Here is a video of the many sushi courses at Kadence, an omakase restaurant in Orlando. Click here to read the full review of Kadence.

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Tasting Table is a collaboration between WFTV-Channel 9’s icFlorida.com and Scott Joseph’s Orlando Restaurant Guide. More videos are available via the WFTV Now app for Apple TV, Roku and other streaming devices.

In this episode of the Tasting Table, Scott visits Jaleo and gets a culinary tour of the Disney Springs restaurant from executive chef Rodolfo Guzman.

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When I returned recently to the newly renovated Fiorenzo at the Hyatt Regency Orlando, one of my favorite dishes was the Scallops Agrodolce. Chef Jared Gross uses huge scallops and tops them with an agrodolce sauce — agrodolce is Italian for sour and sweet — and serves them on a frissee salad. It’s a light appetizer, and it’s perfect for a hot summer day.

I asked Gross to share the recipe, which he was happy to do. In this segment of Compliments of the Chef, he shows you some cooking tips so you can try the recipe yourself. Or head to the Hyatt Regency Orlando and he’ll cook up a batch for you.

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When I returned recently to the newly renovated Fiorenzo at the Hyatt Regency Orlando, one of my favorite dishes was the Scallops Agrodolce. Chef Jared Gross uses huge scallops and tops them with an agrodolce sauce — agrodolce is Italian for sour and sweet — and serves them on a frissee salad. It’s a light appetizer, and it’s perfect for a hot summer day.

I asked Gross to share the recipe, which he was happy to do. In this segment of Compliments of the Chef, he shows you some cooking tips so you can try the recipe yourself. Or head to the Hyatt Regency Orlando and he’ll cook up a batch for you.

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One of the best things I sampled when I recently reviewed American Kitchen at B Resort Orlando was the Tempura Avocado appetizer. It featured firm wedges of avocados in a light tempura batter topped with a tangy jam made with tomatoes and chipotle peppers.

I liked it so much that I asked executive chef Venoy Rogers III for the recipe. He presents it here with his compliments.

Watch the video that start heating your oil. Or stop by American Kitchen and sample these tasty tidbits yourself.

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Tasting Table is a collaboration between Scott Joseph’s Orlando Restaurant Guide and WFTV-Channel 9’s Inside Central Florida.

Sette, one of the year’s most anticipated restaurants, has opened in Ivanhoe Village. The reason for the excitement is that it is the first full-service restaurant from Trina Gregory-Propst and Va Propst, owners of the popular Se7en Bites bakery. It took over the space that was previously Stir Restaurant & Bar, NOVA and Elliott’s Public House. All of those were startlingly short lived, so most people still thing of it as the location of Brian’s, a popular greasy spoon.

Little has changed with the decor from the previous tenant, which is fine — it’s a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere. The bar area seems a bit more accommodating, and the open kitchen allows guests to see the food being prepared.

And what good food it is.

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Chastity Harvey, the executive chef at The Whiskey, has found a fun way to work some of the restaurant’s namesake into a duck and chorizo slider she features.

She takes the ingredients that would go into a traditional Old Fashioned cocktail and new-fashions an aioli with them. Add some arugula, marinated tomatoes and a smear of brie and you’ve got a great slider.

Mix yourself an Old Fashioned and watch the video as Harvey explains the process, then give the recipe below a try.

Just don’t drink the aioli.

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Here is a video version of my review of Jaleo by José Andrés at Disney Springs. For the written review with pictures that don’t move, click here.

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Video reviews of the Old Jailhouse in Sanford and Slapfish in Waterford Lakes.

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Owner George Miliotes accepted the 2018 Best New Restaurant Gold Foodster Award for Wine Bar George at Disney Springs. The Disney Springs restaurant is a hit with tourists and locals who stop in to sample hard to find wines and enjoy the suprisingly robust food menu. Watch the video to hear what Miliotes had to say about his first 11 months.

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