Welcome to Orlando magazine’s 2025 Dining Awards, our annual guide to the finest cuisine in Central Florida.

This year sees some exciting new additions, the first of which is the inaugural Joseph Hayes Legacy Award. This award is and will continue to be given to a restaurant that’s made a lasting and significant impact in our community. Second, we’ve added new crave-worthy categories to help you cull down your cuisine choices. Last, but certainly not least, we give you an eye into our cover shoot at Best Food Hall winner Mills Market with models from The Maile Image Modeling & Acting School, showing you just how much they loved the market’s culinary gems.

Read on for all of this, plus Readers’ Picks and picks from our food writer extraordinaire, Brendan O’Connor.