Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Orlando
Six restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence: Victoria & Albert's at Grand Floridian Resort, Capa in Golden Oak, Knife & Spoon in Sky Lake South, Bourbon Steak Orlando in Lake Buena Vista, Bull & Bear Orlando in Bonnet Creek, and Ceiba in Cypress Walk. Twelve more hold an Award of Excellence, including Primo in Sky Lake South, Nami and Bacán in Lake Nona, The Boheme and Leiah in Downtown Orlando, and Christinis Ristorante Italiano and The H Orlando in The Rialto.
Primo runs to 2,790 selections, with California and Italian bottles. Wine Bar George in Vista Way offers more than 200 wines by the glass, bottle, or ounce. Sixty Vines in Little Sand Lake pours from a 60-tap system. Other exceptional programs on the list include Foreigner Restaurant in Audubon Park, DoveCote Restaurant in downtown, and Kres Chophouse in Downtown Orlando.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or rated as having an exceptional wine program, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Bacán
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Bacán brings together the breadth of North and South American cuisines inside the Wave Hotel on Orlando's Lake Nona waterfront, with a menu shaped by French technique and a wine list of 130 selections. Two consecutive Michelin Plate awards signal consistent kitchen output.
Bourbon Steak Orlando
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Bourbon Steak Orlando occupies a deliberate position inside Walt Disney World's resort corridor, where the expectations of hotel dining and serious American steakhouse cooking converge. The Michael Mina-affiliated concept brings dry-aged beef and a considered wine program to a market that has historically undersold that combination. For guests staying on Epcot Resort Boulevard, it represents one ambitious protein-forward option within walking distance.
Bull & Bear Orlando
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
The Bull & Bear name traces back to a Waldorf Astoria institution that opened in New York in 1931. At Waldorf Astoria Orlando, the tradition continues in a setting that places serious dining within the Bonnet Creek resort corridor, roughly fifteen minutes from Walt Disney World.
California Grill
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
California Grill sits atop Disney's Contemporary Resort, combining American cuisine with a floor-to-ceiling view of Magic Kingdom and its nightly fireworks. The restaurant occupies a distinct position in Orlando's resort dining tier, where setting and menu complexity work in deliberate tandem. Diners who plan ahead secure one of Orlando's more theatrically situated dinner tables.
Capa
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Capa occupies the 17th floor of Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort, combining Basque-inflected tapas and wood-fired prime steaks with a wine list of 350 selections. Consecutive Michelin stars in 2024 and 2025 confirm its place at the summit of the Orlando steakhouse tier. The Spanish-accented format, communal pacing, and sommelier-led cellar make it a distinct proposition in a city better known for theme-park dining.
Ceiba
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Ceiba sits at 1500 Eastbeach Way in Orlando's Lake Buena Vista corridor, a address that places it within one of the city's most competitive dining corridors. The name itself, drawn from the ancient tropical hardwood tree sacred across Latin American cultures, signals an orientation toward place and provenance. For diners working through Orlando's upper tier, it belongs in the same conversation as the city's more established fine-dining options.
Chima Steakhouse Orlando
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Chima Steakhouse on Sand Lake Road sits inside Orlando's Restaurant Row, where Brazilian churrasco format meets a formal, multi-course meat progression. The all-you-can-eat rodízio structure organizes the meal around continuous tableside carving rather than à la carte selection, placing it in a distinct tier from the city's conventional steakhouse options. Plan ahead: weekend covers fill quickly along this stretch.
Christinis Ristorante Italiano
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Christinis Ristorante Italiano has anchored the Dr. Phillips dining corridor in Orlando for decades, positioning itself as a white-tablecloth Italian reference point in a city better known for theme-park dining. Located at 7600 Dr Phillips Blvd, the restaurant draws a loyal local following alongside visitors seeking a more formal Italian dining register than the broader Orlando market typically offers.
Christner's Prime Steak & Lobster
Exceptional wine program
A Lee Road fixture in north Orlando, Christner's Prime Steak & Lobster represents the city's enduring appetite for the traditional American chophouse format — serious cuts, practiced tableside service, and a dining room where the front-of-house rhythm matters as much as what arrives on the plate. In a market increasingly pulled toward resort-adjacent dining, it occupies a distinct lane as a freestanding, neighbourhood-rooted steakhouse.
Cítricos
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Cítricos at Disney's Grand Floridian carries consecutive Michelin Plate recognition for 2024 and 2025, placing it in a small tier of resort-based dining that earns independent critical notice. The kitchen runs an American menu with Spanish inflection, backed by a wine list of 175 selections and 525 bottles, weighted toward California. Dinner here reads as a deliberate counterpoint to theme-park spectacle.
DoveCote Restaurant
Exceptional wine program
DoveCote Restaurant occupies a ground-floor suite on North Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando, operating within a downtown dining corridor that has grown considerably more serious over the past decade. The restaurant sits alongside a small tier of Orlando addresses where the kitchen's ambition and the room's formality align, placing it in conversation with the city's broader shift toward destination dining.
Flying Fish
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Flying Fish occupies a distinct position on Disney's BoardWalk, where the resort dining format intersects with serious seafood cooking. The dining room's design draws from early twentieth-century carnival and boardwalk architecture, giving the space a theatrical character that separates it from the quieter fine-dining rooms elsewhere on Epcot Resort Boulevard. For visitors weighing their options across the resort corridor, it represents one of the more considered choices in a competitive tier.
Foreigner Restaurant
Exceptional wine program
Foreigner Restaurant arrives in Orlando's increasingly sophisticated dining conversation as a venue that draws a line between imported culinary technique and the produce available from Florida's year-round growing season. The premise sits inside a broader city-wide shift toward global methods applied to regional ingredients. For visitors assessing Orlando's premium tier, it belongs in the same conversation as Sorekara and Camille.
Hemisphere Restaurant
Exceptional wine program
Hemisphere Restaurant sits at 9300 Jeff Fuqua Blvd in Orlando's Lake Nona corridor, positioning itself within the city's upper tier of destination dining. For travelers passing through Orlando International Airport or staying nearby, it represents one of the area's more considered fine-dining options, though diners should verify current hours and availability before planning around it.
Knife & Spoon
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Knife & Spoon at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes holds a Michelin Plate (2025) and is anchored by James Beard-nominated Chef John Tesar's dry-aging program, with some cuts aged up to 240 days in-house. USDA Prime beef from Cameron, Texas-based 44 Farms anchors the menu, supported by a 255-selection wine list and a terrace that faces the lake at sunset. Reservations are recommended; valet parking is available on-site.
Kres Chophouse
Exceptional wine program
Kres Chophouse fits Orlando’s downtown dining pattern: a late-service, business-district room built around the American steakhouse grammar of beef, wine, and after-work momentum. Its appeal is less about theme-park spectacle than about the city’s urban core, where sourcing discipline and kitchen consistency matter more than novelty.
Leiah
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
On North Magnolia Avenue in Orlando's Ivanhoe Village, Leiah occupies a stretch of the city where the dining conversation has grown more considered in recent years. The restaurant sits within a broader local shift toward sourcing transparency and environmental accountability, placing it alongside a cohort of Orlando addresses rethinking what fine dining means in a subtropical food-producing state.
Nami
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Nami brings serious Japanese cooking to Lake Nona's Artist Avenue, earning a Michelin Plate recognition in 2025 and building one of Orlando's more considered wine programs — 290 selections, 1,438 bottles in inventory, with France and California as the twin pillars. At the $$$$ price tier with dinner-only service, it operates at the upper end of the city's Japanese dining circuit.
Primo
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
One of Orlando's most enduring hotel restaurants, Primo at JW Marriott Grande Lakes has held its position since 2003 by tying Italian and Mediterranean cooking to Florida's agricultural calendar. A 2025 Michelin Plate and a refreshed menu built around shareable small plates signal a deliberate reinvention, not a resting on reputation. The wine list runs to 2,790 selections, with California and Italian bottles anchoring the program.
Sixty Vines
Exceptional wine program
Sixty Vines on Sand Lake Road sits inside Orlando's restaurant row at the point where wine-bar casualness meets a genuinely food-forward menu. The format centers on wines by the tap and a kitchen that earns its place alongside the corridor's stronger options. A useful stop when the goal is a relaxed, wine-led progression rather than a tasting-menu commitment.
The Boheme
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
On South Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando, The Boheme occupies a position in the city's more considered dining and drinking tier — the kind of address where the room carries as much weight as what's in the glass. Its placement in the Grand Bohemian Hotel gives it a cultural gravity that most standalone bars in the corridor lack, drawing a crowd that treats an evening here as a full commitment rather than a stopover.
The H Orlando
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Located on Dr Phillips Blvd in Orlando's restaurant-dense Sand Lake corridor, The H Orlando occupies a strip that has become one of the city's most competitive dining addresses. The surrounding blocks host a concentration of independent and chef-driven concepts that position the area well above theme-park-adjacent dining. Details on cuisine format and pricing are not yet publicly confirmed.
Victoria & Albert's
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Victoria & Albert's at Walt Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort holds a Michelin star, AAA 5 Diamond recognition, and a La Liste score of 93 points — placing it among Florida's most formally ambitious dining rooms. A seven- or ten-course tasting format, a 1,650-bottle wine inventory, and tableside French trolley service distinguish it from any comparable room in the state. Dinner runs three to four hours and requires advance planning.
Vito's Chop House
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Vito's Chop House on International Drive is one of Orlando's established steak and wine destinations, recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star designation for the depth of its wine program. The restaurant occupies a tier of the city's dining scene where the wine list functions as a primary draw alongside the food, making it a reference point for wine-focused dining along the I-Drive corridor.
Wine Bar George
Exceptional wine program
Wine Bar George at Disney Springs holds a World of Fine Wine Global Winner designation and a 3-Star Accreditation, making it one formally credentialed wine program in the Orlando area. Led by Master Sommelier George Miliotes, the bar offers more than 200 wines available by the glass, bottle, or ounce — a format that rewards methodical exploration over a single sitting.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Orlando
- Which restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence?
- On this list, the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence restaurants are Victoria & Albert's at Grand Floridian Resort, Capa in Golden Oak, Knife & Spoon in Sky Lake South, Bourbon Steak Orlando in Lake Buena Vista, Bull & Bear Orlando in Bonnet Creek, and Ceiba in Cypress Walk. Those awards are dated 2026. Capa's list has 350 selections, and Knife & Spoon's list has 255 selections.
- Which restaurants on this list publish a list size?
- Published counts on this list include Primo in Sky Lake South at 2,790 selections, with California and Italian bottles, and Victoria & Albert's at Grand Floridian Resort at a 1,650-bottle inventory. Wine Bar George in Vista Way offers more than 200 wines by the glass, bottle, or ounce under Master Sommelier George Miliotes, using Coravin.
- Which restaurants hold Star Wine List or World's Best Wine Lists awards?
- Wine Bar George in Vista Way holds World's Best Wine Lists awards, including a 3-Star rating and a category win, plus Star Wine List recognition. Vito's Chop House in Convention Center holds Star Wine List recognition and a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. Master Sommelier George Miliotes leads Wine Bar George, with more than 200 wines by the glass, bottle, or ounce, using Coravin.
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