It’s funny that this story — served alongside a review of one of the city’s most spectacular new restaurants, a story featuring sous vide organic chicken and confited duck carnitas — will feature me tasting and ranking a bunch of what is essentially carnival food, but this is the beauty of food, folks.
From the imported stone counters of Orlando’s finest omakase eateries to theme park kiosks slinging sloppy joes, I — and really most people — am here for it. You can’t eat either of these things every day. And for budgetary reasons, and probably health-related ones, too, you shouldn’t. But they sure are fun.
And it is in this spirit, amid the gloriously evil ones soaring around the merry attendees of Halloween Horror Nights, that I present to you some of the best bites I had at this year