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Old 06-27-2009, 08:12 AM   #1
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Coral Reef

Anyone have a good meal at Coral Reef lately? Just wondering...
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Anyone have a good meal at Coral Reef lately? Just wondering...
We eat there almost every trip. I will say that we have had better luck at lunch rather than dinner.
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We had lunch there on 6/19 and it was very good. DH & FIL had the blackened catfish and MIL had the grilled mahi mahi. I'm not much of a seafood person, so I opted for the caesar salad with grilled chicken breast. Also had the chocolate wave for dessert & it was yummy as always
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We had a wonderful dinner there last May and now, Coral Reef is a "must do" for our next trip!
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I'm trying to decide between Coral Reef and Rose and Crown...Coral Reef seems nicer, but I like that you can see the fireworks from Rose and Crown...so who knows?
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I haven't been to the Coral Reef since our 2006 trip but we usually go once a trip and never had a bad meal there.
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We went for the first time in Aug of 08. The food was okay but the service was awful. This was at dinner.
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We ate there in May at lunch time and the food was great and the service was good. This was our first time at Coral Reef and we will eat there again.
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I had a wonderful meal there (lunch) last October. The food was amazing and my waiter was fabulous. He saw that I had a bunch of pins on my lanyard, we chatted about them for a minute and when he came back he gave me the tinkerbell pin they were giving out for the "year of a million dreams" promo. I'm going back this Oct for sure.
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We ate there for lunch in May and it was wonderful.......the online menu had a lobster salad on it and we all wanted to try it so we added on a last minute ADR and we were so thrilled to get it....well, they changed that offering the week we were there and the offering now was a lobster ravioli...never had that so we thought to give it a try...it was delicious...I think that it was my favorite meal that week.......service was wonderful...actually, our server told the chef that we had made our ADRs because of the lobster salad....the chef came out to our table when the dessert was served and asked our opinions of the new offering....of course. we all really loved it and he was happy to hear that.......we had first tier seating... so, it was an excellent meal. rella
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I hope its as good for our first trip there in Sept
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We went there in May and both my daughter and I thought that it was too pricey for the tiny portions you get. I order the lobster bisque with lobster salad. It was just a tiny cup of soup and the salad, i thought it would actually be a salad made with lettuce, vegetables, etc. but it was only a bit of lobster with mayonnaise
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We ate there in Dec. '07 and thought it was okay. I liked the appetizer and the dessert. The main entree wasn't bad, but it wasn't spectacular either. I'd certainlt go again for the yummy chocolate wave.
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We had a good dinner there.
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