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October 31, 2025 14 mins
Faiyaz Kara, restaurant critic for the Orlando Weekly, shares the latest culinary happenings in Central Florida, including his review of the Outpost Neighborhood Tavern, a gay sports bar; Prato expects to reopen at the end of October with a community celebration before regular service resumes, The second location for The Glass Knife is open in Winter Park, and more.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In Faiaz Kara, who is the restaurant critic for the
Orlando Weekly.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
I thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
You're welcome, buddy. You guys have to be absolutely ganked
up there for this baseball team. My got almighty, my god,
almighty man, what a series? What a series this has
been though, dude, you know, win, loser draw? How good
has this baseball been?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's been great, honestly, great great television, great teal. I
think the ratings. I was talking to Jack earlier, he
was saying the ratings are really good, and like, yeah,
I like the international flavor of it all. It's just
been really fun to watch. But it has to end tonight,
there's no more. It has to end tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you guys have had some really
I mean the pitcher that just came out as a rookie.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
I guess his last savage his last.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Start was an a ball or something like that, and.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
He started the season today ball here in Florida. I
think he's got less than ten games in the major
leagues and.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
He is just wow.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Eight starts, eight starts more, he has more starts in
the postseason than in the regular season.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
So one of the best of not depressed performance of
a rookie in the World Series. And then you have
all the stuff that Otani's doing, and then you have
just the team that is Toronto, a lot of offense
in this series, which has made it really fun to watch.
So a real good, a real good series. And tonight
in his Game six, looking forward to it. It has
to end tonight, has tonight? Yeah you don't like it

(01:57):
if it goes past to night.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Big dog, No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I
think I've already had I think I've had three silent
heart attacks. I'd probably have to go to those doctors
because as I get back to Orlando. But no, I
I can't stand.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Whenever your team has a chance to close it out
in game six and doesn't, then the pressure's back on you.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Then you're you're a mess. Yeah, yeah, it's tonight in Toronto.
I don't know, Yes it is, Yeah you for sure.
Yeah you gotta win tonight, for sure. Buy It's called
in every Friday to give us a heads up on
the things happening in the culinary world here in Central Florida.
Drinks and eats, they're all out there. Let's get to
the review. We do that first. The Outpost Tavern Outpost
Neighborhood Tavern.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Outpost Outpost Neighborhood Tavern. Speaking of sports, it's it's in
the in the old Persimon Hollow brewing space on the
Sinkhold shores of Lake Iola there. And you know, it's
a sports bar that's been very tastefully queer eyed. And
that's because out the Outpost is a gay sports bar.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Is it really?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
And it is? It builds itself as as a fabulous
place for dining, drinks, drag and sports and and and uh.
It definitely gives equal billing to both Rinaldo and Rue Paul,
as I said in my in my review. But but
the cuisine, it's interesting. The cuisine is less sports barfare

(03:15):
and more like Grandma's country kitchen. There are there are
like as I said in my read, there are as
many Southern flourishes on the menu as Bear Bryant had
in his wardrobe. Yeah. I know, you'll be the only
one who found that funny because you're really really old.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
The old hounds to pancakes.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
See, you're the only one who gets this, you old
ass man. That's right, that's right. And so anyway, so
the fair black eyed p hummus, deep fried collared green chips,
there's a whip feta with the con and these are
the appetizers got us excited, uh for for the heavy hitters,
as it were, and some of which were the Southern

(04:00):
comfort burger. It has pimento cheese in there, it's got
hot honey, it's got a chow chow and I'm telling
you it's one of the better burgers I've had all year.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Really, Yeah, it was very good. There's corn dogs with
an Alabama white barbecue sauce and more of that pimento
also great. There are hardy meat loaf meat balls that
are glazed in the sguava barbecue and the served over
a it's a coconuts, well, it's a coconut plantain mashed potatoes,
and those are also I think they said there in

(04:31):
my review, I said something to the effect that there
was as substantial as Jimmy Johnson's quaff. I tried to
put a lot of sports references in there, and hair
references too for the gay audience. And anyway, there's also
a fried chicken that's it's got like a pickle juice brine.
And you know, I appreciated the pickle juice brine and

(04:52):
trying to make it very Southern. It just didn't really
suit our particular tastes. So it made others that had
to sort of bite that, you know, we we didn't
care for. Yeah, yeah, I know other people do like it,
but it will sort what they with the sweet potato
corn bread with the warming spices and that we absolutely love.
And and of course there is there is a Sunday brunch.

(05:13):
It's a drag brunch. I believe. It takes place from
eleven to two and yeah, people people seem to love
it with the gay abandon, I guess gay. But anyways,
it's sports bar with a lot of a lot of
queer cheer. It's it's fun. It's not just obviously, not
just for you know, the lgbtwo Q plus community. It's
for everybody. It's a great sports bar. It's got a

(05:33):
great vibe, and I think it's really going to galvanize
I think the the the dining scene there in Lake
Iola very cool.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
That's awesome news.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I did not know that it was gonna be a
gay like, you know, a gay themed sports bar or
a It's not a theme though, right, I mean it's
actually it's not theme.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, it's not theme. That's not the right word.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, and I you know, I mean hesitate to call
it again. It's just a sports bar, got it that
that happens to be that happens to maybe cater to
oka to the community. But it's for everybody, obviously.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Very nice. All right, we have some breaking news.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, okay, we do have some breaking news. But I
have breaking breaking news that I'm really not allowed to
talk about this breaking news, but I.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Can oh, let's talk about it.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
That it's a big like it's like a celebrity chef
that's that's sort of well known here in Orlando and
across the nation. And they'll be opening up something, what
can I say, something really exciting, maybe bar focused with
food in Mills fifty Okay, and by Mills fifty, I

(06:36):
mean maybe in that sort of Mills Park area. That's
all I can say. That's all I can say. I'll
tell you more next week. But yeah, I'm not really
really allowed to talk about it. But I do have
some additional breaking news, and that's Proto Prato there in
Winter Park on Park Avenue will reopen November the fourth,
and it's reopening after they took a little bit of
a break and they called it a reposal, which is

(06:58):
Italian for repot or rest or, and they've got a
refreshed interior, they have a revamped beverage program, and they're
adding additional items to the menu. So it'll be interesting
to see. They open Tuesday, November the fourth.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Very nice, Okay, very good. Let's good. Move on to
the Glass Knife opening their second location.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, also on Park Avenue, so there there their original location.
There's on South Orlando Avenue. But they've just opened their
brand new second location in the in the former Financier
Bistro space on Park Avenue. I believe it's I think
it's two twelve, two twelve North Park Avenue, two twelve
South Park Avenue there, I believe. Yeah. And if there's

(07:36):
ever if if there's ever been a you know, a
bakery or a or a business that really belongs on
Park Avenue, it's the Glass Knife. You know, it's got
that whole Oh yeah, she sort of buy yea if
anyone's been to the Glass Knife. And you know what
I'm ting is that going.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Into a roll leg store where you walk in there's
like five pastries are all thirty one hundred dollars apiece.
It's like they're all under glass. You can't really buy them.
You just paid a look at him and walk by
them for a minute. It sounds like I'm joking, but
that's the vibe of it. But I mean, every one
of those pastries is a piece of RM. I mean
you feel bad eating some of this stuff.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, it's true. There are there are works of art.
And the coffee too, the Byonyx Coffee Lab. You know,
They're one of the few places in town that offer
that coffee. They're gonna obviously have like a breakfast, lunch
and evening fair weekend brunch, which will also be interesting
to see because right up the road as Briar Patch.
You know, I think more another brunch option is fine
for Park Avenue. I think they'll it'll be able to
sustain it. But yeah, so they've just opened, so check

(08:30):
them out. They obviously have all the cakes and pastries
and everything that you were just talking about. I love
their donuts. Yeah, yeah, I mean really everything is great.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
I mean, if you want a next level everything, you
go to the Glass Knife and you find out what
exactly would happen in France when it comes to whatever.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean, they just know what they're doing. Let's go
on to now. It says Buffalo Boss, but I'm not
really is it a wing joint?

Speaker 3 (08:49):
It is. Buffalo Boss is a new wing joint that
just opened downtown at three thirty three North Orange Avenue.
It's right next to Tacos El Roncho and it's it's
by a gentleman who his name is Jamar White, and
Jamar White happens to be the first cousin of jay
Z and so and so. The wing joint has a
whole sort of like hip hop vibe flavor kind of thing.

(09:10):
And it's open late night. It's open till three am,
I believe, and I think I read somewhere that they
may be considering opening up till four am, but for
sure they're open till three am, so that Thursday's to Saturdays.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I think that's cool because I don't think we lost
them yet, but I know that during the storms, during
we had a there was a ceiling collapse at Flyers
Wings and Gorillaver in Pine Hills, which was still one
of the best wing joints in the entire city. I
would only the only thing I can really parallel it
with is the place is up in Long with Papa
Bee Mama Bees, Like that's your favorite, like the that's
like that's the og Buffalo wing right, that's you know,

(09:43):
fried crispy with that peppery sauce. That's exactly what Flyers
used to do. And they had a collapse of their ceiling.
I hope they're doing okay. But there's always space in
Orlando for wing joints. I mean, if we can have
a thousand chicken Finger places we can damn sure have
a bunch of wing joints.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, and evidently the know, this guy Jamar White was
it was like a wing freak, and he put all
his energies into like, you know, crafting like what he
what he thought was like the perfect wing. And there's
like another Actually there's another Buffalo Boston. It happens to
be of course, in Brooklyn at the Barkley Center where
where the Brooklyn Nets place. So this is only the
second other, the only the second location of of of

(10:21):
what's it called Buffalo Boss.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
There you and we'll ended up with some news about
one of the great I would say when you agree
that maybe this brand is one of the one of
the shining stars of the brands that come out of
Florida Central Florida, like Foxtail and Tijuana Flats and uh
Jeremiah's Italian Ice all of those are great Orlando brands.
I have to add Kelly's Homemade ice Cream to that
brand as well. I think they're you know, along with

(10:44):
four Rivers, they've done a really good job taking a
local business and franchising it, or not franchising it, but
expanding it.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
And maintaining the quality.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
That's the number one thing that happens when small businesses
try to expand like this, they're not able to really
keep the quality level. And they suffered this. They really
haven't experienced that. The ice cream is still delicious.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
It still is. So we're talking about Kelly's Homemade ice
Cream and they're going to be opening their seventh free
standing location in Lake Mary in early December. So it's
finally coming up to Lake Mary and I believe the
address is three eight zero one West Lake Mary Boulevard.
And yeah, like what you were saying, Kelly, Kelly Sidel,
who's the owner of It's a great story, a great
like local story. She started out there in Audubon Park

(11:27):
right there on carin Drive and now she's expanded. And
in fact, when this one opens, it will be like
the fiftieth if you count all the Kelly's ice creams
that are inside Fox Steel Coffee, it'll be the fiftieth
Kelly's operation. So that's that's that's a seminal moment for
the business.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
And what's amazing about this.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
When I first started Primetime Kitchen and you know, Fiaz's
I started talking, we started kind of you know, finding
these places. When Kelly opened this place, I think up
until the fifth place opened, she was still an active nurse,
was she not? She was actually still working as a
nurse and then running this freaking ice cream empire. Never
really I think she is she still nursing.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
I'm actually not sure. I'll find out, but yeah, I
mean this thing is. I don't know if she expected
it to like blossom into the kind of business it
is today, but I mean it should be hard pressed
to carrying, you know, handling both those jobs like running
Kelly's ice Cream and being a nurse. But I'm not sure.
I'm not sure if she is. But they do have
some new flavors for October. By the way, you know,

(12:26):
I'm always I'm always a big fan of their Mexican
chocolate and their banana putting ice cream. But something in
October it's called what is it? It's like a dark chocolate,
dark chocolate dolt chic cookie. I think, damn, that thing
really cut my head. But they have new flavors for October.
For Halloween, I.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Will tell you that you could get Scott Maxwell to
do a swan dive off a building into a concrete
pool for some of that toasted coconut ice cream, which
is a game changer. If you haven't been to Kelly's
and had their toasted coconut ice cream, I would urge
you to get over there and start with that flavor
and then work your way through case because that's a
special product.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
It's so damn.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Good it is. Yeah, and it's and it's like I said,
it's a great local story. I wouldn't I wouldn't be
surprised if they expanded outside the state, they went national.
I mean it seems like that's the logical next step.
You know. It's kind of like Jeff's Bagel run. Right,
that's another another very similar story. Right, they started small
and now they've like expanded. So yeah, good for her

(13:23):
very location fiftieth overall, well cool.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's always good talking to you, buddy. Go Blue Jays.
We hope you get I hope you get to win.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I don't have a dog in this hunt, so I'll
root for you. Go Blue Jays.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Just remember George Springer is still a cheater because he
was part of the Houston As.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah booed every time he came up to good Bomb.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
I did all right do it for Don Mattingly, Yeah,
gives Gary all right, fight.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
As we'll see you soon.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
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