Best Off-Site Restaurant's Thread

[Jillp600]

We didn't like Giordano's pizza either, pricy!

 

[Mouse511]

Giordano's pizza was the absolute best pizza we have ever ate!!!! Deep Dish Chicago style. We ate at the one in Kissimmee.

We couldn't agree more.....Giordano's is the best pizza we've ever had. Awesome....love the deep dish. A definite must for every trip to Florida

 

[dioxide45]

We didn't like Giordano's pizza either, pricy!

While their deep dish pizza can be expensive, you get what you pay for. The pizza is literally (as the name indicates) stuffed. You probably get three times the cheese of a regular thin crust pizza. Their thin pizzas are priced more like you would expect of a normal pizza joint.

 

[Art 1]

Ruth's Chris on Sand Lake Rd. is excellent. I'm craving a steak just thinking of it.

 

[Keli]

Just subscribing so I'll have this thread for future reference!

 

[kapica3]

If you like barbecue, I highly recommend BubbaLou's Bodacious Barbecue. It's on Conroy about a mile down Kirkman from USF.
It is by far my favorite rib joint and the prices are very reasonable.

We found BubbaLou's Bodacious Barbecue by chance while picking up park tickets at the UPS store in an adjacent shopping area.

I just had to ask the UPS Store workers where that unbelievably delicious smell was coming from..... and ever since we only leave WDW for one thing and one thing only.... BubbaLou's Ribs. We go at least twice each trip.

 

[ClanHarrison]

BubbaLou's is a MUST HAVE when we're in Orlando. Great rib joint! A couple of people in our group got the fried catfish dinner and said it was excellent also.

During our April visit, I scored the last hot pink BubbaLou's tee-shirt they had in stock & got one of their cute aprons. I love them.

 

[Shellzbellz]

Hi I've been a long time lurker but this is my first post as it relates to my favourite subject - food! As we're not from the US we don't have most of the chain restaurants you have there and I'm not really sure whether some of these are chains or not but here goes.

Love, love, love Sweet Tomatoes! I would go every day but DH hates buffets so I can only get him there once each trip.

Mannys Chop House is one of our favourite places for dinner. It's a bit out of the way but well worth the drive.

We like the Outback. We've always had a nice meal there and good value too.

Golden Coral is great for breakfast. Only been to the one on 192.

We always go to Denny's our first morning. Then we feel like we're really in the US.

 

[IluvKingLouis]

We hit the Publix on East Orange Lake. Spotted a casual Japanese restaurant in the same strip mall. It was sooo good. We got several bento boxes to go. We were staying at ASMu and while taking the Sherberth exit back to the resort, our food was still nice and hot.

I had a salmon teriyaki which came with veggies, rice, two potstickers, California roll and a nice salad. ...$8.95.

We returned two days later and the lady remembered our order.

The atmosphere is quite casual. The only reason why we had it to go was that tornadoes were being spotted in the area and I wanted to get us back to the hotel room.

 

[dtum]

Sweet Tomatoes! Ate at the new one twice this past trip. Plus it's right next to Super Target (on 192) so we ate, then shopped for groceries to take back to our rental house. Sign up for their e-mails and get discount coupons before you go.

 

[mlnbabies]

We are staying at Windsor Hills and I need some restaurant ideas. I will cook breakfast but not dinner. We will need several places for dinner.

 

[candy1]

Does anyone know of an off-site restaurant with Gator on the menu? My kids are pretty intrigued about trying it, though I'm not sure they'll follow through.

I have not tried it but read great reviews about "The Cat Fish Place" at st cloud, most of the reviews were on here and trip adviser, it does Gator amongst many more different dishes.

 

[famousmockingbird]

If you are looking for delivery, we LOVE Flippers Pizza. So good! We like to have at least one night of down-time at the hotel/condo, so ordering from Flippers is a tradition for us!

 

[two*little*birds]

Bump

 

[dolphinslady]

The absolute best pizza I have had is at Sal's in Portifino Bay Hotel. Don't know if you can go there without having Universal tickets or staying at the hotel but I am 38 and we ate there, ummm, over 4 times when we stayed. Awesome. Otherwise, Bahama Breeze, Kobe, Houlihans and Uno are favorites. Just depends on what ya wanna spend. McDs good too on Sand Lake, kids eat free.

 

[joestein]

I would like to recommend the Elephant Bar restaurant. It is in the parking lot of the Mall at Millenia (sp?) which is near universal.

It is a huge menu, but everything we had there was good. It is the only restaurant over our 2 week vacation that went to twice.

We also tried Tchoup Tchoup at the Loews Polynesian Resort. We had lunch there, as dinner is quite expensive. My kids loved the sushi filled with chicken fingers and fries.

We also tried Padrino's Cuban based upon some of the reviews I read here. While the food was cooked very well, everything was lacking in flavor. It was bland and underseasoned. Too bad as the creole shrimp were perfectly cooked.

Joe

 

[maciec]

LOL! I cannot believe this thread that I started 7 years ago is still popping up! Funny thing is, I need to go through it again because we are going to be venturing off site this trip and I need some dining suggestions!!

 

[Day-Day]

We enjoyed Black Angus Steakhouse. Decent quality; comparible supper at WDW restaurants would cost $10 to $15 more per person...

 

[craftymama71]

Cracker Barrel, hands down. Being from Australia, we have nothing like it here. The food was amazing and I love love love the gift shop they have.

Olive Garden is good too. We tried it back in 2008 in Pennsylvania and loved it. It wasn't as great this time around, but it may have just been a bad night. It was still great value for money.

My friend from Florida recommended a place called Sweet Tomato. Apparently it is really good. We never made it as we ran out of time, but it could be worth trying.

 

[TotoToo]

Ruth's Chris on Sand Lake Rd. is excellent. I'm craving a steak just thinking of it.

For much less you can get a much better steak, IMO, at one of the Charley's Steak House locations (we like the one on 192) or at Del Frisco's one location. Both are priced well under Ruth Chris - which I though was good but not great enough for the price - while Charley's & Del Frisco's felt like bargains for the money - some of THE best steak I've ever had.

Try then, you'll like them. And for what you pay at RC you can almost get one meal at each so two nights of great steak!