Downtown Food Tour

The Write-Up

The full story

This walking food tour shows you the real Orlando, the downtown locals actually eat in, with a guide who folds the city's history and art into the route. Stops hit vendors you would not normally try, for tastings like Sticky Pork Bites, a Quesito, Colombian street food and a Deviled Egg Smash Sandwich, plus a secret dish. Groups stay small and personal, and guests warn that you will get full.

District Story

The story of Downtown

A fort, a courthouse plat and a citrus boom built it. A name nobody can prove still runs it.

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Similar Feel

More places with this feel

Matched by vibe, not by neighborhood: the places across Greater Orlando closest in spirit to Downtown Food Tour.

Ivanhoe Village Food Tour

Attractions · Ivanhoe Village · $$$

A knowledgeable local guide leads this well-organized walk through a lakefront vintage district of shops and cafes, stop by tasting stop.

1211 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32804

Milk District Eats Food Tour

Attractions · Milk District · $$

A small-group walking food tour through the dairy-named district east of downtown, personal, easygoing and rich with local history.

201 N Bumby Ave, Orlando, FL 32803 (meets in front of the Milkhouse)

Lake Eola Park & Linton E. Allen Memorial Fountain

Parks & outdoors · Downtown · $

Downtown's lake is the city's front porch, with swans, pedal boats, a lit fountain, and a shaded loop around the shore.

Lake Eola Park, 512 E Washington St, Orlando, FL 32801-1941

BENTO Asian Kitchen + Sushi

Japanese & sushi · Downtown Orlando · $$

Fast-casual Pan-Asian on South Orange Avenue, built for the group that cannot agree on one cuisine.

151 S Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801

Kabooki Sushi Downtown

Japanese & sushi · Downtown · $$$$

Do not let the East Colonial strip mall outside fool you; inside is a dim, upscale room regulars call a full sensory experience.

3122 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL 32803

ICON Park & The Orlando Eye

Attractions · I-Drive · $$

An open-air stretch of I-Drive with no gate to wander in, anchored by the 400-foot Orlando Eye above the night lights.

8375 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819

Keep Going

More in Downtown Orlando

Other places in Downtown Orlando, Local Picks first, then the closest to Downtown Food Tour.

Fixtion Restaurant & Bar Local Pick

American · American Restaurant · $$

On Orange Avenue, comfort food and huge comfy booths early, club energy after dark, shape-shifting through the day.

15 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801

Wall Street Plaza Local Pick

Nightlife & music · Entertainment District · $$

One downtown block holds the whole crawl: eight bars and patios that, on a big night, turn into a single street party.

25 Wall St, Orlando, FL 32801

Elixir Kitchen and Bar Local Pick

Bars & lounges · Bar · $$

A rustic-hip gastropub in one of downtown's original buildings, and very much the neighborhood's spot.

9 W Washington St, Orlando, FL 32801

Jiang's Kitchen

Chinese · Chinese · $$

A new downtown spot on East Robinson Street where soup dumplings are folded by hand in view of the dining room.

27 E Robinson St, Orlando, FL 32801

Yaz Orlando

Nightlife & music · Club · $$

On North Orange Avenue, dinner and lounge come first, then the room deepens into a club as the night goes on, low-lit and moody.

114 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801

Sly Fox

Bars & lounges · Dive Bar · $$

Gritty, punk-rock dive on North Orange Avenue where the regulars call themselves a built-in family.

Sly Fox, 63 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801-2425