Doshi, the modern Korean restaurant that opened in Winter Park a little more than two years ago, will serve its last cheesy tteokbokki at the end of the month.
Owner/restaurateur Johnny Tung said the decision to close was based on rising food/labor costs and the economic hurdles the restaurant faced. “It’s a difficult choice, but under the current conditions, we can’t continue operating in this space.”
The restaurant jumped from Doshibox Korean Kitchen, a ghost kitchen outfit on Curry Ford Road, to elegant Winter Park eating house in the summer of 2022. In my review from November 2022, I said the feat was ”
the culinary equivalent of dunking from the free-throw line.
” But as much as Doshi wanted to be Central Florida’s version of Atomix, Atoboy, Jungsik, Jua and the like, the challenge proved too daunting for the fledgling concept (even though their chicken yakitori meatballs garnered a
mention that year).
That said, Tung remarked that he’s planning to search for a new, smaller location for Doshi in the future.