The Smiling Crocodile

The Smiling Crocodile: dining at Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park — location and planning data on MouseHub.

Visitor sentiment

3.4· 13 Google ratings

The MouseHub take

The Smiling Crocodile is a walk-up window on Discovery Island, close to Flame Tree Barbecue, and the food menu runs to two items. Both are cheese arepas at $13.49, one pulled pork and one pulled chicken, each dressed with avocado dressing, queso fresco, and salsa verde and served with plantain chips. Reviewers keep describing the flavor as a step above the burgers and nuggets they expected, and the chips and the salsa are what they single out.

The window trades 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, seven days a week, so it serves lunch and nothing else. This is a walk-up stand with no seating of its own and no Mobile Order, so you queue at the window and then find somewhere to stand. The board also carries two draft beers, which not many snack windows do. Anyone who wants a savory bite between rides leaves happy. Anyone who wants choice, a vegetarian option, or a table walks away frustrated.

At a glance

Best for
Anyone who wants a savory lunch on Discovery Island that beats a burger, and does not mind eating standing up.
Skip if
You need a table, a vegetarian option, or anything to eat after 3:00 PM.
Worth ordering
Pulled Pork Cheese Arepa, Pulled Chicken Cheese Arepa
Reservations
Nothing to book and nothing to order ahead. My Disney Experience offers no Reserve Dining, no Join Walk-Up List, and no Mobile Order here. Reviewers report walking straight up to the window.
Value
Both arepas run $13.49 with the plantain chips included, and reviewers treat that as fair for the size of the plate.

The good

  • The line moves fast
    The app offers no Mobile Order here, so the line is the only way in, and reviewers report reaching the counter without much of a wait. Getting food costs them minutes rather than a stretch of the afternoon.
  • The arepas taste like someone seasoned them
    Guests rate the pulled pork and the pulled chicken above the quick service they expected in this part of the park, and the seasoning on the meat is what they name.
  • One arepa eats like a light lunch
    The plate arrives with plantain chips alongside it. Reviewers find that enough to split as a snack or to eat alone as a meal.
  • The plantain chips come with it
    Both arepas are priced at $13.49 with the chips, avocado dressing, queso fresco, and salsa verde built into the item. Reviewers single out the chips and the salsa for tasting fresh.
  • This window pours draft beer
    Bud Light runs $10.00 and Blue Moon Belgian White $10.50, and a $16.50 version of the house limeade arrives with Teremana Blanco tequila in it.

The bad

  • You eat this one standing up
    This is a walk-up stand with no seating attached to it at all. Guests balance a tray where they stand or walk the food to a neighboring restaurant to find a table.
  • The shutters come down at 3:00 PM
    The window trades 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, every day of the week. Reviewers turning up in the afternoon for a late lunch find it closed.
  • The menu is two sandwiches
    Pulled pork or pulled chicken, both cheese arepas, both $13.49 and dressed the same way. A party that wants neither has nothing else to order.
  • Vegetarians get nothing here
    Both entrees are meat and the board carries no plant-based option. The menu runs to its dietary footer with nothing else below it, so the meatless things sold at this window are the drinks.
  • Special requests do not go far
    Reviewers report trouble getting the arepas altered for picky eaters, and a two-item kiosk has little room to change an order. No allergy-friendly menu backs it up either, so the page asks guests to speak with a Special Diets Trained Cast Member on arrival.

Veteran tips

  • Carry the tray to Flame Tree Barbecue
    The barbecue place a few doors along Discovery Island seats guests under carved wood pavilions, with a view of Expedition Everest. Reviewers eat their arepas there rather than standing at the window.
  • Grab napkins before you walk off
    The pulled meat and the sauces drip. Guests who carried the food elsewhere wished they had picked up extra while they were still at the counter.
  • Get here before 3:00 PM
    The window opens at 11:00 AM and closes at 3:00 PM seven days a week, so this is a lunch stop or nothing. Plan the afternoon around a different counter.
  • Choose on the meat, not the price
    Pulled pork and pulled chicken both run $13.49 and carry the same avocado dressing, queso fresco, and salsa verde. The protein is the decision.
  • Order the chili-lime limeade
    The passion fruit, orange, and guava limeade with chili-lime seasoning runs $6.29, and a $16.50 version adds tequila. The rest of the drink board is fountain soda at $4.79 and bottled water at $4.25.
  • Split one arepa between two
    Reviewers call one plate enough for two smaller appetites, which brings a Discovery Island lunch in under seven dollars a head.

MouseHub editorial, written from visitor reports and official Disney sources. Last reviewed .

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