I had a fun time recently taking part in a progressive dinner of sorts that had me and some other media members visiting the premium restaurants at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. We had been invited by the two hotels’ PR team as a way of reacquainting ourselves with some restaurants we may not have visited in a while.

It had been a long while since I had been in Kimonos, the elegant sushi bar in the Swan where we started our evening. In fact, it occurred to me that the last time I did a full review of Kimonos I liked the food but I took management to task for not offering a nonsmoking section.

Click here to see a video version of the review, complete with Dancing Palm Trees (sort of)

Even if you’re a regular visitor to Ivanhoe Row, you’ll get a whole new perspective of the surrounding neighborhood from M Lounge, a new bar that officially opened over the weekend.

That’s because it’s a rooftop bar, sitting atop a newly remodeled two-story building on North Orange Avenue.

It’s all quite open, as you would expect a rooftop to be. And even though it’s only three floors up, it offers a comparative towering vantage of Antique Row, the residential area and downtown Orlando in the not so distant distance.

It’s especially lovely at sunset, as when I visited a couple of weeks ago.

Every day, Pizzeria Roberti, a new pie monger in East Orlando, features a specialty pizza. You might find braised short rib, Buffalo chicken or even foie gras pizza on offer.

Or a relatively mundane pizza bianca, as was the case when I visited. Oh well, luck of the draw, I suppose.

And the bianca was fine, just nothing out of the ordinary. The crust was New York-style thin and nicely done, and the toppings — all white, because bianca — were applied neither too amply nor stingily.