Family of Six take on FREE DINNING!!! UPDATE 10/2 Whispering Canyon Cafe w/pictures

[Samandmom]

Thank you Disney for offering the free dinning earlier this year, so we could take advantage. The last time we did the free dinning was in 2006. We had originally planned on going to Disney Land (have never been) this year but this was way cheaper. Disney Land will most likely be next year.

We leave bright and EARLY :eek: on Monday the 17th. :banana: We will be staying at All Star Movies.

Let me introduce the "characters" partaking in this trip.

Me - Minnie ::MinnieMo
DH - Mickey :smickey:
DS - Stitch :stitch2:
DD - Tink :tinker:
Nephew - Donald :donald:
Nephew's girlfriend - Daisy :wave:

We are going along with this years theme "What will you celebrate?"
We will be celebrating our 12 year Anniversary. (8/16 is our actual Anniversary) I am surpising DH with a mini castle cake on our Grand Floridian Cafe day. My nephews birthday is on the 19th and my DS had a birthday on 7/31. I will be suprising DS with one of those pirate chest cakes on our Chef Mickey's day. My DD will be getting a Cinderella Slipper at our tea at the GF. (will call it her UnBirthday ;))

The following are our Reservations:

Monday - Breakfast will be in the car on the way to the airport, Lunch at the airport on our layover and dinner will be the ASMo food court
Tuesday - Breakfast and Lunch CS (probaly Cosmic Rays) Dinner will be at the Grand Floridian Cafe (new to us)
Wednesday - Donald's Birthday Breakfast - Boma (new to everyone but Daisy) - Lunch - snack - Dinner - Tutto Italia (new to us)
Thursday - On this morning Mickey and Donald will be on the Segway Tour so probaly CS for breakfast for them. The rest of us will be going to Kona Cafe for breakfast (OOP) then Lunch will be a CS and Dinner will be at Whispering Canyon Cafe (been once)
Friday - Breakfast will be in Norway with the Princess (been once) Late Lunch/Early Dinner for the girls will be at the Grand Floridian Tea (new to us) and the boys will go to T-Rex. (new to us) Later on hopefully snacks from Goofy's
Saturday - Breakfast and Lunch CS and Dinner Chef Mickey's (been a few times)
Sunday - Breakfast CS, Lunch - Sci Fi and Dinner CS
Monday - Breakfast CS, Lunch - at airport and Dinner at airport

So there you have it. I would like to post some live photos from my iphone if I can figure it out. ;)

[MickeyNicki]

Count me in but be prepared for the crowds...we were there Aug 14-16 and the night of the 15 and the morning of the 16th there were people all over the place!

[catne]

Have fun! Hope your crowds are reasonable, pixie dust lands all around you, and the rains fall only between 3 & 5 a.m. (that's my version of a Disney-Irish-Blessing, lol.)

Your line-up looks good...we're also trying Tutto for the first time on our upcoming trip. Enjoy Grand Floridian...we did! And Kona breakfast...love that Big Kahuna platter (macadamia nut pancakes-serious drool!)

[Samandmom]

Welcome back and thanks for the warning about the crowds. We are sitting in Atlanta at the moment, so we will be there soon.

I tried to see if I could post pictures from my iPhone but I don't see a way.

[Samandmom]

Have fun! Hope your crowds are reasonable, pixie dust lands all around you, and the rains fall only between 3 & 5 a.m. (that's my version of a Disney-Irish-Blessing, lol.)

Your line-up looks good...we're also trying Tutto for the first time on our upcoming trip. Enjoy Grand Floridian...we did! And Kona breakfast...love that Big Kahuna platter (macadamia nut pancakes-serious drool!)

Your pictures from Kona breakfast help me make my mind up about going

[Samandmom]

Have fun! Hope your crowds are reasonable, pixie dust lands all around you, and the rains fall only between 3 & 5 a.m. (that's my version of a Disney-Irish-Blessing, lol.)

Your line-up looks good...we're also trying Tutto for the first time on our upcoming trip. Enjoy Grand Floridian...we did! And Kona breakfast...love that Big Kahuna platter (macadamia nut pancakes-serious drool!)


Thank you, we had our Grand Floridian Cafe dinner tonight and we LOVED it I give everything an A+++ from the server to the food. I have pictures and a more detailed report when I get back.

[DLo]

Looking forward to your reviews. Hope you have a magically celebration filled trip!

[catne]

so glad your dining fun is off to a good start. Can't wait to see full reports (but have fun in the parks too!)

[donaldtutter]

popcorn::

[Disneyof3]

Count me in too:cool1:

[mimi'sgirl]

Hi - Thank you for doing a live report. Could you do a favor for the people who love Goofy's Candy - There is a thread that says the prices of "make your own" increased. It says that a Mickey Mouse rice crispy head is now $8.95 with unlimited toppings. If you don't mind could you confirm the prices. Enjoy your trip and thank you again.

[leeann32]

Sounds exciting! :thumbsup2 Cant wait for the updates

[Samandmom]

Hi - Thank you for doing a live report. Could you do a favor for the people who love Goofy's Candy - There is a thread that says the prices of "make your own" increased. It says that a Mickey Mouse rice crispy head is now $8.95 with unlimited toppings. If you don't mind could you confirm the prices. Enjoy your trip and thank you again.



We are probalygoing to DD on Friday. So I will have to check on that for sure. Thanks the heads up

[TigerKat]

Signing on!

[Samandmom]

We went to Boma for breakfast and Tutto Italia for dinner. They both were very yummy. At Boma our waitress was a little slow. Our watress brought Donald out a little plate with desserts for his birthday. At Tutto Italia we ordered a cake at the podium. The cake was very tasty. Stay tuned for all the details.

We had a Kona Cafe reservation for today ( while the boys are on their tour) but I cancelled so we could sleep in. We have reservations at Whispering Canyon Cafe for dinner.

[mimi'sgirl]

Thank you Samandmom

[Samandmom]

Hi - Thank you for doing a live report. Could you do a favor for the people who love Goofy's Candy - There is a thread that says the prices of "make your own" increased. It says that a Mickey Mouse rice crispy head is now $8.95 with unlimited toppings. If you don't mind could you confirm the prices. Enjoy your trip and thank you again.


We went last night to Goofy's. The Mickey heads are no longer considered a snack credit. They cost $4.50 and that is one dip one topping and one drizzle. Anything else a $1.00 for each additional items.
Also only pretzels dipped in chocolate without a topping are a snack credit.
I used up 6 snack credits, we got:
a large square rice crispy treat with chocolate on top
3 chocolate pretzel sticks
chocolate mickey head pretzel wit cookie crumbs on it
marshmallows dipped in chocolate with m&m's
mint fudge
large oreo type cookie dipped in milk chocolate and m&m's and drizzles in white chocolate

[Sandy321]

We went last night to Goofy's. The Mickey heads are no longer considered a snack credit. They cost $4.50 and that is one dip one topping and one drizzle. Anything else a $1.00 for each additional items.
Also only pretzels dipped in chocolate without a topping are a snack credit.
I used up 6 snack credits, we got:
a large square rice crispy treat with chocolate on top
3 chocolate pretzel sticks
chocolate mickey head pretzel wit cookie crumbs on it
marshmallows dipped in chocolate with m&m's
mint fudge
large oreo type cookie dipped in milk chocolate and m&m's and drizzles in white chocolate

Thanks for the confirmation!! SAD that! :(

Every DIS'er needs to email guest relations to seriously complain - this is so opposite Walt's dream!

yet, it does serve the bottom line (almighty dollar!) sad that...

[mimi'sgirl]

Samandmom- thank you so much for getting that info for us. Goofy's was a fav. for us last year and DH will be a little disappointed. Enjoy the rest of your vacation and have a safe trip home. We still plan to go as we are not on the meal plan. Did you notice if they increased the price of the pretzels 3 for $3.00 was a bargain. I left my DH and 2 kids at a table and was able to get alone time shopping.

[Samandmom]

Samandmom- thank you so much for getting that info for us. Goofy's was a fav. for us last year and DH will be a little disappointed. Enjoy the rest of your vacation and have a safe trip home. We still plan to go as we are not on the meal plan. Did you notice if they increased the price of the pretzels 3 for $3.00 was a bargain. I left my DH and 2 kids at a table and was able to get alone time shopping.

sorry I don't remember the price for three pretzels. But I think a single dipped and one topping was around 1.75for one

[eventamy]

Can't wait for the reviews!

[Samandmom]

Hi Everyone

We just got back late last night. It's been a very laid back lazy day here in our house. ;) I took pictures of almost all our sit downs, I just kept forgetting to take pictures of CS. On our last full day on Sunday I was getting a little crazy with pictures I took a picture of the guys tray in front of me. :rotfl: I used my Iphone so there would be no flash lol hopefully he did not notice. I will have full reviews and pictures sometime this week. We shared alot of our CS meals so by Saturday we still had alot CS lefts so we started to order meals for the four of us. That was alot of food but we just picked desserts that we would be able to take with us.

Overall we had wonderful dinning experiences at all the restaurants. I give the Grand Floridian Cafe the highest mark because not only was the food very good but our waitress was excellent. :thumbsup2 The worst was Chef Mickey's. :sad2: It was a combination of alot of things 1. My daughter was afraid of all the characters. We visited Stitch in the park earlier in the week and she did GREAT!! So I thought she would be fine with everyone else but no she was not. :scared1: I stayed away a good portion of the time with her till the characters left. She did do great with Minnie and Minnie was absoultely wonderful with her!! I also thought the food was nothing to write home about. I am just glad that it was free dinning and we did not have to pay 100.00 or so dollars for dinner. I did order the pirate chest cake for my DS that night and he LOVED it and was very excited about it. I highly recommend it for a birthday at a buffett meal since its small. Our waitress was good about getting our drinks but she was not friendly.

My DD took a few pictures of food also, with her camrea so I will have to see how those came out. :lovestruc

[Samandmom]

We ate our very first meal in Disney at the ASMO Food Court. By the time we were able to sit down and eat it was almost 6:30 and we were starving by then since our last meal was at the airport around 10:45 am. We ordered 3 meals to split amongst the four of us. We ordered the Hot Italian Sandwich, Chicken with Penne Alfredo, and the Spaghetti and Meatballs. The kids split the Spaghetti and Meatballs. Stitch enjoyed the meatballs but Tink did not. She had some of my chicken along with her spaghetti. I did not like the sauce on it. I enjoyed the Chicken and Penne, the only thing was the Penne was dried out so I just had to make sure to mix it up so all the pasta would get the Alfredo sauce on it. Mickey enjoyed his Hot Italian Sandwich, I don’t remember what was on it but from the picture it looks like ham, provolone cheese, pesto sauce and probably some other meat. For the drinks we grabbed a water bottle and two orange juices. (for breakfast) I brought a little insulate lunch bag and we put ice in it for the drinks. We had the mugs. For dessert we grabbed a rice krispy treat (we brought it back to the room) and two brownie sundaes to split. The brownie sundaes were very yummy and plenty to share.

Hot Italian Sandwich comes with chips

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Chicken Penne Alfredo and Spaghetti and Meatballs they both come with side salads they too much dressing on them they also come with a yummy breadstick

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Brownie Sundae after we split it up

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Donald ordered a make your own salad with steak on it. I did not get a picture of it since when I remembered he was pretty much done eating. I thought it looked yummy and obviously he liked it. He had a fruit cup for dessert

Daisy ordered some type of fish (sorry I don’t know what type) She thought it was good but a very small portion. She also had a fruit cup for dessert

Here is Daisy's fish it looks like she ate the veggies before we snapped the picture

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All in all the Food Court was perfect meal to eat our first night, it was quick and good. We went to bed not long after dinner since we were up since 3:30 am.

Next Up: Grand Floridian Café

[Samandmom]

We woke up early today so we could get to the MK for EMH. For breakfast we had oatmeal squares (brought from home) and bannanas that we bought from the Food Court the night before. They were yummy and held us over for a bit.

We started to get hungry so we were looking for a snack. Magic Kingdom does not have much open at 10am. So we continued to ride more rides. We got off Pirates and stumbled upon Pecos Bill. We walk in and the place is dead. Want to know why the place is dead? Yup you guessed it they don't open till 11. :laughing: The time was only 10:45. Donald took a look at the fixings bar and really wanted to eat there because of it. We then found a store nearby that was open. (Someone please help me on the name of this place? It was close to Pecos Bills) We walk in and find packaged snacks and rice krispy treats. The very nice CM working helped us out by letting us know what items counted as snack credits. We ended up with 2 HUGE rice krispy treats topped with chocolate to split amongst the 4 four of us. It was very yummy and one block would of been plenty, but don't worry Donald helped us finish the other one. :lmao:

edited to add: I found the receipt for the rice krispy treats and we bought them at Prairie Outpost and Supply


I did not snap a picture of the rice krispy treat but Mickey did get one later in the week at Goofy's so I will post that one.

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Daisy picked out a bag of pretzels as her snack. I thought they tasted bland. Aside from helping us with our rice krispy Donald picked out a snack also but I really don't remember what. I think it was some sort of trail mix.

Our bellys were once again happy.

I also wanted to add that Donald had on his birthday button so the CM so kindly sang Happy Birthday to him backwards!! Yup you guessed it she turned her back to us. :-)

Next Up: Lunch at Pecos? Or did we keep with tradition of Cosmic Ray's
(sorry I know I said Grand Floridian Cafe would be next in the last post but it will be after lunch reviews ;) )

[Samandmom]

Around 12pm we decided to eat lunch. We were in Tommorrowland on Buzz so it was easier to stay with tradition and eat at Cosmic Ray's instead of going back to Pecos Bill.

We ordered two bacon double cheeseburgers to split amongst the four of us. Plus a large diet and large lemonade. The burgers tasted just as yummy as we remembered from the past. Except for Tink she did not like her burger. :confused3 For dessert we ordered a chocolate cake and a packaged brownie. (took back to the room with us) The chocolate cake was very yummy and very chocolatey. :lovestruc The kids ate most of it with me and Mickey just taking a bite.

Donald ordered the chicken and ribs combo with green beans and mashed potatoes and grapes as his dessert. He enjoyed every morsel. ;) (If you have not figured it out yet Donald is a big eater popcorn::)

Daisy ordered the Vegetarian Wrap, the only thing I remember in it was hummus and I don't remember what else was in the wrap, it was a very good size, she only ate about half and offered the rest to Tink. To my shock she really really enjoyed it. She ate half of what was left. She said she wanted to save room for dessert. ;)

Sorry I remembered when it was too late to take pictures.

All in all we love to go to Cosmic Rays and sit outside and watch the castle and the food and fixings bar is yummy also. :cloud9:

Up Next: Dinner at The Grand Floridian Cafe

[Pooh&OurHunny]

going in for your wonderful food report. popcorn:: Thanks for sharing

[PalmettoPrincess]

Thought I'd pop in and check out your dining report fellow traveler! :goodvibes

We went last night to Goofy's. The Mickey heads are no longer considered a snack credit. They cost $4.50 and that is one dip one topping and one drizzle. Anything else a $1.00 for each additional items.
Also only pretzels dipped in chocolate without a topping are a snack credit.
I used up 6 snack credits, we got:
a large square rice crispy treat with chocolate on top
3 chocolate pretzel sticks
chocolate mickey head pretzel wit cookie crumbs on it
marshmallows dipped in chocolate with m&m's
mint fudge
large oreo type cookie dipped in milk chocolate and m&m's and drizzles in white chocolate
Are you talking about the make your own treats? If you are, that's really strange. We went on 8/22 and we were told that the pretzel rods, marshmallows and fudge cookies all counted as snack credits. Nothing else did because of the price increases. We both got fudge cookies with all the toppings as Snack credits :confused3



I am just glad that it was free dinning and we did not have to pay 100.00 or so dollars for dinner.
Me too! Free dining was the perfect discount for us!

I went in that store by Pecos Bill but didn't get anything... I was trying to save up credits for Goofy's Candy Co! ;) We never ate in the food court either! We walked through it, but we were never at the hotel during lunch. It smelled good though! Also, on our second day in the MK, we narrowed down our CS choice to either Cosmic Ray's or Columbia Harbor House... we chose CHH, so Cosmic Ray's is my next MK CS must do! Looking forward to reading more of your reviews! :goodvibes

[Samandmom]

:yay: Hi and Welcome

Thought I'd pop in and check out your dining report fellow traveler! :goodvibes


Are you talking about the make your own treats? If you are, that's really strange. We went on 8/22 and we were told that the pretzel rods, marshmallows and fudge cookies all counted as snack credits. Nothing else did because of the price increases. We both got fudge cookies with all the toppings as Snack credits :confused3

Yes those are all still snack credits. It's the Mickey heads that are not anymore. Also the special dipped pretzels ex: dipped in chocolate then m&ms are not. The ones that are dipped in chocolate and drizzled ARE still snack credits. I have pictures of all the snacks we got a Goofy's. The fudge cookie was AWESOME, I had mine dipped in chocolate then m&ms and then drizzled in white chocolate. I ate on it for 3 days. :cloud9:

Me too! Free dining was the perfect discount for us!
Yup can't beat that discount. Why some people don't think it is a great discount is beyond me. :confused3 ;)

[Samandmom]

PalmettoPrincess

I just reread your post. Did you say ALL the toppings? Those things must of been HUGE and yummy. popcorn::

[Samandmom]

going in for your wonderful food report. popcorn:: Thanks for sharing

Welcome and thanks for reading. :thumbsup2

[PalmettoPrincess]

I just reread your post. Did you say ALL the toppings? Those things must of been HUGE and yummy. popcorn::

No lol, I meant all the possible make your own toppings. IE, a dipping flavor, a topping and a drizzle. I have a big mouth, but I was having trouble fitting my cookie in my mouth, I don't know what I would have done if I HAD gotten all of the toppings! :lmao: I also snacked on mine for a few days... I ate most of the DBF's too! :rolleyes1

[Samandmom]

No lol, I meant all the possible make your own toppings. IE, a dipping flavor, a topping and a drizzle. I have a big mouth, but I was having trouble fitting my cookie in my mouth, I don't know what I would have done if I HAD gotten all of the toppings! :lmao: I also snacked on mine for a few days... I ate most of the DBF's too! :rolleyes1


:lmao: mmmmm I could go for one right now. :lmao:

[letstalkboutdisney]

I'm in, cant' wait to hear more!

[Samandmom]

Let me first start off by saying this was one of favorites. This was our very first time going. I chose The Grand Floridian Café because I wanted to surprise DH with the mini castle cake for our Anniversary which was on the 16th.

We arrived at The GFC at 4:40 but our reservation was not till 5:10. I went to check in and I mentioned to the CM that I ordered a mini castle cake. She said ok let me have one of my Seven Dwarfs look for it. Ten minutes later our pager goes off and we are escorted to our seats. We sit down and look over the menu. Our waitress comes over to take our drink order; her name was Lacey by the way. She was awesome right from the start.

About 5 minutes later she comes back with our drinks and takes our order. While waiting for our food, she was very good about refilling our drinks. She had come back at one point while DH had left the table for a few minutes. I asked her about the cake, I told her that I asked at the podium and they told me they were going to look for it. She said, yes we have it and she also wanted to make sure I understood that is was not paid for yet.

To start off we had bread brought out to us. One was a sour dough type which was good and the other had currants I believe she said, that one was just ok

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Those are Donald's hands you see, he was trying to make a hidden Mickey but the bread kept falling. :)

and of course the butter

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While waiting for our food Lacey brought us out two glasses of champagne. We thought that was very nice of her and thanked her very much. Heres the funny party Mickey and I don't drink at all, so when Lacey was not around Donald and Daisy drank our champagnes. We did not want her to notice that, we did not want to hurt her feelings, but Donal and Daisy had no problem drinking them. :rotfl:

Also while waiting a gentleman CM came over to talk to us and congradulate us on our Anniversary. He told us that he just celebrated his 24th Anniversary on Sunday. We then told him that was our our Anniversary date also. He then took a picture of us. We asked him if we were going to be in a magazine for a Disney ad. :rotfl2: He then said no we take picutures of our guest and pin them up in the back and then throw darts at them. :lmao:

The kids were able to pick an appetizer, and they both picked the chicken noodle soup. They both love chicken noodle soup and this did not disappoint them.

They had a little fun posing the plates for the picture ;)

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Not long after our entrees came along

I ordered the
Shrimp and Penne Pasta - Chicken Feta Sausage, Peas, and Asiago Cream Sauce $17.99

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This was absoultely wonderful and cheesy. The only thing was the Chicken Feta Sausage had no taste to it, I just avoided the few pieces. I had to stop myself at one point so I would have room for dessert.

Mickey and Donald both ordered New York Strip - with Red Bliss Mashed Potatoes, Haricot Verts and Red Wine Sauce $27.99
They both enjoyed their steak


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The picture is without the Red Wine Sauce

Donald ordered a salad with his

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Daisy ordered Salmon - with Asparagus, Julienne Shiitake and Leeks on a Potato-Chive Beurre Blanc $20.99
She thought it was good but again thought the portion was small, she enjoyed the rest of my pasta dish

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Stitch had the kids grilled steak, he really enjoyed it. I thought it was small but between the bread, soup, steak, and a little of the rice and dessert he was satisfied.

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Last but not least Tink ordered the kids pizza. I don't have a picture because she said she took one with her camerea but for some reason she was deleting pictures from it. As soon as we found out that she was deleting pictures we told her not to anymore, we told her she did not have to since she had plenty of room on her memory stick. :lovestruc


On to dessert, we ordered two of the dessert samplers. A Sweet Ending to Your Celebration... Dessert Sampler - Tiramisu, Chocolate Mousse, Key Lime Tart, and Lemon Cheesecake $9.99 We traded our tiramisu one with Donald and Daisy for their key lime.

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I was really dissapointed in the sampler everything was not cold. I will say that they did have a good taste to them though.

The kids both had Dirt and Worms

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Here is the mini castle cake that I orderd to suprise hubby with.

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When the cake was brought the waitress started to put it in front of Mickey, he took it and then started to place it front of Donald. :scared1: (He thought it was for Donald's birthhday) I then pulled it back in front of Mickey and he read the plate that it said Happy Anniversary and then he had a big smile on his face. :lovestruc He was very suprised.

The cake is very cute it tasted just ok, the frosting was a little hard on the flowered parts. The castle tasted good. They charge $30.00 for the cake, but we lucked out since Lacey did not charge us for it. On the receipt it showed as 0.

We found out after why the CM took our picture. He put it in a card for us that said Congradulations on it.

All in all this was a great meal, between the wonderful waitress and the food. We gave Lacey a very big tip. :worship:

Next up: Donald's birthday breakfast at Boma

[PalmettoPrincess]

Awwww, that was sweet of them to not charge you for the cake! I'd like to surprise the DBF with a specialty cake someday....

Wow!!! That kid's steak is TINY!!!!!!!!!! It looks like I could fit the whole thing in my mouth! Your pasta looks good, although it's got shrimp in it (I don't eat seafood).... glad you had a great time! And happy belated anniversary! :]

[Samandmom]

Awwww, that was sweet of them to not charge you for the cake! I'd like to surprise the DBF with a specialty cake someday....

Wow!!! That kid's steak is TINY!!!!!!!!!! It looks like I could fit the whole thing in my mouth! Your pasta looks good, although it's got shrimp in it (I don't eat seafood).... glad you had a great time! And happy belated anniversary! :]

hahha my son was just happy that he got the soup steak and the dessert.

Thank you and Happy Belated Birthday to you

[iluvpluto27]

Enjoying your reviews. The GF cafe looks really good, we've never got round to trying it yet.

[Samandmom]

Enjoying your reviews. The GF cafe looks really good, we've never got round to trying it yet.


Thank you for reading. I highly reccommend the GF Cafe :thumbsup2

[gemmybear83]

Awww lovely review I'm looking forward to trying the GF cafe next month :goodvibes

[letstalkboutdisney]

Nice review, Love all the pictures!
I think we may have to try to GF cafe next time.
What a great looking cake!

[onejellyshelly]

GFC is great. It is a hidden gem. I cannot wait to eat there at the end of this month. I am glad you had a great meal!

[Samandmom]

We arrived at BOMA around 8:45 a.m. for our 9:25 reservation. We had about a 15 minute wait before being seated. Our waitress came over to take our drink order. The kids and I ordered the Frunch juice.

This was our first time dinning at BOMA, we have stayed at AKL before but have never eaten at BOMA. Plus this is one of the restaurants that Daisy had requested, she wanted to dinner here but I don’t think DH and I would of liked dinner so we compromised with breakfast. All the food was very good here; my only complaint is that it is very hard to get your food when it’s crowded. Also our waitress was very buisy, so she took a very long time to come back with drinks. I took Tink up to get her food first, and then went back for mine. Before I even had a chance to sit down and eat Donald says “Wow this breakfast is really good” I took some pictures but I will try my best to remember whose plate is whose.

Frunch

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One of Tinks plates she had a bagel, sausage, bannana bread, cream cheese, jelly and pineaple


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Mickey had a made to order omelet, it was western omelet that he split with me, very yummy.

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This is my plate, with the very yummy potatoes. I love potatoes!!

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Oatmeals, one was Donald's and the others was Daisy

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My sons Fruit Loops, he LOVES his cereal

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One of Daisy's plates, she really liked the brioche (french toast) I was not to crazy about it

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This was one of my plates brioche, waffles and pancakes

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Assorted pastries

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Donald's plate ;)

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Last but not least, our waitress brought out Donald a birthday treat, very weird pastries IMO

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There was more plates of food but these are the ones I was able snap a picture of.


Tummies nice and full and we are off to AK


Next Up: Donald's Birthday Dinner at Tuto Italia

[Pooh&OurHunny]

Great updates...can't wait to read more

[Pooh&OurHunny]

forgot to say we have been to both buffet (Boma breakfast and dinner) and my family prefers the breakfast buffet better than the dinner. The dinner is also so crowded and the lines are so much longer than the breakfast buffet.

[Samandmom]

forgot to say we have been to both buffet (Boma breakfast and dinner) and my family prefers the breakfast buffet better than the dinner. The dinner is also so crowded and the lines are so much longer than the breakfast buffet.

Yes it's weird
It just does not flow right with the seperate sections. You have the people from one section that are standing there blocking the next section waiting for what they want. Hope that makes sense. ;)

[PalmettoPrincess]

Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhh! The Boma breakfast looks DELICIOUS!!!! I can't wait to try it next time we go! If I could lick the screen, I would! The pastries and that omelet look mouthwatering! What exactly was Frunch, if you remember?

[Samandmom]

Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhh! The Boma breakfast looks DELICIOUS!!!! I can't wait to try it next time we go! If I could lick the screen, I would! The pastries and that omelet look mouthwatering! What exactly was Frunch, if you remember?

Frunch is a combination of lemonade, pineapple juice, guava juice, orange juice, and papaya juice. When I told my son what was in it at first he said what is guava? I told him try it and if he did not like it he could get something else. He did like it but my daughter did not. The waitress was nice enough to give us a couple of cups of it in a to go cup.

[irongirlof12]

yum yum popcorn::

[iluvpluto27]

Yum, I love Boma Breakfast!

[Kae]

We also love GF Cafe. Last time we were there the Fish of the day was better than the fish I had the day before at Coral Reef, go figure.

Kae

[LLLBelle]

Everything looks delicious. It doesn't make the choice of where to eat easy :goodvibes

[Samandmom]

We arrived at EPCOT around 5:45 we first made a stop at guest relations so Donald could get his birthday gift card. This was taking a little longer than expected. So Mickey, Stitch, Tink and I started to walk to Italy.

We wanted to get a head start to check in so we could get Donald a cake at the podium. I check in and ask about getting a cake. The guy that I asked looked to be the manager and he said “you no order cake so I don’t have” I then said to him that the cake hotline says I can order a cake at the podium. He then gets loud with me and says “If I have a cake I send out if I no have I bring slice of cake.” I then said ok thank you very much. We then go over to have a seat and wait to be called. In the meanwhile we are texting with Daisy, because she wanted to find out if we were able to get a cake. I told her oh boy you don’t want to know. LOL

About 10 minutes later we were called in to be seated. Our waiter then comes over to take our drink order. Mickey told the waiter that I speak Italian. I wish he did not tell him that I did. I don’t speak it as much as I used to since my mom passed away, plus we are from Sicily and it is a different dialect. I did say a few things to him in Italian though.

On to our food:

For starters

Verdure, Olive "Giardiniera" e Ricotto con Basilico

Pane De Casa - with Tuscan olive oil - herb and parmesan grissini breadsticks

All the breads were very yummy, I really liked the ricotto con basilico (the spread) I had none of the Olives because I hate them, but I love olive oil go figure.

This picture was taking by Tink with her camerea. I think it came GREAT! :thumbsup2

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The kids each go the mozzarella sticks as appetizer, they both liked them but I thought they were kind of bland.

Half eaten ;)

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Stitch ordered Farfalle alla Panna - cream and parmesan $9.50

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He loved it, I sampled some when he first go it and I agree it was yummy. He ate the whole thing

Tink ordered the pizza

We both agreeded that it was very yummy

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I ordered Cannelloni al Forno - baked with spinach, ricotta, bechamel and parmesan cheese $24 Very very good

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Mickey and Donald ordered Tagliata di Manzo
I absoultely LOVED this!!! The taste reminded me so much of my mother's steak. I ate all of Mickey's potatoes and spinach since he does not veggies or potatoes.

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Daisy ordered
Tagliatelle alla Primavera - tagliatelle egg pasta with zucchini, broccoli, peas, mushrooms, and tomatoes in a light cream sauce $24

I did not try any but she enjoyed it.

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Continued in next post

[Samandmom]

On to desserts:

Donald and I had the same dessert, I forget the name of these since they are not listed on the online menus. I thought they were just ok nothing special.

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Mickey had a cannoli, which he thought was outstanding!

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Stitch had Chocolate Gelato
he enjoyed it

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Daisy had Mocha Tiramisu
If I remember correctly she liked it

Sorry about the blurry pic
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Tink had vanilla gelato and she like it

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Now the question is did we get a cake or a slice ;)

When dessert was brought out they sang to Donald in Italian, my kids got a big kick out of this because, like I said before I don't speak Italian as much as I used to but I always sing Happy Birthday in Italian and my kids have heard me so much that they also can sing Happy Birthday in Italian. :lovestruc

Well anyways the manager did have a cake. :lmao: This was the second cake of the week that I ordered, and both times it was messed up a bit since they kept going to the wrong person. They put the cake in front of Stitch.

It looks they added chocolate wafers to the top to make it look more festive
We all thought the cake was rather yummy tasting. The waiter comes back later to see if we needed the cake wrapped up and I was about to say yes but then I look over in front of Donald and see he finishing the last of it. :scared1: :laughing:

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This concludes our dinner at Tutto Italia. Overall we really enjoyed Tutto Italia, this was up high with Grand Floridian Cafe.

We then went and found a spot for Illuminations. I wanted to share a bonus picture with you, I love how it came out. :)

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[LLLBelle]

The food looks great. We was thinking about going here for lunch. That's ashame they had to make such a stink about the cake, maybe he was having a bad day :confused3

[Samandmom]

The food looks great. We was thinking about going here for lunch. That's ashame they had to make such a stink about the cake, maybe he was having a bad day :confused3

After they brought over the cake I told Donald that I had to get spit at when I ordered the cake. :lmao: I forgot to mention the spit in the review. :rotfl:

[letstalkboutdisney]

Great review! Everyting looks yummy.
Was that a chocolate fork and knife with the cannoli?
Glad to see you got the cake. Why did they have to hassle you? What a shame.
Looking forward to more!

[Samandmom]

Great review! Everyting looks yummy.
Was that a chocolate fork and knife with the cannoli?
Glad to see you got the cake. Why did they have to hassle you? What a shame.
Looking forward to more!

Yes it was cocoa powder I believe.
I think it was just a miscommunication about the cake, we just laughed it off. But I'm used to angry Italians. :rotfl2: ;)

[Samandmom]

On this morning Mickey and Donald went on the Segway Tour in EPCOT. They had breakfast at the ASMO Food Court.

Donald had a breakfast platter which consisted of a Mickey Waffle, eggs, potatoes, sausage, bacon, and a biscuit.
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Mickey had a Western Omelette with potatoes

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Mickey is so funny he took the pictures with his IPhone (he remembered on his own) and emailed them to me. He titled the email a present for you. :)

Up next: What did the rest of us eat for breakfast? After sleeping in. ;)

[Samandmom]

Our original plan for today was to have breakfast at Kona, but I cancelled the night before so we could sleep in. I am glad that we slept in but I still really want to try Kona for breakfast.

On to what we did have for breakfast. We finally made our way to the foodcourt around 10:30.

I ordered the breakfast platter and Mickey waffle with fruit for me and the kids to split.

The breakfast platter was the same as Donald's (previous post) I took some pictures after it was split up. The only differnce was that I asked to sub the biscuit for something else and they gave me another Mickey waffle. Which was perfect because the kids were happy to recieve their own Mini Mickey waffle. ;)


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Half of Mickey

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My son ate Mickey before I remembered the picture

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The platter was just ok, plenty to share, the best tasting were the waffles

Mickey Waffle with fruit
This was outstanding!!

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Daisy had the breakfast croissaint, bannana, and oatmeal. She enjoyed it.

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[chrissid7]

looks pretty yummy! I Cant wait to go now even more!

[CallMeKel77]

you are making me sooooooo hungry!

[Pooh&OurHunny]

Great updates...enjoying reading your food reviews...especially Tutto Italia, we don't have this one plan for our December trip but the pictures looks so yummy I might have to add it.

[LLLBelle]

Looks good!

[Samandmom]

After breakfast we then headed over to DHS. We did a couple things before the boys met back up with us. We met them at Pizza Planet. Mickey had a pepperoni pizza, and Donald had the veggie I think. The pizza's came with side salads and a rice krispy treat. I ate Mickey's side salad and a few bites of his pizza. The kids split the rice krispy treat. The pizza was good. Sorry no pictures.

Later that afternoon we stopped for drinks at Herbie's Drive-In. We ordered a large diet coke and a Raspberry Lemonade Frozen Cooler. The kids enjoyed it and Mickey and I enjoyed our diet coke.

I only took a picture of the cooler, I figured no one would be interested in a picture of diet coke. ;)

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Up Next: Dinner at Whispering Canyon Cafe

[jamjar84]

Great review and pics so far. :)

The cake at GFC looked so cute. :)

[Samandmom]

Thursday, August, 20th Dinner Whispering Canyon Café

We were having great luck with the buses all week, so we arrived to the Wilderness Lodge earlier then expected. So we walked around for a little bit. We then checked in around 5 for our 5:30 reservation. We had to wait a bit about 25 minutes and then we were seated. We were seated in the separate quieter area of the restaurant. Our waitress then came over to take our drink order. Everyone except Mickey ordered the bottomless shakes. Mickey prefers to have a real drink, plus he figured he would just have some of mine and the kids.

I only have this picture of the shakes:

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Donald and I ordered the skillet

For starters we had a Mixed Greens Salad with Apple Vinaigrette
I was worried that I would not like the dressing but I was wrong it was very yummy!!

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We then had some yummy cornbread:

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The skillet: The picture came out dark

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I really enjoyed all of food but Donald barely touched anything he started to feel sick.

Stitch ordered the kids rib skillet (he loves ribs) He really enjoyed them, his came with a fruit salad and a cookie for dessert.

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Mickey ordered the Grilled Rib Eye Steak It was huge and he enjoyed it.

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Mickey also drank his diet coke pretty quickly in the beginning so he asked for another one and this is what was brought out to him.

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And yes he DID finish ALL of that soda

Daisy ordered Chicken Vegetable Penne Pasta - Chicken and fresh Vegetables tossed in Olive Oil, Garlic, and Parmesan. She really liked this alot, I had a few bites and I also thought it was excellent.

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Tink ordered Grilled chicken strips with macaroni topped with sauce and mozzarella this comes with veggies and fruit salad. She did not want the veggies so she ordered a yogurt parfait instead of the veggies, but as you see they still brought her the veggies.

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We told the server that brought out the food about Tink ordering the parfait instead of veggies, so he came back shortly after with the parfait. Then a few minutes later our waitress comes out with another parfait. :lmao:

Tink also asked our waitress for ketchup, the waitress said sure in a cute little voice. Boy did she get her ketchup. lol

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Desserts continued in next post

[Samandmom]

For dessert Daisy and I ordered the Apple-Caramel Pie

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We both liked the pie but we were too full to really enjoy all of it. We only took a few bites.

Mickey ordered Smores Cheesecake, I had a bite and it was good. He also liked it but way too full to finish it.

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Since Donald was not feeling well he did not order a dessert, the waitress asked if we wanted to order one to go, but we passed since we had no fridge in the room. (At the time we did not know that we DID indeed have a fridge in our room. We found out on check out day that we did have a fridge :rotfl: ) So she asked if we wanted to get ice cream for the kids to spilt and we said sure to that. Stitch was way too full and he passed. :scared1: Shocked I was!!!! Tink had a little though.

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This was our second time dinning at WCC. I have noticed that WCC gets alot of negative review lately. We really liked it.

Coming up next:

Breakfast with the Princesses

[jamjar84]

Sounds like you had great fun at WCC :)