A Chef of Your Own would like to welcome guest blogger, Kevin Maw from Total Orlando, Editor of Orlando’s Premiere Travel Guide.
Linda’s remarkable success as Orlando’s best personal Chef service connects beautifully with the origin of our Orlando Travel Guide.
After years of visits to Orlando, punctuated with frustrating lunches and dismal dinners, our family vacations swiftly became a little seed for our pet project!
Our passion for great food gradually evolved into our humble but ‘almost tasty’ Orlando vacation guide that now fills our entire working day (and many evenings)!
We didn’t originally set out to spend our vacations in Orlando’s finest (and worst) restaurants, but, inadvertently, we quickly amassed a huge catalogue of restaurant reviews that we thought might be fun to share on the Internet.
We felt it only appropriate to add in some detailed theme park information, complete with some really nice photography and then a section of activities ‘beyond the parks’ and www.totalorlando.com was swiftly born in the Spring of 2012!
Our restaurant section is the most fun and is of the most comprehensive Orlando Restaurant Guides out there as far as we are aware!
Our tech guy; James has made it really easy to pick out the very best restaurants by selecting ratings or cuisine types to find your perfect places to eat.
Our food qualifications are minimal, but our decisions can be trusted we feel.
We are consistent, never accept free meals, we never announce ourselves to the restaurant staff and we only consider the very highest of standards to be worthy of a 5 star rating only!
The most difficult part of any restaurant review is splitting that final decision down. Many great restaurants complain that we only rated them as a 3 star. In our book, a 3 star is a great achievement, as it literally means ‘good’.
So many guides have in our opinion gone astray and that is perhaps reflected in our rating system!
Now, if we dare leave the table briefly, and move off to those all-important theme parks, we have also tried as hard to be factual and objective.
With young children in our team, we were often frustrated by expeditions deep into a park just to face being ‘split up’ unexpectedly as a result of pesky ride height restrictions!
Our Find Your Park tool fixes so many problems for families like ours. Enter your kid’s height and all of Central Florida’s rides show up in a flash! If you want to narrow that down a little by ride speed or just pick out the shows, again, they appear right in front of you, all of them!
One thing that we have learned as a result of our many trips to Orlando, is that planning and preparation is the key to success, an opinion that is very much shared by Linda as she creates her amazingly tasty dishes!
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