rustyanchor
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- Sep 24, 2012
so, i've just returned from disney and i wanted to post some dining reviews, but we didn't have that many ADRs on this trip (only 'ohana dinner & tusker house lunch, then spent the rest of our time dining at counter service places and gorging ourselves at food & wine). i decided to only do a couple of reviews: tusker house lunch and snacks from food & wine. my boyfriend & i usually go to disney by ourselves, but this time we went with four of our friends (six for part of the trip) and had a great time.
first up:
TUSKER HOUSE lunch
this was our first time dining at tusker house. i'd been wanting to try it for awhile. my friends who came with us are not the biggest disney fans or anything, so i think they were kinda "meh" on the idea of a character meal, but everyone seemed to have a good time posing w/donald for our pic after we first checked in. after our picture, we had to sit and wait for a little while, maybe 15-20 minutes, before being seated.
our waiter came to our table pretty quickly to take our drink orders and we were all off sprinting to the buffet.
my friends decided to start on the far right side of the buffet, which is more of a meat/entree section, or so it seemed, and i started on the left side with the breads, hummus, salads, etc. i am serious about my disney buffets: first i made a small bread plate, ran it back to the table, then came back to make a regular plate. then i was back at the table eating before any of my friends had even sat down. ha.
here are my first 2 plates:
bread plate- clockwise from bottom, pita bread, cornbread, mealie cornbread, 2 different kinds of preserves/sambal, mango chutney, tabouleh, hummus.
my favorites were the mealie cornbread dipped in the preserves (they were a bit spicy), and the hummus. i liked the hummus better than boma's. it's probably the same thing, but it tasted different to me.
i kept my bread plate to the side and nibbled off of it during my whole meal.
entree plate #1-clockwise from bottom, couscous & vegetable salad, apple, endive, & walnut salad w/blue cheese, cucumber & tomato salad w/mint yogurt dressing, roasted root vegetables, spiced vegetable tofu, pearl couscous, jollof rice, cape malay curry chicken, basmati rice.
my favorite off this plate was definitely the couscous salad. i also enjoyed the curry chicken and cucumber salad. my friends and especially my boyfriend REALLY liked the jollof rice. i thought it was okay, but i don't think i even finished mine.
i forgot to get a pic of my second entree plate.
i think it's because one of my friends came up while i was getting my food and said that the characters were coming around and that i had already missed mickey! so i rushed back the table in time to meet goofy. i had missed all the rest of the characters. a cast member came to our table to see if we had gotten all the pics we wanted, and when i said i had been gone when mickey came by, he told me to find him after we finished eating & he'd help me get a pic. sooo i was a little happier then. i remember that my favorite thing on the 2nd plate was by far the vegetable samosas w/the mango chutney. i think i ate like 3 of them and probably could have eaten more! they are little pastry triangle things stuffed with potatoes and peas. so yummy. i also tried the coffee rubbed pork loin and spicy mustard which was very good, and the sirloin with horseradish cream which was pretty tasty as well, but i preferred the pork. i realized after i finished eating that i somehow missed the plantains, which i was sad about... but i wanted to save room for dessert anyway.
dessert plate- last but definitely not least, my dessert plate! i LOVED the desserts here, in fact i preferred them to boma, whose desserts i found to be good-looking but quite bland. here we have, clockwise from bottom, carrot spice cake, some kind of choc chip/pecan bar, passion fruit tart, banana-cinnamon bread pudding w/warm vanilla sauce, coconut macaroons (partially covered), strawberry mousse, and baklava. WHEW! okay, so first of all, my dessert plate is the only one that i completely finished.
to make matters worse, most of my friends didn't get dessert at all, or if they did it was just a couple items thrown onto their regular plate. but anyway... my favorite things here were probably the bite-sized coconut macaroons, which were chocolate-drizzled and topped w/cherries, so delicious and cute; the carrot spice cake, very tasty; the little chocolate/pecan bar thing, which was kinda chewy; the bread pudding, because i love all bread pudding, and c'mon, WARM vanilla sauce; and the strawberry mousse, which was light, sweet, and served in an adorable edible dark chocolate cup.
so, all in all, i REALLY enjoyed tusker house and hope to eat here again sometime in the future. i would give it a 4/5 as far as disney table service restaurants go. oh, and when we finished eating, a cast member helped me & my boyfriend get a pic with mickey.
after we left tusker house we stopped at dawa bar for drinks... but i forgot to take pics.
coming up next...
EPCOT FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL snacks!
first up:
TUSKER HOUSE lunch
this was our first time dining at tusker house. i'd been wanting to try it for awhile. my friends who came with us are not the biggest disney fans or anything, so i think they were kinda "meh" on the idea of a character meal, but everyone seemed to have a good time posing w/donald for our pic after we first checked in. after our picture, we had to sit and wait for a little while, maybe 15-20 minutes, before being seated.
our waiter came to our table pretty quickly to take our drink orders and we were all off sprinting to the buffet.
my friends decided to start on the far right side of the buffet, which is more of a meat/entree section, or so it seemed, and i started on the left side with the breads, hummus, salads, etc. i am serious about my disney buffets: first i made a small bread plate, ran it back to the table, then came back to make a regular plate. then i was back at the table eating before any of my friends had even sat down. ha.
here are my first 2 plates:
bread plate- clockwise from bottom, pita bread, cornbread, mealie cornbread, 2 different kinds of preserves/sambal, mango chutney, tabouleh, hummus.
my favorites were the mealie cornbread dipped in the preserves (they were a bit spicy), and the hummus. i liked the hummus better than boma's. it's probably the same thing, but it tasted different to me.
i kept my bread plate to the side and nibbled off of it during my whole meal.
entree plate #1-clockwise from bottom, couscous & vegetable salad, apple, endive, & walnut salad w/blue cheese, cucumber & tomato salad w/mint yogurt dressing, roasted root vegetables, spiced vegetable tofu, pearl couscous, jollof rice, cape malay curry chicken, basmati rice.
my favorite off this plate was definitely the couscous salad. i also enjoyed the curry chicken and cucumber salad. my friends and especially my boyfriend REALLY liked the jollof rice. i thought it was okay, but i don't think i even finished mine.
i forgot to get a pic of my second entree plate.
i think it's because one of my friends came up while i was getting my food and said that the characters were coming around and that i had already missed mickey! so i rushed back the table in time to meet goofy. i had missed all the rest of the characters. a cast member came to our table to see if we had gotten all the pics we wanted, and when i said i had been gone when mickey came by, he told me to find him after we finished eating & he'd help me get a pic. sooo i was a little happier then. i remember that my favorite thing on the 2nd plate was by far the vegetable samosas w/the mango chutney. i think i ate like 3 of them and probably could have eaten more! they are little pastry triangle things stuffed with potatoes and peas. so yummy. i also tried the coffee rubbed pork loin and spicy mustard which was very good, and the sirloin with horseradish cream which was pretty tasty as well, but i preferred the pork. i realized after i finished eating that i somehow missed the plantains, which i was sad about... but i wanted to save room for dessert anyway.
dessert plate- last but definitely not least, my dessert plate! i LOVED the desserts here, in fact i preferred them to boma, whose desserts i found to be good-looking but quite bland. here we have, clockwise from bottom, carrot spice cake, some kind of choc chip/pecan bar, passion fruit tart, banana-cinnamon bread pudding w/warm vanilla sauce, coconut macaroons (partially covered), strawberry mousse, and baklava. WHEW! okay, so first of all, my dessert plate is the only one that i completely finished.
to make matters worse, most of my friends didn't get dessert at all, or if they did it was just a couple items thrown onto their regular plate. but anyway... my favorite things here were probably the bite-sized coconut macaroons, which were chocolate-drizzled and topped w/cherries, so delicious and cute; the carrot spice cake, very tasty; the little chocolate/pecan bar thing, which was kinda chewy; the bread pudding, because i love all bread pudding, and c'mon, WARM vanilla sauce; and the strawberry mousse, which was light, sweet, and served in an adorable edible dark chocolate cup.so, all in all, i REALLY enjoyed tusker house and hope to eat here again sometime in the future. i would give it a 4/5 as far as disney table service restaurants go. oh, and when we finished eating, a cast member helped me & my boyfriend get a pic with mickey.
after we left tusker house we stopped at dawa bar for drinks... but i forgot to take pics. coming up next...
EPCOT FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL snacks!
but anyway, this was good and i loved my wine as well. of course i forgot to take a pic... it was a sparkling moscato and wasn't TOO sweet like they can be. it was served in one of the tall glasses, so i didn't think $3 was bad at all.
