Best Disney Restaurant for Kids

T-REX Café®

American cuisine at Downtown Disney. Lunch and dinner.

From the folks that brought you Rain Forest Café, this new concept is definitely a one up. Enter from under the skeletal remains of a 125-foot-long argentinasaurus, past a paleontology dig, and into a pre-historic world. Amidst the clouds of volcanic steam and the continual roar of giant Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs and wooly mammoths are occasional earth-shattering meteorite showers that gets the entire place in an cosmic uproar. It’s a great experience for kids, but even adults find it one fun place.

And better yet the food isn’t half bad either. Tribal Tacos are a healthy choice with grilled fish, nice corn tortillas, and a yummy avocado cream sauce, or the Red Earth Rigatoni with sausage, caramelized onions and mushrooms in a red wine tomato cream sauce. The super tomato basil soup can be added to any entrée for a few dollars. You’ll find yourself chuckling at the smoking drinks that continually arrive at surrounding tables. For dessert the Meteor Bite, warm donut holes served with chocolate and caramel sauces are the thing, but the Chocolate Extinction is one smoking (and I’m not kidding here) giant-size dessert that you may not be able to resist.

Note: The ice cave is the best dining room, flooded with changing purple and blue light.  And Shark Bar and Coral Reef dining area, topped with a giant-sized octopus whose arms and tentacles move and sway with the action, is another great place to sit (request the jellyfish table for a larger party). The Geo-Tech Room has lots of action going on with it’s Kitchen of Fire surrounded by live flames. I would avoid the back of the restaurant where you’ll find the more ho-hum Fern Forest and Sequoia Room.