 Hey friends. Today I am hanging out at Disney Springs. Technically I'm on Lake Bonavista and I wanted to come out here and show you the Crossroads shopping plaza right across the street from Disney Springs. This was built in 1988 by Disney and has a whole bunch of different restaurants, stores and recently it's been announced that they're gonna be closing it. The state of Florida actually bought it and plan on using it to actually alleviate all of the congestion on I-4. So let's go do this. It's so interesting seeing everyone driving into Disney Springs. It might be a little bit loud out here because there's a lot of traffic but welcome to the most magical place on earth Walt Disney World. It's really cool to actually get a great photo opportunity of these signs behind us but it's actually kind of scary to cross this main street right here. Right across the street is the Crossroads shopping plaza and there are so many unique restaurants and businesses over here so it's going to be fun to see it. A lot of it is actually all closed down already. As you can see right behind us is the entrance to Walt Disney World and you would think a shopping center across the street from Disney World that place must be crazy busy but like I said right now it's basically abandoned. As you can see by the sign Crossroads shopping dining and entertainment and right behind it is actually I-4. Most of the restaurants shops have stayed closed since the pandemic and never reopened and all the ones that are open now haven't to the end of their lease before they're gonna eventually have to vacate. The state of Florida like I said bought this and this is the biggest private purchase that the state of Florida has ever made and I think that's very interesting but there is a lot of history here and especially people that have visited the Disney parks in the 80s and the 90s even in the 2000s. I actually remember coming here all the time to Gooding supermarket and getting food they have the Pirates Golf and a lot of like popular restaurants so it's kind of crazy to see these major chains just abandoned shut down and kind of overgrown. One of the places that I always looked at when I was driving on I-4 was the Pirates Cove the original adventure golf right here in the Crossroad Plaza. Now there is a lot of these locations all over the United States but this one is gonna have to close in August when the whole entire crossroads shuts down. Even though I'm not golfing they said I can look around and look at some of the cool things that they actually have displayed here because it is really awesome and I like the shark. Look at this amazing little photo opportunity. I love how the inside of the shark's mouth is all bloody. That poor guy down there though someone get him out of the water he's got a shark coming right after him. Another thing that I used to actually see when I was driving down I-4 is Johnny's hideaway this restaurant right behind me and it is completely closed down and kind of overgrown and abandoned looking. Have you guys ever died here before? I always wanted to and I'm never gonna be able to it looks like. I mean I know that this is a part of a franchise but I don't think there are multiple Johnny's hideaways maybe there is but never gonna be able to dine at this one. I'm gonna walk around a little bit see if we see anything on the doors. I like how they have a little outside area here. Very interesting. Oh yeah look at this little patio seating a fire pit. This is really really nifty. This must have been like a water fountain here. It's crazy to think like Disney Springs is literally like a three minute walk that way. Oh wow they have a whole entire outdoor like dining area with a lake view right over here. Wow look at it over here this is all outdoors so like I'm not trespassing or anything like that. This is really interesting to see this like this. That must have been a bar area. The tiki deck is closed for a private function at this moment. Did they have tables with fire pits? So this is another entrance right there. I'm really sad. I would have loved to actually come here and probably drink at the tiki bar. That would have been really fun. Look at that view. Wow this is amazing. We got the chalk is still written. So this place hasn't been open for about a year right now. Happy hours 4.30 to 6.30. It's so strange to see this like this. I'm at these restrooms are open. Restrooms closed. What's this say? It's like a seating chart. You can take a look see. We can walk right out to the shopping closet from here. That is so strange isn't it? Did you just see something just land on the lens there? It was a little bug and land on the lens. I thought it was a smudge mark but that's really cool isn't it? Johnny's hideaway. See food, steaks and stone crab and it's just abandoned right now. It's so crazy. I really wish I actually got to dine here. I really really now that I've walked around like inside where they have the outdoor patio and stuff that seems like such a cool place. Who knows maybe they'll open another Johnny's hideaway and I will definitely go visit it then but that was actually really interesting. Johnny's hideaway is a part of a talk of the town restaurant group and they own Charlie's steakhouse and they own fish bones and it's just kind of crazy to see it like closed like that because of like the area that we're in. I know that there's a pandemic going on but Walt Disney World is right across the street. I4. There's like so many popular restaurants and even some of the nationally recognized brands that are actually in the shopping clause are closed and they're done and anyone else has until August so it's real cool to be able to see this like this. Some of the restaurants like Sweet Tomatoes right here have completely closed all of their locations. They are never going to reopen back up. They're just done and then we can take a look see we have another restaurant right here. This is TGF Fridays and that is also shut down and closed. It just seems all dark and gloomy over here doesn't it? So strange and one of the most popular interstates is running right next to it and eventually this is gonna be an exit like this is gonna come right through here I think. I mean that's it's pretty remarkable to think what's gonna happen in just about a year. I think that shark is gonna fall soon. Here's the TGF Fridays I was talking about. I see a bunch of bags on the benches here. Now I don't think this actually reopened after the pandemic. Hey blueprints actually just laying out right here. That is so crazy. Those are blueprints of the restaurant and they got them just like sitting there everything else is kind of just shut down. Very interesting looks like they got some damage here no sense of fixing it. One of the places that I've actually visited probably the most in this whole entire shopping plaza was Goodings Supermarket right here and it's so crazy because now this is the last Goodings. They're done. This was it. They're closed forever and I remember coming here so many times. I've been here with friends. I've gone from Disney Springs over here and it was open 24 hours and I always remember coming in here so crazy. Right here Goodings 24-hour supermarket. One-hour photo as well. You can take a look inside the doors. Everything's gone. The place is empty. Wow. I'd be so afraid if these doors opened and I walked near them. I used to think it was funny because they had carpet in the aisle ways and I used to be like well that's interesting. Such a sad thing right here. I really actually liked coming here. Another look on this side. Let's see. Look at that picture right there. I wonder what's going on with that. Maybe an employee's taking it home. It's a nice picture. See they advertise some of the local businesses. The Pirate's Cove which was the first thing we looked at and it's actually open now until August. It's more the Pirate Cove. Oh wait no this is Johnny's isn't it? Oh no this is Red Lobster. Yeah. Chevy's. These are all businesses actually in here. So strange. Some of the restaurants are open right now and they have until August like I said and maybe I'll get something to eat one of them. I gotta see which ones are open. I see flippers. I see flood rockers. Never even have flood rockers and they're actually open. Noodles and mose. The Tom and Cheat. They had a grilled cheese restaurant here. I think that's closed though. We'll take a peek see. You can see flippers is actually still open and then what's on this side right here? Mose. Oh they're done. Mose is closed. We've got a ladder right here. I wonder what happened in there. Noodles. Looks like they're open. I've never eaten out of noodles. I hear it's very good though. And then the Tom and Cheat. Grilled cheese and tomato soup. Home of the grilled cheese doughnut. Permanently closed. Thank you Orlando for your support. Well that is super sad. They also have a flood rockers here. I've never dined at a flood rockers and I know that there's multiple locations so I probably can't get anything from there but it says world's greatest hamburgers. I always thought this was like a sit-down restaurant but it's kind of like a five guys. I've never eaten here before or actually never even been inside of flood rockers. Now hiring. Well they're gonna stay open until August so they've got at least a summer and then no mask no service. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. kind of crazy. Now I'm thinking maybe I should eat at flood rockers. I mean honestly the restaurant in the chain itself is actually not doing too well so if I don't do it now when did they actually close forever and then I can I'll never be able to know what flood rockers is like so let's do it. Let's do it now. We can take a look at the menu here. Looks like they have the world's greatest hamburgers like it says on the side and they get a small medium or large. They even have some exotics a Kobe burger a bison burger an elk burger and then they have all of the other fixings bacon avocado mushrooms onions eggs this is gonna be this is like a five guys I'm actually really excited for this now. It says that they actually baked their buns in our kitchens every day and I thought that was interesting because when I first walked in I was like wow it smells like amazing dinner rolls in here and it really does so that's gonna be interesting I'm very excited they grilled the burgers to order they make bread daily this sounds like a really awesome place. This is actually a really fun atmosphere for a restaurant I really like it they have like an Elvis Presley section a Marilyn Monroe a Beatles section and like I said it smells amazing in here with those baked oven fresh rolls like I can't get over how amazing it smells. Speaking of the baked oven fresh rolls take a look right there maybe that's why because they're just right there bacon oh it smells so good. I think we'll sit in the Beatles booth that sounds funny doesn't it let's take a seat in the Beatles booth hello all right fantastic thank you wow look at that guys holy moly this looks really really good and I'm excited because it says world's greatest hamburger so let's see what it lives up to the expectation here because that's it's a pretty big claim. I went with the bourbon burger with sweet potato fries and it has a sweet bourbon sauce bacon and caramelized onions and then this is the bun right here and it says freshest buns in town will you look at that I guess we're gonna find out here well I gotta say it might not have been the best hamburger but it definitely had the best hamburger bun I've ever had how fancy is that they were right about one thing I mean the burger was like okay it was just a regular burger but the buns were phenomenal that was the best thing honestly if you guys have ever eaten here let me know in the comments because I know these have been a popular restaurant a long time ago and I looked up to see how many were still around and under 50 corporate locations are actually still around and operating so that's kind of like a low low number there's a good chance that they might close forever and I'm glad that I came here and tried it because now I at least say I got to eat here you know things like that I always think about like once if you're never gonna get it the chance to eat someplace before because I see a lot of big boys gone I love that though love big boys plenty who's think we're gonna actually get going here it's very good burger though it's not the world's greatest definitely world's greatest bun though I got super excited because as I was leaving I noticed all the lights for Johnny's turned on I thought maybe the restaurant's gonna be opening back up but looks like it's just the sensors that turned them on they even have the patio lights on that's kind of kind of cool but now you can see Disney Springs is straight ahead look at that all of this here it's all gonna be gone soon before we finish up I want to show you one of my favorite gas stations right across the street from the crossroads shopping center second city and this place has some unique decorations for a gas station I think it's pretty amazing this is what I'm talking about second city I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen this before but I absolutely love it in here it is really unique look at these guys up there how fancy is that this one it's got a map of Florida in his pocket looks like he's spilling some wine and he's got some cheese then he got a couple more over here this is by the pizza shop look at the second city pizzeria there's a chef right there and then the police captain looks like he's got a turkey leg so that's gonna do it for me I know it's a little weird kind of log to end with a random second city gas station but I really like it in there and I ran into my friend Ben and it was real cool just chit-champ for a second hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it and we'll see you next time bye