Ragland Road - Disney, Orlando

For our last night, I wanted to check out Downtown Disney. We had gone there the first night to see Cirque. And since every park basically kept you busy till the time they close, weather is a firework show, parade, or parade plus firework plus water show. You just don't get the time to check out the rest the complex has to offer.

You really don't get a sense of how big the place is until you have to walk it. That is after you've been walking at all of the parks. At first, you only get the West side of it, and you saw a few restaurants. The Latin restaurant had 1hr45mins wait. Urm... nevermind. Wolfgang Puck Express is packed and their sit down has over 1hr wait. NEXT! We kept walking, and this girl handed me a map of the Downtown Disney, there's a bridge to go over Pleasure Island. I thought it was just a bunch of clubs since the music was pounding pretty heavily. Luckily, that is where we found food!
We ended up at Ragland Road, it had a 30mins wait and a gluten free menu. SOLD! The place is actually bigger than it looks. While you wait, there is an all-Irish Theme gift store. It definitely put the one in Disney and the one in Universal Studios to shame. They have so many Irish stuff, from T-shirts, to books, to family shields, to jam, to charms. Tons of stuff. They have a patio on one side, and a hole in the wall bar with outside seating on the other. For their express, it's called Cooke's of Dublin, which has your typical Fish and Chips.

Instead, we got a table and sat by the bar. Little did I know, they do accept the Disney Dining Plan, and they're very upfront about that. On top of that, it does include appetizer, entree and dessert. Alcoholic drinks are never included. That said, they also offer gluten free onion rings, and gluten free fish and chips. While we all know the fries are gluten free, but the batter they used for coating the fish or the onion rings are gf, that's pretty cool.

So, for appetizer, I had ordered the potato and leek soup (2nd photo). I had thought the soup would be thicker in body. But to my surprise it was light bodied and not as heavy as I had imagined it in my mind, which was closer to a baked potato soup.

For the entree, I had the Citrus Salmon salad for dinner. The salmon was nicely grilled and there are almond slices in the mix. The vinaigarette made a nice addition to the mixed greens. The entire dish is not too heavy.

For dessert, which we barely had room for, but since it comes with the plan, we felt obligated. We got the Dundon's Delight on the recommendation of the server. He knew we were eating gluten free, and recommended this and the sorbet. We ended up splitting the Delight. It's basically a pavlova, which is meringue broken, with raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream. At first, we were like, what's the big deal w/ meringue; but then with the sauce mixed it was pretty flavorful. They must've put raspberry flavors in there. The ice cream was a good complement, but we were so stuffed that the thought of adding more was just unbearable, even though it was delicious.

The neat thing about this place is that they have a set stage for entertainment. They have a house band that places Irish music to make you feel like you're eating in Ireland. And in certain interval, they have 3 Irish Jig dancers come out to demo and dance for you. The best part is when they dance accompanied by the band. So cool. How's that for live entertainment.

Ragland Road
Downtown Disney - Florida
http://www.raglanroad.com/