Orlando’s Magical Dining celebrates 20 years in 2025, but this year, the Good Salt Restaurant Group, featuring four restaurants, is celebrating several special anniversary.
“It’s been ten years for us,” Cooper says proudly. “And 25 for Sate Sushi. So we’re celebrating too.”
This is just one reason why we’re adding something special to Osprey’s menu this year.
The press conference was set to feature a special 20th anniversary dish with a record 160+ participants, a total of 30 magical dining restaurants, marking milestones. And at Baldwin Park nest in Osprey, its dish is Josper Roasted Pork Berries, a rich departure from a menu focused primarily on seafood.
Cooper understands that not all customers are looking for fish dishes and builds the restaurant’s magical dining menu accordingly. He believes it was this balance that made 2024 the most successful go-round of the program so far.
“We received many compliments for the selection,” he says. “People seemed very well thought out, they liked the presentation, the flavors, the diversity, and of course they thought it was pretty much.”
Cooper carefully looks at each course for balance, carefully consider hot and cold appetizers to ensure there is a non-surrogate choice.
This year, the special Porkberry app will add another app to the mix.
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“It has a good smoky flavor to play that fat and comes out very nicely from the wood fired oven.”
The seasoning adds more uniqueness, like the stone fruit barbecue sauce it is served.
“We get lots of stone fruit from local farms like frog songs with great peaches, plums and nectarines. They charge the fruit into the oven, so be a little fortified from Josper and add wilted summer greenery like baby bok choy and Dandelion green.”
Like Osprey Cooper and Crew, Monroe’s executive chef Nick Burton loves to be creative.
“I think fun is the biggest part of us,” Burton says.
“We do a jerk chicken dish with bell and Evans chicken legs, served with scotch bonnet vinaigrette, coconut collard greens and sweet plantains with key lime sauce with cabbage throw,” he says.
It appears in his Caribbean background, but still follows the southern style of Monroe.
“It’s nice to add something charming or unique and invite people to try something different,” says Burton, who watches a mix of regulars and new faces when magical meal season comes back.
“It’s exciting to see the capture of people who came two years ago for a magical meal. Of course, it’s really great to get a whole new wave of guests.”
Before joining Osprey five years ago, Cooper, which includes a decade of magical meals from the great Luma, believes it’s in the restaurants that make guests appealing.
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“Opinion is everything,” he says. “It’s about getting closer to it with the right attitude…” Hey, we can get a lot of new customers and get some good feedback about what our restaurant is, what our brand is. ”
And who knows?
Like the magical meal itself, you were able to find yourself in a loyal legion who returns for 20 years each year.
Browse all participating restaurants offerings this year at orlandomagicaldining.com.
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Special 20th Anniversary Cuisine Participants
American Social Bar & Kitchen Armando – College Park Armando – Lake Nona Armando – Winter Park Boca Winter Park Cross-Cente Restaurant & BBQ Bali Bre Restaurant & Bar Everglades Reel Fish Coastal Kitchen + Barra Stak Thornton Park Salt & Cellar Chef Chef Achira Buck Summer House Terameerristorante Etratria
