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Hidden Mickey?
Fun Facts
All over the Walt Disney World Resort, you will find Mickey Mouse popping up in
some rather interesting places. You had better take a good look at your food
before you take a bite; you may be surprised to find him staring back at you.
Mickey can be found in pancakes, waffles, muffins, pastas, and pats of butter. He
can be seen in fruits and cheeses, sandwiches, and sundaes. There are Mickey
mashed potatoes, ice-cream bars, cookies, and cakes. Even cucumbers are grown
(with a little help from a plastic mold) to look like the famous mouse.
very blue) decor scheme designed to evoke the ocean, with lots of hip lighting and curved
walls. Appetizers include the amazing “Olive's” classico flatbread, a roasted beet salad,
and teppan-seared sea scallops. Melt-in-your-mouth entrees include Cantonese lobster,
miso-glazed Chilean sea bass, seared nori-wrapped tuna, wild salmon block, and roasted
swordfish. Unlike the portions at many upscale restaurants of this caliber, those served
here are meal-worthy, not minuscule. That said, the prices are hefty and do not include
side dishes (veggies, for example), which will run you an extra $7 to $9. Dress is casual
(this is Disney), though the atmosphere is definitely adult and upscale.
Tip:
The front of the restaurant has a bar and lounge where live music is often featured
or a DJ spins a selection of today's hottest tunes.
1500 Epcot Resort Blvd., at the WDW Dolphin.
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407/934-1111.
www.disneyworld.com. Advance Res-
ervations highly recommended. Main courses $27-$60. AE, DC, DISC, MC, V. Daily 3:30-11pm. Free self-
and validated valet parking (validate ticket on your way out).
Moderate
Boatwright's Dining Hall
Kids
SOUTHERN/CREOLE A family atmosphere
(noisy), good food (by Disney standards), and reasonable prices (ditto) make Boat-
wright's a hit with Port Orleans Resort guests, if not outsiders. The jambalaya is sans
seafood, but is filled with vegetables, rice, chicken, and sausage—all rather spicy and
giving it quite a kick. Other dinner items include grilled salmon, slow-roasted prime rib,
penne pasta with shrimp, and pot roast. Boatwright's is modeled after a 19th-century
boat factory, complete with the wooden hull of a Louisiana fishing boat suspended from
its lofty beamed ceiling. Most kids like the wooden toolboxes on every table; each con-
tains a salt shaker that doubles as a level, a wood-clamp sugar dispenser, a pepper-grinder-
cum-ruler, a jar of unmatched utensils, shop rags (to be used as napkins), and a little
metal pail of crayons.
Note
: Breakfast is no longer served.
2201 Orleans Dr., in Disney's Port Orleans Resort.
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407/939-3463.
www.disneyworld.com. Advance
Reservations recommended. Main courses $17-$30 dinner. AE, DC, DISC, MC, V. Daily 5-10pm. Free self-
parking.
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Cape May Café
SEAFOOD/STEAK This New England-style clambake offers a
selection of oysters, clams, mussels, baked fish, and small peel-and-eat shrimp. Accom-
paniments include corn on the cob, potatoes, and other assorted veggies. Landlubbers
fear not; there is a selection of not-so-fishy fare including barbecued pork ribs and prime
rib. The casual nautical theme carries into the restaurant from the surrounding Beach
Club resort. The Cape May Café also offers a character breakfast buffet every morning
(p. 177).
