The Coral Reef Restaurant is a themed[1] seafood restaurant in The Seas Pavilion (formerly The Living Seas pavilion) on the western side of Future World (now renamed World Nature) at Epcot, a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, that opened with the pavilion on January 15, 1986.[2] One entire wall of the restaurant consists of a glass window that is eight inches thick and that provides a view into an aquarium.[3] 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.[4] Artist Kim Minichiello painted the underwater scene that appears on the restaurant's menu covers.[5] 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[6] and the Chocolate Wave Cake.[7]

Coral Reef Restaurant
A photograph of the interior of a dimly lit restaurant where people are eating next to three windows into an aquarium housing a variety of marine organisms
The interior of the Coral Reef Restaurant
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Restaurant information
EstablishedJanuary 15, 1986
Owner(s)Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Food typeSeafood
CityBay Lake
CountyOrange County
StateFlorida
CountryUnited States
Coordinates28°22′31″N 81°33′1″W / 28.37528°N 81.55028°W / 28.37528; -81.55028
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

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  1. ^ Steinberg et al. (2012), p. 147.
  2. ^ Shumaker & Saffel (2003), p. 55.
  3. ^ Zibart & Hoekstra (2009), p. 121.
  4. ^ Kidder & Taplin (2007), p. 265.
  5. ^ Roach, Shari (August 14, 2014). "Bringing Culture to Canvas". West Orange Times & Observer. Observer Media Group. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  6. ^ Douglas (2012), p. 107.
  7. ^ Douglas (2012), p. 109.

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