Unlike most of the dine-in theaters I’ve been to where you would seat in round dinner tables, AMC Fork and Screen features your typical theater seating configuration with sections of 4, wider-than-normal, side-by-side seats, with a table in front of each set of seats.

Our orders were quickly taken upon seating and the food was delivered after the movie had started with minimum interruption from the servers. Each seat gets its own button to call a server in case anything else is needed during the movie.

You will notice that much thought was put into designing this theater. Although there are lights on the table in front of each seat, they will quickly fade away out of your field of vision once the movie begins. The servers are dressed in all black and move through the theater almost unnoticed as you enjoy your movie.

We ordered:

Crab Rangoon Dip
“Our secret herbs and spices blended with hot white Cheddar, cream cheese and crab, served with a plate of fresh wonton chips (7.99)”

I was invited to Anthony’s Special Media Blogger Event at Anthony’s Coal Fire Pizza off of Turkey Lake Road in Orlando. I have never been there before so it was really excited for the opportunity to sample multiple items from their menu.

Here was what we got to try:

	Anthony’s Classic Italian Salad
	Fresh Mozzarella & Tomato Salad The Mozzarella is soft with a sweet taste and goes so well with the fresh basil. One of my favorites!
	Meatballs & Ricotta Cheese Large hand rolled Meatballs slowly cooked in our tomato sauce
	Coal Oven Roasted Chicken Wings Served with caramelized onions and Focaccia bread
	Eggplant Marino Thinly sliced Eggplant, battered and pan fried, served with out fresh tomato sauce and Romano Cheese
NO PHOTO Those Bloggers ate it all before I could take a picture!	Pork Ribs w/ Vinegar Peppers Spare Ribs roasted in our Coal Oven with Garlic Rosmary, Spicy vinegar Peppers and white wine
	Broccoli Rabe & Sausage Bitter Italian greens sautéed in garlic and olive oil served with our Italian Sausage.
	Plain Cheese Pizza
	Margarita Pizza
	Meat Lovers Pizza

I like their pizzas because they make their crust WELL DONE! Love the crunch of the crust… so tasty.

We had such an awesome experience at Anthony’s. We got to meet other bloggers and take so many pictures of all kinds of stuff from the menu. My favorite items from the tasting:

1. Fresh Mozzerella & Tomato Salad
2. Eggplant Marino
3. Margarita Pizza

I think mostly the reason why I like it so much was because of the freshness of the Italian basil. It just compliments so well with the sweet tomatos with the yummy cheese! Their Eggplant Marino is Mega Yummo! I really like how it so thinly sliced and not greasy! I put a little red pepper flakes on there to spice it up! –Boy…I just Love Spicy foods!

We were so fortunate to try everything and I was so glad I was wearing a stretchy dress! It was a Monday night of carbo-loading and I had to pay for it the next day on the treadmill … but it was all worth it though!

Wow, what an experience! We got to meet Anthony, himself the owner of Anthony’s Coal Fire Pizza, and got a gift card for $25 to giveaway to my readers! This is all thanks to Anthony of Anthony’s Coal Fire Pizza and Toby Srebnik of O’Connel & Goldberg. Goto our Facebook and leave the comment, “Mega Yummo Rocks,” for your chance to win! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mega-Yummo/149838488375238. We will announce the winner on May 6th! GOOD LUCK!

Check out this photo of me with other bloggers:

Me with Julie of TheLittleKitchen.net, Ricky of TastyChomps.com, Joscelyn of mamiofmultiples.com, & Brittany of clumpsofmascara.com

I got to meet Rick Bayless, the celebrity chef who specializes in authentic Mexican cooking. He did a cooking demo at Macy’s at the Mall of Millenia. He demonstrated three recipes from his book, Fiesta at Rick’s, for the audience:

1. Bacon-and-Tomato Guacamole

2. Anchiote-Seared Shrimp with Quick Habanero-Pickled Onions

3. Fresh Fruit Cooler, Watermelon

His ingredients were made up of fresh produce from his roof top garden; like avocados, tomatoes, limes, and habaneros.

I was informed by Malika from beeverywhere.tv about the event at Macy’s and I am really glad she reached out so that I could have the opportunity to cover it! I had a really good time and got A LOT of pictures of Rick Bayless and some real good shots of the fresh dishes he prepared.

After the demo, he took questions from the audience and there was a person who asked, “When are you going to open a Frontera in Orlando?” Unfortunately, his answer was that he doesn’t have an plans to open one in Orlando because he is not a fan of commuting. Sorry guys! Can’t blame if he doesn’t want to fly around all the time… I mean, his book is called, Fiesta at Rick’s, if he had a restaurant all the around that would be the end of his all FIESTAS!  :)

I ended up buying the book, Fiesta at Rick’s, with my Macy’s gift card that was a gift I got from beeverywhere.tv and stood line to get it signed by Rick. He signed the book and I gave him a card for Megayummo.com. I told him he was going to be on the blog.  Smile for the camera! ;o)

More information can be found here and participating restaurants and menus listed here

For more information about Orlando Magical Dining 2011