Category: Restaurant
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Fonda
We didn’t know anything about this place at all, but we were waiting for our table to be ready at Ambassadors Clubhouse, so this right next to it so we decided to grab a drink while we were waiting. It was a Mexican restaurant and the cocktail menu had a lot of interesting looking tequila
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Wolfsbane
This is the new restaurant from the husband and wife team previously at Lord Stanley. I didn’t want to try them at their very first week so I waited all the way until their second week to book this reservation (I know, I am so virtuous with patience, haha). We had only eaten once at
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Jaleo by José Andrés
My last evening here in Orlando. I did see Jaleo and didn’t see anything else that looked interesting nearby. Plus it was Spanish food once again and I’ve certainly enjoyed the other José Andrés restaurants to which we’ve been. Jaleo in the Cosmopolitan always looked pretty good and we just never got around to eating
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Ale & Compass Restaurant
Since I was in Orlando for the conference, I coincidentally had 2 coworkers who lived in Orlando and were willing to come out for lunch. I asked to eat somewhere within walking distance of the conference (it was at Disney properties) and Kevin (who I never previously met in person) picked this place in the
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Capa
This was the only Michelin starred restaurant in the area near Disney other than Victoria & Albert’s (on waitlist) without having to go into downtown Orlando. It was a plus for me that it was Spanish cuisine. I took my Uber straight from the conference to the restaurant in Golden Oaks. Golden Oaks turned out
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Four Flamingos, A Richard Blais Florida Kitchen
I had just flown into Orlando and after straightening out some mishaps with my hotel, I was ready to eat. I always want some reasonably decent, so this looked like a good option…listed in the Michelin guide, restaurant from Richard Blais, but I did notice while making my reservation on OpenTable that it was only
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Cotogna
Jacob scheduled a dinner meeting with a vendor. Even though Dreamforce is going on, he was able to get us table since his cousin works at Quince. We ordered a bunch of starters to share – the Heirloom Tomato Caprese, Squid, Cranberry Bean & Calabrian Chili, Bluefin Tuna Crudo as well as a Porcini Mushroom
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Protégé
Another vendor dinner this week. I bummed an Uber ride with Steven so it was great to catch up. I don’t come down to Palo Alto often for dinner (last time was an event at Nobu). The vendor had rented out the whole restaurant for the event, so that was nice. From what I remember
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Selby’s
Vendor dinner in the private room upstairs. Glasses of Billecart-Salmon champagne to start. Hors d’oeuvres were quite good. The caviar on the blini featured caviar hybrid kaluga (my favorite) from Petrossian. Other hors d’oeuvres included one made with sunchoke, one with beef tartare and a gruyere puff with truffle (don’t recall where it was from).