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Canvas Restaurant & Market

$40 per person plus tax & gratuity

Canvas Restaurant & Market features new American cuisine influenced by Florida. Executive Chef, Jason Bergeron, focuses on seasonal and regional produce as well as an abundance of fresh, Florida seafood.

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HAVEN Kitchen

$40 per person plus tax & gratuity

HAVEN Kitchen brings the outdoors indoors with a sophisticated Mediterranean menu bringing a twist to traditional Florida flavors. Offering an approachable menu featuring a twist on classic dishes, with a stunning, botanical setting with both indoor and poolside dining available.

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Bosphorous Turkish Cuisine

$40 per person plus tax & gratuity

Bosphorous focuses on Anatolian cuisine and offers a wonderful variety of fresh salads, hand-carved Halal meats, made-to-order breads and pides. Bosphorous also offers Turkish Cuisine at its finest, exquisitely prepared and served in a warm authentic Turkish atmosphere.

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BACÁN

$60 per person plus tax & gratuity

Influenced by the many flavors of the Americas and centered around a dramatic open theater kitchen, BACÁN is a Michelin-recommended experience that is approachable, innovative and just a little bit unexpected. BACÁN offers an extensive outdoor patio for outdoor dining overlooking the stunning Sculpture Garden.

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Nami

$60 per person plus tax & gratuity

Nami’s contemporary Japanese concept sparkles with European elements in its approach to the modern dining experience. Discretely positioned in Lake Nona’s art-forward Wave Hotel, the world-class team of chefs has collaborated to bring a one-of-a-kind menu served in an imaginative dining room.

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Here in Lake Nona, there’s an abundance of creative ways to keep your blood pumping and heart rate up. No wonder we’ve been dubbed one of America’s healthiest communities! If you’re stuck in a workout rut, it’s time to shake it off and (literally!) try a new move or two.

Go for a Run—or Walk

There are over 40 miles of paved and unpaved trails and walking paths throughout Lake Nona. These routes connect various neighborhoods, pocket parks, and community gardens in our community. Whether you’re an avid runner or more up for a casual stroll, moving toward your fitness goals in Lake Nona is as simple as stepping outside your front door. Pro tip: Click here to check out our trails and suggested routes.

Spike It How You Like It

Beach volleyball, anyone? Any takers should check out Boxi Park, aka Central Florida’s very first outdoor recreational park constructed from repurposed shipping containers. In addition to beach volleyball courts, Boxi Park boasts 5 distinct food-truck-style restaurants to refuel after your workout. Plus, bring along the pooch for a visit to the dog park, or the kiddos so they can take their turn on the playground.

Come to a Pilates Party

Across the way from Boxi Park, you’ll find Club Pilates on the first floor of Pixon. At this fully equipped boutique fitness studio, you can try out the classic low-impact workout known as Pilates, in whatever class format best suits your goals. Whether you’re recovering from injury, looking to build overall muscle and stamina, or aiming to improve your posture and core strength, there’s a Club Pilates class that’s sure to be a perfect fit. 

Rock On

Roll on over to ROX: Orlando Rock Climbing Gym at Lake Nona Performance Club. This 7500-square-foot temple to the art of climbing is home to the tallest rock wall in the Orlando area at a staggering 43 feet. If you choose to ascend the heights, you’ll have your pick of traditional top-rope or state-of-the-art auto belay systems. Heights make you nervous?! There’s a dedicated bouldering area, too. 

Fit Mind, Fit Body

Unique to Lake Nona is the Chopra Mind-Body Zone, conveniently located right in the Lake Nona Performance Club. Unlike any typical yoga or Pilates studio, this space marks the first partnership between a medically integrated fitness facility (the Lake Nona Performance Club) and the renowned wellness guru Deepak Chopra. In the Zone, you can choose from 50+ classes a week. Take the leap and explore Yin Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Mat Pilates, Sound Healing, Prenatal Yoga, Meditation, and more. You might just find your new favorite wellness modality.

Choose Your Challenge

Looking to push your limits and expand your comfort zone? Pick your poison from the more than 100 fitness classes offered weekly at the Lake Nona Performance Club. The specially trained instructors are dedicated to supporting you in your wellness goals, no matter where you’re starting from. Whether it’s lively Aqua Zumba, an intense session of Bootcamp, or the sweat-dripping thrill of Hip-Hop Cardio, there’s a fitness class fit for every body—pun intended.

With so many ways to get or stay fit in Lake Nona, the only challenge will be choosing where to start! 

Looking for additional motivation? Get inspired by watching this pair complete all 6 of these workout ideas—all in 1 day. Talk about gains!

Location: Lake Nona Town Center

Get your steins ready for Oktoberfest at Lake Nona Town Center! Park Pizza & Brewing Co. takes center stage with specialty brews crafted just for this event (see what we did there?). Show your stuff at the stein-hoisting competition (we hope you’ve been working out!) and enjoy live polka music and German themed entertainment, an artisan market and more. 

Ever tried sauerbraten and schnitzel? Here’s your chance! A full menu of traditional German cuisine from Hollerbach’s German Restaurant, as well as pretzels and other festive foods from Park Pizza, will be available at Oktoberfest, so come hungry! Don your lederhosen — you’ll feel transported to Bavaria while in your own backyard.

This event is free and open to the public, no ticket needed.

Location: Lake Nona Town Center

Let’s get together and celebrate what makes this America great! Our annual Great American Block Party comes to Lake Nona Town Center with delicious food, sweet treats, fun games and activities, live music and more. Spend this summer night with friends out on the town (center).

Got a competitive streak? Vie for victory in the messy wing-eating competition or put your pie-making prowess to the test in the tasty pie bake-off. 

This patriotic summer blowout party is not to be missed, with roaming live entertainers, an incredible lineup of food trucks, carnival games, and a spectacular evening laser light show that will dazzle and delight. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind outdoor celebration!

This event is free and open to the public, no ticket needed.

Lake Nona and Tavistock wins top honors for 2024 NAIOP CFL Best of Best Awards

Lake Nona took home two top honors at this year’s NAIOP Central Florida Best of the Best awards, with Tavistock Development Company becoming a repeat winner of Developer of the Year.

6876 Marwick Lane, Lake Nona’s newest corporate headquarter office building, was awarded best new office office building. The eight-story smart office building is located in Lake Nona Town Center and features state-of-the-art equipment and technology.

Concorde Apartments was named best new apartment community. The resort-inspired Concorde is located behind Lake Nona Greenwood and provides residents with luxury amenities ranging from a fully-equipped clubhouse, pool, fitness and game room amenitized clubhouse, complete with a dog spa.

Tavistock Development Company was a repeat winner for the Developer of the Year award.

Location: Start and Finish at Lake Nona Town Center

Race to runnona.com to register for Run nona 2024 on may 18

Our longest running event (get it?), this yearly celebration of fun, family and fitness is one of Lake Nona’s signatures. The marquee event is the Run Nona 5K, which winds 3.1 miles through Lake Nona’s beautiful neighborhoods, trails and community spaces. And, bring your little ones for the Nemours Kids’ Run followed by a lively Kids Zone so they can expend some energy, too. 

Whether you run or walk the race or are in attendance to cheer on the athletes, the after-party is one you won’t want to miss. Cool down with a free celebratory beer for all runners 21+ and other cold treats and beverages, live entertainment, and a foam party perfect for snapping unforgettable pics. Join in the fun until the sun goes down in Lake Nona!

Thomas Rudy and leAD are paving the way for Lake Nona’s leadership in sports and health technology.

“Before I moved to Orlando, I made a spreadsheet of all the cities I wanted to live in and that I thought had futuristic value. It came down to Austin, Charlotte and Orlando, and I chose Orlando because I really loved it and I saw the opportunity there,” says Thomas Rudy, principal of the Lake Nona Fund, a venture capital investment vehicle that supports early-stage startups in the sports and health tech space.

This man knows how to pick champions, which is why as head of leAD’s Lake Nona Fund, he’s so effective at choosing which companies to back.

Since becoming a part of leAD Sports & Health Tech Partners, first as a mentor when leAD kicked off in 2017 in Berlin, Rudy has seeded emerging giants in three major areas of focus: fan engagement, health and wellness, and connected athletes. The goal is to make Lake Nona the global leader in sports and health technology by providing resources for startups and entrepreneurs to grow their businesses here.

Success = Hard Work + Serendipity

Born and raised in Germany, Rudy always had ambitions to come to the United States and study business. For his college education, he ended up in his dream environment, Columbia University in New York City, where he studied Economics and after graduating became an investment banker with Citigroup.

Assigned to the sports mergers and acquisitions division, Rudy worked on deals buying and selling teams from the world’s major sports leagues, including the Premier League in England.

But Rudy didn’t want to be a banker for the rest of his life. He’d always had an entrepreneurial itch that needed to be scratched.

“I’d saved some money of my own and wanted to invest it somewhere it could grow,” says Rudy. It was 2008, and financial literacy education was taking off due to the crisis on Wall Street and the following economic recession.

“I invested in a company that, at the time, was called Payoff.com. It was one of the very first financial technology companies, an area of business that has become very profitable ever since,” he says. “About two months ago, they reached ‘unicorn’ status — a startup that accrues a value of over $1 billion. It took 13 years, but we got there.”

With that pick, Rudy became a full-fledged venture capitalist while still staying close to the world of sports as his passion.

This intensity eventually led to his involvement with leAD Sports & Health Tech Partners.

leAD is the top sports and health tech investment ecosystem inspired by sports industry legend Adi Dassler, who founded the sports brand Adidas. After Dassler’s passing, his family chose to continue his legacy by investing in and fostering sports and health technology companies with the potential to change the world. During his days as a venture capitalist, Rudy served as a mentor in the leAD organization, guiding founders from ideation through the execution of their biggest ideas.

In 2020, after Rudy and his wife moved to Orlando, his role with leAD evolved. When leadership decided to launch a seed fund — now known as the Lake Nona Fund — to provide resources for the entrepreneurs shaping the future of sports and health technology, Rudy was uniquely qualified and the right man for the job due to his experience as an investment banker, a venture capitalist, and working in sports business and economics.

Real World Ideas Seeing Real World Success

Today, the Lake Nona Fund has invested in companies like Mustard, a biomechanics app that allows anyone to take a video of their baseball pitching motion and soon for a variety of sports and analyze their form and improve it. Mustard was founded by Dr. Tom House, a legendary pitching coach and also the throwing coach for Tom Brady, he is known as the “father of modern pitching mechanics.”

Suji is another athletic performance company seeded by the Lake Nona Fund. About the size of a blood pressure cuff, Suji is a device that restricts blood flow to a muscle in an arm or leg so that when an athlete trains, their body thinks they’re working harder than they really are, maximizing the efficiency of the athlete’s workout. The device links to the athlete’s phone, which offers a personalized profile that includes the best exercises, pressure calibration and custom workout settings.

TERSA is an AI-guided virtual physical therapy and training platform, chosen in the first cohort of leAD’s Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Accelerator program. The platform has built-in cameras and movement assessment software to diagnose alignment and movement from the comfort of the home. The highly anticipated global product launch will take place in the coming months.

Between leAD’s experience in the sports and health spaces and Lake Nona’s globally recognized Sports, Human Performance and Life Sciences clusters along with it being a community built on a foundation of health, wellness and innovation, the marriage between the Fund, the startup accelerator and Lake Nona is made in heaven, and Thomas Rudy holds the keys to the pearly gates.

A roundup of must-attend events in Lake Nona

Some of our favorite fall events are returning this year along with special additions we think you’ll love.

Here’s a roundup of events you can look forward to in Lake Nona this season: 

TOWN HARVEST

Saturday, October 2

Kick-off the fall festivities at the Lake Nona Town Harvest on Saturday, October 2 from 4 – 10 p.m. in Lake Nona Town Center. Grab a gourd-geous pumpkin for your holiday porch decor, try your luck at the pie making contest, spend time crafting with the kids, or take a fall photo shoot with an oversized tractor and bales of hay. Arrive with an appetite because seasonal food and beverages will also be available.

Click here for more information.

SPOOKNONA

October 7 – 31 select nights

Lake Nona’s annual Halloween celebration is keeping the fun going for the whole month of October! The Boxi Park pumpkin patch will be open Thursday – Sunday along with photo ops, live entertainment, and specialty food and drinks to die for. Costumes are also encouraged!

Just for Spooknona, Boxi Park will host Monster Movie night on select Wednesdays featuring pre-show trivia, costume contests, themed food and beverage options and more!

Check out the schedule:

• October 13: Hocus Pocus (PG)
• October 20: Beetlejuice (PG)
• October 27: Rocky Horror Picture Show (R), Adults only, 21+

Saturday, October 23

Join us for the first-ever Graveyard Smash in Lake Nona Town Center from 5 – 10 p.m. Bring out the entire family for a creepy candy crawl, grave rave dance party, and an interactive display on The Beacon. You might even run into some spooky spirits throughout the night.

RIDE FOR RONALD

Sunday, October 10

The 12th annual Ride for Ronald event is back! Join the Ride/5K in-person on Sunday, October 10 or you can participate virtually and ride anywhere to support Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida.

All race routes will begin and end in Lake Nona Town Center. Walkers and runners will hit the pavement along Lake Nona Blvd. passing the all-new Lake Nona Performance Club and UCF Lake Nona Hospital before circling back to the Town Center. Bikers can choose from 3.5-mile family fun ride along Tavistock Lakes Blvd. through Laureate Park, a 10-mile ride down to Narcoossee Rd., or challenge themselves with a 30-mile or 60-mile route that ventures south into Osceola County.

Each participant will be provided with a personal fundraising page to benefit the thousands of families Ronald McDonald House supports across Central Florida each year including our local location at Nemours Children’s Hospital.

VETERANS CELEBRATION

Thursday, November 11

The fall events season will culminate on Thursday, November 11, with an honored tradition as the community gathers for a Veterans Day celebration to pay tribute to the local veteran community.

While there’s a lot to look forward to this fall, the fun will continue through the end of the year with the return of Lake Nona’s one-of-a-kind annual holiday celebration, Oh What Fun! We’ll share more details as the holiday season approaches.

Follow Lake Nona on Facebook to stay up to date on all of our upcoming events.

Here’s a look at some of the new projects underway in Lake Nona

There’s always something new going on in Lake Nona – families moving in, businesses opening, students heading to school, and plenty of new projects in development.

And while new projects are easy to spot when buildings begin to rise, it takes a lot of time and careful consideration to make the plan become a reality. The Lake Nona team has been working hard to plan out the next phase of development for our community primarily concentrated in the area south of Laureate Park. New projects include residential and retail offerings, public schools and parks, new roads and infrastructure, public art and more.

Here’s an overview on what new development to expect in Lake Nona south of Laureate Park over the next 3-5 years:

Lake Nona Greenwood and Concorde Apartments

Located at the southwestern corner of Laureate Blvd and Narcoossee Road, Lake Nona Greenwood is a new retail hub for the community and will feature a 7-Eleven, Tijuana Flats, Little Gym, Meson Sandwiches, Wash City Car Wash, Noire Nail Bar, and more upon opening this fall. Click here for Lake Nona Greenwood tenant details.

Located adjacent to the new shops and restaurants at Lake Nona Greenwood, a new apartment community known as Concorde will open in 2023. The gated community will feature 306 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

Laureate Park Expansion

Laureate Park will offer 200 new lots starting in 2022. New amenities including a community garden, playground, and trails connecting the to the northern section of the neighborhood are planned.  

The Laureate Park expansion will also add a new gated neighborhood called Laurel Pointe. The Toll Brothers development will include 124 one-and two-story, single family estate homes. The Laurel Pointe sales center and model homes are under construction with sales starting in early 2022.

Click here for more details on Laurel Pointe.

Summerdale Park

Located north of Boggy Creek Road, Summerdale Park is Lake Nona’s newest residential community with 208 single-family homes.

Model homes are currently under construction with sales set to begin in early 2022.

Click here for more details on Summerdale Park.

Orange County Public Schools and City of Orlando Park

Two new Orange County Public Schools, an elementary and middle school, are also planned. The middle school is scheduled to open in 2024 and the elementary school is scheduled to open in 2026.

A new, 14-acre City of Orlando Community Park is being planned adjacent to the new elementary and middle schools.

Lake Nona Vertiport

Lake Nona will become the country’s first regional hub for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft by 2025.

Known as the Lake Nona Vertiport, the first-of-its-kind aviation facility will serve as the central location for a regional mobility network in Florida designed to usher in a new era of city-to-city transportation.

Click here for more information on the Lake Nona Vertiport.

Roads

New roadways are being constructed throughout Lake Nona to support the continued growth of the community. These new transportation corridors include:

• Selten Way
  • A north-south road that will connect Laureate Park Blvd to Luminary Blvd and provide access to the Concorde apartment community.
• Luminary​ Blvd
  • An east-west arterial road connecting Laureate Blvd in the Medical City area with Laurel Pointe and Narcoossee Road.
• Centerline Drive
  • A north-south road that will connect Kellogg Ave to Luminary Blvd and continue south to Boggy Creek Road.

And that’s not all! In addition to new projects in the works in the southern part of Lake Nona, there are plenty of other developments in progress throughout the community including the Lake Nona Wave Hotel, One Performance Plaza, and more.