Cuisine of Orlando for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants

Orlando meets travelers with more than fifteen hundreds of gastronomy establishments of various trends and cuisines. A major part of the presented eating houses is of fast food trend. These fast food restaurants and eateries are of great popularity among fans of hamburgers and sandwiches, milk shakes and sweets. At the same time the city offers plenty of elegant upscale restaurants serving dainty treats and delicacies. That is why choosing a place to eat in Orlando will not be of great challenge.

The Charley’s Steak House restaurant will be of great interest for meat dishes admirers. A choice of house specialities is really great there. It should be noted that only ten restaurants of Charley’s Steak House chain are operating in the USA. The best place for a company meeting and leisure will be the Citrus restaurant which has gained the recognition of regular customers and popularity among city guests due to its unique, charming friendly atmosphere.

The restaurant offers plenty of original dishes including traditional chicken wings under hot sauce, astonishing exotic salads and inimitable desserts. The southern part of the city hosts the Diner Johnson restaurant which specializes in roast treats. Among the house specialities guests will find moist meat steaks, crisp roast asparagus and other original vegetable treats. The Diner Johnson restaurant is in demand among vegetarian diet followers. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

The city of Orlando has a genuine Irish pub named Celt. Its cozy hall attracts many beer friends every evening. Apart from a dozen of best beer sorts the Celt pub offers a vast choice of cold snacks. Among budgetary eating houses the Lac-Viêt restaurant specializing in Vietnamese cuisine is well worth attention of tourists. The restaurant serves traditional noodle, Vietnamese cocktails and refreshing drinks as well as original desserts. The Lac-Viêt restaurant is a perfect place to rest and recharge after city exploration tour as its spacious hall is always filled with jolly and buzzing atmosphere.

One of the most prestigious gastronomy establishments of the city is considered to be the Victoria & Albert's restaurant. Its luxuriously decorated hall, plenty of dainty delicacies on the menu and excellent wine list added with high class service are the main distinguishing features for a comfortable rest in an upscale place. The rich menu of the restaurant offers popular dishes of various cuisines of the world including American, British, French and Irish ones. Among traditional restaurants of ethnic cuisine the Chatham's Place eating house is worth visiting. The restaurant is a marked contrast to hundreds of establishments offering fast food meals. Dainty meat and fish treats added with excellent vegetable accompaniments will be of great pleasure for genuine gourmands. If a desired treat is not presented on the menu of the restaurant, the house chef will eagerly cook the desired meal on request.

Seafood has been the basis of local cooking for many years. Apart from shrimp and squid familiar to many gourmets, here you can try a lot of other unusual types of seafood. Orlando's restaurants serve exotic shellfish, while upscale ones offer amazing dishes from turtle and crocodile meat. Alligator meat has long been a common local product, which can be purchased at all local markets and even in supermarkets. A very interesting local delicacy is sausage prepared from a mixture of pork and alligator meat.

Currently, several specialized farms in the vicinity of Orlando breed alligators for gastronomic purposes. Of course, they can be visited with tours. Fragrant turtle soup is another well-known dish for many local residents, which may seem an exotic delicacy to foreign guests. Turtles are also bred on special farms for local restaurants.

Discerning gourmets and all fans of seafood would be happy to visit Orlando in October. At this time, local fishermen begin harvesting a rare delicacy - stone crabs. Only crab claws are used for the preparation of fine dishes, so the whole process is considered quite humane. When fishermen catch crabs, they just unscrew one claw and release them. By the next season, a new claw grows back, so such manipulations do not threaten the lives of these marine creatures at all.

Meat lovers will not be bored either in Orlando. They will have a chance to try traditional barbecue, the process of which has long become a good tradition for the townspeople. Throughout the year, the city hosts several barbecue festivals with the participation of the best chefs from all over Florida. You can try meat fried over an open fire at one of the local restaurants or buy some steaks and go to one of the local parks where they have specially equipped BBQ sites at every step. Many of the popular dishes that are served in Orlando restaurants cannot be tasted anywhere else in the United States - that's why the city is so popular with gourmets.