When we visited Florida earlier this month, we dined at Rain Forest Cafe (which is one of my favorites) and while we were there we earned reward points with our Landry's Select card towards a future meal. The catch was that we had to use the rewards points during the current month. Instead of returning to the Rain Forest, we decided to try T-Rex Cafe.
I was never interested in visiting this place because I remembered the menu being a lot of barbecued meats such as ribs and stuff. This was something that did not really interest me but was willing to give it a try since we had reward points to use.
We arrived shortly after 11:30 am and the lunch rush had not really hit yet. We were asked to wait a few minutes for our table which was no problem.
As we waited, we admired the Lava Lounge. It was decorated as a huge aquarium. It was actually kind of neat and we knew that if we wanted to, we could sit at the bar immediately but we continued to wait for a table in the main dining room . It was our first time here so we wanted to get the full experience.
We waited and waited and then one of the hosts told us they were just waiting for a server. However, during the time we waited there were quite a variety of servers and managers mingling around the hostess station. In this picture there are only 6 people but at one point there were 9 people mingling around and yet no one in the line was being seated.
I know this is a bad picture but I wanted to show how the line had grown since we started waiting.
I could understand the long wait if they were busy but seeing very few people seated and seeing all the employees standing in one place confused me. I did not warrant the wait time we were experiencing.
Eventually our server came to get us and escorted us to a table. While she was leading us she asked "So, what brings you here"? I guess by this time I wasn't really into casual banter so I thought it was such a silly question . I told her
Vacation, and thought, isn't that why most people are here? I should mention that T-Rex is located at Disney Springs (formally known as Downtown Disney).
Like Rain Forest Cafe, T-Rex has animatronics and every 20 minutes there is a meteor shower in the sky. It also had a gift shop.
I was actually quite pleased with the menu. There were quite a few options that I would have enjoyed. I chose the Triassic Trio (which was steak, shrimp skewers with veggies and rice and shrimp and scallops). It was yummy! Scott got the Korean Stir Fry Chicken which he quickly regretted. He said it was too spicy, which surprised me because he usually likes spicy things.
Besides the long wait, I thought this restaurant had a fun atmosphere and I thought the food was very good. I'm glad we gave it a try.
Tell me some fun themed restaurants you've visited.
