Coral Reef Restaurant | |
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Restaurant information | |
Established | January 15, 1986 |
Owner(s) | Walt Disney Parks and Resorts |
Food type | Seafood |
City | Bay Lake |
County | Orange County |
State | Florida |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 28°22′31″N 81°33′1″W / 28.37528°N 81.55028°W |
Website | Official website |
The Coral Reef Restaurant is a themed [1] seafood restaurant in The Seas Pavilion (formerly The Living Seas pavilion) on the western side of Future World (now renamed World Nature) at Epcot, a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, that opened with the pavilion on January 15, 1986. [2] One entire wall of the restaurant consists of a glass window that is eight inches thick and that provides a view into an aquarium. [3] While they eat, restaurant guests are able to watch tarpons, sharks, sea turtles, stingrays, groupers, and sometimes scuba divers in the six-million-gallon aquarium. [4] Artist Kim Minichiello painted the underwater scene that appears on the restaurant's menu covers. [5] Ron Douglas's cookbook America's Most Wanted Recipes: Just Desserts includes two dishes from the Coral Reef Restaurant: the Baileys and Jack Daniel's Mousse [6] and the Chocolate Wave Cake. [7]