(NOTE: I am not a food reviewer or expert. I eat, I experience, I write. And I'm sometimes jerky about it. If you want a food guru go to Scott Joseph or TastyChomps!)
The folks at Disney Springs invited us to the have a dinner on them at their newly-renovated seafood-focused boat-shaped formerly-known-as-Fultons restaurant called Paddlefish.
Paddlefish is a three-story 700-guest spot situated between the old Disney Village and the new Disney Springs.
The restaurant looks monsterous on the outside but is surprisingly intimate on the inside. The interior kitchen separates the space into smaller dining rooms that make you feel like you're more important than you are. I appreciate that.
It can get noisy due to the reflective surface-laden interior and boisterous guests singing happy birthday TWICE to one of the ten people at their table.
The food got a thumbs-up from my dining partner and I. My cod, his Mahi mahi, the crab cakes app, pork belly app were all delicious. The Chef came to our table to explain some of the menu, suggest his favorites and check in to see if we were happy. I felt like Remmy Ma did prior to today's Nicki response track: special!
My dining partner and I had a great meal with a view of the spewing volcano show and the car-shaped boats just outside the reflective windows. Though the restaurant is plopped in the middle of a theme park shopping village, it felt at times like we were in another city, like a mini vacation. And I wasn't drunk!!!
But I have a majorly-minimal bone to pick with the naming of the "Lobster Corndog" appetizer. Though it's made with a corndog-adjacent batter, the sticks are topped with chicken nugget shaped lobster tatters: like tiny fried surrender flags. They were hardly the windswept glossy smoothness of the outside of a corndog I was expecting. I'd call them Lobster Pops.
Also I don't understand the desserts. The dinner menu is high end gloriousnesss but the dessert menu is hometown diner.
Big thanks to Disney Springs and Paddlefish for inviting us to try this new restaurant!
