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If they like it, perhaps they'll return some other time and pay full price. This is an opportunity to show customers who may not be familiar with your restaurant what you can do. I'm not so concerned with different portion sizes, though many of the participating restaurants serve the full portion. And I'm especially wary of those that have menus with dishes not on the regular menu at all.

I think it's unwise for restaurants to substantially change their menus for the promotion. Take a closer look at the Cioppino on the MagDinMoMu - no lobster, an ingredient on the regular menu. It's Crab Cake appetizer is listed at $18 retail, and the Cioppino is $45.

Now let's take a look at deep blu, another seafood restaurant. The Huevos Bulla are regularly $10.50 and the Churrasco Moruno is $24. None of my research came up with a restaurant offering less than the $35 charge, though Bulla, the Spanish restaurant in Winter Park came close. But given that they're usually priced at $10, I think we can declare Urban Tide a good Magical Dining Month bargain. Urban's desserts are on another page and, curiously, neither of the Magical Dining desserts are on the regular menu. Even if you were the worst student in math class, you can see right away that just those two courses total more than $35, even before dessert. And the Scottish Loch Duarte Salmon Oscar is regularly $32. In this case, you'll see that the Southern Fried Grouper Cheek is a $15 appetizer. Now go to the restaurant's own webpage - Visit Orlando is nice enough to give you a direct link - and compare the rack-rate, a la carte prices. But just about everything at Urban Tide is terrific, and this is a pretty good lineup.

If nothing sounds good to you, you might as well move on. You'll see the available options for each of the three courses of the Magical Dining Month Menu, or MagDinMoMu. Let's take a look at our friends at Urban Tide, for instance. RusTeak of College Park, for instance, is listed under Winter Park and North, while K Restaurant, also in College Park, is under the nebulous heading "Surrounding Areas." (They've got K on the checklist under Downtown, which is where it - and RusTeak - should be.)īack at the MagDinMo website, click on the listing for one of your choices. You'll notice that the restaurants are grouped geographically, though some of the designations are odd. As you go through the list of restaurants, put a checkmark next to the ones you want to take a closer look at. This year, Visit Orlando has provided a downloadable checklist. (Hey, I like saving money, too.) I also look for the restaurants that I know to have higher price points. I'm looking for newcomers, places I'm going to want to visit for a review anyway. (Watch the video below.)įirst, I go to the official MagDinMo website and look over the list of restaurants. Here's how I go about choosing which Magical Dining Month restaurants I'll visit. So you're going to have to do some research to narrow your decision. Stop arguing, you just can't do it.) Also up this year is the cost, $35, two bucks more than 2016, and they're not even paying Emeril Lagasse an endorsement fee this year. So even with 38 days, you're not going to be able to visit them all. More than 100 restaurants are participating this year, up from 65 in 2016, including for the first time some well-known Disney restaurants. Clicking on the restaurant name will bring up their menu for the event.It's here! Visit Orlando's Magical Dining Month, which somehow defies all principles of the modern Gregorian calendar by running more than five weeks, begins Aug. Below are the Disney World dining locations participating in this year’s Magical Dining Month.
