Ômo by Jônt
Ômo by Jônt is Winter Park's Michelin-starred splurge, a tasting menu staged as a journey through a series of intimate rooms.
The Short Version
Park Avenue is the date; the rooms are the choices
At one end of the register sits Ômo by Jônt, sixteen seats and three rooms of Michelin-starred theater. At the other sits The Wine Room, where you load a tasting card and pour for yourselves, and Peterbrooke’s chocolates, handcrafted on Park Avenue in the European tradition since 1983, as the walk-off closer.
Between those poles the avenue covers the middle registers: The Chapman’s warm, artful room, Sixty Vines and its wall of wines on tap, Vinia’s welcome like a guest at home, and a gastropub reached through a blue door in the Hidden Garden, where the glass atrium does the rest.
The move: dinner, then one more stop on the same street. Park Avenue dates work because the second act, a pour at The Imperial, a glass from the tap wall, a box of chocolates, never requires a car.
The Picks
Every date night pick in Winter Park
The complete date list for the district, in the guide’s own order. Tap any name to open its own page.
The Chapman
On Park Avenue, The Chapman is the warm, artful dining room Winter Park kept asking for, built on a scratch kitchen and Florida ingredients.
The Wine Room on Park Avenue
Wine tasting without the intimidation: load a Tasting Card and pour your own tastes, from a sip to a full glass, off a wall of wines from around the world.
The Imperial on Park
Park Avenue's neighborhood bar, warm and laid back, pouring boutique wines, craft beers and cocktails built on Winter Park Distillery spirits.
Sixty Vines
A wine-country room transplanted to Winter Park, with a tap wall of wines poured by the glass, carafe or bottle and a greenhouse patio that glows after dark.
The Grove Bar + Kitchen
The Grove wears its citrus-grove heritage warmly, a golden, textured room in Winter Park Village built for lingering.
Jala Indian Cuisine
Jala brings founder Manish Nagar's Ahmedabad roots to Morse Boulevard, a serene, intimate room where the cooking stays slow-simmered and tandoor-fired.
Peterbrooke Chocolatier
Peterbrooke has handcrafted chocolate in the European tradition on Park Avenue since 1983, and the cocoa scent reaches the sidewalk.
Vinia Wine & Kitchen
Dinner at Vinia feels like being welcomed into someone's home: a small, low-lit room in Hannibal Square, a boutique wine list, and plates that move between Italy and Brazil.
Garp & Fuss
You enter through a blue door in Winter Park's Hidden Garden, and the glass atrium does the rest; guests call it a hidden gem that feels like a secret even when it is packed.
Before You Go
Practical notes
The lay of the land
- Most of this list sits on or just off Park Avenue, which makes the night a stroll rather than a route; the avenue’s brick streets and oak canopy are the connective tissue between stops.
- Each pick’s finder card carries its address and details. Check the card for your anchor before you set out, and let the rest of the evening stay unplanned; the avenue rewards it.
Using the finder
- The date view below opens the finder filtered to the occasion across every district, for comparing Park Avenue’s quiet register against the International Drive version of date night.
- This list leans dinner first. The district story and the district view add the daytime Winter Park around it, the lakes, galleries, and markets, when the date starts before dark.
Keep Going
The district, and the whole guide
This page is one cut of the guide: date night in Winter Park. The district story covers the neighborhood itself, and the finder carries every place in the guide with search, filters, and a map.