Even with all if my "it's their first week" filters on I am not impressed with anything but the looks of the restaurant.
There's a typo on the label of some of the candies in the gift shop. ("it's" when it should be "its") I did tell someone about that and he told someone else so maybe that will change.
Got our names on the list and got the initial "your wait time is" text at 7:11. Got the "your table is ready" text at 8:23. OK, that's fine. It's busy. I have no complaint about that part of the whole thing (DS does, though, but maybe next time he'll listen to me when I ask him if he is *starting* to get hungry so I can work out when to go to dinner)
The seater suggested the chocolate almond bread and gave EVERY indication that she was putting in that order for us. She was not; she was just suggesting it. As we waited at the table I started thinking about what I had eaten that day. The list was not long. Themeparks kill my hunger and I have to really remember to eat and make myself do it or I make myself ill.
That bread as a starter would have been nice. We put in our orders for food at long mysterious last. Fettucine and the veggie burger. It took an hour. We did at one point (after ordering and about half an hour before we got our entrees) clear it up with our server that we had wanted that bread...she got it to us quickly. BLEAH. The butter makes it better, but still not very good IMO.
The food finally got to us. DS finished the pasta in about 5 minutes. It was NOT a big serving. Last night we ate at Yard House and he got the small mac&cheese...he ate half of it last night and the rest for breakfast, it's that big of a serving. I know, I know...themepark...but this is fettucine alfredo for something like $13? It's pasta. Make the serving a bit bigger. (and please, I rarely want restaurants to give MORE food, but this was ridiculous)
My veggie burger was decent, but I ordered it as written...the "fork and knife", and expected it to be given to me as written. As written, it's wrapped in Bibb lettuce. Brioche bun *on request*. I did NOT request it. I got it. Bah! I said nothing but halfway through had to give up on the bun because buns are overrated. I'd rather eat the tasty part of the food vs random bread. Also, they say "veggie burger". But it was one of the black bean burgers. That's a specialized veggie burger! If it's a black bean burger they should state that. It's a constant refrain I have with Disney, who loves to change their veggie burgers around. And now Uni has started it, too.
The fries were VERY good. Like...very good. I was sad that I was too full (from the tasteless bun) to finish them. Thankfully DS was still hungry because of his small portion of pasta and was able to finish them off.
Our server had told us at the beginning, and clarified later, that if we wanted milkshakes we couldn't order those from her. We had to go inside to order those. Of course that's what DS wanted. We were seated outside and the line (that we could see) for the shakes was decent for quite awhile.
At the end of the meal, at around 9:30, we waited for the bill then waited for the check to come back after she charged the card (they do have an AP discount). As we waited I saw the line grow exponentially for milkshakes. I asked the passing person who seemed to be in charge if that was the line...she didn't know but called in to someone who said that the line for shakes was 45 minutes.
Yeah, it was like 9:44 and we had been there since 7:11 for a VERY simple meal. NO. Not going to happen.
She told us that we could have put in an order for the milkshake before we were seated and it would have been brought out to us once it was done...um, we would have had the shake an hour or more before the meal! No.
Call me crazy, but spending $12 on a milkshake isn't something I should have difficulties doing in terms of putting in an order. Even my 12 year old decided he had no interest in waiting that long for a questionable milkshake. So we left.
Oh and the server charged someone else's bill to our CC. Fixed it with the manager (that's what took so long for it to come back to us), explained it, was apologetic, but still. Holy moly.
Nearly three hours from start to leaving for a black bean burger given to me in a way I didn't order, a small portion of fettucine, and NO milkshake. Yeehaw. No thanks.
thank you so much for sharing!
