Category: Orlando Weekly

For the lucky seventh year in a row, I am grateful to Orlando Weekly and its talented, tough, two-fisted Editor in Chief Jessica Bryce Young, for including my latest annual list of my favorite things I ate in Orlando this year: my Top Ten Tastes of 2023.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/food-drink/top-tastes-of-all-the-things-we-ate-in-orlando-this-year-these-are-our-favorites-35822836

Here are links to my full, detailed Saboscrivner reviews of every restaurant I included on the 2023 list:
Zeytin Turkish Cuisine
SoDough Square Pizza
Briskets BBQ Shack & Grill
Christo’s (Sanford)
Pho Huong Lan
Sanaa
Zorba’s Greek Restaurant (Sanford)
Cow & Cheese
Sister Honey’s Bakery

And I haven’t reviewed Selam Ethiopian & Eritrean Cuisine yet, but I’m sure I will in 2024.

Also, here is is one convenient link to all my previous annual lists for Orlando Weekly.  

Happy New Year to my dozens of readers!  Here’s to a better, safer, healthier, happier 2024 for all.  Keep your hearts and bellies full, and be kind to yourselves and others.

For the sixth year in a row, I am grateful to Orlando Weekly and its excellent, exceptional, exemplary editrix Jessica Bryce Young, for including my latest annual list of my favorite things I ate in Orlando this year: my Top Ten Tastes of 2022.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/food-drink/top-tastes-the-best-bites-we-took-in-2022-33210298

Here are links to my full, detailed Saboscrivner reviews of every restaurant I included on the 2022 list:
Wako Taco
John and John’s – A Pizza Shop
The Pastrami Project
Thai Singha
Ray’s Deli and More
The Escobar Kitchen
JAM Hot Chicken
Hanalei Shave Ice
Kabuto Sushi and Grill (I’m so sad that  it closed permanently TWO DAYS AGO!)
And I haven’t reviewed Crocante yet, since I’m hoping to go at least one more time first, but it’s great too.

Also, here is is one convenient link to all my previous annual lists for Orlando Weekly.  So much for my secret identity, even though pretty much everyone knows who I am anyway… kind of like all of Clark Kent’s co-workers and all the fancy people who have spent any time around Bruce Wayne.

Happy New Year, stalwart Saboscrivnerinos!  Here’s to a better, safer, healthier, happier 2023 for all.  Hopefully we all eat well, and maybe we can even share some meals in the new year.

I am so grateful to Orlando Weekly and its illustrious Editor in Chief Jessica Bryce Young for including my list of favorite things I ate for the fifth year in a row.  Here are my Top Twelve Tastes of 2021:

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/top-tastes-2021-the-12-best-things-we-ate-this-year/Content?oid=30546811 

I have written full, detailed reviews of eleven of these twelve top-notch local restaurants right here on The Saboscrivner.  Here are direct links to those full reviews:
Uncle Dendog’s
Cavo’s Bar & Kitchen
High Tide Harry’s
Edward’s Gourmet Confections
Bombay Street Kitchen
Pizza Bruno
Meng’s Kitchen
Stasio’s Italian Deli and Market
Yummy House
Mediterranean Deli
Chicken Fire
The Osprey (review coming in early 2022)

And here are links to all my previous annual lists of favorite local dishes for Orlando Weekly:

2017

2018

2019 (That year, three of my choices were combined with a list from Orlando Weekly‘s regular food writer, the brilliant Faiyaz Kara)

2020