* A couple of Gluttons go to the World 11/09-11/19 lots of pics*updated BOMA!

[serendipity]

Hi everyone. We had a lot of meals at the world and we'll be sharing them all with you. We had great experiences, as well as not so great experiences. Hpefully we'll be able to assist you in making some of your ADR's.


The Restaurants:
-Raglan Road
-O'hana Dinner
-O'hana Character Breakfast
-Food and Wine Festival
-Artist Point
-Tonys
-Garden Grill Character Lunch
-California Grill
-50's Prime Time Cafe
-1900 Park Fare character Breakfast
-Jiko
-Coral Reef
Boma

Counter Service:
-Flame Tree Barbeque
-Tusker House
-Flatbread Grill
-The Mara
-Roaring Forks Cafe
-Columbia Harbour House
-Pecos Bills
-Sommerfest

We'll also be rating several different snacks and drinks we had over the trip.

Day 1: Raglan Road

When I made an ADR at this restaurant I was expecting a small, warm pub. I don't know why I felt this way. I couldn't have been more room. Raglan Road is an EXTREMELY LOUD and large restaurant. The noise level is outrageous. It's the kind of restaurant where you have to scream at a person in order for them to hear you. We started off with soda bread which was pretty good. It came with an oil and guiness dip which was different but good.

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We followed this by sharring the appetizer of the Dalkey Duo. The Dalkey Duo is little sausages breaded and deep fried kind of like cocktail hotdogs. This came with a mustard/mayo dip. This was suprisingly good and I found it hard to stop eating them.

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After our apperizer was taken away it took another 50 minutes for our entrees to come out. That seemed like quite a bit of a wait as the people next to us who had come in at the same time, and ordered appetizers and entrees had already left before we got our meal. Regardless, for our entrees I apologize as we do not have any pictures. I ordered the sheperds pie and my fiancee ordered the lamb. These were both TERRIBLE. I'm really not exagerating. I'm not the kind of person who insults for no reason. The shepherds pie resembled a ground up hamburger and tasted awful. I felt like it was something I would use for dog food. Jay (my fiancee's) lamb was tough. I thought there was a bone in it and I found out it was just so tough that it felt that way with a fork and knife. The only reason we realized it wasn't a bone is because we felt it with our hands. We really had a terrible experience here.

It was so terrible in fact that I wondered how anyone had a positive experience here. This was our worst meal of the trip. I would give Raglan Road a D.



DAY 2:

This day we decided to have Breakfast at Roaring Forks. We weren't very hungry so I had raisin bran cereal while my fiancee had frosted flakes. Sorry we're not more interesting here!

We were hungry later at the Magic Kingdom so we wandered over to the bakery. The bakery was packed so we decided to go to the confectionary and split a chocolate and peanut butter rice krispy treat. This was DELICIOUS! You really must try these. We used a snack credit for the purchase.

After wandering around MK for awhile we took the monorail over to EPCOT for the last day of the Food and Wine Festival. The park was PACKED so we were only able to get food from Norway in which we got Norweigen Meatballs. This was absolutely delicious.

We had margaritas in Mexico (I love these). I had the fiesta which is a combination of Mango, Strawberry, Kiwi and Lime and Jay had just the lime. We both got it without salt.

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We walked over to Germany where we got Bratwurst, sauerkraut and black forest cake. We split this CS. I don't know what it is about Sommerfest but they have the best sauerkraut I've ever tasted. I can eat it by the spoonful. It was wonderful. Solid A.

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We followed this with shots of goldschlagger.

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And finally a Bellini.

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At this point we had to go back to our resort so we could make our dinner reservation,

Dinner was at O'hana. We really enjoyed this restaurant. We arrived a little early so after checking in we went over to the bar where Jay enjoyed a Lapu Lapu (something I would suggest) and I got my standard Bacardi and Diet Coke.

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Our Camera battery died at this point! Sorry, we get better at taking pictures as the trip progresses, I promise! When we were seated first we were given the Fried Wontons. These were great, especially with the peanut sauce. The other two sauces were okay.

Next we were given the sweet and sour shrimp which I loved and the wings which Jay loved.

Last we had our skewers and potatos which were also great. The potatos were especially good.

For our dessert we had the bread pudding. This was my favorite dessert of the trip-yummmmmmmmmmmmm

We really enjoyed our dinner at O'hana. Watching the fireworks while eating was really fun. Overall I'd give this restaurant a B+ :thumbsup2

[momofdbsdc]

Great reviews and pics so far! Keep 'em comin'!!!!! :thumbsup2

[serendipity]

Great reviews and pics so far! Keep 'em comin'!!!!! :thumbsup2

thanks so much! I definately will!

[swankybeth]

Thanks for the reviews so far, I'm enjoying them. We're eating at a lot of the same places, so I'm looking forward to the rest of your reviews. We're planning to try Raglan Road, so I'll stay away from the lamb and shepard's pie. DH really, really wants that sausage app, so I'm glad at least that was good! :tinker:

[Minniespal]

Enjoyed reading your reviews ~ Thanx for sharing.

[shamrockshake]

minniespal

where did you find the xmas mickey? I have seen a few dissers with it, and it is adorable. What a way to start out the holiday season!

( and I am jealous that you are indeed "minnie's pal" she will take pictures and wave at me and my family, but has yet to talk with us. )

[serendipity]

Day 3:

Lunch at Flame Tree Barbeque:

Jay and I split a counter service. We ordered the barbeque sandwich with coleslaw and corn and the cob. For dessert we had the key lime pie.

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This was a GREAT meal. One of our favorite of the park. The sandwich was delicious. The coleslaw was perfect and the corn and the cob was killer. The key lime pie was pretty good too but I wish there had been more meringue on top. Overall I'd give this place for counter service an A :thumbsup2

Later in the day we had drinks in Africa. I had a banana daiquiri and Jay had a rum runner. Mine was DELICIOUS. However, Jay's was wayyyyyyyy too strong. Seriously, it was about 98% liquor. It was impossible to drink. My suggestion is do not order anything off of the menu that's on chalkboard- you'll see it and know. No harambe cooler's either. I tried one later in the trip and had to throw it out because it was impossible to sip!

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Dinner was at Artist Point

Artist Point was amazing. It was our favorite dinner of the whole trip as it was our last trip. It's such a beautiful restaurant. We were seated right up against the window next to the stream. Very romantic and beautiful :love:

First we had bread with butter

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Then we had a wonderful salad. I forget the name of it and it's not on the All Ears menu so sorry but it was very good! It had apple and walnut in it and a sweet vinagirette dressing.

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This was followed by the best mussels I've ever had in my life. They were amazing. Great portion, big mussels, amazing, but not overpowering flavor.

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We tried a cheese plate

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All the cheeses were very good. There was chedder, blue cheese, and goat cheese. All were very nice. This came with raisins in a red wine reduction and sweet apricots. Very yummy. I highly suggest this as well. We usually don't order cheeses but we were splurging this dinner!

For our entrees I had the cedar plank salmon over a bay of greens which is there signature meal and my fiancee had the Buffalo Steak in the red wine reduction with carmelized onions and sweet potatos. Both were amazing. I forgot to take pictures until we were half way through so the pictures really don't do it justice. However, you'll be able to get an idea of how wonderful it was.

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For dessert we split the coffee two ways which was coffee creme brulee and a coffee and chocolate lava cake. Again, delicious.

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Here's a picture of the restaurant that again doesn't do it justice. The restaurant has dim lighting so it's hard to take flattering photos.

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Overall I'd give this restaurant an A+. Absolutely Outstanding! :thumbsup2

[ufgator]

Thanks for your reviews and pics!

[DisneyMom5]

Looking forward to reading more! :thumbsup2

[serendipity]

Thanks everyone for reading!

[serendipity]

The next morning we decided to go to the Lilo and Stitch character breakfast over at O'hana. We didn't have ADR's but we crossed our fingers. When we got to the Poly they told us it would be an hour wait and we were hungry so we used a snack credit and got some cookies at the gift shop.

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they were pretty good.

About 20 minutes later our buzzer went off, I guess it helps to be a table for two! :goodvibes

We were given juice which was an interesting flavor, I actually really enjoyed it. Then we were given Pineapple and Cinnamon Bun Bread with fruit. All was delicious.

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During that time we met a bunch of characters. Great time. Then our main food came out. I apologize because we didn't remember to take a picture until we had already served ourselves but still you get the idea.

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Everything was pretty good. Overall I'd give the O'hana character breakfast a B :thumbsup2

Up Next: Tonys popcorn::

[Blaynexox]

Great reviews!! I cant wait for more!! - I love your half eaten pictures, they made me laugh-- thats going to be something that I do! I can just hear my boyfriend now "What do you mean you have to take a picture? Im hungry!" :rotfl2: :thumbsup2

[shamrockshake]

what wonderful pictures. We head to the poly soon. Loved the cookies for a snack credit! keep em coming

[serendipity]

Hey Blayne, thanks for reading! I know what you mean. Whenever I went to take pictures Jay would be mid mouthful and be like "what? are you crazy". He doesn't love the disboards the way I do!

Thanks for reading shamrockshake! The poly is such a beautiful resort. We want to stay there one day. The convenience with the monorail is great!

[serendipity]

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We had an ADR at Tonys for right when they opened up. We didn't wait long and were seated. We were given bread with sun dried tomato sauce. The sauce was cold and wasn't very good so we asked for butter and that made a much nicer combination. The butter had mickey imprinted on it which was a nice touch :thumbsup2

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For appetizers I had the tomato and mozzarella salad and Jay had the spinach and artichoke dip. The salad was very bitter and the mozzarella was ground up so fine that I woudln't have known what kind of cheese it was had I not ordered. In NJ when you order a mozzarella salad you get big chunks, so I guess that was what I was expecting. The spinach dip was pretty good though. It had chunks of artichoke in it which nice. We devoured that pretty quickly!

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For our entrees I had the Chicken Florentina but for some reason they called it Chicken Fiorentina. I don't know if they realized they were using a wrong name or they wouldn't to give it their own touch. Whatever the case I was suprised because it was actually pretty good! For those of you who don't know Chicken Florentina is chicken with prosciutto, cheese and spinach. It came with a brown marsala sauce and potatos.

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Jay had the spaghetti and meatballs. This, was just awful. I mean it. It was chef boyarde. If you put both in my mouth NEVER would I be able to tell the difference. I couldn't believe they served this. Terrible. He ended up splitting the chicken florentine with me.

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For dessert Jay had the chocolate "gelato" which was just chocolate ice cream. I had the tirimisu which came out like this. At first I was confused. Did I order tirimisu ice cream? I had another instance of this once in the Bahamas where I was served tirimisu as a hard pie with a pie crust! Craziness! Anyway, although it wasn't tirimisu, or ice cream, it was still pretty good. Good enough to make me eat to the point where I was sick.

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Overall I'd give Tonys a C.

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[Blaynexox]

Once again great review!! We have ADRs at Tonys. Your meal looked really good, but I'll have to keep in mind what you said about the rest!! Was the atmosphere nice ??

[serendipity]

Great ambience- just don't order spaghetti and meatballs!!!!

[momofdbsdc]

Once again, great pictures and reviews!!!! Thank you for taking the time to share!

Happy Thanksgiving!
Kim
momofdbsdca

[luciloo]

Great Report, Is there more to come? :cool1:

[Cass]

Hi and thanks for the reviews and pics :)

I don't see spinach with your chicken dish at Tony's... I see asparagus?

Dessert at Artists point looks wonderful and also that salad and cheese course, yum!

[serendipity]

momofdbsdc thanks so much for reading

luciloo there's lots more to come!

Cass- thanks for pointing that out, you're right it was asparagus!

[Cass]

LOL, so maybe that was why they were using the funny name for it. I don't think they use a lot of spinach since the ecoli scare a few months ago.

[serendipity]

LOL, so maybe that was why they were using the funny name for it. I don't think they use a lot of spinach since the ecoli scare a few months ago.

:rotfl2: good point!

[serendipity]

We had lunch at the Garden Grill at EPCOT this particular day. I was definitely excited for this one. I had read so many great reviews so I was expecting the best!

And the best we did receive! YUM!

For a drink I had a rasberry daiquiri that was delicious.

We were given bread with a pumpernickle butter that was verrrrry good right when we sat down. The bread was moist and absolutely delicious and the butter was sweet. The combination was PERFECT.

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We were then given our plate of food. We were allowed to have as many plates as we wanted after this one. On the plate there was flan steak with a brown mushroom sauce. The steak was tender and the sauce was delicious. We were given turkey with cranberry sauce- yum. The fried catfish was AMAZING. Seriously, I'm fantasizing about it right now. The stuffing was wonderful as was the mashed potatoes. Everything was truly wonderful.

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For dessert we were given warm bread pudding with a vanilla sauce to put on top. This was hands down my favorite dessert of the trip. I give Garden Grill a solid A for overall experience and character interaction and for the food an 8 out of ten. We will make it a point to go there everytime we're at the world. :thumbsup2 :thumbsup2 :thumbsup2

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That evening we had dinner reservations at The California Grill. I was very excited as we had never been there before and for the rave reviews from the disers. I have to say it was a big disappointment. Yes, there was a view of the castle and space mountain but it was very far away.

We were started off with bread and oil. The oil was very bitter but otherwise the bread was good.

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For appetizers I had the sonoma goat cheese ravioli. This was okay, but not superb.

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Jay had sushi. I forget which one it was but I think it was the Yoshie's Sushi Samper. The sushi I will admit was very good. This was the best part of our meal.

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For our entrees I had the halibut. The halibut was AWFUL. It was steamed with rice and vegetables. and had an overwhelming pickle flavor. If you go to the grill definitely do not order this!

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Jay had the steak which he said was good but definitely not worth the price. The steak was tender and we ended up splitting it.

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For dessert I had the apple tart. It was pretty good, but I'm a bit of a sweet tooth.

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Jay had the chocolate flourless cake with rasberry sorbet. Again, it was good but not great

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I have to say I was underwhelmed with the CG. This is not a romantic place to eat. It's loud and kind is more like a singles bar. Although the food wasn't terrible I wouldn't say it's anywhere near the price. It seems the view of the Magic Kingdom is the big draw here. We wouldn't go back. I'd give it a 5 out of 10 or a C and Jay says the same.

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[loralie]

Great dinning report, love the pics! I am also reading your trip report and I know what you mean about being Italian and eating Italian food outside of the Tri-state area. ;) My DH will not eat Italian food in Disney...he always says "If they can't get the Pizza right what makes you think they will get the rest of it right?" :rotfl2:


Keep up the good work, can't wiat to hear the rest.

Loralie

[Cass]

I have to admit I was really surprised the first time I went to California Grill, I was expecting a quiet, upscale adult atmosphere and it was utter chaos in there, extemely loud that you had to speak loudly to have a conversation and tons of people lined up by the entrance waiting to get in, babies everywhere and kids running all over the place.

The food was VERY good though, I am giving it another try, but I didn't have fish - I guess there was lots of dill on your halibut making it taste like pickles :(

That apple tart looks good though, I might try that next month :)

[serendipity]

Hi Loralie- thanks for reading. Italian food just isn't the same outside of this area. While we had fun at Tonys we'd probably never eat there again. Thankfully there's so many other nice restaurants to choose from!

Hey Cass. Yes very loud indeed. While we had a great time maybe we just didn't order right. I hope you have a more positive experience and I'll be looking foward to hearing how it goes! I just noticed that you'll be staying at AKL. Hands down our favorite resort!

[Cass]

Yep, AKL is my fav too! :goodvibes why did you stay at WL if AKL is your fav?

We are going to CG on my birthday :bitelip:

[serendipity]

Yep, AKL is my fav too! :goodvibes why did you stay at WL if AKL is your fav?

We are going to CG on my birthday :bitelip:

We split the stay between the wilderness lodge and AKL because we had never stayed at WL before. While we loved WL we were happy to go back to the lodge for the last 4 nights of our trip!

[Blaynexox]

ohhh Garden Grill looks YUMMY! .. hmm maybe I should make another ADR?! hehe

[serendipity]

ohhh Garden Grill looks YUMMY! .. hmm maybe I should make another ADR?! hehe

Garden Grill is AWESOME. What restaurants do you have ADR's for so far?

[KatGarcia]

I swear I really wanna just be in the world but at the same time i'm sooooo excited to EAT in the world! LOL! Great reviews & pics!!!!

[Blaynexox]

So far we have ADR's at :

Planet Hollywood
Coral Reef
50's Prime Time Cafe
Sci Fi Dine In
Le Cellier
Boma
Mama Melrose (Fantasmic Package)
Tony's Town Square
Les Chefs de France
O'Hana

.. that takes up ALL our TS meals unfortunately .. Garden Grill is a TS right? So I wont be able to use it .. hmm i dont even think we have enough days to eat at all the places i WANT to eat at!! Hopefully my Dining Report turns out good! .. was it embarassing to take pictures in the restaurants? Im a little nervous about that!!

[serendipity]

Kat- thanks for reading. I can't wait to hear all about your trip. Also, I know what you mean. Sometimes I get just as excited for the food as for the trip!

Blayne- those ADR's sound GREAT. We've eaten at all of them except Mama Melrose, Le Cellier and Les Chefs de France. All of them we had a great time at! Also, it wasn't embarassing taking pictures in the restaurant. Everyone does!

[Good Ol Gal]

excellent report!!

Man your pics of the Garden Grill makes me want to go back!!

My family want to try Coral Reef this trip so I can't do it :(

I am going to keep trying to convert them though :earboy2:

[Blaynexox]

Blayne- those ADR's sound GREAT. We've eaten at all of them except Mama Melrose, Le Cellier and Les Chefs de France. All of them we had a great time at! Also, it wasn't embarassing taking pictures in the restaurant. Everyone does!

Thanks!! .. i did A LOT of reading up on them and even though I've read a lot of bad reviews on Coral Reef I still plan on going there for valentines day because the atmosphere will be great and me and my bf will pretty much eat anything! .. well almost anything! I had a dream last night that I was taking pictures of food at some random restaurants and that I forgot to take a picture of a meal and wanted to take a picture of someone elses so that everyone on the DIS wouldnt be disappointed :rotfl2: !! .. its was so weird!! AHH .. this trip should be VERY interesting!!

[shovan]

Thanks so much for your great reviews! Anxiously awaiting your review of Jiko!

[serendipity]

GoodolGal- thanks so much for reading. We LOVE the garden grill and coral reef! Good luck on converting them!

Blayne I LOVE that you had a dream about that! How funny! I can't wait till you go so I can read all about your trip!

Shovan- thanks for reading! I can't wait to post it for you

Side note- I'm sorry I haven't posted anything recentely. I had a bit of bad news concerning family health and I've been a bit distracted. I PROMISE to update both my food report and trip report tomorrow though!

[mlill]

Hey! I just found your Dining Review TR! I don't know how I missed it?!? I love your pictures! I'm sorry you guys had a bad dinner at CG! It's strange, because we just went a couple of weeks ago and had a great time! (although, we didn't have the halibut - sounds nasty! pickles! ick! :crazy2: ) Anyway, I totally agree about Artist Point. I love that place! We're going there for our Christmas dinner!

-Michelle

[serendipity]

Hey! I just found your Dining Review TR! I don't know how I missed it?!? I love your pictures! I'm sorry you guys had a bad dinner at CG! It's strange, because we just went a couple of weeks ago and had a great time! (although, we didn't have the halibut - sounds nasty! pickles! ick! :crazy2: ) Anyway, I totally agree about Artist Point. I love that place! We're going there for our Christmas dinner!

-Michelle

Hi Michelle-thanks for reading! I guess we just had a bad experience, but I'm happy to hear that you had a nice one. Have a great Christmas dinner!

[serendipity]

Today was our day at MGM.

We started breakfast off at the Mara. Sorry, no pics but I did have a delicious chocolate chip muffin and Jay had a great cinammon roll that we used snack credits for.

We split lunch at the Flatbread Grill. It was delicious. I can't say enough good things about this place. I had never really heard about it on the boards before and we kind of just stumbled upon it. It's a healthy eater place and that was just what we wanted.

We split a chicken caesar wrap. It was yummy! Only it was a little small so I don't suggest splitting here. For dessert we had a very good chocolate cake and I had the best Sangria I've ever tasted in my life.

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From now on this will be our counter service stop at MGM.

For dinner we ate at 50's Prime Time Cafe. Another great meal.

For drinks Jay had a root beer float and I had a bacardi and diet coke.

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He's too cute sometimes.

Anyway, for appetizers I had the shrimp cocktail. It was very good. Jay had the fried herbel cheese which was also very good. The cheese came with various fruits and the grapes tasted heavenly with the cheese. YUM!

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For our entrees I had the salmon and Jay had the meatloaf. Both were fantastic. I'm not even a meatloaf person and I liked his and mine was amazing. I never thought salmon would be good here but I was WRONG.

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Jeremy was yelled at to finish his green beans or no dessert. Our waitress was a riot. She was constantly in theme.

Finally, for desserts I had the angel food cake. It was really, really really really really good :cloud9: We had hit the food jack pot today!

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Jays was equally wonderful. He had the smores

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Up Next: 1900 Park Fare and Jiko!

[serendipity]

for some reason my pictures above aren't coming out. Photobucket is having some sort of problem. I'm assuming the pictures will show up after photobucket solves whatever is wrong with it. Sorry!

[shovan]

Your pics are showing up & boy do they look yummy!!! :thumbsup2

Where exactly is the Flatbread Grill in MGM?

[Blaynexox]

I'm glad you did a review of 50's PTC. Im also glad you reviewed the salmon because I was considering getting that when I go. Did the waitress do any embarassing things to you guys?? How did Jay like his smores? .. it all looks so yummy!!

[serendipity]

Shovan- great! I'm happy that they're showing up! The Flatbread Grill is very close to the Lights, Motors, Action show.

Blayne- the salmon was great- definitely go for it!! The waitress was relatively tame, but we requested a more tame server. However, she did make Jay finish his green beans before giving him any dessert. The smores were great by the way!

[BelleMcNally]

For our entrees I had the Chicken Florentina but for some reason they called it Chicken Fiorentina. I don't know if they realized they were using a wrong name or they wouldn't to give it their own touch.


They probably had Fiorentina instead of Florentine because, in Italian, Florence is Fiorenze. So Fiorentina is just the Italian way of saying Florentine (i.e. "from Florence") :thumbsup2

[silverangel879]

Liking your report so far...Did you have trouble sharing any Table service with the DDP?

[serendipity]

BelleMcNally- thanks so much for explaning that! Now I know for next time! Also, thanks so much for reading.

SilverAngel- thanks for your response! We never had a problem sharing anything.

[BelleMcNally]

BelleMcNally- thanks so much for explaning that! Now I know for next time! Also, thanks so much for reading.


Not a problem! :sunny:

[BriarRosie]

Wow, it's been a while since I've been at some of those places, and things
are almost the same, but I noticed what was missing.

Flame Tree used to serve wonderful baked beans with the BBQ sandwiches.
When did those go away? :confused3 (I must admit I haven't been keeping
up with the dining "news".)

I did know the s'mores at the Prime Time were changed. The quantity of
s'mores used to be double what you get now. Two people were able to share
easily.

But I loved my buffalo steak at Artist Point, and I know that looks to be
the same. :love:

And I knew the Garden Grill had changed their menus, but then changed
them back to the "original" way, what you've shown us. Yes, the catfish
is really tasty!

I'm enjoying my vicarious food here. I have food pics from previous trips,
but I've never posted any.

[MamaKate]

Wow, it's been a while since I've been at some of those places, and things
are almost the same, but I noticed what was missing.

Flame Tree used to serve wonderful baked beans with the BBQ sandwiches.
When did those go away? :confused3 (I must admit I haven't been keeping
up with the dining "news".)



Well as of Sept. they still had the baked beans with the sandwhich. We had a BBQ Beef sandwhich, but didn't want the beans, so the CM offered us the cole slaw instead.

Maybe the OP just didn't want the beans so she got the cole slaw instead. :confused3

[serendipity]

Well as of Sept. they still had the baked beans with the sandwhich. We had a BBQ Beef sandwhich, but didn't want the beans, so the CM offered us the cole slaw instead.

Maybe the OP just didn't want the beans so she got the cole slaw instead. :confused3

they do give you baked beans but we substituted for cole slaw bc jay hates beans so don't be disappointed!

[BriarRosie]

they do give you baked beans but we substituted for cole slaw bc jay hates beans so don't be disappointed!


Whew. It's a relief to know the beans are still available. :thumbsup2

[serendipity]

What a beautiful restaurant. It's so romantic on the inside. I can't stress this enough. I really suggest eating here if you're a couple. It was quiet and wonderful.

Anyway, back to the DINING report. Sorry guys!

First came out the bread. Best bread of the trip. Hands down. I love bread and relish every oppurtunity I allow myself to have it. Normally, I'm an Atkins girl so bread is heavenly. The butter was sweet and savory.

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For our appetizers I had the Kalamata Olive Flatbread and Jay had the Keyan Coffee Barbeque Chicken flatbread. Both were different, but good. Jeremy loved his.

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For entrees I had the Wood Grilled Pork Tenderloin. It was okay, but Jay's entree was much better.

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Jay had the famous filet mignon. I never thought it would work, steak and mac and cheese but....it does. I really liked this and I'm not even a steak person!

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For dessert I had a delicious pistachio creme brulee and Jay had the flourless chocolate cake which was pretty good as well.

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Overall we give Jiko a B. We'd definitely go back but we wouldn't have to every trip the way we do with our Artist Point.

[Blaynexox]

Looks yummy. What was in that butter? It looked different.

[serendipity]

Hey Blayne- thanks for reading....the food was very yummy. As for the butter I'm not sure what was in it, but it was definitely different and good!

[kimwim8]

That bread looks heavenly! And the filet with mac n' cheese. I think Jiko is a MUST EAT on our next trip (whenever that may be :sad2: ).

Thanks for another great installment.

[serendipity]

Thanks KimWim- the pics came out blurry bc it was so dark in the restaurant but it was really good. I definitely definitely give it a recommendation!

[serendipity]

Wow...this was a wonderful restaurant. I was so nervous to eat here after hearing all the negative reviews but I am so happy I did. We had a wonderful time. The view was amazing as was the food. :thumbsup2 :thumbsup2 :thumbsup2

I started with the creamy lobster soup. It was delicious with big lumps of crab meat in it. Yummmmmm.

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Jay had the seafood and crab souflee served with creamy lobster sauce. This was also amazing. Easily a rival to my lobster soup!

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For entrees I had the tuna served witha soy glaze and wasabi mashed potatos. The tuna was AMAZING and the potatoes were the perfect side dish. I cannot express this enough. It was delicious. Jeremy even loved it and he is NOT a fish person.

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He on the other hand had the steak which was served with a beef demi glaze and potatoes au gratin. While he enjoyed it was steak it wasn't nearly as good as my tuna. He had broken the cardinal sin of ordering steak at a fish restaurant.

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For dessert we had the chocolate wave. This was heavenly. Also, we had the pineapple cake which was also good!

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Overall we really enjoyed Coral Reef and was one of our favorite restaurants of the trip. The fact that its not a signature restaurant amazes us. We'd give it a B+!

[swankybeth]

Loving your reviews! Glad that Coral Reef was good. I'm really looking forward to trying it, but I know there are lots of negative reviews also. :sunny:

[serendipity]

thanks so much for reading swankybeth- I'm sure you'll love the reef!

[Blaynexox]

This was the review that I have been waiting for! We are going to Coral Reef for Valentine's Day and I was sooo nervous that we wouldn't enjoy ourselves, however through reading your trip report I see that we have a lot of the same tastes so if you like it then Im sure I will! Yay .. im really excited now! Thanks!

[serendipity]

oh good. You'll love it there, it's a great place to go for Valentine's Day. The ambience is definitely romantic!

[serendipity]

We ate our lunch at Tusker House at the Animal Kingdom. There was a long wait but it moved pretty quickly.

I had the chicken salad. I have to be honest, it was REALLY bad. Like, airport bad. Don't order this!

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Jay had the fried chicken sandwich with fries which was MUCH better! It was actually very good!

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For dessert I had the best carrot cake I've ever tasted. It was moist and the icing was heavenly :cloud9: YUMMMMMMM!

Jay had the chocolate cake which was also delicious.

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Overall we'd give tusker house a C+.

For dinner we ate at Boma. We love this restaurant because we love trying all kinds of different foods. Again, Boma did not disappoint.

I started out with a Carrot/Ginger soup. It was different and good!

Jay started out with the lamb stew which was also yummy.

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This was followed by mix salads. The watermelon rind salad, salad with an apple citrus dressing, some sort of pasta salad and avocodo salad. Again, all different and good.

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On to the main course. This included mealy bread (I highly recommend), barbeque chicken, amazingly tender prime rib and an assortment of all delicious and different things. I'm sorry that I don't remember the names of everything!

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For dessert we basically tried one of everything. All were delicious! Dessert as per usual was my highlight of the meal!

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We highly recommend going to Boma at least once. We'd give it a solid B!

[Blaynexox]

I keep reading all wonderful reports on Boma. It is the only buffet meal that we are going to and it seems that I made a wise choice because all the food I see looks great! All I can say is YUM! :)

[BriarRosie]

And the cool thing about Boma is that the menu changes on a three-day
rotation. Until I hear otherwise, of course. ;) You can potentially eat there
three days in a row without getting the same menu twice.

Some items never seem to "go away". I think the roasted tomato soup is
always on the "pod", for example. There's always some meat on the carving
station, and the desserts never disappointed me.

Glad Boma is still yummy. :)

[serendipity]

Blayne- you'll love Boma. We've eaten here twice now and loved it both times. It's fun and different. Also being in the lodge is an experience all in itself!

BriarRosie- thanks for your response and information. That IS really cool!

[Pixie Power!]

WOW what a wonderful foodie report. Im just in the beginning stages of planning my trip and as my trips normally revolve around food....this report is an excellent source of info. Im adding Boma's to my list thats for sure :banana:

Thanks

Emma

[serendipity]

Hi Emma- I'm happy you enjoyed the review! Boma's a lot of fun!

[mlill]

I just took a few minutes to catch up on your report and now I'm starving! Thanks a lot! J/K Your pictures are great. I can't wait to go to Jiko again! I'm glad that you had a good time at Coral Reef. We haven't been there in a few years and I've been worried after reading some bad reviews. Brenna really wanted to go, so I gave in. Your review made me feel much better! :goodvibes

Happy Holidays!
-Michelle

[sarehm]

That doesn't even look like chicken salad. It looks like rice or if you want to be totally honest, maggots! Gross. Thanks for the heads up as I love chicken salad and probably would have ordered that!

[serendipity]

Mlil- I think you'll have a great time at the Coral Reef so don't worry! Can't wait to read all about it! Have a great time!

sarehm- I know, it was REALLY bad, but the chicken sandwich was good and the rotisserie chicken also looked good. Happy I made sure one of the disers doesn't order this though!