CitySurfing Orlando

Mexico’s popular Spring Break party headquarters has opened it’s newest U.S. location in the heart of I-Drive’s southern corridor near the Orange County Convention Center.

By day, Senor Frog’s will be more family friendly, serving up a menu of Mexican fare. There will be games for the kids and a balloon artist wandering tables for dinner.

After 11pm, it will become a 21-and-over nightclub with live entertainment and a huge dance floor. Drinks are available in three sizes, including the gigantic yard stick size.

I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, but on Yelp it appears to be getting mixed reviews. If you’ve visited leave your opinions in the comments – we’d love to know what you think.

Senor Frog’s is located at 8747 International Drive and they’re open from 11am to 2am.

The Rainforest Cafe has released information that over the next few months, they will be adding on an outside bar area to their location at Downtown Disney.

It will be called the Lava Lounge and is expected to be open by this fall.

Also being updated is the volcano outside which will now erupt to go along with the sound effects.

The restaurant will not close during any of these updates.

Rainforest Cafe also has another Orlando location at the entrance to Disney’s Animal Kingdom park.

We have had a hard time finding decent Mexican food here in South Orlando, so we were pleased to see that Habaneros Mexican Grill had moved in where the old Village Inn used to be.

We ordered kids meals for my 3 and 6 year old, and they loved the chicken fingers and quesadilla. My daughter also got an enchilada, but it was not much more than ground beef wrapped in a tortilla, covered with chili sauce… needed some more flavoring and perhaps some sauce inside the meat mixture.

My husband, Kirk, got the chicken soup, which was VERY tasty and just what he had hoped it would be – in addition to a side tamale, which was good, but nothing extraordinary.

I got the fried chimichangas, one each beef and chicken, and they both were very flavorful. I especially liked the chicken seasoning.

I ordered a sangria, which was decent, and Kirk’s margarita was also acceptable, without being too fancy. The kids appreciated that they had horchata, one of their favorite drinks.

Overall, we were very pleased with the meal, and the service was good as well. We will be back! We would give it 4 out of 5 stars.

This review is for the Hunters Creek location. They have several other locations in Orlando, all listed on their website.

We were on the west side of Orlando when we decided to try out the Pho K5 Vietnamese Restaurant on West Colonial.

The four of us decided to start with the crispy egg rolls and they were great! We all loved them.

I had a large bowl of pho (#28, I think) and my husband had the same but an XL bowl. My daughter, Abby, ordered pho without the meat and ate about half of a small bowl, which is pretty good for her. We ordered a chicken and broccoli with steamed rice for our youngest, Matty. It was good! The portion size was big, even for an adult, but the 3 yr old ate all the chicken and a little bit of the veggies.

Service was fast and the food was quite good. The prices seemed reasonable, especially since we had leftovers to take home.

I do see us returning to this restaurant. We love finding small places as the food is seems to be better than the fancy big places.

Pho K5 is located at 5286 W Colonial Dr in Orlando. Phone is 407-532-7373. They don’t appear to have a website, but there is a Facebook business page.

If you are a vegetarian, vegan or have an interest in the dietary lifestyle of either, you’ll definitely want to check out Central Florida Veg Fest, which takes place October 22, 2011.

Veg Fest will feature healthy living and eco-friendly exhibitors, speakers, and presentations, all promoting the vegetarian options available in Central Florida.

Speakers include Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (The Compassionate Cook), Matthew Rice (Mercy for Animals), Lynette Pate (Organic Infusion), and Ellen Jaffe Jones (Eat Vegan on $4.00 a Day).

There will be live cooking demonstrations all day, as well as food booths to purchase vegetarian and vegan dishes. Over 250 vendors will be on hand, promoting the lifestyle, including many non-profits.

The event will also have a vegan food drive, so please bring non-perishable items to donate.

Entertainment comes via two stages of live music and there will be fun and games for the kids They even welcome dogs, so bring the fur kids, too.

Veg Fest takes place in Loch Haven Park (900 E. Princeton St) from 10am to 6pm. It is free for all to attend.