Eat Local Orlando, Orlando food blog, focused on finding new locally owned non-chain restaurants and food trucks in Orlando and Winter Park, documenting, photographing and reviewing them and their foods.
Meng's Kitchen inside iFresh, Colonial and Bumby.
https://www.mengskitchensorlando.com/
5 Spice Roasted Chicken & Noodle Bowl - Egg noodle topped with fried garlic in oil, steamed Yu choi, Five spice Roasted chicken thigh, five spice sauce and Side of broth. $14
Cucumber Salad
Instagram: @mengs.kitchen
https://instagram.com/mengs.kitchen?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
The very popular promotion Magical Dining is going on right now in Orlando
8/26/22 through 10/02/22
Price is $40 for an appetizer, entrée and dessert.
List of restaurants is here:
Have you tried the Nourish Coffee Bar & Kitchen in Winter Park?
Pictured is the crustless quiche.
They serve breakfast and lunch. Salads, Soups and Sandwiches.
https://www.nourishchwb.com/menu/
2005 Mizell Ave., Winter Park.
Capa at the Four Seasons Orlando resort has a great happy hour, offered 5-7pm Monday-Thursday
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| Happy Hour menu from Capa |
Hen & Hog is coming soon to Winter Park.
Details here: https://bungalower.com/2022/08/04/mason-jar-owner-finds-new-home-in-winter-park/
Follow their progress here: https://www.instagram.com/the_hen_and_hog/
Orlando Meats which moved to Winter Park few years ago has closed.
The Creative chefs have moved on to a new endeavor:
follow Red Panda Noodle here:
https://www.instagram.com/redpandanoodle/
I sampled their noodle creations at a recent Redlight Pop up and they were spicy and delicious.
More details:
Juju is a new Japanese style restaurant opening in mid-August on Colonial and Maguire.
700 Maguire Blvd, Orlando, FL 32803
https://goo.gl/maps/vKmFaWBYtiHsRfpV7
Details from the owners:
"JUJU" the sizzling sound of grilling in Japanese
ABOUT JUJU
Welcome to Juju, a retro Showa era (1926-1989) themed izakaya featuring a six seat kappo har, irakaya dining room, and lounge. We want our guests to feel like they've stepped into howa era Japan the moment the see our stand alone building (which used to be a local Pizza Hut). We communicate this with our design and décor, most of which is straight from Japan creating an authentic atmosphere with not only our food, but with signs and toys plastered on our walls
Our goal is to provide the local Orlando community a fun and relaxing place where they can come to eat drink, and create memories with their friends, co-workers, etc. Juju truly offers something for everyone and every mood.
Kappo Bar
Located in the center of Juju our six seat Omakase experience offers a chef's tasting menu led by our executive chef and owner Lewis, head chef Cayo, and chef de cuisine Albert. Our chefs will create different set menus featuring in season ingredients so that returning customers will have a different experience each time! Kappo bar menu will feature, dry aged fish, A5 Wagyu and Binchotan charcoal grilled items. Reservations are available on Resy
Izakaya Dining Room
Our izakaya dining room is a casual and traditional dining experience where customers are seated and waited on with our team of servers. This dining room will offer various small plates, raw dishes, and Japanese charcoal grilled skewers (yakitori, kushiyaki, etc)
Bar & Lounge
Our bar and lounge will feature an extensive variety of Japanese whiskey, shochu, premium sake, and craft beers. We'll have craft cocktails from the popular Japanese hi-ball and chu-hi along with Japanese shows ers pop culture themed cocktails. Our lounge and bar will also offer a separate kitchen menu consisting of various Japanese bar snacks only available at the lounge
Bar and lounge will be open seating allowing customers to leisurely eat, drink, hangout while waiting for their seat in the izakaya dining room or relaxing after their Kappo bar dining
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I recently had the opportunity to preview the new Juju. Here I'm excited for their opening, the things we sampled had great flavors, especially the grilled meats and Mackerel are the pics and videos:
Christmas in July at Kelly's Homemade Ice Cream.
Starting July 25th
Flavors:
Santa's White Christmas - Coconut, Toasted Nut, Vanilla, Layered with Caramel
Ginger Snap
Candy Cane
Hot Cocoa+Marshmallows
Also they now have 6 scoop flights
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#IceCream
#ChristmasInJuly
#KellysHomemadeIceCream
AVA Mediterraegean has been open for a little while in Winter Park in the former Luma space on Park Ave. The decor and atmosphere are beautiful.
It's a creative restaurant with a nice mixture of Mediterranean dishes.
Seared Branzino Crudo - Tomato, fresno, basil
Beet Salad - Blood orange, fig balsamic, scallion, feta, lemon caviar, espelette. This dish had these amazing little tangy citrus balls it turns out were from finger likes, a ingredient I hadn't encountered before. This dish was sweet and moist, very enjoyable.
Chicken Tagine - Zucchini squash, dried fruits, AVA spices, olives, couscous.
Overall I was very impressed with the dishes and flavors. Staff was very pleasant and helpful.
AVA Mediterraegean
290 S Park Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789
https://www.avamediterraegean.com/
