Where to eat Gator in Orlando

[jackadapt]

We sail out of Orlando on the Wonder of the Seas next year and will have a few days to mill around Orlando beforehand.  Everything I've seen online only features deep fried gator nuggets/bites.  Any restaurants that have a deeper gator menu that's not a tourist trap?  If gator bites are all there is, anyone try the ones in Disney Spring at Chef Art Smiths Homecomin?  We are staying near Disney, at the Hyatt Regency Cypress if that helps narrow down a restaurant list.  Thanks in advance.

[Diver2014]

Why anyone would want to eat gator is beyond me......but the restaurants that do only offer gator bites.  That's enough to turn you off on gator.

[Capt_BJ]

but the restaurants that do only offer gator bites. 

 

in general I agree ... most places sell gator bites or nuggets which are breaded and hard to tell from McNuggets!  HOWEVER this past weekend while down in West Palm Beach visited a newish BBQ place which had Gator sausage prepared in the traditional BBQ place sausage style (wood smoked) and it was GOOD . . . 

 

https://www.eattropical.com/

 

 

just sayin' ... yep it ain't Orlando ... but there's better out there!!

Edited August 15, 2022 by Capt_BJ

[Rothko1]

On 8/15/2022 at 5:40 PM, Capt_BJ said:

but the restaurants that do only offer gator bites. 

 

in general I agree ... most places sell gator bites or nuggets which are breaded and hard to tell from McNuggets!  HOWEVER this past weekend while down in West Palm Beach visited a newish BBQ place which had Gator sausage prepared in the traditional BBQ place sausage style (wood smoked) and it was GOOD . . . 

 

https://www.eattropical.com/

 

 

just sayin' ... yep it ain't Orlando ... but there's better out there!!

 

Now I gotta go try this place out....   Thanks for the tip!

[KINGBOBOFTHENORTH]

On 8/14/2022 at 9:23 AM, Diver2014 said:

Why anyone would want to eat gator is beyond me.

Gators want to eat you, why shouldn't you want to eat the gator first!

 

There's a restaurant chain with numerous locations around Orlando called Gator's Dockside. They serve fried gator tail.