21 nights in WDW+DXDDP =over 300 food pics!! (& a huge weight gain!)COMPLETED 11/30!
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It was good, I'd probably go back to Yak n Yeti again, just to try more cocktails and appetisers.
Nicki has also turned me onto the new FF dish "snapper with risotto"!Oh how I wish we were going back to FF next week, but we vowed to try all new places. Glad to see you really enjoyed FF as much as we did!
We both really enjoyed it, it's definitely near the top of our list of favourite WDW restaurants.
FF looks great. I wish I could have that scallop dish with the risotto right now.
It was so good.
They were fab. Definitely drag your DH there, it's well worth it.
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Wow - the FF food looks amazing! I may have to reevaluate some plans!
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Hope you manage to fit it in your schedule.
Flying Fish is one of our favorite restaurants - glad to read that you enjoyed your dinner there! I sure hope they're still offering that port/sherry/madiera fight when we go back next October ...
Dh really enjoyed that pairing, I'm not a big port or sherry fan but it was a nice offering and pretty good value for money. Hope it's still on the menu when you return.
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Today was our first table service breakfast of the trip. I'm not a huge breakfast eater, but after reading MickeyNikki's fantastic review of Boma breakfast, I decided we should give it a try while staying at the lodge.
We had a 7:30 reservation which is actually the first seating, so there were only a few tables occupied while we were there, and we were the second party seated.
Our server was very good, he sat us then offered drinks and explained the buffet offerings. We both had the Frunch and Coffee, I really liked the fruit juice and our server offered a refill which I gladly accepted.
DH started with a bowl of museli, which he said was nice. Then moved onto the hot offerings. He had a cheese omlette which was very tasty and had plenty of cheese in it, potatoes (ok but a little hard), french toast made with brioche and raisins, which was very good and very sweet, and some scrambled egg (good consistency, light).
I went straight for the hot offerings and had corn beef bobotie which was very good, a ham and cheese omlette (good, plenty of cheese), a pancake (nice and light, and fluffy) and some melon.
We both went up for a second plate. DH's consisted of banana bread, which was very good, soft, light texture and strong banana flavour, a chocolate croissant (which DH loved) and a sticky pecan bun, which was yummy as well.
I chose a chocolate chip muffin (good), banana bread which was my favourite, a chocolate croissant which had plenty of chocolate chips in and french toast which was really good.
Overall we both really enjoyed this breakfast, there was tons of variety and I had to use a great deal of restraint not to pile our plates high and stuff ourselves silly. In fact we liked it so much we decided to make another reservation for later in the trip!
Coming up next is a spontaneous lunch at The Wave, but as there was a lack of cocktails in this update I'll include one I missed from last night. After getting back from Flying Fish we stopped at Victoria Falls for a drink. I chose a Mudslide Martini, which was really good, very rich, creamy with a bit of kick from the vodka and a thick chocolate drizzle.
We had a 7:30 reservation which is actually the first seating, so there were only a few tables occupied while we were there, and we were the second party seated.
Our server was very good, he sat us then offered drinks and explained the buffet offerings. We both had the Frunch and Coffee, I really liked the fruit juice and our server offered a refill which I gladly accepted.
DH started with a bowl of museli, which he said was nice. Then moved onto the hot offerings. He had a cheese omlette which was very tasty and had plenty of cheese in it, potatoes (ok but a little hard), french toast made with brioche and raisins, which was very good and very sweet, and some scrambled egg (good consistency, light).
I went straight for the hot offerings and had corn beef bobotie which was very good, a ham and cheese omlette (good, plenty of cheese), a pancake (nice and light, and fluffy) and some melon.
We both went up for a second plate. DH's consisted of banana bread, which was very good, soft, light texture and strong banana flavour, a chocolate croissant (which DH loved) and a sticky pecan bun, which was yummy as well.
I chose a chocolate chip muffin (good), banana bread which was my favourite, a chocolate croissant which had plenty of chocolate chips in and french toast which was really good.
Overall we both really enjoyed this breakfast, there was tons of variety and I had to use a great deal of restraint not to pile our plates high and stuff ourselves silly. In fact we liked it so much we decided to make another reservation for later in the trip!
Coming up next is a spontaneous lunch at The Wave, but as there was a lack of cocktails in this update I'll include one I missed from last night. After getting back from Flying Fish we stopped at Victoria Falls for a drink. I chose a Mudslide Martini, which was really good, very rich, creamy with a bit of kick from the vodka and a thick chocolate drizzle.
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I am so glad that you enjoyed Boma! I wish I could eat there right now
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Thanks for the Boma review.
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Great reviews and pics! Big thanks for the Tusker House review! We'll be having lunch there this Sunday!
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i love eating at all the restaurants in disney world!! They are great! i loved your dining reviews so far. we all learn on the dis from other dissers. on my last sept free dining trip, our favorites were narcoossees and cali. grill but the year before that our favorite was raglan road and kona. so, on our next trip, i want to enjoy spoodles citrocos by your reviews. i also like those little pretty drinks and you picked the ones i would had. i enjoy getting the (disney dining experience card) now the tables in wonderland card, cause you get 20% off of adult beverages. keep the reviews coming!
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I am so glad that you enjoyed Boma! I wish I could eat there right now
Thanks for your great review and pics of it, as it definitely convinced us to try it, and I'm very glad we did.
Fabulous reviews and pics
Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much.
Thanks.
Thank you very much.
Great reviews and pics! Big thanks for the Tusker House review! We'll be having lunch there this Sunday!
Thank you and I hope you enjoy Tusker House as much as we did.
Hope you enjoy Chef Mickeys, we would try it if we had kids.
Boma looks like it would heaven to me!! I love all things bread and pastry, you did well to limit your intake there.I think I just gained 5 lbs looking at those pictures!
It was very good, and I also love pastries and there was plenty of them to choose from.
Thanks for the BOMA review, I'm so excited we're going next Tuesday!
Hope you enjoy it, I'm very jealous you'll be there next week.
Hope you like Citricos and Spoodles. We seriously considered getting a AP just to get the DDE and I think we definitely would have saved with it given our meal at V&A and all the cocktails I consumed!!
They were really good.
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After our Boma breakfast we headed to Typhoon Lagoon for the morning. We arrived before it opened and I'm glad we did as the place was absolutely packed by 11, with people just pouring in. By 12 we were ready to leave and because we had breakfast at Boma I hadn't booked a TS meal for lunch.
We decided that instead of going for a CS somewhere, we would try to get a walk up at a Table service place. I suggested The Wave because a) I really wanted to try it and b) I'd read on here it wasn't too busy so I thought we might get lucky with a walk-up.
We arrived at the Contemporary around 12:30, and luckily I was right about The Wave not being busy. We were seated immediately, and although there were quite a few parties in there were plenty of unoccupied tables.
I really liked the decor and here, from the entrance, the lounge and the restuarant itself. It was very modern and quite chic. I also really liked the atmosphere here, it was exclusively adult diners which made the restaurant pretty quiet, and as a lot of diners were conventioners, people were actually quiet smart for a lunch time spot. In fact looking around the room, I felt underdressed in shorts and a tank top.
Our waitress appeared quickly and explained what was included with the dxddp. Smoothies and milkshakes counted as a drink so we both ordered the Mega Berry Smoothie. This was really good, very thick and fruity.
We weren't too hungry so decided to split the Seasonal Mixed Greens with baby mozzarella and red wine vinaigrette. This was just ok for me, the mozzarella was quite bland and there wasn't too much of it, and the viniagrette was too tart for me. DH enjoyed it more than me and finished most of it.
I chose a chicken sandwich served on toasted bread, with potato wedges. This was pretty good with moist chicken breast, large slices of tomato and a spicy goats cheese spread. I also liked the wedges which were crispy on the outside, soft in the middle but they were quite salty.
DH chose the vegetable stew. He said this had some nice flavours but wasn't anything special. It had plenty of veg in it, but the rice was multigrain and slightly too hard.
The course I was most looking forward to here was dessert. I'd seen some yum looking pictures and was looking forward to trying them for myself.
The dessert menu:
I chose the Decadent selection. The chocolate mousse with salted caramel sauce had a very good combination of sweet and salty, and a light chocolatey mousse. The blueberry compote with yogurt gelato, of which the gelato was really good, the compote had a good tangy flavour but was much runnier than I was expecting. The lemon cornbread with vanilla panna cotta, had a good lemon flavour but was a little too dry.
DH had the Creamy Indulgence. The chocolate passion fruit mousse was nice, but not as good as the mousse in my selection. He said the coconut panna cotta had plenty of flavour, but he really only loved the cheesecake which was served with a raspberry coulis. This was sweet and creamy, with the coulis adding a tartness, a very well balanced and tasty dessert.
Overall we enjoyed our lunch here, and I was glad we were able to fit in a visit. The food was good, service fine and although not a must do, we will definitely be back at some point for a nice, relaxing lunch.
We decided that instead of going for a CS somewhere, we would try to get a walk up at a Table service place. I suggested The Wave because a) I really wanted to try it and b) I'd read on here it wasn't too busy so I thought we might get lucky with a walk-up.
We arrived at the Contemporary around 12:30, and luckily I was right about The Wave not being busy. We were seated immediately, and although there were quite a few parties in there were plenty of unoccupied tables.
I really liked the decor and here, from the entrance, the lounge and the restuarant itself. It was very modern and quite chic. I also really liked the atmosphere here, it was exclusively adult diners which made the restaurant pretty quiet, and as a lot of diners were conventioners, people were actually quiet smart for a lunch time spot. In fact looking around the room, I felt underdressed in shorts and a tank top.
Our waitress appeared quickly and explained what was included with the dxddp. Smoothies and milkshakes counted as a drink so we both ordered the Mega Berry Smoothie. This was really good, very thick and fruity.
We weren't too hungry so decided to split the Seasonal Mixed Greens with baby mozzarella and red wine vinaigrette. This was just ok for me, the mozzarella was quite bland and there wasn't too much of it, and the viniagrette was too tart for me. DH enjoyed it more than me and finished most of it.
I chose a chicken sandwich served on toasted bread, with potato wedges. This was pretty good with moist chicken breast, large slices of tomato and a spicy goats cheese spread. I also liked the wedges which were crispy on the outside, soft in the middle but they were quite salty.
DH chose the vegetable stew. He said this had some nice flavours but wasn't anything special. It had plenty of veg in it, but the rice was multigrain and slightly too hard.
The course I was most looking forward to here was dessert. I'd seen some yum looking pictures and was looking forward to trying them for myself.
The dessert menu:
I chose the Decadent selection. The chocolate mousse with salted caramel sauce had a very good combination of sweet and salty, and a light chocolatey mousse. The blueberry compote with yogurt gelato, of which the gelato was really good, the compote had a good tangy flavour but was much runnier than I was expecting. The lemon cornbread with vanilla panna cotta, had a good lemon flavour but was a little too dry.
DH had the Creamy Indulgence. The chocolate passion fruit mousse was nice, but not as good as the mousse in my selection. He said the coconut panna cotta had plenty of flavour, but he really only loved the cheesecake which was served with a raspberry coulis. This was sweet and creamy, with the coulis adding a tartness, a very well balanced and tasty dessert.
Overall we enjoyed our lunch here, and I was glad we were able to fit in a visit. The food was good, service fine and although not a must do, we will definitely be back at some point for a nice, relaxing lunch.
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Another great review. Great to hear you had a relaxing lunch.
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