Rosa Mexicano Review (at Disney’s Swan and Dolphin)
Rosa Mexicano is a table service restaurant at Disney’s Swan and Dolphin Hotel. The restaurant offers a traditional breakfast, and then reopens for lunch and dinner. Lunch and dinner are Mexican cuisine. This review details our initial visit to Rosa Mexicano.
For this visit, I was in the Epcot Resorts Area on a Friday afternoon and thought I would stop by the Swan and Dolphin for lunch. It was a beautiful day, and I took several photos on my walk over from Epcot’s International Gateway.
Rosa Mexicano is on the first floor of Disney’s Dolphin. A clamshell fountain sits in front of the resort entrance. If it’s your first time visiting, you’ll walk past either side of the fountain to enter the hotel. Once inside, you’ll immediately run into a pair of escalators coming and going from the resort’s upper-floor lobby. To the immediate right, you’ll see the entrance to Todd English’s Blue Zoo. To the left sits The Fountain restaurant, and a sign for Rosa Mexicano hangs overhead.
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You’ll continue past the fountain and run into Rosa Mexicano. It’s at the end of the hall past The Fountain.
A reception area is available by the side entrance.
Breakfast is available daily from 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Lunch is from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m., and dinner is available from 5:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. (Make sure to check exact hours during your visit.)
Rosa Mexicano has a beautiful interior with various artwork displays.
A painting of Josefina Howard hangs on the restaurant’s back wall, paying homage to the restaurant’s founder. Josefina opened the original Rosa Americano in 1984 in New York City. The restaurant has often been referred to as having the best margaritas in the city.
A partition between the dining rooms features statuettes of cliff divers in Acapulco.
If you look closely, the divers are featured from top to bottom as they would if they were cliff-diving.
A bar sits in the center of the restaurant.
It’s open to the restaurant on all three sides.
Several of the dining rooms face out to views of the resort.
Overall, the restaurant has a fresh contemporary vibe. Here are a few more photos of the interior.
After getting seated, we were presented with a menu. You can select any of the links below to preview the most current menu.
Chips and salsa were brought to the table.
Per the server’s suggestion, I ended up ordering a Pomegranate margarita. This has been the restaurant’s signature cocktail since 1984.
I don’t drink often and would have never ordered a frozen drink had I looked at the menu. But the server insisted this was the one to try. She was right. It was delicious and tasted like an authentic margarita. Thankfully, it melted relatively quickly, and I could sip on it throughout the meal.
For lunch, I ordered the fresh Ahi Tuna tacos. Per the menu, these tacos are described as soy and lime with red onion, sliced avocado, and cilantro, served on crispy corn tortillas.
I was delighted to see the care that had gone into the preparation. Each taco was leaning on a wedge of lime.
Not only were they appealing to look at, but they were also delicious. As someone who doesn’t care for cilantro, I was a little concerned I had made the wrong choice. But thankfully, the dish was perfectly balanced, and that sushi-grade tuna was mouth-watering.
My only regret was that I almost wished I’d had one or two more. That said, I completely respected the size of this dish. Often when I’m dining alone, a huge platter of food is brought to the table as an entree. Then I’m left sitting there wondering how I’m going to eat it. It was also hot outside, and I was planning to walk to Hollywood Studios after I finished. So I was glad I didn’t feel bogged down from a heavy meal.
Eventually, we’ll return to Rosa Mexicano for another meal, maybe breakfast. Several menu items on the breakfast menu sounded pretty good. They also have a breakfast buffet that includes made-to-order omelets, pancakes, and Mickey waffles, among other things.
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