Restaurant Review: Sanaa

Hello again! Gabe here, this week I have a restaurant review from Sanaa at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge!

Atmosphere

              Sanaa has an East African, South Asian flair, and that is reflected in the décor. The restaurant features craftwork from those region, and in one area of the restaurant has a sort of tent canopy over the dining area. On one side of the dining room, there are large windows which offer some impressive views right out to the Savannah, however views will be limited when it is dark outside. Sanaa features a few different areas where tables are situated, there is a small bar area, a couple of smaller more secluded areas for table-service diner, and one larger main table-service area in the middle of the restaurant. The theming and atmosphere of this restaurant, just like the rest of the Animal Kingdom Lodge is very impressive!

Food

              Sanaa is one of those places that has a menu where almost everything on it sounds tasty, so I really don’t think anyone could go wrong ordering here! The Indian style bread service, pictured above on the left, is one of the most popular items at Walt Disney World, and rightly so! The bread service comes with five different types of bread, and nine different accompaniment sauces, however if you don’t want all nine sauces you can opt for five of your choosing. I would recommend sampling all nine sauces, as they were all very good, however my personal favorites were the Tamarind sauce, the Roasted Red pepper hummus, and the Red Chili Sambal sauce. For entrees, I opted to try the Potje inspired meal, where you choose three options from a large list, and it comes served with rice. For my three options I chose the Spicy Durban Shrimp, the Chickpea Wat, and the Aloo Masala. The meal came all at once but were in little individual dishes, which was nice since most of the options seem to have their own special sauces and flavors, this is shown above on the bottom right. For dessert I ordered the Spice Trade Candy Bar, which has a variety of flavors contained in it, including a very nice caramel, pistachio, coconut, chai crème, apricot, and milk chocolate; as with everything else, the desert was very good, this is shown above on the top right.

 Final Thoughts

              Sanaa totally blew me away! Everything about the experience was great, from the service to the food, and the atmosphere. Sanaa is a place I would definitely recommend and look forward to visiting again, hopefully sometime soon!

As always, leave a comment below if you’ve been to Sanaa, or now want to!