Melissa Kelly's Italian kitchen at the JW Marriott · $$$
Melissa Kelly, a two-time James Beard Award winner, has run Primo at the JW Marriott since 2003, and it is in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide. The cooking is Italian with a Mediterranean lean, built on the JW's organic garden and the estate's Whisper Creek Farm: start with the bread service and the grilled octopus with almond purée, then the lobster cacio e pepe, the pork saltimbocca or a wood-fired pizza. The room was redesigned with the JW's renovation and has a 50-seat terrace. Dinner only, every day from 5:30pm to 10pm. Book ahead: it is the estate's other big dinner.
Reserve aheadJW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, 4040 Central Florida Parkway, Orlando, FL 32837
Breakfast brasserie at the JW Marriott · $$
The JW Marriott's breakfast room, on its ground level and open every day from 7am to 11am, and the estate's other breakfast buffet. The Signature Breakfast Buffet is $42 for adults, $32 for the continental version and $22 for children of 4 to 12, with under-threes free. From the menu, eggs Benedict is $24, the chorizo birria tacos with over-easy eggs $22 and the buttermilk pancakes $21. The espresso is from Lineage, an Orlando roaster, and the orange juice is squeezed from Florida fruit. There is nothing to book.
Walk inJW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, 4040 Central Florida Parkway, Orlando, FL 32837
Ethiopian and Eritrean, on Central Florida Parkway · $$
Eight minutes west along the parkway, in a plaza next to a Publix, and in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide. Stews and kitfo come on house-made injera and are eaten by hand. Order the doro wot, chicken stewed with red onions, berbere and spiced butter, served with eggs and the house cottage cheese, $22.99, or the Selam special kitfo, $24.99, and share the nine-dish vegan combination, $46.99. Gluten-free teff injera is $3 more, and a traditional coffee ceremony closes the meal. Open from noon to 9pm on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and to 10pm from Friday to Sunday; closed on Tuesday.
Walk in5494 Central Florida Parkway, Orlando, FL 32821
Indian street food, MICHELIN Bib Gourmand · $$
Indian street food on Orange Blossom Trail, and one of 14 Orlando restaurants with a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand in 2026. The menu runs from chaat, pani puri and bhel puri to dosas, kathi rolls and the tandoor. Order the street special dosa, filled with potato, cabbage, paneer and red onion and served with coconut sambal, the hara teekha murg tikka, the spiciest thing from the tandoor, and a chura vada pav, a potato slider with garlic and coriander chutney. Lunch is every day from 11:30am to 3pm and dinner from 5pm to 10pm; book a table online for the evening.
Reserve ahead6215 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32809
Florida seafood at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress · $$$
Richard Blais's dinner room in the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, near Disney Springs, cooking Florida's coast with tropical ingredients, and in the MICHELIN Guide for the fifth year running. The signatures are the tuna tostada, the oxtail and foie gras empanada and a lobster, whole or split in half. Dinner is every day from 5pm to 10pm, with happy-hour drinks and appetisers from 5pm to 6pm and a late Flamingo Hour menu, oysters included, from 9pm. Valet and self-parking are free for diners. Book ahead.
Reserve aheadHyatt Regency Grand Cypress, 1 Grand Cypress Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32836
Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's pan-Asian room at Disney Springs · $$$
Masaharu Morimoto's pan-Asian restaurant at The Landing in Disney Springs, and in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide. The dish to share is the Morimoto Peking duck, a whole house-roasted duck carved at the table and served with steamed flour tortillas, bao buns or lettuce cups, $85 for two; around it, the orange chicken in a Florida orange sauce, $32, dim sum from $12 and a sushi bar. Lunch is from 11:30am, dinner from 4:30pm to 10pm, or 10:30pm on Friday and Saturday, and the bar stays open until 11pm or 11:30pm. Park in the Lime Garage, four minutes' walk away, and reserve.
Reserve aheadThe Landing, Disney Springs, 1600 East Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
Irish pub with live music and dancing nightly, Disney Springs · $$
The bar for an evening out: an Irish pub at The Landing with bands from Ireland every night, on the main stage from 4:30pm and on the patio from 6pm, both until 10:45pm, and Irish dancers from 4:30pm on weekdays and from noon at weekends. The kitchen covers the classics: beer-battered cod and chips, $29.95, bangers and mash with colcannon, $28, shepherd's pie with peat-smoked mash, $28.95, and an Irish seafood chowder with Guinness and treacle bread, $30. It opens at 11am, or at 10am at weekends for brunch until 2pm. Reservations are strongly recommended, though a particular table cannot be requested.
Reserve aheadThe Landing, Disney Springs, 1640 East Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
Breakfast is not in the resort fee, and the rates on the room page are room only; Club rooms include the Club Lounge's breakfast, the first of its five presentations a day. Highball & Harvest serves breakfast every day from 7am to 11am, with an omelette and egg station, fruit, house-baked pastries and warm Southern dishes laid out alongside a menu: two eggs any style is $28, chicken and waffles on a cornbread waffle $28, eggs Benedict on a buttermilk biscuit $27, with coffee from Lineage, an Orlando roaster. First Drop in the lobby opens at 6am for drip coffee, pastries and breakfast sandwiches, and in-room dining runs around the clock. The best outside option is Citron at the JW Marriott, eight minutes' walk, from 7am to 11am, with a $42 buffet.
