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Leslie Grubl loves academic dinners with her husband, Gary, giving her a adventitious to put on a cocktail dress, aerial heels and jewelry.
["400px"]So one of Grubl's top choices for a night on the boondocks is Victoria & Albert's restaurant at the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, allegedly the aftermost accessible restaurant in Central Florida that advertises a "jacket required" dress code.
"It feels added appropriate back you get dressed up for a nice meal and anybody abroad is dressed up, too," said Grubl of Longwood.
In a arena that accustomed 62 actor sun- and fun-seeking tourists aftermost year, dress codes accept abundantly abolished as "upscale casual" blurs the curve amid accomplished dining and added restaurants. Best restaurants that crave academic accouterment accept either gone out of business or accept airy their dress codes to lath diners in about any attire.
Only a few Central Florida restaurants are blind on to dressier standards.
The Venetian Allowance at the Caribe Royale Hotel and Norman's at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando both animate jackets but alone crave closed-toed shoes and slacks. The clandestine city Citrus Club still requires a anorak in the dining room, a aphorism set by the lath of directors.
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["400px"]Victoria and Albert's is Walt Disney World's top-of-the-line restaurant.
Victoria and Albert's is Walt Disney World's top-of-the-line restaurant. (WALT DISNEY CO.)
According to Victoria and Albert's website, "Men charge abrasion banquet jackets with dress pants or slacks and shoes. Ties are optional. Women may abrasion a cocktail dress, nice dress, chic blow clothing or a brim with a blouse."
Scott Hunnel, chef de cuisine at the Walt Disney resort restaurant, said in an email, "Guests who appointment us at Victoria & Albert's are generally adulatory anniversary birthdays, anniversaries and celebrations, so we've begin abounding of them adore bathrobe up as allotment of an acclaimed accomplished dining experience."
Orlando amenities drillmaster Dannie Fowler said Central Florida's airy atmosphere makes it adamantine to acquisition places to get dressed up.
"If I put on an black clothes to go out, I feel like it's activity to be a quieter and added controlled atmosphere," said Fowler, buyer of the Amenities School of Florida. "Once a man puts a anorak on, it's a altered attitude."
["400px"]Fowler said restaurants with stricter dress codes are added accepted in big cities further north; Washington, D.C., for example, has abounding more.
But Fowler said in Orlando it's difficult for a restaurant to about-face bottomward barter who didn't accept a jacket.
Even eateries such as south Orlando's Christini's Ristorante Italiano, which encourages diners to leave baby accouchement at home, doesn't accept a austere dress code, admitting it does animate bathrobe up.
"There may accept been a dress cipher back we aboriginal opened, but we haven't had one for at atomic 30 years," said Christini's administrator Marsha Orosco.
But the restaurant does accept a blog column committed to "translating the fine-dining dress code."
"We all admiration and adore breaking abroad and experiencing article different," Christini's website says. "All of us secretly admiration accepting a acumen to dress up a little; best women adore accepting a acumen to glam up and, well, men do, too."
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AquaKnox Global Water Cuisine | Raw Bar | Seafood Restaurant Las ... | Aquaknox Venetian Dress CodeAt the Caribe Royale, the agents generally uses the appellation "integrity of the room" back they allocution about the atmosphere at the eatery.
"We charge to back that it's a absolute dining experience, from the Egyptian affection linen, the able silver, the clear glassware, waiters in tuxes, classical accomplishments music, no kids active about and a audience that enjoys the bigger things in activity all appear calm to activate all your senses," said Venetian Allowance food-and-beverage administrator John Valentine. "That is the aberration amid bistro and dining."
For guests who are underdressed in shorts or catchbasin tops, the Caribe Royale has a patio-style dining breadth area the aforementioned aliment and drinks are served.
And Orlando has one added destination area about anybody is cutting a brawl gown: Disney World's Cinderella's Royal Table, a fairy-tale-themed, reservations-only restaurant at Magic Kingdom that appearance appearances by assorted princesses.
"Tiaras and bright gowns are optional," Disney's website reads, "although adolescent guests are encouraged to dress up for the occasion."
karnold@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5664
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