled against a backdrop of rollercoasters and castles in Orlando, Florida. What makes Orlando a culinary wonderland, besides the sheer number of restaurants to try, is the incredible diversity in the restaurant scene. The city boasts everything from dive-style seafood restaurants slinging oysters on the half-shell to incredible Michelin-starred establishments serving steaks and Japanese fusion. So whether you\u2019re a tourist wanting to stick to the theme park corridor or a local who\u2019s willing to drive across town for an incredible meal, there\u2019s always a great restaurant nearby; you just need to know where to look.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Updated January 2026: I love January because it feels like a new beginning. Part of my New Year’s traditions includes writing a list of restaurants I want to try. While not every restaurant on this list is newly opened, there’s a mix of staples in the city and new eateries that you may not have gotten to yet. Some long-time favorites include Wine Bar George at Disney Springs and Kaya in the Mills 50 neighborhood. A few of the new inclusions on my list this time are Mills Market, Piggza, and Walala Hand Pulled Noodles, all located in the popular Mills 50 neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
RECOMMENDED: This guide was updated by Florida-based writer Megan duBois<\/a>.\u00a0At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Florida\u2019s booming culinary scenes is nestled against a backdrop of rollercoasters and castles in Orlando, Florida.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2019,60927,60929,60928,60924,60926,60922,60923,9428,60925,9427,139,141,140,687],"class_list":{"0":"post-121838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-categories-restaurants","9":"tag-dating-good-for-date-night","10":"tag-format-eitw","11":"tag-format-evergreen","12":"tag-good-for-good-for-couples","13":"tag-good-for-good-for-going-in-a-group","14":"tag-good-for-good-for-going-solo","15":"tag-good-for-good-for-going-with-friends","16":"tag-good-for-good-for-locals","17":"tag-good-for-good-for-taking-parents","18":"tag-good-for-good-for-tourists","19":"tag-orlando","20":"tag-orlando-headlines","21":"tag-orlando-news","22":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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