World Showcase Resturants

Ordinarily, it might take a lifetime of vacations to sample the representative cooking of China, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Italy, Norway, Mexico and Morocco. For the World Showcase traveler, it's a 1-mile walk around the lagoon, where all roads lead to authentic restaurants of these countries.

Canada

Canada's Le Cellier Steakhouse is welcoming guests to a cozy restaurant featuring "Canadian steakhouse" fare -- favorites such as herb-crusted prime rib, filet mignon, salmon and Prince Edward Island mussels. Ales and beers reflect Canada's brewing history, and dessert wines feature Canadian ice wine and late harvest Rieslings.

United Kingdom

It's "Otium Cum Dignitate" at the Rose & Crown Pub and Dining Room, and if "leisure with dignity" isn't your idea of a good time, the Bass ale and Guinness stout should bring you around. There's cottage pie and prime rib on the menu, and the authentic Harry Ramsden's fish and chips are featured in a quick-service kiosk.

Desserts are a royal treat: sherry trifle, a traditional dessert of fruit and custard cake big enough for two; raspberry fool, whipped cream and crushed raspberries over shortbread; and apple blackberry crumble, served with sherry custard.

France

With the lively atmosphere of an authentic brasserie along the Rue de Seine, the celebrated Chefs de France restaurant features the gastronomic creations of its three famous owner-chefs: Paul Bocuse, Gaston Lenotre and Roger Verge, whose gourmet restaurants in Lyon, Paris and Cote d' Azur, respectively, are known around the world.

The cuisine retains its allegiance to the celebrated owners with such favorites as grilled tenderloin of beef with a Bordeaux wine sauce, traditional French onion soup, or a Mediterranean seafood casserole.

Morocco

Tangierine Café, located on the right side at the entrance of the village-like showcase, specializes in quick-service specialties such as shawarma, sandwiches made from shaved chicken, beef or lamb that is slow-roasted on a rotisserie, served with hummus and taziki.

Also in Morocco, the Restaurant Marrakesh serves flavorful specialties, using a long list of herbs and spices including saffron, a key ingredient in many Moroccan dishes. The menu features couscous with chicken, lamb or a variety of garden vegetables. A favorite appetizer is bastilla, or fried pastry, that combines layers of the pastry with chicken strips seasoned with almonds, powdered sugar and cinnamon. The dessert menu includes bastilla au lait etamandes, with cream and toasted almonds.

Japan

Overlooking tranquil gardens, the Yakitori House features yakitori (broiled skewers of chicken basted with teriyaki sauce) and beef soba (paper-thin beef simmered in a spicy sauce and served with noodles). Modeled after a teahouse in the Katsura Summer Palace in Kyoto, the Yakitori House also serves such uniquely Japanese desserts as green tea and ginger ice cream.

The Matsunoma Lounge, on the second floor of the Mitsukoshi Department Store and Restaurant, serves sushi and tempura, along with Japanese sake, plum wine and even sake martinis (sake with vodka or gin).

Tempura Kiku seats only 25 people, so the atmosphere is friendly around the central counter. Shrimp, scallops, beef, chicken and fresh vegetables are dipped in light batter and fried by chefs trained in Mitsukoshi's Tokyo restaurant.

In Teppanyaki's five teppan rooms, chefs prepare beef, seafood and chicken entrees on grills set into the dining tables.

Italy

"I can make peace between nations, just with my fettuccine," insisted Alfredo DiLelio. L'Originale Alfredo di Roma Ristorante at Epcot, under the supervision of DiLelio family associate Russell Bellanca, serves le originali fettuccine all'Alfredo according to the family recipe.

"We're using fresh pasta made on the premises and the same brand of Parmesan cheese imported from Reggio Emillia we've used for more than 50 years," says Bellanca. The pasta-making process is on view behind large windows looking into an area of the restaurant's Italian-tiled kitchen.

Decorated in the warm earth tones characteristic of Florence and Siena, Alfredo's red-brown walls and deeply upholstered armchairs create an inviting atmosphere in which to sample pasta specialties such as trenette al pesto Genovese (imported linguine with Alfredo's pesto sauce), scaloppine con funghi selvatici (veal sautéed with demiglace, wine sauce and wild mushrooms) and ziti alla Mediterranean (ziti with fresh mozzarella, Sicilian olives and fresh tomatoes).

Germany

A sumptuous buffet features "modern German" cuisine. It's a home-cooked dining experience, with guests served from skillets and crock pots surrounded by a lively Octoberfest celebration. The chef offers seasonal vegetables such as snow peas and green beans "to change the perception that Germany is only about sauerkraut." Fresh salmon and trout in light, flavorful sauces often are on the menu.

Mexico

Unlike most Mexican restaurants in the United States, you'll not find nachos, "Mexican pizza" or hard-shell tacos at the San Angel Inn in Epcot, because, says manager Richard Debler, they are not authentic Mexican dishes. And Debler was trained in his family's restaurant in Mexico City.

Chocolate may sound like an unorthodox ingredient to use with chicken, but the mole poblano prepared according to a San Angel Inn recipe combines chile ancho, chile passilla, green tomatoes, ground tortillas, coriander seed and 11 other spices with cocoa for a rich sauce in which chicken is simmered until tender. Fresh tortillas are made every day and served with beef, chicken and cheese fillings, as well as fresh salsa verde.

In the Cantina de San Angel, just outside the pyramid entrance to Mexico, quick entrees and snacks such as churros (donuts rolled in cinnamon and powdered sugar) are available, as well as Mexican beer.

China

Epicurean adventures into five Chinese provinces await World Showcase travelers under one roof in the 250-seat Nine Dragons Restaurant.

The Nine Dragons is located within a 12,000-square-foot building next door to "Yong Feng Shangdian" shopping gallery along China Showcase's "Street of Good Fortune." Next door, the 200-seat Lotus Blossom Cafe offers counter-service.

In addition to the familiar Moo Gu Gai Pan and sweet and sour pork, the Nine Dragons menu offers everything from sirloin to lobster prepared Cantonese-style. There's also Treasure Duck, braised and lightly fried; honey-roasted Chinese spareribs; and an entree of stir-fried grouper and fresh garden vegetables.

Kiangche-style entrees include stir-fried scallops and vegetables. Szechuan/Hunan-style entrees feature chicken, shrimp and lobster brought to life with hot peppers and spicy sauces.

Featured item on the Lotus Blossom Cafe menu is a combination platter that includes stir-fried beef and garden vegetables, egg roll and fried rice.

Norway

"Help yourself to the koldtbord" (cold table) is the catch phrase in Restaurant Akershus where guests are encouraged to make multiple trips to the table. The seafood and cold meat dishes provide an appetizing beginning for this authentic Norwegian dining experience. Gravlaks, a cured salmon served with mustard sauce; chilled shrimp; Norwegian-style herring and an assortment of salads and cheese make this first course a meal in itself.

Next come the smarvarmt, or hot dishes. A sampling of these delights would include lamb and cabbage, smoked pork with honey mustard sauce and venison in cream.

Scandinavian sweets and sandwiches are available across the pavilion courtyard at the Kringla Bakery and Cafe. Popular palate pleasers include strawberry cake; a cloudberry-filled cream horn; Skol Bread, a cream and coconut treat; and the trademark offering, the kringla, a sweet pretzel. Norwegian beer also is available at the cafe.

In Restaurant Akershus, the Disney princesses -- Belle, Jasmine, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pocahontas, Mulan and Mary Poppins -- are special guests at Princess Storybook Breakfast, served family style.

America's Choice

Future World restaurants feature the regional cooking of America, as well as some innovative items.

Electric Umbrella

Offers salads, chicken sandwiches and burgers, all which can be "topped" at a central toppings and condiments bar.

Garden Grill

Farmer Mickey, Pluto and Chip 'n Dale present beef, seafood and poultry dishes served family style at The Land's revolving restaurant, Garden Grill. Below the Garden Grill, and below the pavilion's enormous central skylight, is Sunshine Season Food Fair, where booths provide the freshest in fun, food and flavor.

Liberty Inn

Serving the only American food in World Showcase, the Liberty Inn bill of fare represents cooking at its simplest -- hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken strips, french fries and, of course, Coca-Cola.

Coral Reef Restaurant

Part of The Living Seas attraction in Future World, featuring more than a dozen fresh seafood specialties. "The Coral Reef" A seafood specialty restaurant in the truest sense," says Noble. "The varieties of fish we offer vary according to availability. The constants are freshness and high quality."

MEALS FOR CHILDREN

Special meals for children can be found throughout Epcot. Special "Mickey's Child Deals" for children 9 and under offer entrees they are familiar with: from burritos in Mexico to fish fingers at Coral Reef restaurant.

Kids who enjoy adventures in eating won't be disappointed, either. They can try Norway's pølse, a frankfurter wrapped with lefse served with fried potatoes, and cinnamon apples; Japan's tempura, shrimp and fresh vegetables dipped in a light batter and fried; or Morocco's kefta, meatballs served with tomato sauce and fried potatoes. In the United Kingdom, children will even find a tyke-size prime rib of beef on their menu.

The park's Junior Chef Program gets youngsters involved as they are randomly selected to don toques and white jackets and help decorate a cake or cookies, or toss a salad for their own family's meal. The children work in a small area near the kitchen where the chefs give them a quick and fun culinary lesson.

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