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[Illuminations_Rocks]

my goodness i am drooling! your food looks sooooo good!!!!

 

[sherry8253]

Great reviews. Thanks for taking the time to post them.

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Next up was my FAVORITE meal of the week ... Concourse Steakhouse. I haven't seen a lot of reviews of this place here, but I thought the steak was exceptional.

First they do allow smoothies here on the ddp for drinks. Us 3 girls got them (DH is not a "fruity" kind of guy ~ thank goodness ~ and prefers diet coke).

One was called "Bay Lake Surprise" and it was surprisingly good.

The other is a virgin strawberry daiquiri ... I liked the fresh strawberry they added to the drink. It was sweet and delicious and a nice touch in my opinion.

Bay Lake Surprise ...

Virgin strawberry daiquiri ...

For appetizers, 3 of us got the onion rings, which came with 3 dipping sauces.

And DD11 got the "say it with me now" sticky wings ~ actually called "honey wings" here (3rd time this trip) ... It's funny though how they were slightly different at each place. She loved them all though.

For entrees, both girls got the chicken pasta and loved it!!!

DH and I each got the ribeye steak. His with baked potato and mine with fries (our server said we could get any potato choice with the steak that they carried) ... We both ordered them well done and it comes with this barbeque sauce on it. It was absolutely the best steak I've ever eaten.

If you'd ever had the ribeye at Texas Roadhouse, this is what it tasted like, except better because of the barbeque sauce on it. My mouth is watering just remembering this meal.

Now it was dessert time. I only hate half of my steak, not because it wasn't YUMMY, but because I was already so full, I thought I'd burst. PLUS, I did want to save just a tiny bit of tummy room for dessert ... my favorite part of the meal.

DH got the butterfinger cheesecake ...

OMG ... this was heavenly! I had 2 bites of his and I wanted to gobble down the rest of it. Luckily I love DH and my self-control kicked in - partially due to the fact that I was so full.

However, DD15 and I were the ones who were GREEN with envy this time.

All 3 of us girls got the chocolate cake. DD11 declared it "the best chocolate cake" she'd ever eaten.

DD15 and I were less than thrilled. It was sickeningly rich. Now if you like really rich, deep chocolate tasting cake, this will be PERFECT for you. However, if you're like me and DD15 who like our chocolate, but prefer milk chocolate and not such a rich tasting chocolate, then PICK the butterfinger cheesecake.

I definitely had dessert envy at this meal!! But that delicious steak made up for it. I almost wished our server hadn't taken my half eaten steak away, because I think I would have passed on my chocolate cake for more steak.

 

[TigerKat]

Sounds and looks like a wonderful meal! Finally.......A BAKED POTATO!!!!

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Okay, next up is Planet Hollywood. DH and I had planned an "alone" dinner for later in the week at LeCellier and so we knew we'd be "off" 2 credits somewhere along the line and so we asked if we could share 2 credits among the 4 of us here and they said "no problem, people do it all the time."

Now I must say, this is the only sit-down meal where we shared this year. In the past, we've shared a lot. This time though, with 40 ddp credits, we just knew sharing would mean more meals and how could we possibly eat more meals. So this was our sharing limit this year. We did share at a few counter service meals though so we could add a few counter service breakfasts.

Anyway, we forgot to take pictures of our appetizers. SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please forgive me and don't give up on reading my dining report. I'll try to do better later.

For appetizers though, DH and DD11 split the sliders, which were mini cheeseburgers. DD15 and I split the potato skins. They were loaded with cheese, bacon and sour cream and they were G-O-O-D!!!

For entrees, DD15 and I split the bacon cheeseburger and we simply didn't take a picture of it because we didn't think it would be interesting. Again, SORRY!

DD11 and DH split the chicken fajitas and YES, we took a picture!!!

For dessert, all 4 of us split the chocolate brownie ice cream thing. OMG ... this was sinfully delicious ... ENJOY and please try to limit the drooling on your keyboard.

Even though we were stuffed after sharing 2 meals, I could have eaten one of these desserts ALL BY MYSELF!

 

[suzimar57]

excellent reviews - and loving the pictures!!!!

 

[Busymom85]

Fun reviews a great pictures. Look forward to the rest. Thanks.

 

[Iluvthemouse]

I am loving reading your reviews and seeing the pix. I am such a loser. I hardly took any pix of my food. Now I wished I had.

 

[disneymomof1]

loving your reviews and pics. Can't wait to get there, will certainly try Wolfgang Puck this trip, that BBQ Chicken Quesadilla looks awesome !!!

 

[dreamn_Disney]

subbing love all the pics it really brings the descriptions to life.

 

[Timon]

OMG, I am SO hungry now

Thanks for the reviews!!!

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Okay, so one night we're leaving MK and we pass Main St. Bakery. We are WAY too full to eat anything then, but we decide to take some things home with us for breakfast the next morning.

The items still tasted delicious, but didn't "travel" super well.

Up first is the wonderfully tasty & HUGE cinnamon roll ...

I had the chocolate fudge bundt cake. REALLY good!!!!! Not really a breakfast type food, but who cares!

Then we have the double chocolate muffin and the crumb cake. DD15 LOVES the Main St. bakery crumb cake and gets it every trip.

 

[momof2disprincesses]

I do have to add that Main St. Bakery was the ONLY place where we encountered any kind of problem/confusion with the dining plan.

I think most people use snack credits here and I wanted to use 2 counter service meals (getting 2 items and 1 drink for 1 cs meal). It was the day before we were to go home and we had an overabundance of cs meals left and I wanted to "save" our snack credits for items we could take home with us.

I told the cm here that we wanted to use 2 cs credits and she told me I couldn't. I told her that we'd done that several times before there and then I nicely suggested that if she wasn't sure if this was allowed, perhaps we could talk to a supervisor to ask them. Then she did allow me to do it.

I didn't want to be nasty about it, but I also wanted to use the plan the way it worked best for me and I knew from past experience this was allowed.

Has anyone else used cs here OR had a problem doing it here??

 

[momof2disprincesses]

On our Animal Kingdom day, we ate lunch at Pizzafari. It was good. We got ...

Some kind of italian sandwich (DH got this and liked it) ...

A parmesean chicken sandwich.

2 pizzas and another chicken parmesean sandwich. They messed up something and gave us 2 of these sandwiches when we only ordered one. When we said something, they said they couldn't take it back (obviously) and so we got a "bonus" sandwich, which was kind of nice because it was DELICIOUS!!!

We had also used a snack credit for breadsticks. With the extra sandwich though, this wound up being WAY more food than we could eat and I felt bad that quite a bit of it got thrown away.

The sandwiches came with chips too and so we put those in our backpack with intentions to eat them later, but we never did, so they got thrown out later too.

For dessert, 3 of us got the chocolate cake (pictured in the top picture with the italian sandwich), which was yummy. DD15 got the frozen lemonade, which I know she enjoyed in HOT August.

 

[momof2disprincesses]

DD11 needs the computer for homework, so I need to close up for now. However, I will leave you with one last post for now ...

One morning, DD15 and I wanted a quick breakfast at Pop. At the place where you normally get ice cream at night, you can get "quick" breakfast items and trust me, it was SOOOOOOO much quicker than getting a big breakfast and waiting in those LONG lines to check out. We literally didn't wait at all. She got the fruit & yogurt parfait and I got a bagel.

Also, I found the picture of the first time DD15 and I went to Wolfgang Puck Cafe. She ordered the chicken fingers and subbed the normal side for mac & cheese (the best mac & cheese ever). She LOVED this meal!! I tried some and it was really good!! The chicken fingers were so perfectly seasoned, they didn't even need dipping sauce.

 

[mkross]

we used a cs credit out last night for a sand, pastry and drink...no problem. Looks like you just got a CM that was unaware. I loved the pizzafari italian sand...Yummy! Missed the Concourse....DD14 was ill that day....now I'm bummed.

 

[momof2disprincesses]

More from Everything Pop ...

Cheeseburger basket and chicken strips basket with frozen coke to drink ...

Pepperoni pizza and chicken penne alfredo pasta with breadstick (there was a 5 min. wait on the breadstick, so it came later) and frozen coke ...

For dessert, more Pop ice cream ... I just love the "choose your own elements" sundae there!!!

One with 2 scoops strawberry, one scoop cookies & cream, hot fudge & nuts ...

Then DD11 was in the mood for plain vanilla ice cream.

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Okay, I finally got DD15 to stay home long enough to download some more pictures. I really need to learn to do this for myself!

I can now "catch you up" on some pictures missing from previous posts.

Here are the hot fugde sundaes from Sci Fi ... These were YUMMY!!!!

Here are the pre-packaged, ooey-gooey, simply delicious brownies from Wolfgang Puck Express ...

And ... miscellaneous chicken strips with fries and chocolate cake (I think from Cosmic Ray's) ...

And last, but certainly NOT least ... the 2 cm's from Boma who sang "Happy Birthday" to me in Swahili. This was so thoughtful and special!! I really loved it and wish I would have videotaped it. The man in the picture was our server and he was exceptional!

 

[momof2disprincesses]

DH and I had an "adults only" dinner at LeCellier. It was pouring rain when we ate here, so it was nice to get inside and relax. We eat here every trip and it is always delicious!!

We had a little wait to be seated and the cm's in the lobby played "20 questions" with us where we had to guess which Disney character they were thinking of. They did ones that were not obvious and there was only adults waiting for tables. We all had so much fun doing this, I actually was bummed when they seated us because we were having so much fun! It's these special "Disney" touches that make WDW so exceptional and keep us coming back so often.

True pixie dust!!!!

Virgin strawberry daquiri - YUMMY!

Shrimp cocktail appetizer ... Notice Mickey was kind enough to hold one chopstick. He is cute AND helpful!!

The BREAD ... the best part of the meal ... imho! I especially love the pretzel bread dipped in the cheese soup (not sure why we didn't take a picture of the cheese soup ... sorry!)

New York strip steak with golden yukon potatoes and the sauce "on the side" (which was good because I didn't really like the sauce that much) ...

Mushroom filet, which DH loved ... Mickey was trying to hide for this picture.

For dessert ... one order of smores ... FUN AND YUMMY! A great combination!!

And the duo creme brulee ...

Our server was good and professional, but unfortunately not very friendly. We have had much better service here before.

This was supposed to be mine and DH's special dinner to celebrate my birthday alone (which was noted on the ressie and DH mentioned it to her). She never acknowledged my b-day at all. However, so many other places & cm's did special things for me throughout the week though, so it's all good.

 

[momof2disprincesses]

Okay, please don't be sad, but this will be the last post for food from this trip. I did find a few pictures from our trip in April though, so if anyone is still interested, I will post those pictures next.

Here are pictures from our last meal of this 40 ddp credit trip in Aug./Sept. 2007. This was hands-down everyone's favorite meal of the trip.

It was lunch at Liberty Tree Tavern.

We began with 3 of us getting the fried cheese appetizer, which us "Wisconsinites" declared EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!

In the background is DD11's pirate punch with souvenior light-up tinkerbell, which is now hanging happily in our living room from my Precious Moments Christmas tree angel, which I adore. The cup is also re-useable. It's made of a hard plastic and DD11 has used it and we've put it in the dishwasher even, so it's sturdy.

DH got the Maryland crab cake appetizer. I thought he was CRAZY for not getting the fried cheese, but he really loved this appetizer and was happy with his choice. Plus, he helped me eat my fried cheese as I personally felt it was a HUGE appetizer and could easily be shared among several people.

For entrees, DD11 got the William Penn pasta, which she loved ... I don't even like pasta, but even I thought this looked AND smelled delicious ...

DD15 and I both got the cheddar cheese bacon burger. DH got the pilgrim's feast. DH and I did "halfsies" again as both meals looked SO good, we couldn't possibly settle for just one.

Please notice Mickey on his "salt shaker" perch.

The pilgrim feast is similar to what you get for dinner at LTT and just as YUMMY!!!

For dessert, DD11 and I got the chocolate liberation cake, which was actually warm chocolate lava cake with raspberry sauce and cherry ice cream. MAN OH MAN was this out of this world good!!!!! Even the strawberry that came with it was juicy and delicious!

DD15 got the Liberty Shortcake (berry shortcake) ...

DH had the butter griddled poundcake, which is served with warm pecan caramel sauce with vanilla bean ice cream. He declared this to be "FANTASTIC"

I also have to mention that we saw other tables with the LTT "melt in your mouth" roles and butter that we've had at dinner. We asked about them and our server said they are only served at lunch "by request" so we quickly "requested" some. Sorry we didn't take a picture, but if you've ever had them, you will know how special and delicious they are!

We had never had lunch here before (only dinner a few times), but WE WILL BE BACK for lunch as it was spectacular!

We had the last lunch ADR (around 3:45) and so it wasn't super busy, but they were turning people with NO ADR's away. In fact, the man who wanted to check in right before me went into a tirade with the cm because he got this "free dining plan" and couldn't find anywhere to eat. She handled it very well and made some suggestions to him, but he was furious. I was glad we had an ADR.

When we left this meal, they were clearning out one side of the restaurant and prepping it for dinner.


OH ... I will have ONE more special picture from this trip's food coming up next. It's an all-time, favorite, "gotta have every trip" thing for me. I'm sure some of you will agree ...