Cress Restaurant

Farm-to-Table Global cuisine in a relaxed contemporary setting. We support sustainability.
Reservations required for Taste Cress. At Cress we have eliminated gratuity; our dinner, counter, brunch, and wines menus are all-inclusive except for Florida State sales tax.

Cress Restaurant’s Dual Concept:
Taste Cress is dining experience wherein we will offer 3-course, FiVe Course, and Chefs’ Tasting menus (with or without wine pairings). Taste Cress is an engaged dining experience where Chef Hari and his Sous Chef lead you from start to finish by not only cooking your food a la minute, but also greeting you, taking your order, and serving you each course with Sommelier Jenneffer. So, every guest who experiences Taste Cress is essentially at our Chef’s Table!

For a la carte, visit Counter Cress which is our casual counter/bar for a menu studded with a few Cress Classics from over the past seven years. We do not take reservations for Counter Cress.

2015 James Beard Semifinalist - Best Chef South
2015 La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs
2015 Golden Spoon Award of Excellence - Florida Trend
2015 National Farm to Table Chefs Taste Challenge: Gold Winner
2015 Orlando Sentinel Foodies Award - Critic's choice
2015 Chef Action Network – Advisory Board (since 2013)
2015 Author of Dreaming in Spice
2015 Huffington Post Writer: From the Ivory Tower Kitchen (since 2013)
2014 James Beard Semifinalist - Best Chef South
2014 Orlando Sentinel Foodies Award : Best Overall - Critic's choice
2014 Orlando Sentinel Culinary Hall of Fame
2014 Blue Ribbon Task Force Member, Seafood Watch Program (present)
2014 Emeril's Florida Season 2 Premiere - Coming to America! - The Food Network Channel
2013 Food & Wine: The People's Best New Chef Nominee
2013 James Beard Semifinalist - Best Chef South
2013 Orlando Sentinel Foodies Award : Best Overall - Critic's choice
ZAGAT: TOP Orlando Area Restaurant 29/30
ZAGAT 2013: America's Top Restaurants
2012 Food & Wine: The People's Best New Chef Nominee
2011 James Beard Semifinalist - Best Chef South

The Cress Story
Cress Restaurant, a business dedicated to improving our food system, through sustainable practices, local sources, and refined flavours. The cornerstone at Cress is seasonally bold flavours, with a dynamic and elegant wine menu that showcases the food. Cress combines food & wine with professional service that makes dining a truly wonderful indulgence, so guests can “celebrate our land and relax in our community”.
This has led to Cress’ devotion to support local food charities, initiate a program to decrease food waste, and champion the sustainability movement. Cress has relationships with where their food comes from, with the individuals who are growing them: the farmers, the fishermen, the cattlemen. Sustainability rests on the
principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations.