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T-rex Restaurant

The T-Rex Restaurant is located at Downtown Disney, in Orlando, Florida. It is fairly easy to locate since it has a gigantic skeleton at the front of the building. You can see the ribs hanging down from the top of the photo at right. The sign for the restaurant, at right, is large, but not as grand as the skeleton hanging over it. The skeleton hanging over it is more representative of what you will find inside. The skeleton over the doorway is an Apatosaurus and there is also a T-rex skeleton to the right of the restaurant.

Once you are inside, you are greeted by life size dioramas of dinosaurs, giant bugs, ice age animals, and prehistoric environments. There are tables located around all the different dioramas. If they are not busy you can ask to be seated where ever you like. We were there for lunch, so it was less busy than it would be at dinner. Still, it is a good idea to make reservations.

When you are seated at your table, you are given your menu. Price wise, the meals are high-low priced to medium priced. As to what is on the menu, besides you (of course), I don't recall exactly. I should have picked up a menu. Maybe next time. My meal was great, my wife's meal was great. Every meal I saw pass my table, I said to myself, "I should have ordered that." The portion size is healthy. You shouldn't walk away hungry. After you order, you are invited to walk around and look at all the dioramas, while you are waiting for your meal to be delivered. You can do so after you have finished your meal, as well.

If all of this was not enough, about every half hour you get to experience a meteor shower. During the meteor shower, all hell breaks loose. All the dioramas come to life (that's where you could be on the menu). The dinosaurs are moving and making noise. You can hear the meteor impacts and the ice cave changes color to simulate the fires that would happen during the cataclysmic event. This goes on for about five minutes, then everything returns to normal.

There is a very large, and very healthy, live salt water aquarium behind the bar area. The salt water aquarium is at the area where you enter and exit the restaurant . Even the restroom areas are decorated with fossils. Over all this was a great experience. As with all things Disney, they had a great eye for detail. You are going to need to eat someplace anyway. Why not here? It is as good as any of the best rides at Disney. You can be fed and entertained at the same time.

If lunch or dinner is not in your schedule and you are in Downtown Disney, you can still ask at the front desk if you can look around inside. I am pretty sure they will let you. We did on our latest visit and were welcomed to look around and take more photos.

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