disneysteve
DIS meet junkie
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2002
Let me preface this by saying that we are not fans of WDW table service dining. The last time we had a TS meal on property was a couple of years ago when I managed to get a dinner reservation at BOG. I'm very glad we did that and got to see the inside of the place but the meal was nothing special and definitely not worth the price.
Today, we were strolling around WS and decided to take a look at Via Napoli. I keep hearing how good their pizza is so we checked and were told there was a 10-20 minute wait. We were actually seated in 6 minutes which was great for a walk up meal.
We were going to order the fried vegetable appetizer but the manager, who came over after our server asked if there were any food allergies in our party (my wife has a seafood allergy), told us that the veggies were fried in the same fryer as the calamari, so that was out.
One thing I noticed here which I found annoying was the server upselling us. My wife ordered a glass of wine ($9) and he immediately pointed out an advertisement on the table for a different wine that was much better and "only" a dollar more. While it's true that $10 is only $1 more than $9, it's also an 11% increase.
We ordered a pizza for the 3 of us to share. The server explained how they make the pizzas and that it would take 15-20 minutes and wouldn't we like a salad for the table to share, another upsell.
So my wife did get the more expensive wine and said it was fine.
We also got the house salad just for the 2 of us as DD isn't a salad eater.
And we ordered a large pizza half mushroom, half olive.
The salad was okay but certainly not worth anywhere near what it cost ($14).
Then the pizza came out - in considerably less than the 15-20 minutes he had claimed when pushing the salad.
The dough was clearly freshly made which was nice. It's kind of downhill from there. The olives were whole, not sliced, and barely adhered to the pizza. When you picked up a slice, they all just rolled right off. The mushrooms were good but also easily fell off.
The crust was very soft and very wet especially toward the center. The only way to eat this pizza was to carefully pick up a slice and then fold it in half. It had no crispness to it at all.
It tasted okay, but on a scale of 1-10, I'd struggle to give it more than a 5. It was acceptable. Flippers is far better as is pretty much any offsite pizza place on 192.
This meal would have been acceptable at $35-40. Unfortunately, the bill was just under $75 and that was with an AP discount (which they almost didn't want to give me because they claimed that was only at lunch - we were there at 4pm). At that price, this was completely unacceptable. $75 for mediocre pizza, a simple house salad, one glass of wine and a Coke is a disgrace. This is certainly not a place I would return to. This experience did absolutely nothing to change my opinion of table service meals at WDW.
Today, we were strolling around WS and decided to take a look at Via Napoli. I keep hearing how good their pizza is so we checked and were told there was a 10-20 minute wait. We were actually seated in 6 minutes which was great for a walk up meal.
We were going to order the fried vegetable appetizer but the manager, who came over after our server asked if there were any food allergies in our party (my wife has a seafood allergy), told us that the veggies were fried in the same fryer as the calamari, so that was out.
One thing I noticed here which I found annoying was the server upselling us. My wife ordered a glass of wine ($9) and he immediately pointed out an advertisement on the table for a different wine that was much better and "only" a dollar more. While it's true that $10 is only $1 more than $9, it's also an 11% increase.
We ordered a pizza for the 3 of us to share. The server explained how they make the pizzas and that it would take 15-20 minutes and wouldn't we like a salad for the table to share, another upsell.
So my wife did get the more expensive wine and said it was fine.
We also got the house salad just for the 2 of us as DD isn't a salad eater.
And we ordered a large pizza half mushroom, half olive.
The salad was okay but certainly not worth anywhere near what it cost ($14).
Then the pizza came out - in considerably less than the 15-20 minutes he had claimed when pushing the salad.
The dough was clearly freshly made which was nice. It's kind of downhill from there. The olives were whole, not sliced, and barely adhered to the pizza. When you picked up a slice, they all just rolled right off. The mushrooms were good but also easily fell off.
The crust was very soft and very wet especially toward the center. The only way to eat this pizza was to carefully pick up a slice and then fold it in half. It had no crispness to it at all.
It tasted okay, but on a scale of 1-10, I'd struggle to give it more than a 5. It was acceptable. Flippers is far better as is pretty much any offsite pizza place on 192.
This meal would have been acceptable at $35-40. Unfortunately, the bill was just under $75 and that was with an AP discount (which they almost didn't want to give me because they claimed that was only at lunch - we were there at 4pm). At that price, this was completely unacceptable. $75 for mediocre pizza, a simple house salad, one glass of wine and a Coke is a disgrace. This is certainly not a place I would return to. This experience did absolutely nothing to change my opinion of table service meals at WDW.
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