Norman's Orlando
Fine dining restaurant · Little Sand Lake ·
Latin-Caribbean fusion with Japanese & Asian flavors, live music
Latin-Caribbean fusion with Japanese & Asian flavors, live music
"Legendary Florida chef Norman Van Aken continues to navigate the restaurant’s direction along with chef de cuisine Carlos Robles Molina at the helm. Even in its third incarnation, the menu’s original Latin-Caribbean DNA is still intact, though flavors from Japan and Southeast Asia add to Van Aken’s “New World” cooking philosophy. The wine list is just as grand as it was before, while the restaurant’s collaboration dinners with rising young chefs are designed to stimulate community building, and palates." - Faiyaz Kara
"Nothing says splurge like a dinner at Norman’s. The spacious dining room at the Dellagio Town Center has a shining brass bar and windows into the 4,000-bottle wine cellar, along with a constant flow of double-digit anniversary dinners and corporate types schmoozing with potential clients. They do fancy fusion dishes like french toast stuffed with foie gras and blue crab beignets with yuzu aioli, along with a great wine pairing that’ll get you access to some of the best stuff from their big selection." - Cheryl Rodewig
"Nothing says splurge like a dinner at Norman’s. The spacious dining room at the Dellagio Town Center has a shining brass bar and windows into the 4,000-bottle wine cellar, along with a constant flow of double-digit anniversary dinners and corporate types schmoozing with potential clients. They do fancy fusion dishes like french toast stuffed with foie gras and blue crab beignets with yuzu aioli, along with a worthwhile wine pairing that’ll get you access to some of the best stuff from their big selection." - cheryl rodewig, gabe bergado, ryan pfeffer
"After a three-and-a-half-year hiatus, Norman Van Aken’s eponymous restaurant is back in a new space with a new look but, thankfully, with its original Latin-Caribbean DNA still intact. Van Aken and chef Carlos Robles Molina’s degustation menu is a seasonal tour de force marrying flavors of the New World with those from the East – think Florida swordfish wrapped in Okinawan sweet potato or maple- and coffee-rubbed bison tenderloin served with a plum gastrique, navy bean refrito, bone marrow butter and smoked puffed sorghum. The five-course meal costs $170 with $65 and $95 wine pairing options." - Faiyaz Kara
"Norman’s is the move for celebrating something like a double-digit anniversary. The spacious dining room at the Dellagio Town Center, with its shining brass bar and windows into the 4,000-bottle wine cellar, sends the message that you deeply treasure your SO (and you might even finally propose). The menu has fancy fusion dishes like french toast stuffed with foie gras and blue crab beignets with yuzu aioli, along with a worthwhile wine pairing that’ll get you access to some of the best stuff from their big selection." - Cheryl Rodewig