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Ex-Disney Chef Bringing Bahamian-Caribbean Fare to Downtown

ORLANDO-Johnny Rivers, an executive chef at Walt Disney World for 25 years before starting his own Orlando barbecue restaurant, plans to open Conch Me Crazy at the $14 million, 167-room Embassy Suites Hotel downtown in November.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on September 07, 2000

Orlando hotelier/lawyer Roy B. Dalton thinks he has picked a plum in signing name chef Johnny Richards to operate his own restaurant at Dalton’s estimated $14 million, 167-room Embassy Suites Hotel scheduled to open in Downtown Orlando in November.

Rivers was an executive chef at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, FL for 25 years before opening his successful Johnny Rivers Smokehouse and BBQ Co. in 1998. He will continue to operate that west Orlando establishment after opening the Conch Me Crazy at the Embassy Suites.

The décor of the 200-seat, 4,000-sf restaurant, Conch Me Crazy, will have a Bahamian-Caribbean ambience. The food will have an island influence. Among the entrees: coconut-crusted grouper prepared in a brick oven and served with grapefruit butter and fried potato straws. The dessert highlight: black rum cheesecake with mango supreme.

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