We haven't done the gold plan for 2 or 3 years but in our experience you can order anything you want on the menu. So if your question is if you can have sushi for an appetizer or an entree our experience would be that you could do it either way.
Loved this plan and always got our money's worth until we started going more than once a year. At that point APs made more sense. Wish there was a meal plan for AP holders!