10 Days, 3 resorts, 2 different dining plans, I am still exhausted!

[pennyplanner]

Joining in! Loving your reviews.

--pennyplanner

 

[prttynpnk]

I love the outfits! What a great review!

 

[bluejasmine]

Oh I just LOVED the pic of your daughter making a curtsy to Prince Charming! Just adorable and the reason I adore WDW! Loving your reviews! Will be trying Narcossee in Sept for our anniversary so I am so happy it got a good review from you! I really want to try 1900 Park Fare! Looking fwd to more!

 

[LuvLuvLuv]

I would say calling Eduarto's service 'spotty' is a compliment. He is downright awful... Unless you're a wine drinker, he will stay at your table the whole time I noticed. Never brought us bread, refilled drinks once, an because of his poor service, we were there almost 3 hours. We will never go back because of our experience there. Kinda nice to know it wasn't just us.

 

[goodferry]

I would say calling Eduarto's service 'spotty' is a compliment. He is downright awful... Unless you're a wine drinker, he will stay at your table the whole time I noticed. Never brought us bread, refilled drinks once, an because of his poor service, we were there almost 3 hours. We will never go back because of our experience there. Kinda nice to know it wasn't just us.

OMG I am so glad it's not just us! I couldn't believe the bad luck to get him AGAIN two years after we had him the first time, with the same experience, slow (sometimes non existent service) and an extremely arrogant attitude about it.

I am glad everyone is enjoying the reviews, sorry about the lack of food porn, but taking pictures of our dinners creeps DH out.

 

[goodferry]

For the record, our dinner at Jiko cost about $400 plus tip. On the dining plan it was two table service credits

The next day was our Epcot day, so I had a lunch at Coral Reef planned. I know it gets some poor reviews, but we really enjoyed our lunch there last time.

Being a typical mom I was anxious for Zack to have a good lunch, since I knew he didn't like any of his dinner the night before. I made sure to sit next to him so I could help him order. Our table, by the way, I think was the worst one in the house we were on the back row, about as far from the tank as possible with a huge hump in the seat that ended up under my butt
Our waiter today I believe was the Indian brother of Eduardo from Jiko. He was snotty, not attentive and basically missing the entire meal. We had to remind him that dessert came with our meal and we still needed to order it, that elicited an eye roll. Zack and I ordered Cokes and were brought diet cokes. When I asked to have them replaced with what we ordered he acted like I had asked him to comp our lunches or something, like it was a HUGE deal to get us a new coke.
Lunch took nearly 3 hours, and our reservation was at 11:30, very early in the day.
I was really torn about what to order today. Zack decided he was ordering the lobster ravioli. I was worried he wouldn't like it, so I ordered the NY Strip and offered to share with him, I would give him half my steak and he would give me half the ravioli (which is what I really intended to order)
So Matt and I shared the Appetizer for two, the lobster soup was soooo good. I can't for the life of me remember what anyone else ordered, but ours was good.
For lunch, there were several Mahi Mahi (everyone loved theirs), Shelby had the wild mushroom lasagna, which she scarfed down, Zoe had salmon which she loved, Zack had a spectacular lobster ravioli which he totally didn't share, and I had an over cooked nasty steak. I would have sent it back if we had any contact with our awful waiter. Medium rare should have at least SOME pink in the middle.

Really this was the only meal I didn't enjoy. At Jiko the service was cruddy, but the food was awesome, so we didn't mind. Plus it was dinner, you kind of expect dinner in a Signature restaurant to take a while, lunch in the park should not take that long, just sayin.

For dessert I had the chocolate wave, which made up for the icky steak just a little, it was awesome.

Lunch would have cost us $270 and was one table service credit on the dining plan.

 

[goodferry]

Because I can't stand to leave you all hanging with that awful review, we are on to the California Grill! My favorite Disney restaurant, and it didn't disappoint
Our server was Jillian and she was perfect, attentive without hovering, whisking our dishes away when we were ready for her to and refilling drinks as needed. Once again we used a wine entitlement. I don't remember what we had, but it was red and it was good.
Our table was not far from the window near the bar where you can sit and watch the chefs.
For an appetizer I ordered the Goat Cheese Ravioli, Matt and Susan had the lobster salad and Zoe had fruit. The other three kids all ordered either sushi or California rolls!

For dinner we ordered three fillets, two scallops, bison and a kids steak. Everyone said their food was great, I had the fillet, which was perfect. For dessert dessert we had a lot of banana custard, the Valhrona Cake, and ice cream. I was the happiest with the Valhrona Cake.

It was a perfect way to end our day and overall my favorite meal!

Without the dining plan we would have spent about $460, it cost us two table service credits