At our recent visit to LEGOLAND Florida, we decided to check out the Shipwreck Restaurant at the Pirate Island Hotel!

This restaurant offers breakfast and dinner options through a prix-fixe 3-course meal, an all-you-can-eat menu with salad, your choice of one of three skillet options, and dessert! Soft drinks are also included in the meal. So, what did we think? We’re bringing you our FULL review of the Shipwreck Restaurant dinner!

What Is the Shipwreck Restaurant?

The Shipwreck Restaurant offers a family-style dinner for the whole table with several different options, so everyone is bound to find something they’ll enjoy! The table will get to choose one skillet; however, if there is someone in your party who eats plant-based and the rest of your group does not, they will not make the entire table eat from one skillet.

They also allow mixing and matching between skillets in case you’d like to try something from another skillet that’s not currently in the one you selected. Guests will enjoy all-you-can-eat bread, salad, skillets, and dessert for $40 per adult and $19 per child, which is a pretty great deal if you ask us!

In line with the rest of the hotel, this restaurant is decked out in LEGO Pirate details — decals on the walls, pirate ships, and pirate figures throughout the room. There’s also a small, separate room for younger children to play with LEGOS directly attached to the dining room, so there’s no worry about being bored during this dinner!

The service was also absolutely amazing! Everyone we interacted with was fantastic and made sure we felt comfortable throughout the meal. We spoke with servers, a sous chef, and a manager, and they were all extremely welcoming and perceptive to any questions we had, especially about allergies and food preferences.

And when it comes to allergies, they took them VERY seriously. Even with just a food preference, the sous chef came directly to our table when we had a food preference, and they even took down our name and room number in case there were any questions or concerns following our meal. We were regularly reminded of what was plant-based and what modifications were made to ensure we knew what was in front of us!

Speaking of the food, we were pleasantly surprised by the variety and quality of it! We weren’t expecting the food to be as well done as it was, and it’s clear the menu was made with care and quality in mind. Now, enough about that — let’s get into what we ate!

Everything We Ate

Starting off with the bread service, these rolls were very fluffy and warm and were easy to pull apart. It tasted a bit dry, but the cinnamon butter that came on the side solved that problem quickly!

It was extremely soft and spreadable with a sweet flavor that paired nicely with the rolls.

Moving on to the salad, all of the ingredients were fresh and weren’t something you’d find in your typical restaurant salad. This is a mixed green salad with toasted almonds, dried cranberries, fresh tomatoes, fresh apples, red onions, and asiago cheese tossed in a homemade poppy seed dressing.

The asiago cheese, apples, and dried cranberries gave it a unique flavor that we loved! It was also not overly dressed, so the flavors of the ingredients weren’t overpowered, and the poppy seed dressing added a nice flavor. A vegan option is also available upon request.

Now we’ve made it to the hearty part — the family-style skillets. We decided to try the Seadog Skillet, which comes with grilled marinated flank steak, herb roasted pork tenderloin, blackened fish, sautéed garlic citrus shrimp, and rotisserie chicken served with wild rice pilaf, mushroom cream sauce, and garlic butter. Each table will also receive mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and roasted seasonal vegetables with this skillet.

Overall, we thought everything was delicious, and there were SO many different things to try. Starting off with the flank steak, it was cut thin and had a good flavor, but it was cooked medium-well, so it was a bit tough. We didn’t get to decide how we’d like our steak cooked — it just comes in one temperature, and because medium-well is more of a crowd-pleasing temperature, that’s how it’s cooked. Although we think it loses some of its flavor because of it.

We received a great cut of pork that we thought was a touch dry, but not overly dry. It was nice and lean with a mild, but pleasant flavor. And the blackened fish really surprised us! We’d go so far as to say that it was one of the best things on this platter! This is a flaky white fish with a robust and aromatic blackened seasoning that wasn’t too strong.

Next up was the garlic citrus shrimp, which we found to be well-cooked and well-prepped! There’s no need to peel the shrimp, but you will need to take the tails off because they are served with them on. And there’s no need to worry about that because the shrimp were so well cooked that the tails slid right off! It’s also served with drawn butter (the kind of butter you’d get with lobster), which made it 10x better!

The rotisserie chicken had a VERY meaty flavor, which just shows that it’s clearly ACTUALLY rotisserie. It had a good texture and was well-cooked, but we found the skin to be a bit stretchy and chewy.

Moving onto the seasonal vegetable, we were brought green beans that were perfectly cooked and had a perfect amount of butter!

It was a little hard to tell because it was wild rice, but we found the wild rice pilaf to be slightly undercooked. We decided to put the mushroom cream sauce on this and some of the other items, and we thought it was a great addition to the meal! It was extremely creamy and had an umami flavor that’s classic, but it pairs nicely with a lot of the stuff on the skillet!

And you can’t go wrong with the mashed potatoes that were served with the skillet — they were super creamy and nicely buttered and combined well with anything on your plate!

We also found the macaroni and cheese to be a bit basic, but the noodles were ideal, plus there was so much cheese (you can never have enough cheese!) It’s perfect for any macaroni and cheese lover!

And finally, we had dessert, where we opted for the Pirate Captain’s Delight. This is a warm chocolate chip cookie skillet served with vanilla bean ice cream, chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, and Heath Bar pieces. We LOVED the toppings! The scoop of ice cream was nice and big and came with the perfect drizzle of sauces and Heath Bar pieces.

But we did find the cookie to be a little disappointing — warm, but not soft. It was more crumbly than gooey, so it was difficult to get a bite. It had good flavor and would be good as a normal cookie, but the texture wasn’t quite right for a skillet cookie.

Plant-Based Offerings

We also got to try some plant-based offerings — vegan meatloaf, seasoned tofu, vegetable dumplings, and the chocolate fondue.

The vegan meatloaf was our favorite plant-based option on the menu — it actually tasted like real meatloaf, just without the meat flavor! We found it to be the most successful plant-based meatloaf we’ve ever tried, even with all of the options at Disney World. We DREAM about coming back here just for this one item!

The seasoned tofu had an Asian-inspired flavor profile with flavors like sweet chili sauce. It’s served with some seasonal vegetables (in this case, mostly broccoli) and tastes like a reliable dish you’d get from your local Chinese restaurant! The roasted cauliflower was the perfect balance of tender and firm and was seasoned well with a blend of spices.

The vegetable dumplings were a close second when it came to our favorite plant-based items! They’re actually very comparable to the ones you’ll find at ‘Ohana at the Polynesian Village Resort in Disney World.

And when it came to dessert, we found the chocolate fondue to be OUTSTANDING! We really appreciated being able to get an option like this, especially when it’s been removed from other venues. The flavor of the fruit that came with it paired extremely well with the fondue and marshmallows.

You really can’t beat a delicious and hearty meal at a budget-friendly cost! We’re always reviewing the latest items at theme parks around the world, so stay tuned to DFB for more!

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