Coral Reef Restaurant

The Coral Reef Restaurant is a themed seafood restaurant in The Seas with Nemo & Friends, which is located in Epcot's Future World. One entire wall of the restaurant consists of a glass window that is eight inches thick and that provides a view into an aquarium. 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. Artist Kim Minichiello painted the underwater scene that appears on the restaurant's menu covers. 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 and the Chocolate Wave Cake. One reviewer from The Guardian compares the Coral Reef Restaurant to the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant in Disney's Hollywood Studios, writing that both restaurants "are great settings" where "eating is awful." In The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2015, Bob Sehlinger, Liliane Opsomer, and Len Testa call the Coral Reef Restaurant one of the two most overpriced restaurants in Epcot, the other being Monsieur Paul. In Pauline Frommer's Walt Disney World and Orlando, Jason Cochran writes of his experience of the Coral Reef Restaurant, saying, "I had some of the worst food in my life... although the setting rocks." In Beyond the Attractions: A Guide to Walt Disney World with Preschoolers, Lisa Battista calls the aquarium view "incredible".