Top 5 Best Restaurants at Islands of Adventure - Universal Orlando 👩‍🍳🍔🍟🍩

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There are so many amazing restaurants
at Universal's Islands of Adventure,

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located next door
to the Universal Studios, Florida.

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This amazing theme park
has some of the best places for breakfast

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and the attractions quick service
restaurants and even what is usually voted

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the best restaurant
in a theme park in the world.

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So stay tuned as we cover

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the top five restaurants
at Universal's Islands of Adventure.

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So before we start getting into the top
five, I'm going to share with you

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some amazing tips

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that I hope to give to save you some time
and also a little bit of money as well.

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Now, my first tip is at the quick service
restaurants, and these are

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the ones where you go up in order
and then you go and grab your food.

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So it's like the MacDonalds
KFC sort of style.

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Restaurants don't think the easiest
could be McDonald's and KFC kind of food.

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There are some really great places
he was going to cover a bit later on.

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But share when you are at a quick service
restaurant, share all your food out.

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I call this Americans happiness.

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This is basically where you get a load
of different things and you put them

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into the center of the table
and everyone just picks at it.

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Instead of this one person having,
you know, the turkey sandwich up

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into the center, this person's got a pizza
cut up into the center.

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This person's gone
for like a chicken and ribs. Sit.

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There's quite a few of you go, either
three or four or more of you go.

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You can quite easily
just do this a much easier way

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of just turning into American Taphouse.

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So this is what we always do
when we go is a great way of also trying

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lots of different things
because sometimes,

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you know, you do some thinking,
you go, I wish I did that.

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So it's a much better way of doing it.

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Now this brings me on to my next tip,
and this is also for quick service

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restaurants as well,
and that is to mobile order in peak

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times, Easter, Christmas,
that kind of time you can be queuing

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to all your food
at quick service restaurant and getting it

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by, even take
just as long as going on the right.

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You can take absolutely ages to do this

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and then you got go via
table is going to stuff

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mobile order split up as well do
the mobile ordering outside the restaurant

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unless you want actually
have a look at the menu up on the top.

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Just do it on your phone.

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Do it five times as you're walking along
actually to go to the restaurant

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to on there
just to download the universal Orlando app

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for your order.

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And then you just turn up,
you show your phone, it comes,

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it tells you when, when it's ready,
you show your phone and that's it.

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You go to pick up.

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The rest of the people in your group
can go find a table,

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and then a couple of minutes later
you'll be there

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with all the food of see
if they've got all food you might need.

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So a two for people to carry, right?

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So they can kind of work that out.

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But you don't all need to go up to come
pick it up.

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This then brings me onto
my next tip as well,

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is if you do actually
want to have individuals in.

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So sharing them out,
look at the kids meals.

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Now, kids

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meals are meant to be for nine years old
and below, but by mobile ordering,

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you circumnavigate those awkward questions
that you might get.

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So, for example, if you were a group
of adults, all for example,

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you're a family of four, but
the kids are a bit older, the teenagers.

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So clearly not a nine years old.

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Now the teenagers
are probably adults, males.

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But if you really think like me,
you probably just want to have

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just the kids meals.

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It gets so hot and humid in Orlando that

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actually all I want is a small kids meal.

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I want the bigger drink,

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but I don't want all the extra and
the stuff that comes with an adult male.

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Try where I can to order the kids meals.

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And you can do this
if you work of mixing it in.

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So instead of for example,

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if there's four of
you that should be ordering adult males.

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Actually, if two, you want to order
kids meals or if you want to order kids

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meals, as long as one adult male is going
free when you go and pick it up,

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no one's going to bat
an eyelid and question it.

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So that is my top tip is smaller portions

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or for a set beforehand share, either

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share one may adult male
between two people or cut it out,

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put it all in the center table
and do your American style stereotypes.

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Okay, So I would kind of cut off
some of the tips.

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Let's move on to the restaurants now.

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The first restaurant we're going to do
is for breakfast.

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This is open for the rest of the day.

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But this is really the place
that you kind of go to for breakfast.

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Pretty much no hotels in Orlando
or in America for that kind of

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inclu breakfast
is a few that doing the breakfast

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but pretty much most
from doing to breakfast.

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So you're going to need something now
where we're going to recommend just take

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you know
get some belvita that kind of stuff

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and put them
and just have them in the room.

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What a lot of people do is when
they arrive, they do an ubereats delivery

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where they go
and bring all your grocery deliveries

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and then you use in your hotel room

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and then you've got like a load of drink
and snacks and breakfast items.

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But if you haven't had breakfast
that morning

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because you want to get there super easy,
especially if you're staying on site

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and you've got that
extra hour in the park.

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What I personally would do for extra magic
time in the book is I would go

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and use the extra hour,
go to the back of the park,

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go and do the rides as we're going to do
Velocicoaster go and do Hagrid's

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get in the car.

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Each of those was accuser match

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and the shooter then circled back
and then have breakfast afterwards.

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That is my pro-tip for that croissant.

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Moon bakery is at the ports of entry,
so it's kind of pretty

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much as you walk into the park
and they have some amazing danishes,

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you will smell it as you walk past
the Danish is really, really lovely.

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When you go inside that again,
you can do the mobile ordering on that.

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But I do kind of fun with someone
like the bakery because sometimes

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you want to see it because you'll
look at it and go, Wow, looks pretty safe.

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I'm going to have one of those as well.

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So it might just be a case of actually

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with this one,
unless there is going to be a big queue.

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Generally they're kind of isn't just go in
and just do it all on the app.

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You can go there in the morning
and they do some really, really nice

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breakfast options so you can go
and have different kind of pastries.

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But they also do
the filled croissants as well.

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So you can get like a ham, egg
and cheese croissant.

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You can get a bacon, egg and cheese
croissant.

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Second, depends how you like it.

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If you want bacon
or you want a ham, or you can get them.

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But I'm empanada.

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Empanada I can never pronounce it.

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Proper is a story of my friend outstation
and these are all about $8.

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So that's kind of like a nice way
to sort of set up days to get sort of

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something like that.
You can sit down in there.

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They also do like an on the run concepts
of breakfast, which is a fruit cup.

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So you can get a bit of fruit in bulk,
you get a Danish

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or a muffin and you will get a breakfast
drink as well.

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So that's kind of quite good, I guess
about $10 and just like a drink on its own

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is pretty kind of expensive, like a fruit
cup on the road for just under $5.

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So it's kind of quite good to that

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later in the day to
they switch over to sandwiches.

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No, the sandwiches are served
with a potato salad

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and some seasonal fruit as well
because of was it.

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That's quite expensive because they're
about 13, 14, $14.50 for a sandwich.

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But when you add in the salad
and they are massive, massive sandwiches.

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So don't think that you need to have
a one sandwich between you.

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Again, you just kind of up

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and just share the sandwich
so you can get a Italian sandwich.

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The ultimate sandwich is turkey
ham, roast beef, Swiss cheese, get the hot

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turkey platters as turkey

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and cheese and bacon
and the areola as well.

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And that's really, really nice.

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And again, these ones are kind of
like really cool, too, to share.

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So what you might do is one of you
gets the turkey one,

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one of you gets the other one,
cut it in half, then have half each.

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Pretty much all of these quick service
restaurants are going to do

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is you can either buy a fountain drink,
so that's like just a one off

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Coke, Coke zero or that kind of thing.

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And they're about $4.20 4.30
for one of those.

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Or you can get the the freestyle
souvenir cup.

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One of those is $19.

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We have all these prices need to add sales
tax on top of them as well.

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But more important,
you're going to get a limited refills

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throughout the day in that cup
and you can buy more cups as well.

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So if you buy two cups,
it brings the price down to about $17.

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If you buy 3 to 6 cups,
it brings down to about $15 per cup.

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You don't need a cup each.

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You can share them if you really want to.

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And there's loads of places you can get.

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They've got the freestyle machine.

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So it's the
the ones that you might have seen in

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five guys, put them in this over
a hundred different drinks

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that you can get in there are really
good when you think about it,

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the more money you're going to spend,

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if you get to spend $4.50, you get to have
another drink within an hour at least.

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So warm over that.

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So he is worth doing that.

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Now what you can do is
you can recharge that freestyle cup

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the next day whenever you want, basically.

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And that is just $12 to do that.

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So you don't need to buy new cups
every single day.

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So that's kind of a good way to reactivate
in that it brings down the price.

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That is the croissant bakery.

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Let's move on to Thunder Falls Terrace.

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So this is located in the Jurassic Park
Jurassic World area.

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It has an amazing
view of the Jurassic Park River.

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Right.

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And you can watch it absolutely soaked.

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It does have a terrace,
as the name explains.

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It is slightly heated.

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It's not necessarily always

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like the most popular, but I think is
one of the best places to eat.

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Really big portions there.

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So again,
this is somewhere that you can go

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and you can share a meal
while you're there.

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You can sit outside the set
and look at the at the ride.

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She's got really nice tropical
kind of feel to it.

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So what's on the menu?

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It's all barbecue once you're inside
so you can get things

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that the child cooled ribs
you can get the chicken and ribs platter

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and they do do rice bowls,
which is which is nice.

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And they also do the meatless, too. Right.

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So as well, there's a wings combo,
those half roast chickens,

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Rizzo salads as well as you can have
a rotisserie chicken salad

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lots of different choice if you do let
barbecue is a great place to come to it.

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One of the only places
where you can do combos.

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So this is where you're going
to get your meal

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and then a drink
and the drink is going to be not Coca

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Cola drink, it's going to be a milkshake
and the all good milkshakes.

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So we've spent like the chicken and ribs

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that on its own says
rotisserie chicken and also ribs.

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That is normally about 18.50 on its own.

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And the milkshakes about $7.

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So you're looking at $25.50 in total
to have the Sufis give it each one

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separately or buy them as a combo
and it's 20 free dollars.

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So you're saving sort of $2.2 50
by doing it as a combo.

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And they already give milkshakes.

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So it is something to kind of
think about actually,

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if you want to have a massive meal.

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What some people do is
don't have breakfast,

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they have a massive because this could be
a very protein heavy kind of meal.

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And, you know, the things that kind of
come with it,

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they're going to weigh
you down a little bit as well.

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So if you are having, for example,
that chicken

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and ribs platter,
so that's a rotisserie chicken.

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The ribs are in the barbecue glaze.

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You've got roast,
according to us, got potatoes as well.

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It's a very heavy lunch to have.

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She might want to have that as a lunch

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and then probably might probably get away
with just having a snack later

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on if you don't have as much,

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which means that you can't treat yourself
at that milkshake as well.

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So really good place to go.

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And again, you can do mobile
ordering at this restaurant.

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Really nice salads as well as free fall
kind of thing.

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If not everyone wants to have

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something quite as heavy.

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You can also go for the for the salads
is that they do to beer as well

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so you can get draft big cans of beer

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and they do the harmonica, the sauces,

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the juice, the focus
hoses, the BlackBerry lemonade, one.

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And they also do wine there as well.

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So you can kind of sit there and half
your pub food and have a nice chill out.

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You should do a broke as well, which is
a chocolate chip cookie filled brownie.

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I get I mean, if you've got space
after having one

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of those rotisserie
chickens, it's pretty big.

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Then.

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Yeah.

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This,
this is being like a good place to go.

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See if you can fit it in.

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Next up, no list of the best
quick service restaurants

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in a theme park would be complete
without the free broomsticks.

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If you're a fan of the Wizarding World
of Harry Potter,

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this is definitely a place that you're
going to go and want to go and eat.

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So you step into the free broomsticks.

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You are like being in hoax meet.

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It's is such a good of a cool restaurant
to go into.

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Just the theming alone is worth
just popping into.

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And if you don't actually
like the food on the menu

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just to go and have a little look around.

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Now quite interesting for this places.

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They also do breakfast as well.

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Breakfast is about $18 for an adult
and $13 for a child.

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So child is nine Orinda

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And there's quite a few different
sort of choices to go for.

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They do things like a porridge breakfast,
which is steamed oats with fresh fruit

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and a croissant, and you can get
continental breakfast, fresh fruit

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in the croissant and jams, get pancakes,
but also you can get a

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and this is in vertical
most traditional English breakfast.

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So if you are kind of missing your subject
and things like that,

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it's sausage links,
not what we would consider a sausages,

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but they do have black pudding
and have English bacon

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has the American saw bacon
and there was a baked beans,

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grilled tomato and mushrooms
and breakfast potatoes as well.

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We haven't quite kind of

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got the hang of it completely,
but it's the same price, everything.

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So if I'm lucky they're thinking right,
I'm going to pay $18 for that traditional

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English breakfast, or I can get some oats

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with some fresh fruit and a croissant.

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It's a fake.

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I'm definitely going
to probably going to go for the

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for the traditional English breakfast.

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Breakfast is served in so 1030
each morning.

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So again, if you're doing the early theme
park entry,

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you can get in, go into the park early,

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and then you can go
and have breakfast afterwards.

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So you don't going to

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have to rush straight for that because
no one wants to see that food again

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by doing that and then going on to hike
race or into Velocicoaster.

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So yeah, for lunch and for dinner,
some of it's a bit similar

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to what you can get over in the A
in the fall.

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So you can do like a chicken
and ribs platter again to do

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traditional English food
as well as fish and chips.

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Of course, Barry will be shepherd's pie
with a salad, beef patties.

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They do a half roast chicken,
they do smoked

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turkey legs, not really
an English thing, but apparently is

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then also do a

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mushroom pie pasta as well
as is the vegan option.

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It's actually really, really nice.

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And they do quite a few salads.
Also a kids meals.

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The kids meal is fish and chips,
chicken legs,

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chicken fingers or macaroni cheese.

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What you can do and this is not going
to be in any way vegetarian or vegan.

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So if you are either of those,
then this is not for you.

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But you can do the great fish.

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So you can be a bit

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like in the Harry Potter films
where they're having the great feast

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and you can have your own great feast.

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The first course

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is going to be a fresh garden salad
and it's got a really nice being.

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You're at dressing on top.

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And then the main course is a combination
of rotisserie chicken,

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spare ribs, corn on the cob and roast
potato.

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It's basically a bit like the chicken

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and ribs platter
that you're going to get here

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or also in front of Terrace Falls,
but on a supersize version.

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And it works out cheaper

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then it is meant to feed
four people realistically for Americans.

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So realistically, you can probably get
five people who are quite easy.

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It is maybe six actually set the
you are a big group.

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It's actually quite
a good way of doing it,

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but it does also mean everyone's
going to be eating the same kind of stuff.

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So it is a great way of just sort of
sharing is also so much easier as well

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because you just bring over this
massive platter

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and you do feel like the
you are in the great Hall and you are

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in the

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Harry Potter film having this
amazing feast.

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Also, whilst here you can get yourself
a nice bear if you want to.

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They do nonalcoholic cider.

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They do now.

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This is actually my favorite thing
is to do the pumpkin juice.

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And pumpkin juice is absolutely delicious.

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I would just have this all the time.

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Is not on the go
color freestyle unfortunately.

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So is bit of shame.

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In fact, actually

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within the Wizarding World
of Harry Potter,

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you won't find
any of the branded products.

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You won't find any Coca-Cola
products inside because they don't exist

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in the Western world.

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So in here
you're going to have like jelly water,

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you get the pumpkin juice, pumpkin
fizz, lemonade and of course, butterbeer.

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So you can have butterbeer,
you can have frozen butterbeer

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or you can have hot buttered
beers is free.

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Different ways of having butterbeer.

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And it means you don't have to queue up.

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But Butterbeer is kind of
is quite filling.

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I probably wouldn't have it with a meal
unless I was having

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a sort of a smaller kind of meal.

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And then for desserts
you can have boba a bit,

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you can be ice cream,
you can have a bit potted cream.

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And they also have different ice
creams and apple pies as well.

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So plenty of different things
that you can get yourself into in eating

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whilst you are over in Hogsmeade see,
and just go in for the feeding

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if you don't want to even just go in
for the fee because absolutely amazing.

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Now we're done
also for the quick service restaurants,

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but let's move on
to a table service restaurant.

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So with this one you can make
a reservation, an online in advance

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if you want to is casual,
so don't feel you have to get dressed up.

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I mean, you are in a theme park.

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So this is the cone

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fiscal grill, I'm probably pronouncing it
wrong is in port of entry.

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So again,
so close to the front of the theme park.

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And there's quite a twist with this one.

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So it's not just the same kind of food
churns out.

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Again, this quite a varied menu
whilst you go here.

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So it does mean that everyone kind of gets

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something that they kind of kind of like
it's much more varied than

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is not just Italian food, it's
not just a whatever kind of food.

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It's it's
kind of give you a bit of an example.

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Some of the appetizers,
the starters, you can have tuna

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nachos, you can have wings,
you can have quesadillas,

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you can have a chicken wraps,
you can have hummus.

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Again, a variety of different
kind of things for your main course.

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She can have a superfood salad.

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You can
have the the remain a Caesar salad,

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you can have chicken curry as well

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as some of that spicy. It's
a yellow curry.

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Says you should look at that spice
It was it comes with naan bread as well.

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Really nice
You can have sweet and sour sticky ribs.

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Penny alla vodka is was very interesting.

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So this is grilled
Italian sausage, olives, cherry tomatoes

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and then it's all kind of

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served together in a light tomato

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bulka cream sauce.

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So it's pasta dish.

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Very kind of different
and really tasty as well.

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You got the half roast chicken

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pad Thai to fancy something
a bit kind of different.

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You can have a tuna noodle bowl.

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And they also do
the Korean Fried rice bowls as well.

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Vegetarian vegan option
is the pumpkin and squash ravioli.

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So you can also get sort of different
sandwiches as well there.

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So they do a pork belly,

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one that's kind
of like an Asian sort of pork belly one.

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And they do a Chipotle, a chicken wrap

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and also a chicken sandwich
as well, drinks.

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And they do some really kind of cool.

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So she can some nonalcoholic drinks.

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She can do a mango lassi.

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You can do a chocolate strawberry lassi,
which is really cool as well.

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And the Coca-Cola freestyle
machines, there aren't any in here.

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So if you do have those, you won't be
asked to use some moisture in here.

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Unfortunately, you can get a milkshake

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if you want to do a fruit slush as well,
which is really nice.

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It's a nice way of taking some time

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away from walking around the theme park.

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Sit down.

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You know, this is an hour and a half,
maybe 2 hours out of your day to sit down,

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chill out, relax,
let those feet relax a little bit.

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You have walked around the
theme parks a lot are also

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if you get so get used
to the time difference as well.

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I wouldn't put this on your first day
because when you try to get used

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the time difference, your body's a bit
messed up and so is when you're hungry.

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You probably do actually know
when you're going to be hungry.

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So try and book it for
maybe you'll let your second or third day

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that you're going to be at Universal

00;21;03;01 - 00;21;03;29
just means that you're going

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to have time
to get used to the time difference.

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Most people do universally,
if they're doing a twin, send

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to the Do Universal
and then go to Walt Disney World

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to explain in their podcast
the reasons behind that.

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So for me, this is a great restroom
and something where you can go

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in, everyone can have something
a bit different

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compared to what they would kind of
like the normal kind of theme park food

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and honestly get to sit down
and relax as well.

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Lastly, and by definitely no means this
because this restaurant

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is constantly voted as the best theme park

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restaurant in the world is mythos.

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This is in the loss concern area,
which is really cool.

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Apart the theme park.

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I really like it.
It's not a huge man to do round there now.

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They kind of shut down
some of the attractions

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I really, really like,
like a big area over there

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and I think that's the reason
why the last concert still there.

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Good for Sister.

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That is where Greek
mythology comes to life.

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The food
there as well is a nice combination.

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A mix of Mediterranean,
Asian and American food as well.

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Is the theming in
there is absolutely stunning.

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This is one of the restaurants
that we always try and go to.

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It's obviously too

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expensive for a table service restaurant,
especially in the theme park.

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And especially voted the best
one in the world.

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You'd think it'd be a lot more expensive
than it actually is.

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Not cheap by any stretch imagination,
but it's not overly expensive

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and I really, really love it.

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Let's have a little look at
what is on the menu when you go to mythos.

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So for the starters, the appetizers, we've

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got some amazing lamb meatballs.

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This calamari,
you got the sushi, the Katsu sushi.

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There's hummus as well.

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Grilled octopus.

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Expect
to see grilled octopus in the finger pop.

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Probably not.

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They got a messy platter
as well as this hummus and barbacoa news.

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I'm fano and some pisser as well.

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Really cold soup.

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You can have a nice soup to start with.

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She can have like a Tuscan tomato soup.

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Or you can do the the chef's
signature Greek salad or the the wedge.

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So it's the iceberg lettuce way.

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Two different things inside it.

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Now you can actually add a a soup

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or a the the romaine salad to your mains.

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How about as a side
as opposed to having as an as a starter.

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So let's go for some of the starters.

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So you got things up
the spinach and garlic ravioli,

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you got

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the roasted chicken, the beef loin
medallions are really nice.

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You got couscous bowls as well.

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So this week I like you can have tofu
or you can have

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lamb kebab,
you can have beef kebab as well.

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See scallops.

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The catch of the day.
And this is at market price.

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We don't really have this in the UK,
but market prices,

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because the food is going to be different
every single day is

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you actually know what the food's good,
but the price is going to be.

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So you need to ask your server
what it's going to be raised.

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LAMB Shank is one of the really,
really nice things that I had.

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The pad Thai, the pork chop wild salmon.

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You can have the signature lamb burger,
the summit, grilled

00;24;08;28 - 00;24;13;16
chicken sandwich, all amazing dishes.

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The other thing you remember,
of course, is when you are in any table

00;24;17;09 - 00;24;20;15
service restaurant is you going to have
obviously whatever the price is.

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So, for example,
something like the lamb burger is $21.

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But if you were paying that, you actually
were paying 21 of those one needs.

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So stacks on top of that.

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And then you need to add on your tipsy
gratuities as well.

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So rough road I found quite easily.

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Just add 25% on top
then you've overestimated it.

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That's roughly going to be
how much he would pay

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as a 20 to 25% on top thing and how much
you're going to tip basically in here.

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You can also get one of those mango
lasses, me a caravan.

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I said these are all nonalcoholic
ones as well.

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So there are absolutely
some amazing places to go to.

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When you go to islands for a venture.

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A lot of people think that the
that the food a universal

00;25;02;22 - 00;25;05;20
is just being pub food is not a hoax of.

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We have changed your mind

00;25;07;12 - 00;25;11;07
a little bit about that and you can see
that there are so many different places

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to go and eat when you go to Universal's
Islands of Adventure Hold.

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He found that really interesting
and I really hope that now

00;25;18;04 - 00;25;20;06
you're going to go and try out
some of these amazing restaurants

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when you go to Universal
was on the adventure.

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you want to get in touch with us, please
visit our website.

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All the website details are in the show
notes or visit Orlandoinsider.co.uk

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That's Orlandoinsider.co.uk

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Thank you
much for listening and have a much cooler.