Giant dinosaurs, fantastic food and meteor showers

Hey everybody, time for another post about our local attractions. This time the fiancée and I went on a prehistoric adventure to the T-Rex Café at Downtown Disney, complete with blurry Iphone photos! At the entrance of T-Rex Café is a huge Tyrannosaurus Rex (good themeing goes a long way). From the moment you walk in you are transported to prehistoric world filled with giant dinosaurs, fantastic food, and dino-themed t-shirts. The restaurant side features enormous animatronic dinosaurs, an ice cave, an enormous octopus bar, geodes, and life size (back when they were alive) insects and my favorite, some woolly mammoths. On the store side there is the Paleo Zone, Discovery Dig and Creek, and a Build-A-Dino workshop by Build-A-Bear.

When you visit the T-Rex Café for brunch or dinner make sure you brink your appetites. The menu is packed with delicious items for all ages. The Bronto-Burger was fantastic, the Fish and chips were great but my favorite was the Paleozoic Chicken Sandwich. The desert was of course the highlight of the meal which was ice cream with chocolate brownies. Don’t worry folks; the two of us didn’t eat all this food ourselves, we shared dishes with her sister and her boyfriend.

The store features a variety of dino-centric products. T-shirts, toys and tar pit goo can be purchased here. Here you will also find the Paleo Zone and Discovery Dig where children can unearth the past. The best aspect of the store is the Build-A-Dino Workshop. Here kids of all ages can pick an exclusive prehistoric animal, have it stuffed, and choose how to accessorize their new friendosaur. I’ve already asked for a woolly mammoth dressed as a super hero for Christmas. Also every 15 minutes there is a meteor shower which darkens the entire building as ice cave changes colors, the sounds of explosions are heard everywhere and lights flash with a red glow. I don’t know how the employees put up with that but mad kudos to them.

We had a great time at the T-Rex Café located at Downtown Disney. If you are visiting the area on vacation or a local like us you have got to check out this one of a kind restaurant; the only other location is in Kansas (really, Kansas). As a local you really have to take advantage of all the entertainment that Central Florida has to offer; especially when the weather is so nice and there are less people here in November. Also included in the pictures is a shot from the Lego Store at Downtown Disney, but that visit is for a later post….. (Cliffhangers build suspense)

Submitted by Anthony Breath