A couple of places to try Middle Eastern cuisine in Orlando

Last updated on: October 24, 2019 at 10:18 pm by Dan Peterson

A couple of places to try Middle Eastern cuisine in Orlando 2019-10-24T22:18:07-06:00 Dan Peterson

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The Orlando Florida Temple, where my son and my daughter-in-law were married, and where they entered into a covenant that, if they are faithful, will ensure the continuation of their family into the eternities, beyond the veil of death. That means a very great deal to me, personally.
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Always straining to find new and more gratifyingly contemptuous ways of demeaning me, one of my harsher anonymous online critics announced a few days ago that I’m “addicted” to food.

And, alas, it’s true: I eat food every day. Every single day. I’m not sure that I’ve ever gone a full day without it.

Tonight, my wife and I went to the Bosphorous Restaurant at Lake Nona. (It was a first for us; previously, we’ve been once or twice to the Dr Phillips location.) Bosphorous Turkish Cuisine is a particular favorite of mine. Heck, it’s almost sufficient reason in itself to travel to the Orlando area. We were under orders, though, to have Turkish food from Bosphorous ready and waiting when members of our family arrived at the airport. (One of them is a really serious foody, unlike yours truly.) And so we did. It was merely tough additional duty that had to eat some ourselves.

Good Middle Eastern food — Lebanese (Arabic) this time — is also to be had in Orlando at Cedar’s Restaurant. It’s located literally almost next door to Seasons 52, where we had lunch today. We’ve eaten there several times with friends, but I don’t think that we’re likely to make it this on this particular visit.

Cedar’s and Seasons 52 and at least one Bosphorous location are all within relatively short distance, by the way, of the Orlando Florida Temple. Taken together, the temple and a visit to one of these restaurants for lunch or for dinner can make for a pretty satisfying part of a very good day.

If you’re ever in Orlando, give one of these restaurants a try, particularly if you’re unfamiliar with the Turkish and Lebanese Arabic cuisines. (Moroccan Arabic food is quite different and also very much worth a try, but I’m unfamiliar with any Moroccan restaurants in the area — with the obvious exception of the Restaurant Marrakesh and its related eating places in the Moroccan pavilion at Epcot.)

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