Coral Reef Dining Review and Epcot Fun! - Food, Rides & More! - Walt Disney World 2022

hey guys this is jenna with resort tv one today we're here at epcot and we're gonna go check out the coral reef so we haven't been here in a little mom and dad haven't been here in a little while i was here not too long ago but we didn't do a video so i thought hey let's do a dining review today of coral reef we had this reservation back several weeks ago a month ago when i had coveted of course we had to change it but now all better and we're back so i got to make the reservation um make a new reservation so that was awesome modify it that's what i was looking for um so can't wait to show you guys some of the food options they have and the beautiful view here and we'll probably ride a ride or two over here as well and maybe check out the sea life here uh in the living seas so hope you guys enjoy the video [Music] [Music] [Music] so our reservation isn't until uh 12 15. so we have oh about 45 minutes so let's go check out nemo there's the mine birds are they gonna say anything to us so it's a 20 minute wait we'll get in here and check it out we don't want to be late for our reservation but i think we'll be okay [Music] here we go zigzag eq here the ac feels amazing i just want to point that out it is a very hot day here in central florida okay we got in there and the line was kind of long so it's really bright um but we're going to go in you know you can go in the back door uh the exit which is also the aquarium part so we're gonna go in and check out some of the aquariums so this is a great place to hang out when it's hot outside and check out all the amazing sea life there's also um turtle talk with crush over here you can check out so yeah well i think there's even a little playground over here for the kids it's a lot of fun indoor stuff you can do in the ac there's the manatees one of my favorite um areas here love checking out the manatees they're just so pretty so calm [Music] they usually have two in here uh sea world has several and a lot of them that they have rescues these are also rescues you can tell by his i don't know how long they've had them here but i know sea world has a ton of them she said he lost 90 of his tail in a boating [Music] accident oh my goodness the dolphins are out this one's playing with like a hula hoop oh he's swimming with it oh my goodness i love when the dolphins are out they're my favorite i can literally watch them all day hello [Music] oh my goodness that is the cutest thing hi baby hello you're so cute [Music] oh you let it go he left it up top oh oh oh no it's still on yeah well i think he went back behind now all right we found him oh we think it's him here sorry guys it's very loud in she's here out shark overhead [Music] he likes so i'm not sure but i think over here are the windows for the restaurant so over here is still um the living seas part of the or nemo and friends sorry i keep calling the living seas that's what it used to be called this is part of the ride here oh hello there i'll get to see a lot of the same fish while we're eating i think there is um somebody in there cleaning it see all the bubbles there oh no there's a restaurant just kidding this is the restaurant right here these windows [Music] hidden mickey not so hidden mickey so we are upstairs that's where you go look at all the aquariums and we were just under here let's see right over here is where the manatees are you can look at them from up above or down below and then of course everybody say hi to mom and dad hello and this is where the dolphins and all the sea life all right so that was fun checking out some of the sea life and uh we'll go on the nemo ride here maybe after lunch we just don't want to miss our reservation and uh now we're gonna go check in before oh reef so excited oh my my you can kind of see some of the structures for the new moana ride they're not ride the new uh moana attraction coming soon so we have the menu here for coral reef because i think it is all on your phone now so they don't have the paper menus monorail shot so again here's the menu we have some appetizers entrees a lot of yummy fish options which makes sense and desserts so i am excited to try some of these i've tried them before but to show you guys some and let you know how they are they also have a kids menu as well so yeah can't wait guys so as you go as you go in they have cute little seahorse door handles love it so you check in outside and then you come in here check in again and they have some seats and restrooms available and they'll see you hello all right guys we're in check out the aquarium and this is our seat here so here is the tank right next to us or the aquarium i guess i should say windows all the way down here's our seat here say hi mom and dad they're looking at the menu and here's our server it's me with our waterfall look at this big stingray coming towards us and a shark [Music] ah there he is oh two divers so yeah it looks like they're cleaning very cool our survey just said this archway right here is from the first pirates of the caribbean movie how cool is that and they put this in there right after the movie was done so it comes all the way over to our side too that's super cool so we got some rolls here and butter of course you put it by mom she said she she looks like she likes butter she does i do too so let's give these a try so we just had the bread it was good it was nothing you know to write home about but it was good with the butter so it was a nice little appetizer to wait uh we already ordered our food so it should be here just missed the sea turtle just missed him maybe he'll come back the sea turtle he came back so pretty [Music] and our food is here so i got the mahi-mahi but i got the sauce on the side and then the salmon or salmon i think it's shrimp salsa on the side because they are a bit spicy and i don't like spice at all so it's just plain but i can dip in there if i want to but normally it comes with all of this on top of the mahi mahi mom got the orange glazed salmon and that looks really good mom looks amazing and dad what'd you get over here grits succotash yeah and a pork from france it's a sausage cooker oh in the middle there from france yeah and then he got the sauce on the side too because they said it was spicy too so that's my knife so he's gonna try that out and see how spicy it is but glad he got it on his side let's dig in see how how it is okay i don't want to dump it let's dig in let's try it so again mine's plain but it's a very good flavor very good flavor the inside's very moist which is good nice grilled flavor with some seasoning going to try a little bit of that sauce but not a lot but i know it's spicy so it has a good flavor if you like spice you will love the sauce but i'm glad i got on the side because it is a bit spicy and i can just dip a little bit in there [Music] this mahi mahi is amazing and then we have the shrimp salsa [Music] it's like a shrimp and maybe mango in there yeah it looks like mango [Music] there's a little hint of spice too but not bad so good really good flavor all right mom gave me a little bit of her salmon um the orange isn't overwhelming but it's nice and then she's got some rice over here and some veggies that rice is good too oh my goodness that's good mom yeah so either the salmon or the mahi-mahi can't go wrong delicious all right dad what do you think of your shrimp and grits shrimp and grits with succotash and then the grits are underneath the succotash and it's got the sausage the shrimp is not spicy so if you're concerned about the spicy part shrimp is great i got the cilantro emulsion i think it's called on the side and i tried a little and it's not real bad but i think it could be spicy pretty spicy okay yep um overall i love the grits they're awesome and the shrimp is good i love the shrimp the the sausage a little bit spicy but uh it's good okay good to know when you get it again yes thumbs up but you would get it again awesome and mom loves her salmon too right mom yeah i tried get it again it was good should you get it again cool all right well our meals were delicious and we just ordered some dessert so can't wait to show you guys what we got we've been enjoying the atmosphere all the sea life swimming by it's been so fun there's been a stingray that's been swimming by with like a lot of fish behind them and i keep saying there goes mr ray he's teaching school but i always i don't have my camera ready to catch it so we'll see if i get it before we leave so dad told our uh our server that he liked butter so he got him extra butter it's kind of like a whispering canyon here just kidding i know all right our desserts are here and i ordered the plant-based dessert and this looks amazing so it is bailey's almond and jack daniel's mousse chocolate ganache candied almonds and it is plant-based i don't know if i said almond right but anyways it looks delicious point is it is plant-based and i can eat this i'm so excited i had this once before and i loved it so i'm sure i'll love it again and of course this is their famous wave and this has a warm flourless chocolate cake with raspberry gelato we're going to try them out all right guys it is really loud in here so hopefully you can hear me but let's dig in oh my word so good that's amazing it's very light which is great um you can't tell it is um dairy free plant-based which is really good it has a chocolate cake there on the bottom and then the layers of juice on top so good even if you're you don't need to eat plant-based this is amazing so good definitely recommend it let's try the chocolate wave i don't want to dump it i'm going to do it without the gelato because i can't do gelato but the cake part is always good [Music] also amazing so good so chocolatey it's nice and warm the gelato is melting on top there and that raspberry sauce adds to the chocolate definitely recommend both of these they're very good okay that's where you're eating the diver is swimming by and he's feeding the fish how fun where'd he go [Applause] there's a fish frenzy there he went there's another fish following him there's a turtle over here trying to hide i think he's trying to go on that so i'm thinking the diver um you know he was feeding the fish and he went by but i wonder if he said the turtle over there in a special spot with these food this guy came over to say hello and just sit there staring back at the people oh [Music] here goes jeff the shark that's what our server said his name his name's jack there's so it's a fairly big restaurant we sit down on the bottom floor they have the middle floor and then the top floor up here so good size so we just got done with our lunch at coral reef and um it was amazing i loved it loved my mahi mahi mom salmon i'm gonna say though was just a little bit better i think so next time i might get that it was good it was really good and i didn't try to add just because i didn't want any of the spicy but he liked it it was awesome yeah he liked it and the dessert oh my word the wave was amazing but also that plant-based one that i had so good so light so delicious so definitely recommend it and our server was amazing too yeah the experience he was giving us little tips and telling us different little uh you know tidbits and things which was really cool so and the view of course got to watch the fish just nice and relaxing even though it's loud in there that's just you know vacationers and the acoustics in there but watching the fish swim by and then you know seeing all the different sea life was a lot of fun definitely recommend it all right so since we're on the fish theme here now we're gonna go ride nemo because it was a little bit too busy and we didn't want to miss our dining reservation but now we have all the time so let's go oh we found mr ray guys mr ray there he is [Music] all right back through the winding winding uh cue here we'll see if it's backed up like it was the last time but like i said we've got plenty of time now so we can wait in line this time no dining reservations now okay this is much better than earlier this whole cue was lined up earlier so i think it's gonna be way better glad we waited till after we ate just keep swimming through the queue okay this is uh this is a walk-on pretty much it's awesome oh don't worry just keep your eyes open for along the way [Music] [Music] easy orange white stripes [Music] it's echoey in here [Music] mates [Music] [Applause] [Music] totally but everybody's looking for you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] a good root canal wait take me with you i mean it's a nice song we noticed spaceship earth was only a 15 minute wait and i have not ridden this forever so that's where i head next so yeah that probably only took about five you guys smell roam burning [Music] the recorded knowledge [Music] [Music] [Music] it turns out are copies of some of these books in the libraries [Music] incredible explosion [Music] america now connected from the atlantic this humble young man [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] so we got a virtual cue for guardians of the galaxy my new favorite ride love this ride so much it was easy to get this morning at 7 00 a.m so let's go um we got called so let's go go ride the ride see what song we get this time go guys that's right it's so amazing oh and it's kind of busy oh look oh my word oh my god did you know that your scientists discovered a planet with three signs in your body something cool like mars but you know that hasn't already been taken i am still trying to decipher exactly how a name makes a planet's temperature cooler so yeah it's a little busy we're backed up to here not bad it's nice and air conditioned in here this is super cool [Music] there are so many wonders in our years you will discontinue your visit here in the wonders of over the course of our year zandar experiences periods of total sunlight shift light cycles our triple suns together in the sky creating space we built our city in honor of the nova corps a beacon to all who approach our planet [Music] and it's thanks to the guardians that zandar is reaching out to other cultures across the galaxy [Music] what you see before is the cosmic generator so you could experience it for yourself what's happening i'm not sure our power is out and the cosmic generator is gone [Applause] didn't get any worse okay sorry but we are here we're gonna be in row one [Music] [Applause] hello [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] it is so just got off guardians and we got um iran so that was pretty cool love that ride we um we got the front row which was awesome and uh yeah so it's a couple times we've gotten iran now so i think i've gotten every single song which is really cool all right guys well that is it for our video here today at epcot hope you enjoy coming along and checking out coral reef with us that was a lot of fun um definitely recommend it if you're a seafood person now they did have a couple options um if you're not but we loved it great atmosphere and we loved our server too he was awesome so definitely recommend it we love the dessert that was delicious too and yeah we got to ride a couple rides that was also fun we got to go on guardians we got iran this time it's always fun to you know see what song you're going to get each time so that's really fun but give us a thumbs up if you like this video make sure you're subscribed if you haven't already and we will see you guys really really soon so for now have a great big beautiful tomorrow bye bye and check out our sponsors mickeyblog.com and mickeytravels.com for the best in free disney planning advice also if you're interested in relocating to the orlando area or owning a vacation home near disney world talk to jeff and renee funk with the funk collection brokered by exp realty at realtynorlando.com also if you would like to treat your family to a stay at a disney deluxe villa for a fraction of the 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