Coral Reef Bar and Grill

Great food and price. Staff was excellent and the setting was beautiful… Why this is three stars beats me… I can tell you after spending a week here and eating nearly everything on the menu. Food is great and the price.

Located inside the Hilton Grand Vacations Resort near Sea World, this bar & grill is a great find! Last night we had cocktails here, met a couple from Wisconsin on our right & twin sisters from Germany. Our drinks matched our conversations, they were great. He was introduced to Jack Daniels Tennessee Fire which he washed down with ice cold Stella draft. I drank golden margaritas on the rocks with salt (Herradura Tequila, Grand Marnier, OJ & Fat Tuesday sour mix), plus I nursed a chilled shot of Petron. All our drinks were expertly poured!

YIKES. The food is good. Ashley the waitress AMAZING. They are incredibly understaffed. The bartender Ali is ON POINT. Problem: he can’t do it all by himself. His immediate supervisor attempted to assist him. Further problem: I over heard him ask what’s in a Bloody Mary. Not sure if this was a one time Saturday night thing or a regular occurrence. Sad because something so simple can spoil a weekend/​vacation. :-(

This is all about poolside conveyance. They do a decent job on service most times.
Pros:
Decent food, especially for a poolside resort mostly serving kids and families. I liked the crab cakes with salad, not a sprig or two of lettuce but a mini version of their kale salad, a bit overdressed but tasty. Enough for 2 or 3 as a snack. Great service off peak.
Cons:
Young and somewhat unsupervised wait staff on some shifts makes getting the orders out in decent time and together tough. We went with family (9) and kitchen dishes came out with 5 minutes of each other but the pizza, for the youngest came out after all others were finished eating. The waitress apologized and in said it happens all the time because it comes from upstairs? where ever that is, but that means it can be announced at order or put in 5 minutes early with rush. The restaurant manager said the same thing and took it off the bill. I did not taste it but the 6 year old said it was good.
All in all a lovely setting, few games and screaming 5 year olds, but that is where this and and off peak it is nice and most servers were working hard to make folks comfortable in the heat and fun.

This is your typical resort pool area outdoor bar/​restaurant; the drinks are good but the food is really subpar. You would never really find yourself coming here if you were not staying here. Also, be ready for the typical high hotel bar/​restaurant prices.
I did like that you could order side Caesars or fruit cups with the sandwiches or burgers instead of fries. The Caesar was fresh and simple. The dressing was good enough that I ordered extra to eat with my dry Mahi Wrap. The wrap was also supposed to come with avocado slices. However, only discovered a smidgen of avocado on my last bite.
My men seemed happier than me with their food. The boys both had Pulled
Pork Sliders (one order with cole slaw on top and one without). Of course 11 year old thought the pork was too spicy (I don’t know why he bothers!), but 10 year old really liked them. I tried the pork and thought it was way too ooey gooey sickeningly sweet. Husband did have a delicious sandwich, if a bit sinful. The Seafood Club was a huge crab cake topped with sautéed shrimp and bacon on a brioche. I thought the crab cake was a little too sweet for my taste but the combination of it all was pretty yummy. I don’t know if it was good enough to waste so many calories on though!
Being a pool bar, service was a little leisurely, but our server was very sweet. The bartender was kind enough to remake my son’s virgin strawberry piña colada when his first one was did not please him. Yeah, it can be a bummer being a sick kid on vacation but I think the piña colada did help!

The selling point for this place is the location — right on property at the Hilton Grand Vacations resort, so if you don’t want to leave the property… you’ve got a nice little place to eat (um, and drink and drink) poolside.
The other selling point: the drinks. Their frozen cocktails are pretty damn good. And I’ve tried most of them, so I can highly recommend the frozen mojitos and the piña coladas. The margaritas are good, too — a little sweet, but no complaints.
The food is decent — I’ve had the burger (good, but not great), the sweet potato fries (which are cut like steak fries) and various apps like the buffalo tenders (get the blue cheese!) and the chicken nachos (skip the cilantro-​lime sour cream).
The service can take awhile (servers are REALLY nice, just seem a bit stretched) and it gets loud. But if you like loud AND music (I do) there’s generally a DJ spinning tunes all day and well into the night. (There’s also a trivia contest during the day that everyone in the restaurant seems to be playing whenever we’re in here.)
There are plenty of local places to eat in Orlando (especially if you’re not into chains) — but if you’re looking for something easy on-​property, this works.

While staying at the Hilton Garden Inn, we must have eaten here at least four different times. the service was always excellent, the food was hit/​miss, it depends on what you order, the BLT sandwich is delish, they use a special brie mayo, which was great. the fries are subpar, the breakfast was okay, they charged everything ala carte, so the bill for four of us, having light breakfasts came to $ 68/​with tip, that was pricey. The Bermuda happy hour, the drinks are a bit watered down, so don’t fall for the happy hour thing, just order your regular drink, the prices are not outrageous for pool/​bar drinks here… My issue was when we ordered pizza for the room, due to the fact that we had hot wings, they added a fifteen percent service charge to the bill?! So for two pizza’s and wing’s, it was $ 58.Maybe that’s normal for some, but not for me.

Ate here a couple of times in April for dinner.
This place primarily functions as a bar for the pool area and the hotel in general. As such, they do just fine. They make decent mixed drinks (fruity blended ones that pool patrons seem to love), but they could use a much better beer selection.
Food is just okay. I’d rate it mostly average. I tried both the Caribbean Burger and the Pulled Pork Sliders. The Caribbean Burger tasted like a plain burger with a slice of pineapple on it. I got no hint of the jerk spices that were supposed to be on it. The Pulled Pork Sliders were okay, but they overdo the onion jam. Fries were subpar. Overall, the food is average at above average prices (it is a hotel restaurant, after all).
Service was pretty bad. Wait staff rarely stops at your table. You’ll find yourself waving them down every time you need something.
Clean and well-​maintained.