21 nights in WDW+DXDDP =over 300 food pics!! (& a huge weight gain!)COMPLETED 11/30!

[Leanne1977]

Really enjoying your reviews and your pics are great!

Can't wait for my ADRs in a couple of weeks.

 

[John's Mom]

Great reviews and pics! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Miffy2003]

I've just read this whole thread and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it

Thank you for such wonderfully detailed reviews (and photos!). I can't wait to read the rest.

 

[Poppinsme]

What great reviews!!!!!!



Now I gotta go eat!!!!!

 

[CanadianWDWfan]

I could go for a plate of those lovely desserts!

 

[scottny]

those places all look so good.

the sunrise safari sounds wodnerful, I would love to do that.

 

[iluvpluto27]

Really enjoying your reviews and your pics are great!

Can't wait for my ADRs in a couple of weeks.

Thank you very much, and I'm jealous you'll be in Disney so soon. Hope you enjoy your meals.

Great reviews and pics! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much.

I've just read this whole thread and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it

Thank you for such wonderfully detailed reviews (and photos!). I can't wait to read the rest.

I'm really pleased you're enjoying my reviews. Next update should be ready soon.

What great reviews!!!!!!



Now I gotta go eat!!!!!

Thank you so much. It does make me hungry just remembering all the yum food I ate!

I could go for a plate of those lovely desserts!

They were really good, we definitely took full advantage of the lounge while we were there.

those places all look so good.

the sunrise safari sounds wodnerful, I would love to do that.

The sunrise safari was honestly one of the highlights of the trip. It was so amazing and the guides were really informative, I felt we learnt quite a lot on the tour too.

 

[TPCShauna]

Lovely reviews. I love that they are so descriptive. The Sunrise Safari sounds lovely.

Looking forward to V&A!

 

[iluvpluto27]

Lovely reviews. I love that they are so descriptive. The Sunrise Safari sounds lovely.

Looking forward to V&A!

Thank you very much, the Sunrise safari was well worth doing. V&A coming up soon, I've just been uploading and re-sizing the pics from there and sci-fi tonight.

 

[DisneyDynamo]

I'm all caught up on your reviews and I'm loving them!! I am especially enjoying all of the cheese plate pictures!!

 

[Candice30]

i have to agree with another poster that this is the best food report ever! everything looks so good and your details are great. i am in the planning stages of a splurge trip with my mom and can't wait to try these places with her. she and i both have a love of restaurants. we are staying AKL concierge the whole time though so have the lounge to fall back on so i'm guessing i will probably just book the regular dining plan. the deluxe doesn't seem like a good plan with the lounge there for snacks and breakfast.

i know you were off plan when you switched to the club level but would you have chosen the deluxe dining plan if you could?

thanks by the way for the sunrise safari picks. we have this booked and i can't wait to surprise her with it.

 

[tink too]

I've just finished reading this entire thread and am feeling a little peckish.

Thank you so much for all the great information and pics. I'm just waiting for the new ADR system to be operational so that I can finalise my dining plans for next April. Your thread is definately helping me to decide where I'd like to try this time around.

 

[SunnieRN]

I so enjoyed your concierge and sunrise safari pictures! I can't wait to experience both. Looking forward to more!

 

[iluvpluto27]

I'm all caught up on your reviews and I'm loving them!! I am especially enjoying all of the cheese plate pictures!!

Thank you so much, and there was definitely plenty of cheese plates consumed by DH.

i have to agree with another poster that this is the best food report ever! everything looks so good and your details are great. i am in the planning stages of a splurge trip with my mom and can't wait to try these places with her. she and i both have a love of restaurants. we are staying AKL concierge the whole time though so have the lounge to fall back on so i'm guessing i will probably just book the regular dining plan. the deluxe doesn't seem like a good plan with the lounge there for snacks and breakfast.

i know you were off plan when you switched to the club level but would you have chosen the deluxe dining plan if you could?

thanks by the way for the sunrise safari picks. we have this booked and i can't wait to surprise her with it.

Thank you very much, I'm glad you're enjoying my report. AKL concierge is fab. I definitely wouldn't have wanted the deluxe plan while staying concierge, there was plenty of food for breakfast and evening apps to tide you over. I think we would have really struggled to take advantage of the lounge if still on the plan, due to being out in the evenings and we would have wasted a lot of snack credits.

I hope you enjoy the sunrise safari as much as we did, it was well worth getting up early for!

I've just finished reading this entire thread and am feeling a little peckish.

Thank you so much for all the great information and pics. I'm just waiting for the new ADR system to be operational so that I can finalise my dining plans for next April. Your thread is definately helping me to decide where I'd like to try this time around.

Thank you, I'm pleased my review is helpful. I'm already in the early stages of planning our ADRs for next September, and I'm no where an near the 6mth window yet!!

I so enjoyed your concierge and sunrise safari pictures! I can't wait to experience both. Looking forward to more!

Thank you very much, I think you'll love both. Next update coming up tonight.

 

[iluvpluto27]

Today was the first chance we had to try breakfast in the lounge. It wasn't too busy and there was a nice choice of cereal, bagels, pastries, fruit and hot oatmeal. Definitely enough to fill up on.

I tried some oatmeal with brown sugar and blueberries, this was nice but a little saltier than I have my oatmeal at home.

DH had some cereal then pastries. He chose a muffin, cinamon roll and a chocolate pastry. These were the same pastries that are served at Boma breakfast and all were very nice.

I also had a couple of pastries and some fruit which was ripe and fresh.

After enjoying breakfast in the lounge we spent the morning in DHS. We didn't have an ADR today, as we weren't on the plan so I'd figured we'd grab a CS. However neither of us love the CS choices at DHS, so around 11:30 we decided to see if we could get a walk up at Sci-fi, primarily so I could get another alcoholic milkshake!

There were a few parties waiting to be sat, but we were told we could get a non-car table in around 15 minutes, to which we agreed. In reality we were called within 5 minutes and sat in the back row of a car , which was great.

We had a good waiter here, he was chatty and joked with us about being his only non-dining plan patrons.

I ordered a Space Monkey, which was a chocolate milkshake with malibu and banana liquor. This was very nice but very sweet, I think I preferred the Marsha's Martian I had last time.

DH had a Blue Moon beer, which we'd never seen or heard of before in England. He wasn't exactly keen on this, saying it had a quite strong orange flavour.

We skipped appetisers and went straight for the entree. I chose the Chicken Bruschetta sandwich with fries. I really liked this, the chicken had a good grilled flavour to it and wasn't too dry, the bruschetta was nice although the predominant flavour was onion rather than tomato, the bread was soft and the fries hot and crispy. A good sandwich, and I enjoyed it more than the burger I had here earlier in the trip.

DH had the same entree again, the Seared Marinated Tofu - With mango glaze, fresh vegetables and white rice. He enjoyed it again, and said the tofu appeared to have been marinated longer as it was more flavourful than last time.

Overall, we had another nice lunch here. The food is nothing special, but it was better than a Counter Service and as we only had entree's, it wasn't that much more expensive.

Coming up next, our dinner at Victoria and Alberts.

 

[jeminni]

Enjoying your reviews.
I cant wait to read your V&A review.

 

[Miffy2003]

I agree the CS offerings at MGM are a bit limited. Your lunch at the Sci Fi does look nice!

 

[CanadianWDWfan]

I've never eaten Tofu before I just might give it a try. What no cheese... I enjoyed Sci-Fi too.

 

[iluvpluto27]

Enjoying your reviews.
I cant wait to read your V&A review.

Thank you very much. I'm just about to start on V&A now.

I agree the CS offerings at MGM are a bit limited. Your lunch at the Sci Fi does look nice!

It was good, and not too expensive either for a sit down restaurant.

I've never eaten Tofu before I just might give it a try. What no cheese... I enjoyed Sci-Fi too.

I'm not a big tofu fan myself, it's the texture I can't get away with but DH really likes it. And believe me if there had been a cheese plate on the menu at sci-fi, DH would have ordered it!

 

[iluvpluto27]

I'm going to write this review in two separate installments, as there are a lot of courses to cover.

We'd dined at V&A once before back in 2005 and it was fabulous, so we decided that this year we'd return.
I had a bit of a nightmare getting ready as I discovered a mark on my dress, and after multiple applications of tide stain remover, water, drying the dress with a hairdryer, I was only ready to leave about 15 minutes before our reservation time!

We grabbed a cab and just made it to V&A a few minutes late. We had a 6:30 reservation, and I think we were the last party seated for the early sitting. Pretty much every table was occupied, and in the room off to the right there appeared to be some company hosting dinner for it's staff (I wish I worked for a company that would splash out on V&A for dinner!!).

We had two female servers tonight, and both were excellent. There was only one tiny flaw in service all night, when one course arrived before the wine pairings were supplied. Aside from that it was fantastic.

We both were given our own menus, and we were even brought an additional vegetarian menu, in case I wanted to order any of the vegetarian dishes in lieu of the standard menu.

We both opted for the wine pairings, so began with a glass of Champagne paired with the amuse bouche.
My amuse bouche consisted of melon and parma ham which paired well, a duck spring roll which was so flavourful with beautifully crisp filo, duck sausage, which literally melted in your mouth and duck paired with orange, which again almost melted in the mouth. I'm not even a huge duck fan, but I loved all of these!

DH had a vegetarian amuse bouche. I thought it was nice that it looked quite similar to my amuse bouche, and used some of the same ingredients. His consisted of the same melon I had but without the ham, a vegetable spring roll in place of duck, a oniony/potato rosti type dish which he said was very good and some butternut squash soup which he said was fantastic. He described it as so smooth it just slipped down your throat, sweet and packed full of flavour.

Off to a fantastic start, our waitress brought out the first of a series of bread. The first was a crusty french baguette, nothing particularly special but french baguette is my favourite type of bread so I polished it off quite quickly.

For the first course I chose Jumbo Lump and Dungeness Crab with California Asparagus salad, paired with a Savignon Blanc. This was a really nice dish, the crab was placed in the middle of a small ring of incredibly thinly sliced radishes. The crab had a good, pure flavour which tasted lovely with the beautifully cooked halves of asparagus.

Again, DH's veggie option was presented quite similarly. He had Green and white asparagus, hearts of palm salad with summer radishes. He also really enjoyed the asparagus and hearts of palm, saying everything went really well together.

Before the next course we were given the next bread selection, which was a brioche with herb butter. This was gorgeous, the brioche was so soft and the butter was infused with plenty of herb flavour.

On to the hot appetiser, I had the choice of Elk or Quail. You may have noticed from these reviews that I'm not actually a huge meat eater so I'd never tried either of these meats. In the end I chose the Poached Quail with Black Mission figs and fuji apples, and I was very happy with my choice. This was one of the best appetisers I've ever eaten. The quail was perfectly pink and juicy, the fuji apple puree was very sweet and went well with the quail, and the figs had a wonderful sweet flavour. It was a very sweet dish overall, and paired exceptionally well with the selected Riesling. I'm not normally a sweet white wine fan, but this just worked so well with the dish it was amazing.

DH's hot appetiser was mushroom tortellini with yellow chanterelles, hedgehogs and black truffles paired with a Pinot Noir. DH described this dish as simply stunning, it was one single tortellini, filled with mushrooms. The mushroom flavour was incredibly powerful, and he said you could really taste the truffle.

Before the fish course we were given another type of bread, I think it was sourdough with salted butter. It was nice but not as good as the brioche.

For the fish course I chose the Alaskan King Salmon with Salisfy and Demi-Tasse cup of smoked salmon cream. Again this was fantastic, the fillet was well cooked to a nice medium rare and had plenty of flavour, the little thing in the middle of the dish was a piece of light tempura, which was nice but gone in one bite. The star of this dish for me was smoked salmon cream, it was honestly like you were drinking smoked salmon. The flavours were so intense, and yet creamy in texture, it was amazing and I'm still dreaming about how good it was.

DH's option was Tempura squash blossom with vegetable ratatouille. DH said the tempura batter was incredibly light, and it was filled with a very tasty ratatouille. I'm not sure what all the little sauces and accompaniments are on this dish, but it looked very pretty.

That's it for today. I'll complete V&A in my next installment.