The dining room, with Victorian-style columns, high ceilings and hard-wood floors, makes a great place not only to enjoy great steaks and seafood, but to gaze out the windows at the nightly fireworks shows over the Seven Seas Lagoon. (And while the restaurant has its own elegant style, they expect your wardrobe to have that quality as well—no shorts or flip-flops.) Among the best menu choices, grilled salmon and grilled filet mignon are popular entrées, as is the traditional surf-and-turf centerpiece: Maine lobster and a tender filet mignon. Other good choices include crab-crusted flounder with lemon butter and roasted free-range chicken breast with mashed potatoes. For dessert, don't miss the strawberry cheesecake with a cherry sauce and the key lime crème brûlée. The name of the place, incidentally, was not a word coined by Disney Imagineers, it's the name of a river and a small Central Florida town, both which predate Disney.
Reviewed by Seasons from California on 9/8/07
Families with small children eat here late into the evening; our reservations were at 8:20PM and they were arriving when we were leaving. It was loud and crowded with no room between tables - we kept having to squish up to our table to let kids behind us in and out. The lobster tasted like frozen, thawed and, as we saw on the way out with the kitchen in open view, is made in mass. Service is impersonal and we seldom saw our server. Drinks were weak.
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