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Thank you for visiting our website. Chef Henry's has been around for only a year, but we have proudly served our clients in other locations since 1991. The latest restaurant was in Winter Park, Florida on Howell Branch Road. Chef Henry and Pastry Chef Estika gained a great number of loyal customers and so after a year's break we decided to open another restaurant this time, however, a little differently. I decided to take on the responsibility of ownership. It has always been my dream to open my own restaurant. I started in this business very early on, making my first espresso when I was seven and I was hooked. From then on my sisters and I helped my parents in the Resort they ran in Slovakia. We prepared wedding banquets together, setting all the tables just right, we polished silver, set plate settings prepared center pieces and then impatiently waited for all the guests to arrive while we snuck a peak every few minutes or so into the Pastry pantry. There all the beautiful and delicious pastries and cakes were waiting. This followed me through the years, and when Chef Henry opened his first cafe Downtown Orlando. We helped man the cash register, prepare salads, help on the grill and make deliveries. Then Chef Henry opened a restaurant in Titusville called the Blue Danube and once again we all jumped in together and each of us assumed varied positions within the restaurant. I apprenticed with Chef Henry for two years in the kitchen, learning everything in the back of the house. I taught myself how to bartend and loved everything about helping to run a restaurant. Few years later we opened Chef Henry's in Winter Park. A quaiet little place in an unsuspecting location that won many awards. In 2005 my husband, our kids and I moved to Slovakia. I learned many new things there, working in completely different professions yet, each one of them was being a part of running a business. Oh how I missed the restaurant and our loyal customers, the busy nights where all of us had to multi task to make things happen. It didn't take but four years for me to realize I needed to get back and open my own place, like I always dreamed. Upon my arrival I had pitched my idea to the rest of the family reassuring them that I would take all the responsibility and Chef Henry and Estika would merely show up and play. They missed the action too, and so did Evelina and now, here we are in Longwood in a beautiful restaurant with all the people in place waiting for you to come so we can showcase our heritage and the heritage of Central Europe. Come in for a wonderful experience with your loved ones or anyone you want to share it with. Chef Henry will cook you a great meal, Estika will bake you a strudel like your grandmother did and Evelina and I will do everything to make you feel like you are in our home for dinner.

We hope to see you soon.

It is great to be back!

 

Respectfully,

 

Simone, your host.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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