Jernigan’s Restaurant

All the food is way too COLD for me.
(Lost my detailed review and not doing it again.)

Well, I gave them a great review last year. This year, I would no longer recommend them. The offerings were so-​so, at best. Meat over cooked, fish over cooked and hard (yes, hard, not juicy) overall bad food experience. VERY VERY disappointed!!!

Looked like a fabulous buffet and an opportunity to sit front row overlooking the magic game on the ledge. Well, the ledge seating is $ 10 more. They have 2 seatings. One at 5pm and the other at 7pm. The items in the buffet were below average in taste. The chefs walk around with food carved to order (sounds awesome) but the food was cold! Choices were sausage, chicken, and ribs and would have been wonderful if the food was hot! Our waitress was not to be found anywhere until it was time to pay up. You are allowed to eat up until the end of the 3^rd quarter. I asked for a coffee and even that was cold. A lesson in «not everything appears as it seems.» Extremely disapointed.

Great cheese selection. I enjoyed the London broil, medium rare. Tender with a perfect horseradish sauce to compliment. The cornbread was AMAZING with cranberries and jalapeños mixed in. Our server was very attentive as the entire staff are very friendly and efficient. They brought the cutest big coffee cup full of Orlando Magic blue cotton candy. Fun, fun, fun!

I surprised my husband (a HUGE Magic fan) and took him here for his birthday this past January.
We had some trouble getting to the actual restaurant, as several ushers told us different things and lead us on a goose chase around Amway. After probably more than 10 minutes of wandering around we were finally led in the right direction but sadly missed tip off.
Jernigan’s has 2 types of seating, straight forward seating where you sit side-​by-​side and can watch the game face-​forward or table/​booth seating in which you have to turn your head or chair to watch the game face forward. I liked the table seating for this particular occassion because it was more private but I think next time we’ll try the straight-​forward seating instead.
Jernigan’s is a station-​set-​up restaurant. You can walk around and pick food from several different stations that feature all sorts of cuisine.
I will say that almost everything we had was really good, but nothing was really GREAT. What you really get out of Jernigan’s is a great view of the game and unlimited food & soft drinks.
You can sit at Jernigan’s for the entire game and enjoy the great view. We didn’t feel rushed to leave but I will say that as the game went on our server got a little lazier. Drinks weren’t coming out as fast, he didn’t come by to check up on us often…
Because I knew we could sit around the the entire game I had purchased $ 15 seats. Totally worth it in my opinion because for a decent price we got dinner, drinks, and an awesome view to watch the Magic defeat the Raptors.
It’s definitely special and fun for a Magic fan… but I wouldn’t brag and bring any foodie friends here!