Downtown Disney is the place to be when you are looking to shop for Disney merchandise and dining and want to take a day off from the parks. Most of the restaurants on Disney property are pricey, and this one is no different. Now most of the time, you get a few characters here and there, and good food. With this restaurant you get to experience dining during the earth’s dinosaur infested crustacean days and hear them roar and roar they do, about every 15 minutes or so. As a pleasant surprise the food is very good!!! Most restaurants that are gimmick filled usually need help in the food department, this one does not.

What you can expect is to pay about $14.00 to $35.00 for a plate depending on what you order. The kid meals are about $8.00 give or take and once you factor in the drinks which are more expensive than in most places around town that you can choose to dine in. The T-Rex restaurant also has a store inside where you can find gifts to purchase for a special loved one or yourself. Everything from plastic dinosaurs to shirts and stuffed animals. Getting back to the food, I tried the Bronto-Burger and it was a great sized American cheese burger with all the trimmings, and your choice of onion rings or waffle fries. You can expect to pay more for the onion rings, and I did and they were very good. There are other plates as well. The kid’s chicken tenders or nuggets are shaped like dinosaurs and actually very tasty.

Pasta dishes are very good also, you can expect to pay about $18.99 for pasta dish without chicken and about another $2.50 to add the meat/chicken to the same dish. The Alfredo sauce tortellini was recommended and it did not disappoint. Great tasting. Disney World in Orlando has plenty of things to offer any family but for the most part it is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. Dining is amongst the most expensive entertainments at Walt Disney World. The T-Rex Cafe which is brought to you by the people that brought you The Rain Forest Cafe is nice but all in all once you have done it, it leaves much to be desired and immediately you begin to hurt for the money that has been spent on a good burger and nothing more.

Shopping at Downtown Disney. Most of the Walt Disney World parks have now begun to print their restaurant receipts on long pieces of paper that include a 20% discount to be used at any of the merchandise stores located around Walt Disney World property to include Downtown Disney. I was able to use these same receipts that I was issued throughout the day at the Magic Kingdom and redeem them at Downtown Disney for 20% off of merchandise purchases. I had a total of about 6 of these receipts, I used every one of them. So the next time you are eating at the Magic Kingdom or any of the Walt Disney World theme parks, check your receipts for those discounts. They do not always make it a point to mention this savings to you. Get official merchandise right at the Disney Store!