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

00;00;00;13 - 00;00;04;08 There are so many amazing restaurants at Universal's Islands of Adventure, 00;00;04;14 - 00;00;07;16 located next door to the Universal Studios, Florida. 00;00;07;17 - 00;00;11;12 This amazing theme park has some of the best places for breakfast 00;00;11;15 - 00;00;16;03 and the attractions quick service restaurants and even what is usually voted 00;00;16;03 - 00;00;19;22 the best restaurant in a theme park in the world. 00;00;19;23 - 00;00;21;12 So stay tuned as we cover 00;00;21;12 - 00;00;25;02 the top five restaurants at Universal's Islands of Adventure. 00;00;25;04 - 00;00;28;15 So before we start getting into the top five, I'm going to share with you 00;00;28;15 - 00;00;29;26 some amazing tips 00;00;29;26 - 00;00;33;14 that I hope to give to save you some time and also a little bit of money as well. 00;00;33;17 - 00;00;36;28 Now, my first tip is at the quick service restaurants, and these are 00;00;36;28 - 00;00;39;29 the ones where you go up in order and then you go and grab your food. 00;00;39;29 - 00;00;42;17 So it's like the MacDonalds KFC sort of style. 00;00;42;17 - 00;00;45;28 Restaurants don't think the easiest could be McDonald's and KFC kind of food. 00;00;45;28 - 00;00;49;02 There are some really great places he was going to cover a bit later on. 00;00;49;02 - 00;00;54;25 But share when you are at a quick service restaurant, share all your food out. 00;00;54;27 - 00;00;56;26 I call this Americans happiness. 00;00;56;26 - 00;01;01;04 This is basically where you get a load of different things and you put them 00;01;01;07 - 00;01;04;07 into the center of the table and everyone just picks at it. 00;01;04;08 - 00;01;08;11 Instead of this one person having, you know, the turkey sandwich up 00;01;08;18 - 00;01;12;25 into the center, this person's got a pizza cut up into the center. 00;01;12;25 - 00;01;17;00 This person's gone for like a chicken and ribs. Sit. 00;01;17;00 - 00;01;20;19 There's quite a few of you go, either three or four or more of you go. 00;01;20;21 - 00;01;25;18 You can quite easily just do this a much easier way 00;01;25;20 - 00;01;28;01 of just turning into American Taphouse. 00;01;28;01 - 00;01;31;11 So this is what we always do when we go is a great way of also trying 00;01;31;11 - 00;01;33;02 lots of different things because sometimes, 00;01;33;02 - 00;01;36;27 you know, you do some thinking, you go, I wish I did that. 00;01;36;29 - 00;01;39;03 So it's a much better way of doing it. 00;01;39;03 - 00;01;43;20 Now this brings me on to my next tip, and this is also for quick service 00;01;43;25 - 00;01;47;24 restaurants as well, and that is to mobile order in peak 00;01;47;27 - 00;01;51;18 times, Easter, Christmas, that kind of time you can be queuing 00;01;51;21 - 00;01;54;26 to all your food at quick service restaurant and getting it 00;01;54;29 - 00;01;57;10 by, even take just as long as going on the right. 00;01;57;10 - 00;02;00;02 You can take absolutely ages to do this 00;02;00;02 - 00;02;02;12 and then you got go via table is going to stuff 00;02;02;12 - 00;02;06;27 mobile order split up as well do the mobile ordering outside the restaurant 00;02;06;27 - 00;02;09;27 unless you want actually have a look at the menu up on the top. 00;02;09;29 - 00;02;11;10 Just do it on your phone. 00;02;11;10 - 00;02;15;00 Do it five times as you're walking along actually to go to the restaurant 00;02;15;05 - 00;02;19;19 to on there just to download the universal Orlando app 00;02;19;22 - 00;02;20;18 for your order. 00;02;20;18 - 00;02;23;04 And then you just turn up, you show your phone, it comes, 00;02;23;04 - 00;02;26;06 it tells you when, when it's ready, you show your phone and that's it. 00;02;26;06 - 00;02;27;05 You go to pick up. 00;02;27;05 - 00;02;30;03 The rest of the people in your group can go find a table, 00;02;30;03 - 00;02;31;28 and then a couple of minutes later you'll be there 00;02;31;28 - 00;02;35;16 with all the food of see if they've got all food you might need. 00;02;35;16 - 00;02;37;04 So a two for people to carry, right? 00;02;37;04 - 00;02;38;11 So they can kind of work that out. 00;02;38;11 - 00;02;40;13 But you don't all need to go up to come pick it up. 00;02;40;13 - 00;02;44;05 This then brings me onto my next tip as well, 00;02;44;05 - 00;02;47;06 is if you do actually want to have individuals in. 00;02;47;06 - 00;02;49;28 So sharing them out, look at the kids meals. 00;02;49;28 - 00;02;50;11 Now, kids 00;02;50;11 - 00;02;54;24 meals are meant to be for nine years old and below, but by mobile ordering, 00;02;54;26 - 00;02;59;08 you circumnavigate those awkward questions that you might get. 00;02;59;09 - 00;03;04;15 So, for example, if you were a group of adults, all for example, 00;03;04;15 - 00;03;07;16 you're a family of four, but the kids are a bit older, the teenagers. 00;03;07;21 - 00;03;09;20 So clearly not a nine years old. 00;03;09;20 - 00;03;11;29 Now the teenagers are probably adults, males. 00;03;11;29 - 00;03;15;22 But if you really think like me, you probably just want to have 00;03;15;24 - 00;03;16;24 just the kids meals. 00;03;16;24 - 00;03;20;21 It gets so hot and humid in Orlando that 00;03;20;21 - 00;03;24;06 actually all I want is a small kids meal. 00;03;24;06 - 00;03;26;00 I want the bigger drink, 00;03;26;00 - 00;03;29;19 but I don't want all the extra and the stuff that comes with an adult male. 00;03;29;21 - 00;03;32;02 Try where I can to order the kids meals. 00;03;32;02 - 00;03;34;29 And you can do this if you work of mixing it in. 00;03;34;29 - 00;03;37;06 So instead of for example, 00;03;37;09 - 00;03;39;24 if there's four of you that should be ordering adult males. 00;03;39;24 - 00;03;43;27 Actually, if two, you want to order kids meals or if you want to order kids 00;03;43;27 - 00;03;46;27 meals, as long as one adult male is going free when you go and pick it up, 00;03;47;03 - 00;03;49;19 no one's going to bat an eyelid and question it. 00;03;49;19 - 00;03;52;27 So that is my top tip is smaller portions 00;03;52;28 - 00;03;56;22 or for a set beforehand share, either 00;03;56;24 - 00;04;01;15 share one may adult male between two people or cut it out, 00;04;01;15 - 00;04;05;19 put it all in the center table and do your American style stereotypes. 00;04;05;23 - 00;04;08;28 Okay, So I would kind of cut off some of the tips. 00;04;08;28 - 00;04;11;19 Let's move on to the restaurants now. 00;04;11;19 - 00;04;14;26 The first restaurant we're going to do is for breakfast. 00;04;14;26 - 00;04;16;15 This is open for the rest of the day. 00;04;16;15 - 00;04;19;12 But this is really the place that you kind of go to for breakfast. 00;04;19;12 - 00;04;23;22 Pretty much no hotels in Orlando or in America for that kind of 00;04;23;24 - 00;04;26;01 inclu breakfast is a few that doing the breakfast 00;04;26;01 - 00;04;27;16 but pretty much most from doing to breakfast. 00;04;27;16 - 00;04;31;17 So you're going to need something now where we're going to recommend just take 00;04;31;19 - 00;04;34;11 you know get some belvita that kind of stuff 00;04;34;11 - 00;04;36;21 and put them and just have them in the room. 00;04;36;21 - 00;04;41;14 What a lot of people do is when they arrive, they do an ubereats delivery 00;04;41;17 - 00;04;43;28 where they go and bring all your grocery deliveries 00;04;43;28 - 00;04;46;23 and then you use in your hotel room 00;04;46;23 - 00;04;51;05 and then you've got like a load of drink and snacks and breakfast items. 00;04;51;05 - 00;04;53;14 But if you haven't had breakfast that morning 00;04;53;14 - 00;04;56;06 because you want to get there super easy, especially if you're staying on site 00;04;56;06 - 00;04;58;02 and you've got that extra hour in the park. 00;04;58;02 - 00;05;02;10 What I personally would do for extra magic time in the book is I would go 00;05;02;10 - 00;05;05;22 and use the extra hour, go to the back of the park, 00;05;05;29 - 00;05;09;16 go and do the rides as we're going to do Velocicoaster go and do Hagrid's 00;05;09;16 - 00;05;09;29 get in the car. 00;05;09;29 - 00;05;11;25 Each of those was accuser match 00;05;11;25 - 00;05;15;16 and the shooter then circled back and then have breakfast afterwards. 00;05;15;16 - 00;05;17;12 That is my pro-tip for that croissant. 00;05;17;12 - 00;05;20;22 Moon bakery is at the ports of entry, so it's kind of pretty 00;05;20;23 - 00;05;25;09 much as you walk into the park and they have some amazing danishes, 00;05;25;11 - 00;05;30;04 you will smell it as you walk past the Danish is really, really lovely. 00;05;30;04 - 00;05;33;13 When you go inside that again, you can do the mobile ordering on that. 00;05;33;19 - 00;05;38;18 But I do kind of fun with someone like the bakery because sometimes 00;05;38;18 - 00;05;42;07 you want to see it because you'll look at it and go, Wow, looks pretty safe. 00;05;42;07 - 00;05;43;17 I'm going to have one of those as well. 00;05;43;17 - 00;05;45;13 So it might just be a case of actually 00;05;45;13 - 00;05;47;28 with this one, unless there is going to be a big queue. 00;05;47;28 - 00;05;52;18 Generally they're kind of isn't just go in and just do it all on the app. 00;05;52;18 - 00;05;56;26 You can go there in the morning and they do some really, really nice 00;05;56;26 - 00;06;01;09 breakfast options so you can go and have different kind of pastries. 00;06;01;13 - 00;06;03;06 But they also do the filled croissants as well. 00;06;03;06 - 00;06;06;23 So you can get like a ham, egg and cheese croissant. 00;06;06;25 - 00;06;09;08 You can get a bacon, egg and cheese croissant. 00;06;09;08 - 00;06;11;02 Second, depends how you like it. 00;06;11;02 - 00;06;14;02 If you want bacon or you want a ham, or you can get them. 00;06;14;03 - 00;06;15;20 But I'm empanada. 00;06;15;20 - 00;06;17;02 Empanada I can never pronounce it. 00;06;17;02 - 00;06;21;07 Proper is a story of my friend outstation and these are all about $8. 00;06;21;12 - 00;06;24;12 So that's kind of like a nice way to sort of set up days to get sort of 00;06;24;14 - 00;06;26;04 something like that. You can sit down in there. 00;06;26;04 - 00;06;30;25 They also do like an on the run concepts of breakfast, which is a fruit cup. 00;06;30;28 - 00;06;33;16 So you can get a bit of fruit in bulk, you get a Danish 00;06;33;16 - 00;06;36;16 or a muffin and you will get a breakfast drink as well. 00;06;36;16 - 00;06;41;10 So that's kind of quite good, I guess about $10 and just like a drink on its own 00;06;41;10 - 00;06;46;14 is pretty kind of expensive, like a fruit cup on the road for just under $5. 00;06;46;21 - 00;06;48;15 So it's kind of quite good to that 00;06;48;15 - 00;06;51;27 later in the day to they switch over to sandwiches. 00;06;51;27 - 00;06;55;10 No, the sandwiches are served with a potato salad 00;06;55;16 - 00;06;58;19 and some seasonal fruit as well because of was it. 00;06;58;19 - 00;07;04;09 That's quite expensive because they're about 13, 14, $14.50 for a sandwich. 00;07;04;09 - 00;07;08;24 But when you add in the salad and they are massive, massive sandwiches. 00;07;08;29 - 00;07;12;22 So don't think that you need to have a one sandwich between you. 00;07;12;22 - 00;07;14;07 Again, you just kind of up 00;07;14;07 - 00;07;18;03 and just share the sandwich so you can get a Italian sandwich. 00;07;18;03 - 00;07;23;20 The ultimate sandwich is turkey ham, roast beef, Swiss cheese, get the hot 00;07;23;20 - 00;07;26;23 turkey platters as turkey 00;07;26;23 - 00;07;31;02 and cheese and bacon and the areola as well. 00;07;31;06 - 00;07;32;24 And that's really, really nice. 00;07;32;24 - 00;07;37;26 And again, these ones are kind of like really cool, too, to share. 00;07;37;28 - 00;07;40;25 So what you might do is one of you gets the turkey one, 00;07;40;25 - 00;07;43;25 one of you gets the other one, cut it in half, then have half each. 00;07;43;27 - 00;07;46;04 Pretty much all of these quick service restaurants are going to do 00;07;46;04 - 00;07;49;29 is you can either buy a fountain drink, so that's like just a one off 00;07;50;02 - 00;07;51;22 Coke, Coke zero or that kind of thing. 00;07;51;22 - 00;07;56;26 And they're about $4.20 4.30 for one of those. 00;07;56;28 - 00;08;01;24 Or you can get the the freestyle souvenir cup. 00;08;01;26 - 00;08;03;13 One of those is $19. 00;08;03;13 - 00;08;06;20 We have all these prices need to add sales tax on top of them as well. 00;08;06;23 - 00;08;09;18 But more important, you're going to get a limited refills 00;08;09;18 - 00;08;13;17 throughout the day in that cup and you can buy more cups as well. 00;08;13;17 - 00;08;17;24 So if you buy two cups, it brings the price down to about $17. 00;08;18;01 - 00;08;22;13 If you buy 3 to 6 cups, it brings down to about $15 per cup. 00;08;22;16 - 00;08;23;17 You don't need a cup each. 00;08;23;17 - 00;08;26;05 You can share them if you really want to. 00;08;26;05 - 00;08;28;14 And there's loads of places you can get. 00;08;28;14 - 00;08;29;23 They've got the freestyle machine. 00;08;29;23 - 00;08;31;29 So it's the the ones that you might have seen in 00;08;31;29 - 00;08;34;26 five guys, put them in this over a hundred different drinks 00;08;34;26 - 00;08;39;08 that you can get in there are really good when you think about it, 00;08;39;10 - 00;08;41;00 the more money you're going to spend, 00;08;41;00 - 00;08;45;16 if you get to spend $4.50, you get to have another drink within an hour at least. 00;08;45;23 - 00;08;47;02 So warm over that. 00;08;47;02 - 00;08;48;18 So he is worth doing that. 00;08;48;18 - 00;08;52;08 Now what you can do is you can recharge that freestyle cup 00;08;52;10 - 00;08;55;09 the next day whenever you want, basically. 00;08;55;09 - 00;08;57;27 And that is just $12 to do that. 00;08;57;27 - 00;08;59;29 So you don't need to buy new cups every single day. 00;08;59;29 - 00;09;03;07 So that's kind of a good way to reactivate in that it brings down the price. 00;09;03;09 - 00;09;05;16 That is the croissant bakery. 00;09;05;16 - 00;09;08;14 Let's move on to Thunder Falls Terrace. 00;09;08;14 - 00;09;13;21 So this is located in the Jurassic Park Jurassic World area. 00;09;13;21 - 00;09;17;24 It has an amazing view of the Jurassic Park River. 00;09;17;24 - 00;09;18;22 Right. 00;09;18;22 - 00;09;21;01 And you can watch it absolutely soaked. 00;09;21;01 - 00;09;24;10 It does have a terrace, as the name explains. 00;09;24;16 - 00;09;26;23 It is slightly heated. 00;09;26;25 - 00;09;27;26 It's not necessarily always 00;09;27;26 - 00;09;32;05 like the most popular, but I think is one of the best places to eat. 00;09;32;07 - 00;09;34;10 Really big portions there. 00;09;34;10 - 00;09;36;03 So again, this is somewhere that you can go 00;09;36;03 - 00;09;40;15 and you can share a meal while you're there. 00;09;40;17 - 00;09;44;02 You can sit outside the set and look at the at the ride. 00;09;44;02 - 00;09;47;11 She's got really nice tropical kind of feel to it. 00;09;47;14 - 00;09;49;04 So what's on the menu? 00;09;49;04 - 00;09;52;20 It's all barbecue once you're inside so you can get things 00;09;52;20 - 00;09;57;06 that the child cooled ribs you can get the chicken and ribs platter 00;09;57;09 - 00;09;59;29 and they do do rice bowls, which is which is nice. 00;09;59;29 - 00;10;02;06 And they also do the meatless, too. Right. 00;10;02;06 - 00;10;07;21 So as well, there's a wings combo, those half roast chickens, 00;10;07;26 - 00;10;11;07 Rizzo salads as well as you can have a rotisserie chicken salad 00;10;11;09 - 00;10;15;25 lots of different choice if you do let barbecue is a great place to come to it. 00;10;15;25 - 00;10;18;07 One of the only places where you can do combos. 00;10;18;07 - 00;10;19;21 So this is where you're going to get your meal 00;10;19;21 - 00;10;22;27 and then a drink and the drink is going to be not Coca 00;10;22;27 - 00;10;25;28 Cola drink, it's going to be a milkshake and the all good milkshakes. 00;10;26;05 - 00;10;29;22 So we've spent like the chicken and ribs 00;10;29;22 - 00;10;33;22 that on its own says rotisserie chicken and also ribs. 00;10;33;25 - 00;10;36;25 That is normally about 18.50 on its own. 00;10;36;28 - 00;10;39;12 And the milkshakes about $7. 00;10;39;12 - 00;10;45;22 So you're looking at $25.50 in total to have the Sufis give it each one 00;10;45;23 - 00;10;49;00 separately or buy them as a combo and it's 20 free dollars. 00;10;49;00 - 00;10;52;27 So you're saving sort of $2.2 50 by doing it as a combo. 00;10;52;27 - 00;10;54;29 And they already give milkshakes. 00;10;54;29 - 00;10;57;09 So it is something to kind of think about actually, 00;10;57;09 - 00;10;59;04 if you want to have a massive meal. 00;10;59;04 - 00;11;02;03 What some people do is don't have breakfast, 00;11;02;03 - 00;11;06;06 they have a massive because this could be a very protein heavy kind of meal. 00;11;06;06 - 00;11;08;21 And, you know, the things that kind of come with it, 00;11;08;21 - 00;11;10;20 they're going to weigh you down a little bit as well. 00;11;10;20 - 00;11;13;23 So if you are having, for example, that chicken 00;11;13;23 - 00;11;17;01 and ribs platter, so that's a rotisserie chicken. 00;11;17;03 - 00;11;19;02 The ribs are in the barbecue glaze. 00;11;19;02 - 00;11;21;10 You've got roast, according to us, got potatoes as well. 00;11;21;10 - 00;11;23;27 It's a very heavy lunch to have. 00;11;23;27 - 00;11;25;21 She might want to have that as a lunch 00;11;25;21 - 00;11;28;19 and then probably might probably get away with just having a snack later 00;11;28;19 - 00;11;29;25 on if you don't have as much, 00;11;29;25 - 00;11;33;11 which means that you can't treat yourself at that milkshake as well. 00;11;33;11 - 00;11;35;16 So really good place to go. 00;11;35;16 - 00;11;39;09 And again, you can do mobile ordering at this restaurant. 00;11;39;11 - 00;11;41;20 Really nice salads as well as free fall kind of thing. 00;11;41;20 - 00;11;44;14 If not everyone wants to have 00;11;44;17 - 00;11;46;11 something quite as heavy. 00;11;46;11 - 00;11;51;05 You can also go for the for the salads is that they do to beer as well 00;11;51;05 - 00;11;54;05 so you can get draft big cans of beer 00;11;54;07 - 00;11;57;22 and they do the harmonica, the sauces, 00;11;57;24 - 00;12;01;28 the juice, the focus hoses, the BlackBerry lemonade, one. 00;12;02;03 - 00;12;03;21 And they also do wine there as well. 00;12;03;21 - 00;12;08;19 So you can kind of sit there and half your pub food and have a nice chill out. 00;12;08;26 - 00;12;14;09 You should do a broke as well, which is a chocolate chip cookie filled brownie. 00;12;14;12 - 00;12;17;06 I get I mean, if you've got space after having one 00;12;17;06 - 00;12;20;20 of those rotisserie chickens, it's pretty big. 00;12;20;26 - 00;12;21;20 Then. 00;12;21;20 - 00;12;22;01 Yeah. 00;12;22;01 - 00;12;24;15 This, this is being like a good place to go. 00;12;24;15 - 00;12;26;00 See if you can fit it in. 00;12;26;00 - 00;12;29;01 Next up, no list of the best quick service restaurants 00;12;29;04 - 00;12;32;04 in a theme park would be complete without the free broomsticks. 00;12;32;08 - 00;12;34;08 If you're a fan of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, 00;12;34;08 - 00;12;37;22 this is definitely a place that you're going to go and want to go and eat. 00;12;37;27 - 00;12;40;12 So you step into the free broomsticks. 00;12;40;12 - 00;12;42;24 You are like being in hoax meet. 00;12;42;24 - 00;12;46;15 It's is such a good of a cool restaurant to go into. 00;12;46;15 - 00;12;48;29 Just the theming alone is worth just popping into. 00;12;48;29 - 00;12;50;25 And if you don't actually like the food on the menu 00;12;50;25 - 00;12;52;22 just to go and have a little look around. 00;12;52;22 - 00;12;54;10 Now quite interesting for this places. 00;12;54;10 - 00;12;56;03 They also do breakfast as well. 00;12;56;03 - 00;12;59;24 Breakfast is about $18 for an adult and $13 for a child. 00;12;59;24 - 00;13;02;00 So child is nine Orinda 00;13;02;00 - 00;13;04;21 And there's quite a few different sort of choices to go for. 00;13;04;21 - 00;13;09;25 They do things like a porridge breakfast, which is steamed oats with fresh fruit 00;13;09;25 - 00;13;13;25 and a croissant, and you can get continental breakfast, fresh fruit 00;13;13;26 - 00;13;18;15 in the croissant and jams, get pancakes, but also you can get a 00;13;18;18 - 00;13;22;24 and this is in vertical most traditional English breakfast. 00;13;22;24 - 00;13;26;03 So if you are kind of missing your subject and things like that, 00;13;26;05 - 00;13;29;04 it's sausage links, not what we would consider a sausages, 00;13;29;04 - 00;13;32;04 but they do have black pudding and have English bacon 00;13;32;09 - 00;13;35;03 has the American saw bacon and there was a baked beans, 00;13;35;03 - 00;13;40;09 grilled tomato and mushrooms and breakfast potatoes as well. 00;13;40;10 - 00;13;41;11 We haven't quite kind of 00;13;41;11 - 00;13;45;02 got the hang of it completely, but it's the same price, everything. 00;13;45;02 - 00;13;49;07 So if I'm lucky they're thinking right, I'm going to pay $18 for that traditional 00;13;49;07 - 00;13;52;27 English breakfast, or I can get some oats 00;13;52;29 - 00;13;55;10 with some fresh fruit and a croissant. 00;13;55;10 - 00;13;55;25 It's a fake. 00;13;55;25 - 00;13;58;13 I'm definitely going to probably going to go for the 00;13;58;13 - 00;14;00;03 for the traditional English breakfast. 00;14;00;03 - 00;14;03;13 Breakfast is served in so 1030 each morning. 00;14;03;16 - 00;14;06;14 So again, if you're doing the early theme park entry, 00;14;06;14 - 00;14;08;16 you can get in, go into the park early, 00;14;08;16 - 00;14;10;08 and then you can go and have breakfast afterwards. 00;14;10;08 - 00;14;11;01 So you don't going to 00;14;11;01 - 00;14;15;08 have to rush straight for that because no one wants to see that food again 00;14;15;11 - 00;14;18;21 by doing that and then going on to hike race or into Velocicoaster. 00;14;18;21 - 00;14;22;21 So yeah, for lunch and for dinner, some of it's a bit similar 00;14;22;21 - 00;14;26;06 to what you can get over in the A in the fall. 00;14;26;06 - 00;14;29;14 So you can do like a chicken and ribs platter again to do 00;14;29;21 - 00;14;32;29 traditional English food as well as fish and chips. 00;14;32;29 - 00;14;38;25 Of course, Barry will be shepherd's pie with a salad, beef patties. 00;14;38;25 - 00;14;42;05 They do a half roast chicken, they do smoked 00;14;42;05 - 00;14;46;12 turkey legs, not really an English thing, but apparently is 00;14;46;14 - 00;14;48;04 then also do a 00;14;48;04 - 00;14;51;13 mushroom pie pasta as well as is the vegan option. 00;14;51;15 - 00;14;52;22 It's actually really, really nice. 00;14;52;22 - 00;14;55;13 And they do quite a few salads. Also a kids meals. 00;14;55;13 - 00;14;59;02 The kids meal is fish and chips, chicken legs, 00;14;59;04 - 00;15;02;04 chicken fingers or macaroni cheese. 00;15;02;04 - 00;15;08;01 What you can do and this is not going to be in any way vegetarian or vegan. 00;15;08;03 - 00;15;12;13 So if you are either of those, then this is not for you. 00;15;12;16 - 00;15;13;20 But you can do the great fish. 00;15;13;20 - 00;15;14;13 So you can be a bit 00;15;14;13 - 00;15;18;16 like in the Harry Potter films where they're having the great feast 00;15;18;18 - 00;15;21;04 and you can have your own great feast. 00;15;21;04 - 00;15;22;00 The first course 00;15;22;00 - 00;15;26;02 is going to be a fresh garden salad and it's got a really nice being. 00;15;26;02 - 00;15;27;14 You're at dressing on top. 00;15;27;14 - 00;15;31;14 And then the main course is a combination of rotisserie chicken, 00;15;31;17 - 00;15;34;24 spare ribs, corn on the cob and roast potato. 00;15;34;24 - 00;15;37;28 It's basically a bit like the chicken 00;15;38;04 - 00;15;41;16 and ribs platter that you're going to get here 00;15;41;21 - 00;15;45;24 or also in front of Terrace Falls, but on a supersize version. 00;15;45;24 - 00;15;46;25 And it works out cheaper 00;15;46;25 - 00;15;51;22 then it is meant to feed four people realistically for Americans. 00;15;51;27 - 00;15;56;20 So realistically, you can probably get five people who are quite easy. 00;15;56;25 - 00;16;00;05 It is maybe six actually set the you are a big group. 00;16;00;05 - 00;16;01;19 It's actually quite a good way of doing it, 00;16;01;19 - 00;16;04;18 but it does also mean everyone's going to be eating the same kind of stuff. 00;16;04;18 - 00;16;09;05 So it is a great way of just sort of sharing is also so much easier as well 00;16;09;05 - 00;16;11;06 because you just bring over this massive platter 00;16;11;06 - 00;16;15;15 and you do feel like the you are in the great Hall and you are 00;16;15;17 - 00;16;15;26 in the 00;16;15;26 - 00;16;18;25 Harry Potter film having this amazing feast. 00;16;19;00 - 00;16;22;15 Also, whilst here you can get yourself a nice bear if you want to. 00;16;22;16 - 00;16;25;27 They do nonalcoholic cider. 00;16;25;29 - 00;16;26;21 They do now. 00;16;26;21 - 00;16;30;12 This is actually my favorite thing is to do the pumpkin juice. 00;16;30;14 - 00;16;33;28 And pumpkin juice is absolutely delicious. 00;16;34;00 - 00;16;35;29 I would just have this all the time. 00;16;35;29 - 00;16;38;17 Is not on the go color freestyle unfortunately. 00;16;38;17 - 00;16;40;15 So is bit of shame. 00;16;40;15 - 00;16;41;09 In fact, actually 00;16;41;09 - 00;16;42;26 within the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, 00;16;42;26 - 00;16;46;11 you won't find any of the branded products. 00;16;46;12 - 00;16;50;10 You won't find any Coca-Cola products inside because they don't exist 00;16;50;10 - 00;16;51;15 in the Western world. 00;16;51;15 - 00;16;56;24 So in here you're going to have like jelly water, 00;16;56;26 - 00;17;02;26 you get the pumpkin juice, pumpkin fizz, lemonade and of course, butterbeer. 00;17;02;26 - 00;17;06;17 So you can have butterbeer, you can have frozen butterbeer 00;17;06;17 - 00;17;08;18 or you can have hot buttered beers is free. 00;17;08;18 - 00;17;10;28 Different ways of having butterbeer. 00;17;10;28 - 00;17;12;09 And it means you don't have to queue up. 00;17;12;09 - 00;17;15;21 But Butterbeer is kind of is quite filling. 00;17;15;23 - 00;17;18;09 I probably wouldn't have it with a meal unless I was having 00;17;18;09 - 00;17;21;10 a sort of a smaller kind of meal. 00;17;21;17 - 00;17;24;16 And then for desserts you can have boba a bit, 00;17;24;16 - 00;17;27;27 you can be ice cream, you can have a bit potted cream. 00;17;27;29 - 00;17;30;18 And they also have different ice creams and apple pies as well. 00;17;30;18 - 00;17;34;28 So plenty of different things that you can get yourself into in eating 00;17;35;01 - 00;17;39;11 whilst you are over in Hogsmeade see, and just go in for the feeding 00;17;39;11 - 00;17;43;22 if you don't want to even just go in for the fee because absolutely amazing. 00;17;43;25 - 00;17;46;26 Now we're done also for the quick service restaurants, 00;17;46;26 - 00;17;49;19 but let's move on to a table service restaurant. 00;17;49;19 - 00;17;54;15 So with this one you can make a reservation, an online in advance 00;17;54;15 - 00;17;58;18 if you want to is casual, so don't feel you have to get dressed up. 00;17;58;24 - 00;18;00;17 I mean, you are in a theme park. 00;18;00;17 - 00;18;02;01 So this is the cone 00;18;02;01 - 00;18;06;00 fiscal grill, I'm probably pronouncing it wrong is in port of entry. 00;18;06;00 - 00;18;08;15 So again, so close to the front of the theme park. 00;18;08;15 - 00;18;10;11 And there's quite a twist with this one. 00;18;10;11 - 00;18;13;27 So it's not just the same kind of food churns out. 00;18;13;27 - 00;18;17;22 Again, this quite a varied menu whilst you go here. 00;18;17;24 - 00;18;20;24 So it does mean that everyone kind of gets 00;18;20;26 - 00;18;24;07 something that they kind of kind of like it's much more varied than 00;18;24;10 - 00;18;28;04 is not just Italian food, it's not just a whatever kind of food. 00;18;28;11 - 00;18;31;04 It's it's kind of give you a bit of an example. 00;18;31;04 - 00;18;35;09 Some of the appetizers, the starters, you can have tuna 00;18;35;09 - 00;18;38;08 nachos, you can have wings, you can have quesadillas, 00;18;38;09 - 00;18;42;10 you can have a chicken wraps, you can have hummus. 00;18;42;13 - 00;18;46;20 Again, a variety of different kind of things for your main course. 00;18;46;20 - 00;18;49;16 She can have a superfood salad. 00;18;49;18 - 00;18;53;15 You can have the the remain a Caesar salad, 00;18;53;17 - 00;18;56;17 you can have chicken curry as well 00;18;56;17 - 00;18;58;14 as some of that spicy. It's a yellow curry. 00;18;58;14 - 00;19;01;20 Says you should look at that spice It was it comes with naan bread as well. 00;19;01;25 - 00;19;05;06 Really nice You can have sweet and sour sticky ribs. 00;19;05;09 - 00;19;08;19 Penny alla vodka is was very interesting. 00;19;08;19 - 00;19;14;25 So this is grilled Italian sausage, olives, cherry tomatoes 00;19;14;27 - 00;19;17;27 and then it's all kind of 00;19;17;29 - 00;19;20;16 served together in a light tomato 00;19;20;16 - 00;19;23;24 bulka cream sauce. 00;19;23;26 - 00;19;25;14 So it's pasta dish. 00;19;25;14 - 00;19;29;10 Very kind of different and really tasty as well. 00;19;29;13 - 00;19;31;25 You got the half roast chicken 00;19;31;25 - 00;19;35;08 pad Thai to fancy something a bit kind of different. 00;19;35;11 - 00;19;37;24 You can have a tuna noodle bowl. 00;19;37;24 - 00;19;41;19 And they also do the Korean Fried rice bowls as well. 00;19;41;21 - 00;19;45;16 Vegetarian vegan option is the pumpkin and squash ravioli. 00;19;45;16 - 00;19;50;03 So you can also get sort of different sandwiches as well there. 00;19;50;03 - 00;19;53;00 So they do a pork belly, 00;19;53;03 - 00;19;55;10 one that's kind of like an Asian sort of pork belly one. 00;19;55;10 - 00;19;58;10 And they do a Chipotle, a chicken wrap 00;19;58;10 - 00;20;01;19 and also a chicken sandwich as well, drinks. 00;20;01;19 - 00;20;02;29 And they do some really kind of cool. 00;20;02;29 - 00;20;04;26 So she can some nonalcoholic drinks. 00;20;04;26 - 00;20;07;10 She can do a mango lassi. 00;20;07;10 - 00;20;11;09 You can do a chocolate strawberry lassi, which is really cool as well. 00;20;11;12 - 00;20;15;03 And the Coca-Cola freestyle machines, there aren't any in here. 00;20;15;03 - 00;20;18;19 So if you do have those, you won't be asked to use some moisture in here. 00;20;18;20 - 00;20;20;16 Unfortunately, you can get a milkshake 00;20;20;16 - 00;20;24;13 if you want to do a fruit slush as well, which is really nice. 00;20;24;15 - 00;20;27;09 It's a nice way of taking some time 00;20;27;09 - 00;20;30;10 away from walking around the theme park. 00;20;30;10 - 00;20;31;06 Sit down. 00;20;31;06 - 00;20;35;07 You know, this is an hour and a half, maybe 2 hours out of your day to sit down, 00;20;35;07 - 00;20;39;21 chill out, relax, let those feet relax a little bit. 00;20;39;26 - 00;20;43;03 You have walked around the theme parks a lot are also 00;20;43;03 - 00;20;46;02 if you get so get used to the time difference as well. 00;20;46;04 - 00;20;49;28 I wouldn't put this on your first day because when you try to get used 00;20;49;28 - 00;20;54;09 the time difference, your body's a bit messed up and so is when you're hungry. 00;20;54;09 - 00;20;56;11 You probably do actually know when you're going to be hungry. 00;20;56;11 - 00;20;59;25 So try and book it for maybe you'll let your second or third day 00;21;00;03 - 00;21;02;28 that you're going to be at Universal 00;21;03;01 - 00;21;03;29 just means that you're going 00;21;03;29 - 00;21;06;28 to have time to get used to the time difference. 00;21;07;03 - 00;21;09;27 Most people do universally, if they're doing a twin, send 00;21;09;27 - 00;21;13;26 to the Do Universal and then go to Walt Disney World 00;21;13;26 - 00;21;17;01 to explain in their podcast the reasons behind that. 00;21;17;01 - 00;21;20;03 So for me, this is a great restroom and something where you can go 00;21;20;03 - 00;21;23;03 in, everyone can have something a bit different 00;21;23;06 - 00;21;26;06 compared to what they would kind of like the normal kind of theme park food 00;21;26;09 - 00;21;29;09 and honestly get to sit down and relax as well. 00;21;29;09 - 00;21;33;02 Lastly, and by definitely no means this because this restaurant 00;21;33;06 - 00;21;36;05 is constantly voted as the best theme park 00;21;36;05 - 00;21;39;05 restaurant in the world is mythos. 00;21;39;07 - 00;21;43;04 This is in the loss concern area, which is really cool. 00;21;43;07 - 00;21;44;10 Apart the theme park. 00;21;44;10 - 00;21;46;23 I really like it. It's not a huge man to do round there now. 00;21;46;23 - 00;21;48;28 They kind of shut down some of the attractions 00;21;48;28 - 00;21;51;19 I really, really like, like a big area over there 00;21;51;19 - 00;21;53;22 and I think that's the reason why the last concert still there. 00;21;53;22 - 00;21;54;15 Good for Sister. 00;21;54;15 - 00;21;58;15 That is where Greek mythology comes to life. 00;21;58;18 - 00;22;01;07 The food there as well is a nice combination. 00;22;01;07 - 00;22;05;15 A mix of Mediterranean, Asian and American food as well. 00;22;05;17 - 00;22;08;07 Is the theming in there is absolutely stunning. 00;22;08;07 - 00;22;12;22 This is one of the restaurants that we always try and go to. 00;22;12;25 - 00;22;13;13 It's obviously too 00;22;13;13 - 00;22;16;15 expensive for a table service restaurant, especially in the theme park. 00;22;16;15 - 00;22;19;05 And especially voted the best one in the world. 00;22;19;05 - 00;22;21;17 You'd think it'd be a lot more expensive than it actually is. 00;22;21;17 - 00;22;25;14 Not cheap by any stretch imagination, but it's not overly expensive 00;22;25;16 - 00;22;27;24 and I really, really love it. 00;22;27;24 - 00;22;32;24 Let's have a little look at what is on the menu when you go to mythos. 00;22;32;26 - 00;22;35;20 So for the starters, the appetizers, we've 00;22;35;20 - 00;22;39;03 got some amazing lamb meatballs. 00;22;39;08 - 00;22;43;11 This calamari, you got the sushi, the Katsu sushi. 00;22;43;14 - 00;22;44;29 There's hummus as well. 00;22;44;29 - 00;22;46;11 Grilled octopus. 00;22;46;11 - 00;22;48;17 Expect to see grilled octopus in the finger pop. 00;22;48;17 - 00;22;49;22 Probably not. 00;22;49;22 - 00;22;54;13 They got a messy platter as well as this hummus and barbacoa news. 00;22;54;16 - 00;22;57;01 I'm fano and some pisser as well. 00;22;57;01 - 00;22;58;26 Really cold soup. 00;22;58;26 - 00;23;00;04 You can have a nice soup to start with. 00;23;00;04 - 00;23;02;21 She can have like a Tuscan tomato soup. 00;23;02;21 - 00;23;07;23 Or you can do the the chef's signature Greek salad or the the wedge. 00;23;07;25 - 00;23;09;05 So it's the iceberg lettuce way. 00;23;09;05 - 00;23;11;16 Two different things inside it. 00;23;11;16 - 00;23;15;03 Now you can actually add a a soup 00;23;15;03 - 00;23;19;16 or a the the romaine salad to your mains. 00;23;19;16 - 00;23;22;29 How about as a side as opposed to having as an as a starter. 00;23;23;05 - 00;23;24;17 So let's go for some of the starters. 00;23;24;17 - 00;23;28;08 So you got things up the spinach and garlic ravioli, 00;23;28;10 - 00;23;28;23 you got 00;23;28;23 - 00;23;34;06 the roasted chicken, the beef loin medallions are really nice. 00;23;34;08 - 00;23;35;26 You got couscous bowls as well. 00;23;35;26 - 00;23;39;01 So this week I like you can have tofu or you can have 00;23;39;07 - 00;23;42;09 lamb kebab, you can have beef kebab as well. 00;23;42;12 - 00;23;43;19 See scallops. 00;23;43;19 - 00;23;46;13 The catch of the day. And this is at market price. 00;23;46;13 - 00;23;48;29 We don't really have this in the UK, but market prices, 00;23;48;29 - 00;23;52;24 because the food is going to be different every single day is 00;23;52;25 - 00;23;54;25 you actually know what the food's good, but the price is going to be. 00;23;54;25 - 00;23;57;17 So you need to ask your server what it's going to be raised. 00;23;57;17 - 00;24;00;20 LAMB Shank is one of the really, really nice things that I had. 00;24;00;20 - 00;24;05;10 The pad Thai, the pork chop wild salmon. 00;24;05;12 - 00;24;08;28 You can have the signature lamb burger, the summit, grilled 00;24;08;28 - 00;24;13;16 chicken sandwich, all amazing dishes. 00;24;13;19 - 00;24;17;09 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. 00;24;20;15 - 00;24;25;16 So, for example, something like the lamb burger is $21. 00;24;25;18 - 00;24;29;18 But if you were paying that, you actually were paying 21 of those one needs. 00;24;29;21 - 00;24;30;28 So stacks on top of that. 00;24;30;28 - 00;24;34;14 And then you need to add on your tipsy gratuities as well. 00;24;34;20 - 00;24;37;06 So rough road I found quite easily. 00;24;37;06 - 00;24;41;15 Just add 25% on top then you've overestimated it. 00;24;41;15 - 00;24;43;02 That's roughly going to be how much he would pay 00;24;43;02 - 00;24;47;07 as a 20 to 25% on top thing and how much you're going to tip basically in here. 00;24;47;07 - 00;24;49;25 You can also get one of those mango lasses, me a caravan. 00;24;49;25 - 00;24;53;21 I said these are all nonalcoholic ones as well. 00;24;53;27 - 00;24;57;14 So there are absolutely some amazing places to go to. 00;24;57;14 - 00;24;59;05 When you go to islands for a venture. 00;24;59;05 - 00;25;02;19 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. 00;25;05;20 - 00;25;07;12 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 00;25;11;10 - 00;25;15;00 to go and eat when you go to Universal's Islands of Adventure Hold. 00;25;15;02 - 00;25;18;04 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 00;25;20;06 - 00;25;22;17 when you go to Universal was on the adventure. 00;25;22;17 - 00;25;23;22 If you want to get in touch of us, 00;25;23;22 - 00;25;27;20 we are here to help you book and plan your trip to Orlando. 00;25;27;24 - 00;25;32;11 Our Orlando gurus paired up with you and what they were then to is 00;25;32;11 - 00;25;34;21 spend the time to go all the way from helping 00;25;34;21 - 00;25;38;04 you pick the best places to stay right the way through when you get home 00;25;38;04 - 00;25;41;20 so you can at the same person, same contact for the entire times 00;25;41;20 - 00;25;44;02 you want to get in touch with us, please visit our website. 00;25;44;02 - 00;25;49;19 All the website details are in the show notes or visit Orlandoinsider.co.uk 00;25;49;21 - 00;25;53;00 That's Orlandoinsider.co.uk 00;25;53;02 - 00;25;55;07 Thank you much for listening and have a much cooler.