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Review Of Sanaa Restaurant At Animal Kingdom Lodge
Nov 4, 2025
Review Of Sanaa Restaurant At Animal Kingdom Lodge
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Hello friends, it's Jim Oer. Welcome
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back to Jim Rear's Wacky World. Today we
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are going to head over to Disney's
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Animal Kingdom Lodge and go to SA.
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It is a popular restaurant over there
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which is an has an African inspired menu
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but uses Indian flavorings. So it's very
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unique.
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Not a huge menu but it's very
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specialized and unique and uh it has an
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awesome view of the savannah where you
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can see the animals and things like
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that. So, if you've been curious about
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the dining experience and the food at SA
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over at Animal Kingdom Lodge, take a
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look. Here we are at the Animal Kingdom
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Lodge at Walt Disney World. And there
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are several yummy dining options. And
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one of those is a very popular
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restaurant called SA, which offers a
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menu of African themed food with Indian
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spices and Indian flavoring. So, it's
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something pretty unique and different
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having that African food with with
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Indian spices. And this is what the
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restaurant looks like when you walk in
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here. It's got a little bar over to the
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left. And then you go into the main
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dining area. And look at this. It's It's
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really cool to lay out. It's got these
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trees and the foilage up on top. So,
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it's kind of like you're dining
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underneath these giant African trees
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where they've hung African lamps and
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stuff off of them, off of the tree
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branches. and uh to create your your
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dining environment. It's uh very cool uh
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artwork and design and and paint jobs.
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All around are these large windows so
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that you can look out onto the savannah
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and see what animals are walking around
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out there, all the the giraffes and
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zebras and things like that. Now, it's
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not a large menu. There are very few
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appetizers, very few entre, but it's
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very specialized what they do. And you
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can see here is the limited menu.
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There's also a uh a drink service with
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some specialty cocktails, but not a lot.
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What they are most known for though is
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their bread service, and it's amazing.
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There are five different types of breads
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offered and nine different uh uh
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accompaniments to to flavor them with.
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Now, the bread, I'm going to butcher
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these names. There's a garlic ginger
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naan, an onion culture, a traditional
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naan, a spice naan, and a a paneer para.
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Uh those breads are wonderful. They are
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cooked so good. And these are the the
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little accompanying accompanying
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flavors. There's cucumber, a mango
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chutney, a tamarind chutney, tomato date
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jam, a roasted red pepper hummus, a
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pickled garlic, a cororean chutney, a
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spicy jalapeno lime pickle, and a red
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chili sambal. And they are all really,
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really good. Really good. That is
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amazing. Now, we decided we were going
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to try out the steak. This is a grilled
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New York strip with mukimo, which is
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those green mashed potatoes and
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vegetables uh with an herb emulsion and
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a fig sauce. Really well cooked,
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excellent flavor. That is a medium. If
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you like your your steaks medium,
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that'll give you an idea of what their
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medium is like. And I also had the pork
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vindaloo with some rajima masala. This
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is really spicy. Really spicy, but so
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good. And that rice, it's a like a It's
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a basami rice, I think, is is how you
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say it. And man, this is so good. I
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would have that again and again. Really
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super good. Now, the dessert menu is
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also fairly limited and small, as you
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can see here. just a few things. It's
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very specialized, but we what we tried
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was the uh uh Saridora. And this is a
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butterscotch pudding with a almond
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coffee streusel and pineapple and mango
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chunks in there served with shortbread.
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And I don't like pudding, but man, this
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is really, really good. Really good
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pudding.
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All of that stuff was so so good.
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so good.
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Especially the pork and the beans and oh
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man at the right amount of spice, the
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right amount of heat.
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Really, really good. Highly specialized
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menu,
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small menu, but well worth it. I would
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definitely eat there many times.
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