Jiko - The Cooking Place, at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, was inspired by The Lion King. Designer Jeffrey Beers has made the focus the twin wood-burning ovens at The Cooking Place, the onstage culinary theater. Here, chef Anette Grecchi Gray offers African cuisine, a blend of European, Mediterranean and Indian: best-sellers are maize-crusted pan-roasted monkfish, and oak-grilled beef filet with Mac n' Cheese.

The Cipriani's trend CIPs restaurant was designed by architect Pier Franco Fabris. There is a pizza oven, and the peach-colored walls are hung with fabulous watercolors and sketches of Venice, by such artists as Sara Schulte and Pietro Rusconi, son of the resort's legendary MD, Dr Natale Rusconi.. Favorite dishes include ravioli with ricotta, borage and a walnut sauce, or a zucchini pasta, and hot Majani chocolate - and from June to September, try what many say are the world's best bellinis, invented here in 1943 (in summer, too, sit out on the terrace, and look across at San Marco).

One&Only Royal Mirage has a palette of restaurants, but none is more eclectic than Nina - no, not from Argentina but a sensuous exotic harem of spices, draped curtains, ceiling-hung chandeliers and action. Indian waiters, sporting saffron shirts, earrings and crazy bleached haircuts, guide you to tables set with glass beaded mats, vine-look cutlery. The bread menu alone offers something different every day of the week, and the main menu includes lamb loin tandoori with potato masala and coriander, and seared tuna salad with sweet and sour eggplant and rocket.