Our hungry crew headed out for a Tuesday-night nosh and dug in with three starters. Alternative protein seekers can opt for bison, chicken, turkey or veggie patty options. Choose from 10 pre-configured models or build your own. The menu gets as colorful as the interior decor, with a healthy selection of starters, sandwiches and wraps, salads, Mexican wraps and quesadillas, and of course craft burgers with 100 percent USDA Angus beef in 8-ounce patties. There are 35 in the place, and there's nary a vantage point where you won't be bathed in the glow of some sports spectacle. Speaking of which, you won't miss the flat screens. Polished concrete floors, picnic-table seating and high-top tables dotting an open-air (and pet-friendly) front end make this a decidedly beach-casual game-watching mecca. The new edifice is all sports bar, complete with its namesake wall scrawlings, which creates a similar feel to another Orlando fast-casual export, Tijuana Flats. You'd be hard-pressed to identify any sign of the building's former self, aside from … well … the shell of the old Burger King sign, which still looms high over A1A. In October, Graffiti Junktion opened its first area Burger Bar at a former Burger King at Third Street North and Fifth Avenue North in Jacksonville Beach. Now an Orlando-based chain wants to leave its mark on the local burger scene, too. Committed meataholics can get their fix at local spots like The Blind Rabbit or fast-casual chains such as BurgerFi. for the dancing and tunes.There's no shortage of over-the-top gourmet burger emporiums on the First Coast. Look for the statue of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh - identical to the one that sits ruminating along the Grand Canal near Baggot Street Bridge in Dublin - and get here around 8 p.m. Shrimp risotto, chicken and wild mushroom pie, Guinness and onion bangers on mashed potatoes, and roasted lamb shank in rosemary jus, create a menu that stands out from other Irish pub fare. The Salmon Swoon, smoked and served with capers and crème fraiche, is a far cry from corned beef and cabbage. Chef Kevin Dundon has cooked for Queen Elizabeth and U2, and you'd be advised to take advantage of the master chef's inspired cuisine. The pub was built in Ireland and shipped more than 4,000 miles to its current home at the Downtown Disney marketplace. Traditional dancers stomp, whirl and kick live onstage, and live Irish music is played 6 nights a week.
This exposed brick barbecue haven is a 25-minute ride from Orange County Convention Center, not far from the shores of Lake Apopka.Īn Irish pub/restaurant that serves better food than you'd probably get in an average diner in Ireland, Raglan Road is the bodhran-beating heart of the Emerald Isle in central Florida. Pork, sausage and brisket sandwiches, platters of ribs and turkey and sides of okra, pickles and glasses of Southern-style sweet tea mark this spot as a carnivore's mecca. Owners Katie and Ashlee Grimes' long, thin space is filled with home-cooked specialties including sauce whipped up by their dad and coleslaw from a recipe created by their mom. Located in a section of downtown Winter Garden lined with buildings erected in the early part of the last century, the eatery is run by sisters who named the joint after their grandfathers, and who rely on long-held family recipes.
It's all about flavor, heat and meat at this small barbecue aficionado's outpost.
Don't go looking for white-linen table cloths or wine lists. Though relatively new, the family-run restaurant has already gained a reputation as one of the best barbecue spots in the greater Orlando area. In a part of the country that takes its barbecue seriously, Harry and Larry's Bar-B-Que is spoken of in hushed tones, with respect.
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