DLFan123
living the dream-literally!
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- Jan 4, 2012
Welcome everyone! I'm back and finally ready to get this review started!
My wonderful DP and I got married in August 2014 in beautiful Old Town San Diego, and then we honeymooned *of course* in our happiest place on earth, Disneyland!
We decided to get married in Old Town during our 2013 trip to So Cal. You can read all about that here: Another 10 Day Dining Review!
You may be wondering, if I'm as big a DLFan as I claim to be, why we didn't get married at DL?!
Even though we considered the possibility of getting married at Disneyland, we made the decision together that we really wanted our honeymoon to be for us. Since our wedding was a destination wedding, with family traveling thousands of miles, we feared that if we got married at DL, our wonderful families would feel compelled to spend our honeymoon with us at DL. Besides that, we wanted our wedding to be quiet and lacking some of the frenetic energy of the DLR. Of course we knew we'd want to spend our honeymoon at DL, so all the more reason to keep our wedding close...but just far enough to prevent the invasion of our honeymoon by family. Does this make us sound like horrible people? Because we aren't...but we've been together a long time...long enough to know that we really depend on our Disney vacations to be for us and about us. And our wedding had just the right amount of Disney magic to really represent our personalities.
Because this is a Disney dining review, I'll refrain from posting lots of details about the wedding itself (and will make a solemn vow not to inundate you with wedding pictures...at least not too many ), but I will post some of the photos of our wedding food, as much as I have pictured anyway. I will try to keep the focus on DL food, but as usual, we traveled farther afield to some of our favorite spots, so this review will include those destinations as well (but don't worry, that won't come until the end).
Since this was a special visit to DL, for the first time ever, we stayed on DLR property. Where else does one stay on one's honeymoon, besides the premier property, the Grand Californian Hotel?!
We enjoyed a few special meals, some at first time restaurants for us, including the Carthay Circle Theater restaurant, Ariel's Grotto for WOC dining, as well as the world-famous five-star 1500 Ocean down at the Hotel del Coronado.
In between, we enjoyed some of our favorites, as well as some new restaurants in DL and DCA.
It is my hope that this review won't be too much a repeat of the meals we've eaten and reviewed in past dis threads, but I am a creature of habit. I'm going to try to move it along swiftly, since I am late in starting, after all.
I welcome your questions, comment and conversation. I hope you enjoy the photographs and opinions. Now, without further delay, let's get this dining review started!
For ease of navigating, here is a list of posts:
View some of our Wedding Photos by clicking on the link!
Day 1
Arrival Day/Root Down in DIA
Harbor House in Seaport Village
Day 2
Barra Barry Saloon in Old Town
Day 3
Wedding Day!
Wedding Food!
Wedding Dinner Selections and Dessert
Dessert Table
Day 4-Disneyland here we come!
Arrival Day and Royal Street Veranda
Day 5
Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café
Flo's V-8 Café
Carthay Circle Restaurant
Carthay Circle Restaurant 2
Day 6
Tomorrowland Terrace
French Market
Ariel's Grotto WOC Dining
Day 7
Charlie's Chili
Rancho del Zocalo
Day 8
Jolly Holiday Bakery
Hungry Bear Restaurant
Snack
Tortilla Jo's
Day 9
Award Wieners
Blue Bayou
Fantasmic! Dessert Party
Day 10-last day at Disney *sniff sniff*
Snack
Carnation Café
French Market
Day 11-to Orange County and Beyond
L'Hirondelle
Harbor Fish (Carlsbad)
Day 12
Complimentary Breakfast at Beach Terrace Inn
Cold Stone
Jay's Gourmet Seafood (Carlsbad)
Day 13
Breakfast Beach Terrace Inn
Anthony's Fish Grotto (San Diego)
Hotel del Coronado
1500 Ocean
Day 14
Lunch on Coronado Island
Seaport Village
Day 15
Snack
Cosmopolitan Restaurant
My wonderful DP and I got married in August 2014 in beautiful Old Town San Diego, and then we honeymooned *of course* in our happiest place on earth, Disneyland!
We decided to get married in Old Town during our 2013 trip to So Cal. You can read all about that here: Another 10 Day Dining Review!
You may be wondering, if I'm as big a DLFan as I claim to be, why we didn't get married at DL?!
Even though we considered the possibility of getting married at Disneyland, we made the decision together that we really wanted our honeymoon to be for us. Since our wedding was a destination wedding, with family traveling thousands of miles, we feared that if we got married at DL, our wonderful families would feel compelled to spend our honeymoon with us at DL. Besides that, we wanted our wedding to be quiet and lacking some of the frenetic energy of the DLR. Of course we knew we'd want to spend our honeymoon at DL, so all the more reason to keep our wedding close...but just far enough to prevent the invasion of our honeymoon by family. Does this make us sound like horrible people? Because we aren't...but we've been together a long time...long enough to know that we really depend on our Disney vacations to be for us and about us. And our wedding had just the right amount of Disney magic to really represent our personalities.
Because this is a Disney dining review, I'll refrain from posting lots of details about the wedding itself (and will make a solemn vow not to inundate you with wedding pictures...at least not too many ), but I will post some of the photos of our wedding food, as much as I have pictured anyway. I will try to keep the focus on DL food, but as usual, we traveled farther afield to some of our favorite spots, so this review will include those destinations as well (but don't worry, that won't come until the end).
Since this was a special visit to DL, for the first time ever, we stayed on DLR property. Where else does one stay on one's honeymoon, besides the premier property, the Grand Californian Hotel?!
We enjoyed a few special meals, some at first time restaurants for us, including the Carthay Circle Theater restaurant, Ariel's Grotto for WOC dining, as well as the world-famous five-star 1500 Ocean down at the Hotel del Coronado.
In between, we enjoyed some of our favorites, as well as some new restaurants in DL and DCA.
It is my hope that this review won't be too much a repeat of the meals we've eaten and reviewed in past dis threads, but I am a creature of habit. I'm going to try to move it along swiftly, since I am late in starting, after all.
I welcome your questions, comment and conversation. I hope you enjoy the photographs and opinions. Now, without further delay, let's get this dining review started!
For ease of navigating, here is a list of posts:
View some of our Wedding Photos by clicking on the link!
Day 1
Arrival Day/Root Down in DIA
Harbor House in Seaport Village
Day 2
Barra Barry Saloon in Old Town
Day 3
Wedding Day!
Wedding Food!
Wedding Dinner Selections and Dessert
Dessert Table
Day 4-Disneyland here we come!
Arrival Day and Royal Street Veranda
Day 5
Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café
Flo's V-8 Café
Carthay Circle Restaurant
Carthay Circle Restaurant 2
Day 6
Tomorrowland Terrace
French Market
Ariel's Grotto WOC Dining
Day 7
Charlie's Chili
Rancho del Zocalo
Day 8
Jolly Holiday Bakery
Hungry Bear Restaurant
Snack
Tortilla Jo's
Day 9
Award Wieners
Blue Bayou
Fantasmic! Dessert Party
Day 10-last day at Disney *sniff sniff*
Snack
Carnation Café
French Market
Day 11-to Orange County and Beyond
L'Hirondelle
Harbor Fish (Carlsbad)
Day 12
Complimentary Breakfast at Beach Terrace Inn
Cold Stone
Jay's Gourmet Seafood (Carlsbad)
Day 13
Breakfast Beach Terrace Inn
Anthony's Fish Grotto (San Diego)
Hotel del Coronado
1500 Ocean
Day 14
Lunch on Coronado Island
Seaport Village
Day 15
Snack
Cosmopolitan Restaurant
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