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No more filet mignons! - 8 days of DxDDP; 4/29 Best/Worst

We started off the day by hopping a monorail for breakfast at 1900 Park Fare.

It all started okay. We sat down and ordered orange juice and chocolate milk for both of us. Server seemed friendly. We could see the characters making their way around. Alright.

Then I asked where the bathroom was. This was the first of many restaurants where the bathroom is outside the restaurant. I hate that. I should not have to trek across the hotel for a bathroom. So, I go, letting the guy standing at the door know that's where I'm going, and do I need to do anything special to get back in. He says no, it's fine. So, I go, and come back, and it's another guy standing there, and he's all suspicious. I'm like "Do people never have to pee?! This place is filled with children. Are you kidding?" and finally after pointing out my table and telling him my name and reservation time (which he didn't check while I was there, but seemed to reassure him), he let me go. So, I'm grumpy when I get back to the table.

Alright, let's go get food, and see if that cheers me up.

Here's Nic's plate:
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That's strawberry soup up in the corner. Then, clockwise around the plate, pineapple, croissant, potatoes, ham, sausage in the middle.

The soup was good, but more creamy and less strawberry-y than we'd hoped for. The pineapple was really good and juicy and sweet. Nic informed me that the croissant want "not croissant-y enough". Take that for whatever you want. :lmao: The potatoes were good, but a little bland. The ham was super good. Our favorite thing. And the sausage was "sausage-y" according to Nic (which he explained as meaning, it tastes like sausage, and it's not bad, but not super good).

And here's my plate:
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Starting at the bagel, going clockwise: bagel with cream cheese and tomato, potatoes, yogurt with granola, bacon, ham, breakfast pizza, sticky bun.

The bagel itself was stale. The granola was stale. The bacon was gross (although I never had good bacon, except at Kona, the whole trip). The breakfast pizza was okay. And the sticky roll itself was good, but the nuts tasted weird. Yeah, not so happy with my plate.

And a close up shot of the soup:
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Now, during our trip up, she brought our drinks, and we returned to one glass of chocolate milk. We didn't think too much of it, and thought we'd ask for another one. Little did we know, we would not see her for over 40 minutes. We ate, and were not necessarily full, but not hungry anymore. Then we sat and waited. And waited. And waited. All the characters came around.
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And then started to come around again. And we were getting pissed. Finally, we saw another server, and asked her to please get us our server. So, she finally comes out, acting like nothing's wrong, and I'm like, "Can we please get our check now? We've been done for quite a while." So, she gets us our check. Then, she disappears for another 15 minutes to freaking run our card. I was livid by the time we left.

Food - 4/10
It was edible, and some was good, but mostly, pretty bad.

Service - 1/10
Server's Name - Michelle
I gave her a one, because that's how many chocolate milks she brought us. Worst service all week, hands down.

Atmosphere - 7/10
Very buffet-y, but still nice.

Overall Experience - 3/10
Between bad food and bad service, it was not a good experience, and we won't come back. At least, not any time soon. Maybe off in the future, we'll give it a try, see if it changed. But, for the next few years for sure, no.


Total Cost of Food: $44.71
 
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1900 Park Fare buffet....were the items on your plates the main options? What else was available?
 
I completely agree about the food at 1900 PF...ick...you can get better at other character meals. And I know about the "not croissant-y" taste, sometimes they taste dry and waxy
 


I'm excited about a bunch of your reviews of places we're considering for next year:
50's Prime Time
Le Cellier
Teppan Edo
etc.

We went to Kona last February and I'll be interested in what you thought!
 


Hello there from a fellow Grand Rapidian!

Loving the combo photo/journal approach to your dining review. Congrats to you and your sweetie on your recent marriage and wishes for lots of love and a long life together!

Hubby and I are planning a trip at the end of Sept to celebrate our 10th anniversary and are going to do our best to work the daylights out of the DxDDP too so I'm way interested in all perspectives.


Can't wait for the next installment!
 
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1900 Park Fare buffet....were the items on your plates the main options? What else was available?

Mostly, yeah. There's also the usual things like mickey waffles, pancakes, scrambled eggs, cereal and omelettes. It's was a pretty typical Disney character buffet.

I completely agree about the food at 1900 PF...ick...you can get better at other character meals. And I know about the "not croissant-y" taste, sometimes they taste dry and waxy

Yeah. We much preferred other places we ate for breakfast. lol, Yeah. That's basically what he was saying, he says. lol.


Welcome! :goodvibes

I'm excited about a bunch of your reviews of places we're considering for next year:
50's Prime Time
Le Cellier
Teppan Edo
etc.

We went to Kona last February and I'll be interested in what you thought!

All four of those are places we went on our last trip, too, so you can check out our other dining report too, if you're interested. :goodvibes Those four are some of the highest on our want-to-go-back list.

I love that you are rating the service too!

Of course! I think that's very important. If I go somewhere and get awful service, I don't really enjoy it. I'm a big "overall experience" person, and I know we've had very different experiences at the same restaurant just because of service. But, maybe that's just me. :confused3 :rotfl:

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Welcome! :goodvibes

Hello there from a fellow Grand Rapidian!

Loving the combo photo/journal approach to your dining review. Congrats to you and your sweetie on your recent marriage and wishes for lots of love and a long life together!

Hubby and I are planning a trip at the end of Sept to celebrate our 10th anniversary and are going to do our best to work the daylights out of the DxDDP too so I'm way interested in all perspectives.


Can't wait for the next installment!

Hey! :) Welcome! Nice to see we're not that only Disney people here in GR. :rotfl:

Aw, thank you! :hug: Ohhh, I can't wait to read it!

Great reviews so far! Can't wait to read more.

Thank you! :goodvibes

glad I canc. our am ressie at 1900PF, we have done pm already.;)

Heh, yeah. I'd definitely advise it unless you really love the characters. We did not enjoy it, as you can tell. lol
 
Warning: This was another place with weird lighting, so a few pictures are a little weird.

Well, we were here last year, and loved it, so we came back.

Our quick opinion regarding the LeCe controversy: We love it, but is it the best place on property? No. Compared to most of the 2 credits and stuff, yeah, it's not as good. But, as far as non-signatures go, we think it's pretty dang good.

We started with some smoothies (covered on the DxDDP)
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I got sour apple, Nic got Strawberry. I thought the sour apple was okay, but too sour for me. Nic thought the strawberry was good. But, I really loved the strawberry, and he really loved the sour apple, so we switched! Both are really delicious, but be warned, that sour apple is SOUR. Or at least, mine was.

Bread Basket!
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There's of course, the delicious pretzel bread. Sooo good. The multigrain and sourdough were also very very good.

I got the cheese soup.
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Yummmmm. Just as good as last year! Especially with the pretzel bread. Holy crap, delish.

Nic got the Spicy Chicken and Chorizo Sausage:
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Now, I'm not a fan of super spicy, and the girl did warn us this was spicy. But, it was soooo good. Yes, it was spicy, but with the polenta, it was a little less edgy, and it was just so delicious. We were so glad he went with it.

We both got the filet, without the mushrooms. I got it with the cream cheese potatoes:
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My filet was wonderful and tender. The potatoes were, of course, delicious. My uncle makes them really well, and these reminded me so much of his.

Nic ordered it with the potato gratin:
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He thought that his was delicious. And, the gratin was good, but nothing super special.

We got a side of poutine (not included on the DxDDP), because we love it (Nic's Canadian so this kind of stuff is normal to him).
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It was weird. It was regular cheese, not cheese curds, and the gravy was weird. It was okay, but we weren't too big of fans.

For dessert, we got the maple creme brulee, and the chocolate mousse.
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We got a special pretty plate! And this was the first of many "Don't eat the Mickey balloons!" we got. They hurt. :rotfl: The creme brulee was really good, but one part was a little too burnt. I like it more lightly bruleed. Kinda like, in the middle of where this dish was (half burnt to a crisp, half barely touched). The mousse was delicious, but super rich.

Food - 8/10
We were dissappointed in the poutine, and while most things were super delicious, a few things were just okay (the over burning of the creme brulee, the gratin), so only an 8.

Service - 9/10
Server's Name - Ashley
She was wonderful. We got stuff fast, but not too fast. She was sweet and helpful. We liked her.

Atmosphere - 8/10
We like the atmosphere, but we happened to be stuck between two obnoxious groups(not the restaurants fault, I know), and the tables are quite cozy in there. So, it kinda took away from the atmosphere.

Overall Experience - 8/10
We really enjoyed ourselves here. It was great, and we'll definitely be back.


Total Cost of Food: $100.71
 
I agree with you about the chorizo and polenta appetizer--I love it! I went back to Le Cellier this year just to eat it again!
 
Great Le Cellier review.

We will be going to it for lunch in November.
That filet meal looked very good. I would get it like you...no mushrooms. From the picture, the mashed potatoes looked good. I'm weird about mashed potatoes. I don't like them chunky, but prefer nice and smooth...how where they at LC?

mmm....creme brulee....definitely planning on trying the Maple CB!
 
:goodvibes. I LOVE PRETZEL BREAD I WISH THE BREAD BASKET WAS JUST PRETZEL BREAD. I WONDER IF YOU CAN ASK FOR THAT? CAN YOU REQUEST MORE?:worship:
 
MMmmm I love poutine! But its weird to see it was Cheddar and not mozerella or mozerella cheese curds! But those drinks sure look yummy! Too bad on the poutine.. i always miss it when in the states and was hoping Le Cellier had good poutine oh well!
 
:goodvibes. I LOVE PRETZEL BREAD I WISH THE BREAD BASKET WAS JUST PRETZEL BREAD. I WONDER IF YOU CAN ASK FOR THAT? CAN YOU REQUEST MORE?:worship:

That's funny...several trips ago we started doing just that...and they never have a problem with it. Their pretzle bread is one of my single most favorite foods at WDW. That and my daily Mickey Premium :goodvibes
 
Love your reviews!

I adore poutine too, but that doesn't look very good at all! My favorite poutine comes from KFC. :goodvibes
 
Loving your report and reviews! Haven't done Le Cellier on the last few trips but after seeing your pics, we might have to on the next trip. :)
 

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