The Glass Knife
Orlando Avenue

Both, depending on the day. Monday through Friday we run counter service — order at the counter, find a seat, and settle in. It’s low fuss by design, and honestly by guest request. Our regulars like it that way during the week. On Saturday and Sunday we offer full table service for brunch. When the weekend crowd arrives, the full-service experience just works better for everyone.

Yes. We have on-site parking available with 45 spaces. Pull in and come right in. For a location on one of Winter Park’s busiest avenues, it makes a real difference.

Yes. We’re a walk-in place by design, so reservations are limited but available when you need a sure thing: a business meeting, a birthday celebration, or you just like having a plan. On busy weekend mornings, join our digital waitlist for walk-ins and we’ll text you when your table is ready.

Large, covered, and one of the most photographed spots at this location. It seats a generous crowd, handles Florida weather well, and is dog friendly. On a good morning it’s one of the best places to sit in Winter Park.

Friendly dogs are welcome on our covered patio. The patio is fully covered with ceiling fans and heaters when it gets chilly.  A great spot to bring your dog along.

Yes and it’s worth a look. We carry Rifle Paper Co., Meri Meri paper goods, Corkcicle, and a rotating selection of items that tend to stop people mid-step. Onyx Coffee is available in retail packaging as well — the same beans we use at the bar, with a following of their own. Everything is selected the same way everything else here is: carefully.

The whole design started with one idea: a space where you feel welcome the moment you walk in. Like the kitchen table at home, but elevated. Beautiful materials, thoughtful service, food that lives up to the room.

We believe a meal tastes better in a beautiful place. So every detail was considered. The color palette was pulled directly from the hues of the namesake glass knives. The custom pink, the soft tones, the warm neutrals, all drawn from the actual antique glass knives. The terrazzo floor with pieces of depression glass set into the star pattern.  The star pattern itself drawn from the design on one of the knife handles.  Even our floor has won awards!

Nothing was happenstance.

Real art, carefully chosen. Three pieces in particular tell you a lot about how we think.

The Will Cotton in the dining room is a portrait of a woman crowned in a macaron headpiece, one of an edition of fifteen. Cotton was Katy Perry’s artistic director for the California Gurls video and the painter behind her Teenage Dream album cover. His work lives in the same world we do: confection, color, a little fantasy.

Beside it, a Wayne Thiebaud Cut Cakes. Thiebaud spent a career painting bakery cases, pie slices, and rows of cake. No artist could share a wall with us more naturally.

In the hallway you’ll find Jenny Henley’s Pay Phone (2017), mixed media on poplar with varnish. We picked it up at the Winter Park Art Festival, a few blocks from where it now hangs.

Three works, all chosen with purpose.

Coffee here is Onyx Coffee Lab. Exclusively, since day one.

Onyx lives by a phrase we instantly recognized in ourselves: Never Settle for Good Enough. They travel the world sourcing single-lot coffees, roast every weekday on solar power, taste every batch for quality, and publish the price they paid, the producer’s name, and the score on every bag. Scan the batch code at home and you can pull up the exact roast profile of the coffee in your cup.

In specialty coffee, that level of transparency is rare. So is the depth of training their team puts into preparation. Our baristas are taught the Onyx way: every shot pulled fresh, every drink steamed by hand, every cup made with intention.

Order a coffee here and you are drinking the work of a roaster who has done everything right, made by people who care that it shows up in your cup.

It’s one of the most common reasons people visit us, and one of the things we hear most in our reviews. Guests bring out-of-town family and friends here because it’s distinctly Winter Park. Beautiful, well made, and nothing like what you’d find anywhere else. For travelers staying near Disney or Universal, Winter Park is often on their agenda and a short drive north to see what Orlando has to offer beyond the theme parks.

They were invented in 1920 by John Didio, owner of the Buffalo Knife Co. Carbon steel knives rusted the moment they touched anything acidic, so tomatoes, citrus, and brined foods turned them. Glass didn’t rust. It also didn’t react with delicate things, which made it a natural fit for cakes, meringues, and Jell-O.

Through the Art Deco years, the Depression, the war, and into the 1960s, glass knives stayed in American kitchens. Most were given as wedding gifts. Many never left their original boxes.

There’s a small irony to all of this. John Didio’s granddaughter happens to live right here in Central Florida, and is a frequent guest. We’re pleased to share his history in such a special way.