Chef announces Camille’s opening date in Baldwin Park
For fans of Phan — chef Tung Phan, that is — the wait is over.
Those who have become regulars at Phan’s DomuLab success story, Camille, will be welcomed with open arms, and eight well-appointed seats, in the French-Vietnamese restaurant’s swanky new Baldwin Park location (4962 New Broad St. at Lake Baldwin).
“The most exciting thing about moving into the new space is the ability to construct the Camille culture as a whole,” Phan told the Orlando Sentinel. “We want to do more for our guests and our team.”
It’s “the bigger picture,” he noted. And it certainly is bigger. The expansive, 2,500-square-foot restaurant features 30 seats. While the Chef ’s Counter tasting menu will be featured in a short, firstphase period, plans for a less formal dining room experience won’t be far behind. Guests will also find a bar offering wine, sake and beer curated by an in-house sommelier, as well as a private dining room for events.
Camille, which in its pop-up phase was named the Critic’s Pick for Best New Restaurant in the 2022 Orlando Sentinel Foodie Awards, is known for its mashup of Phan’s Vietnamese background, which is both personal and professional. His first foray into the restaurant business, the now-shuttered Phan’s, (“the training-wheel days,” he calls them) showed indicators of his prevalence toward taking traditional dishes and twisting them.
At Camille, Phan’s cultivated experience with French gastronomy working alongside the masters at Victoria & Albert’s, the dishes — elegant and playful — are simultaneously comforting and familiar, but leveled up. Often dizzyingly so.
Also like Phan’s, Camille
will be a family affair, with chef Phan’s sister, Trinh, embedded into the team, all of whom have enjoyed growth under the mentorship of restaurateurs
Jimmy and Johnny Tung, Orlando’s most recent James Beard semifinalists.
“It’s been a goal of mine to represent Orlando on the big stage,” says the chef, noting his gratitude to The Neighbors and East End Market for his ability
to learn and grow in their space. “I am hoping it will open doors to growth and opportunities for myself and my team.”
Camille in Baldwin Park will be open for dinner with two seatings each evening by reservation only. June reservations were made available Wednesday.
Follow @Camille.Orl on Instagram for updates on opening dates and reservations.