Thursday 3/7/24
We started the day at Epcot.
We tried an item from the Flower & Garden Festival Booths. At the Odyssey we had the Orange Sesame Tempura Shrimp with Orange-chili sauce. These were pretty good. It was a decent sized portion.
Later that evening we drove to the Boardwalk for our dinner reservation at Flying Fish.
We went early for pre-dinner cocktails at Abracadabar.
I had Hoodunit’s Punch: Captain Morgan Spiced Rum, Orange Juice, Pineapple Juice, Coconut. This is my favorite cocktail of the trip. Scott had Bombay Sapphire with olives.
We checked in a little early at Flying Fish and let them know we were at Abracadabar, weren’t looking to be seated early, just wanted to let them know we were there. We should have known better than to do that.
We received a text within minutes that our table was ready, and the host came to find us at the bar to get us seated. She was a bit annoying rushing us; basically standing there to make sure we were closing out our bar bill. It was still before our reservation time so it’s not like we were holding anything up.
Once she seated us, she was friendly and trying to joke around with us.
The waiter was helpful giving us suggestions on what to try.
The bread is really good.
Scott ordered a Martini and it was served at the table in a shaker for him to pour into his glass. The waiter said he didn’t want to spill it so had Scott pour it.
The waiter suggested he create an appetizer assortment for us with a few things from the menu and an off-menu octopus that they had. That sounded good to us so we went with his suggestion.
Our appetizers included the following:
Hawaiian Hamachi: Blood orange verjus, Florida citrus, pink peppercorn yogurt. This was very light and refreshing, but not necessarily something we would get again. Nothing was wrong with it, we found it a bit bland compared to the other items.
Slow-roasted Pork Belly: Sliced apple, cherry gastrique
Octopus - not on the menu
The pork belly and octopus came on one plate. This was very good; great suggestion from the waiter here. We had the pork belly on a prior visit here and didn’t like it. He wanted us to give it another try and thinks maybe we didn’t have the right experience with it last time. I’m glad we tried it again since it was very good this visit.
For our entree we had the Chilean Sea Bass: Jumbo Lump crab, grilled asparagus, tarragon. This was a perfectly cooked piece of fish; we both enjoyed it.
For dessert we had the Key Lime Cake: Coconut-lime mousse, guava, tropical coulis. This was recommended by the waiter and he was right; this was delicious. It was light and tasty with different textures.
We are very glad we made it back to Flying Fish; we really enjoyed our meal here and would definitely come back again.
We headed to Hollywood Studios after dinner and made it to Fantasmic 10 minutes before it started. Surprisingly, there were still a decent amount of seats; we stayed in the back bleacher area hoping for an easy exit after the show.