After a great day at MGM and some relaxation time back at AKL, we head out for dinner. We hop a bus to MK and then we take a monorail to Contemporary and we are at our destination... The Wave!
I loved the entrance and the lounge here. Very chic! DH and I were super excited to eat here for the first time. After seeing reviews on here and looking over the menu I booked this restaurant in hopes it would become a new favorite. I am sorry to say it is mostly definitly not a new favorite. It was our most disappointing meal of the trip.
We were seated right away and our waitress came over and took our drink orders. She always explained the restaurant to us. She was telling us about how the goal here is healthy eating and told us that nothing on the menu was fried. We made some little joke about "Oh no! No fried food?"But this only got us a dirty look from our waitress. Geez. We were just kidding. To start she brought us out the bread and butter.
I believe this is some kind of multi-grain bread. It wasn't bad by any means, but it was the epitome of plain.
DH ordered the Organic Beer Flight to drink.
He said it was the most boring beer he ever drank. He said the one was exactly like drinking a Miller Lite. And he did not mean that as a compliment
Every entree on the menu sounded great! We both had a tough time choosing. DH got the Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Cave Man Bleu Cheese Vinaigrette, Local Tomato and Green Bean Salad, and Fingerling Potatoes.
A few problems with this dish. It looks big in the picture, but it was so tiny. It wasn't very filling for him. Also, our waitress asked him if he was ok with bleu cheese because there was a lot on this dish and he told her that he loved bleu cheese and the more the better. There was barely any bleu cheese on it! Why make a point to ask when there really isn't a lot on it? The final problem was that he asked about getting a side of the stewed mushrooms listed on the menu. Our waitress was baffled by this request for some reason. He had to repeat the question multiple times and point to it on the menu before she knew what he was talking about. He said he would pay for the side and that would be fine. She then said that she could only substitute it for something else on the plate.He kept saying we could pay for it, but she kept insisting that he substitute it for the tomato and green bean salad, so he finally gave up and just did it that way. Again, this wasn't bad, but he just said it was too small and tasteless.
I had the Espresso-Barbecue Beef Short Rib with Mustard Seed Slaw and Applewood-smoked Bacon Potato Salad.
I was really looking forward to trying this. DH's mother makes a bacon potato salad that is TO DIE FOR! It's famous in their family. On our Memorial Day picnic this year I ate two plates of it and nothing else. Not even a hot dog. It's that good. So, I knew this potato salad wouldn't be as good, but I thought it would still be pretty darn tasty.It was kind of yucky. And the Mustard Seed Slaw had no flavor whatsoever. I was just raw shredded veggies in a pile on my plate. The short ribs were tender and I really liked them, but the sauce on top was so overpowering with the meat. Less sauce and it would have been good, but there was waaaay too much on there.
Also, our food was out to us eerily fast. I would say it was only about 5 minutes from ordering it until it hit our table. I'm not complaining, but it was really weird. When we commented to our waitress how quickly this came out it only elicited another blank stare.
We thought that the food coming out fast was a good sign and that we would have quick service throughout the meal. Nope. After our food came out and we finished eating we sat with empty plates in frony of us for over 30 minutes. DH also tried to flag our waitress down as she was walking by to order a glass of wine which got a response of, "HOLD ON!" This was said in a NASTY tone. We looked at each other like, "What did we do?" We really are not a pain out at restaurants. We are just about the most easy going customers you can get, and I work with the public all day every day, so I always try to be understanding about service, but this was ridiculous. Our waitress was so rude to us and then I saw her laughing and being friendly with other tables. Where's the love for us lady? When she finally came back to ask DH what he wanted he just said to forget about it. We just wanted to eat our dessert and leave. She still didn't clear our plates.
We then waited and waited for a dessert menu. When she brought it out we decided pretty quickly. We then waited and waited some more for her to take our order even though she kept walking past the two of us sitting there with our dessert menus closed. I was determined to enjoy this dessert. I was hoping it would save the meal right here. We both ordered the Creamy Indulgence which was New York Cheesecake with House-made Seasonal Fruit Compote, Coffee Crème Brûlée with Chocolate Biscotti and Olive Oil-infused Chocolate Truffle Mousse.
The Creme Brulee and the Biscotti were really good! It did have a very strong coffee flavor, so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't like coffee. The biscotti complimented it perfectly. The Mousse was a little bit different consistancy than most mousse I have tried, but it was really good and there was a little bit of caramel with it on the plate which was yummy. The cheesecake was creamy and good, but that fruit on it was YUCK! It was very bitter. I don't even know for sure what kind of fruit it was. I hate fruit on my cheesecake, but DH loves it. Not this time. He had way less fruit on his piece than I did and even he was grossed out by it. We both picked it off the top like a couple of fussy kids
Once again we sat there with our empty plates in front of us for a long time and then sat there again for a long time before she brought the bill over. DH told me to get my card out so that we could give it to her as soon as she gave us the bill. Well now here comes the friendliness we've been waiting for. "Oh I hope you're meal was wonderful!" "Did you like the dessert, it's my favorite?" "Are you having a magical trip?" Please. You have been rude to us all night, but now that it's time to tip, you turn on the charm. That really annoyed me. I tried to give her the card, but she said I had to fill it out first.
She came back with the bill and said, "I charged the beer back to your room. Was that okay?" I politely told her that I wanted to pay cash for it, but that she walked away from me too fast to tell her. It wasn't a big deal, but still. No apology. No offer to fix it. Just one last blank stare.
We left and got back on the monorail to head to MK. DH's two sisters have a reservation for The Wave during their trip to WDW in November, so DH called his one sister to tell her how much we didn't like The Wave and persuade her to cancel her ressie. He was talking to her while we were on the monorail and he said to her, "They managed to ruin beer and cheesecake!" Which prompted a big laugh from a fellow passenger
We are still talking about how disappointing this restaurant was. I had high hopes for it too. The dessert was pretty good, other than the weird fruit on my cheesecake, but other than that everything was boring or just plain gross. You can make food healthy, but still give it flavor. We might have enjoyed it a little more with better service, but the terrible service we got just made the whole expereince that much worse. I hate to be so harsh on this place, but I really wouldn't recommend it based on our experience.
Ok, crazy rant over!
Up next, a great food day at MK!
that looks amazing. It will be a tough choice next time. 
I love the reviews and your pictures are almost edible!
Yorkshire pudding is one of my absolute favourites! However, I noticed in the picture that there were roasted potatoes in it ... I'm sincerely hoping that was a mistake by the server and not how they normally serve them since, as StawberryTink pointed out, proper yorkshire pudding is essentially the "bread" filled with gravy ... no potatoes. Whenever we had yorkshire pudding, it was instead of potatoes.
That being said, there is a local deli that makes mini-yorkshire puddings filled with roast beef. They're just a bit bigger then bitesize and pure bliss
Once again, love the reviews. There's so many places I want to try now that I always just skipped past!
Any chance your server's name was Kim? We had the rudest, rudest service at the Wave in February from a gal with that name. What is sad is that we could see the darling server who had taken care of us the year before JUST over in the other room. So close, yet, so far! It was awful to be treated in such a way after having stellar service ten months earlier. I am so sorry for your experience. I am convinced that rude service makes everything, including the food, just seem bad.
And your absolutly right, bad service totally changes your perspective on the meal. I know I missed the Tonga Toast, but that Samoan
Great reviews.
I am torn on what to get next time too! That Tonga Toast is too amazing to pass up, but so many other things look amazing too. I'll just have to go every morning so that I can try everything.
You have just made me so excited about eating breakfast at Kona for the first time
We're going in January and I will be getting that peanut butter one also. We just couldn't watch Stacy show us the must-dos any more!!!!
Whatever the vacation channel is!!!
Or the LOCAL NEWS!!!! IDK why. I just like to feel 100% out of the ordinary.
We loved everything! DH even ate a lot of the fish 
He NEVER eats fish, so I was very proud of him for trying something new and liking it. The turkey was a lot more quality than I thought it would be and the gravy and cranberry-orange relish both went great with it. The fish was very tender and moist and I loved it with the rice. I wasn't crazy about the red wine butter of the filet, but DH loved it so he got the top pieces that were covered in it and I got the bottom pieces that didn't really have any on it. That worked out perfectly 
I gave DH a bite and ate the rest myself. 
That ice cream was awesome! I could go for some right now! It's funny that you're looking forward to a sundae in the Winter. But, guess what............ So am I.
It's never too cold for a sundae! They have a peanut butter sundae at Beaches & Cream too. I must try it next trip!Hilarious!!!! Is Stacy the host of the WDW vacation channel? >>Honestly, that's ALL I watch when I'm on vacation anywhere!!!
Was that Ghiradelli chocolate sundae as huge as it looked?
The Garden Grill meal looked delicious!
That's usually what ends up on our tv during vacation as well. I'm so excited to see Stacy when we first get there and turn on the tv. It's like, "Yay! Stacy!" But, by the end of the trip it more like, "Ugh. Stacy." We're just bitter that we have to leave WDW, but stupid Stacy always gets to stay.
LOL!!!! So in between getting ready for work I checked back here & saw the GG review!!! Now... I'm gonna be late!!! 
I am sooo happy you guys went & loved it! We are going too, for the 1st time! This was hard for us since we are going during f&w fest & just cause it's Epcot. We have a baby[who LOVES Mickey] we knew we'd be trying GG this trip. It's just awesome to see an adult couple enjoy the food so much! Thanks! >So excited!!!
