NEWS: Ace Cafe has launched their buffet-style weekend brunch service. They’ll also offer a build-your-own Bloody Mary bar … Hunger Street Tacos will serve breakfast and brunch on Saturdays beginning July 1 … Snowbirds Vintners 2016 Rosé, produced by chef Jamie McFadden of Cuisiniers Catering and winemaker Norm Saley, has been released. Look for it at Whole Foods Market and Quantum Leap Winery … Both the Ravenous Pig and Millenia106 have joined the Bite 30 fold, offering $30 three-course prix fixe menus through June 30.
OPENINGS: Crepeway Caffe, operated by Konstantinos Chilias, who once ran La Creperia Cafe in Pointe Orlando many years ago, will open on Park Avenue in Winter Park in August or September … Look for another Keke’s Breakfast Cafe to open in the Eagle Creek shopping plaza in Lake Nona in August … Over in Winter Garden, Latin-American restaurant Casa Jiminez, from the owners of The Big Easy restaurant, has opened … Hawkers Asian Street Fare will open their fifth restaurant at the Grove at Isleworth later this year … Look for Peppino’s Organic Italian Kitchen & Pizzeria to open in the old El Sureño Latin Grill space on Curry Ford Road near Bumby in August … Duck Donuts will open in the Crosslands Shopping Center in Kissimmee the first week of July.
CLOSINGS: After 20 years, Wolfgang Puck Grand Café, one of the Downtown Disney originals, will close in August. But fear not, all you Puckheads – Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill will open in Disney Springs in 2018.
EVENTS: Orlando Weekly hosts BITE Night at the Orchid Garden & Ballroom Monday, June 26. Get your tickets at bitenightorlando.com before it’s too late … On Tuesday, June 27, DoveCote and Tim Varan of Tim’s Wine Market collaborate on a French wine dinner. The four-course, five-wine pairing menu begins at 6 p.m.; cost is $72. For reservations call 407-895-9463 … Wine lovers will also want to mark Saturday, Aug. 26, on their calendar. That’s when Opus One returns to Norman’s at the Ritz-Carlton for what promises to be an epic wine dinner.
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This article appears in Jun 21-27, 2017.
