The Strand, on Mills Avenue in Orlando, is food writer Amy Drew Thompson's critic pick for Restaurant of the Year in the 2022 Orlando Sentinel Foodie Awards.
As coronavirus cases surge across the country with the omicron variant, some restaurants around Orlando are being forced to close for short amounts of time as staff members get sick.
"We're not for everyone," says Alda Rees, co-owner of The Strand in Orlando's Mills 50 district. For this, I and its other fervent fans are grateful.