7 Magical Days of Disney Dining

[popstar7867]

Hi Everyone! I just returned from an AMAZING vacation at the Boardwalk Villas. We were in the World from May 4 until today (May 10). I am starting a very extensive review of everything we ate in Disney!! We always go a little nuts lol Ten pounds later......we are back home, but I have a lot to report to all of you Disers!!! I didn't take any food pics...the DBF isn't down with that yet lol But he is getting more disney obsessed every vaca! I will post some pictures of inside the restaurants though! Hope you enjoy the reviews!

Here are the restuarants I'll be reviewing:
Table Service
Crystal Palace Dinner
Crystal Palace Breakfast
Tony's Town Square Lunch
Sci-Fi Dine In Dinner
Le Cellier Lunch
Tappan Edo Dinner
Tusker House Breakfast
Chefs de France Lunch
Jiko Dinner
Boma Dinner
Cape May Cafe Breakfast
O'hana Dinner
Chef Mickey's Breakfast
ESPN Club Lunch

Counter Service:
Pecos Bill
Sunshine Seasons
Spoodles Pizza Take Out Window at the Boardwalk
Seashore Sweets at the Boardwalk
Main St. Ice Cream Parlor

I will be rating each restaurant based on the following:
Service
Food
Price (Value)
Atmosphere
Will We Return?

**** The Best
*** Pretty good
** So-So
* BLAH

Here is a picture of us from Jiko to start off the Reviews!

 

[MouseFan Down Under]

Welcome Home! Hope you had a great trip!

Bring on the reviews - I have ADR's at a few of the places you mention so will look forward to your thoughts.

 

[suzimar57]

let the reviews begin! i'm ready!

 

[mavslab]

Can't wait!

 

[John's Mom]

 

[phabric]

Will be looking forward to your reviews as we have some of the same restaurants booked.

 

[devonsmommy]

I also have some of the same restaurants booked! Looking forward to your reviews and pictures!

 

[TigerKat]

I'm on board.......

 

[DisneyDancin7]

ready for your review! bring it on!

 

[pixiedust1125]

Looking foward to the reviews-I actually just returned too May 1-8 and have to get started on my reviews as well

 

[disnut1149]

Hi
Can't wait for the reviews!! You two look very cute together!!

 

[PISCESANGEL]

Can't wait to read more!

 

[jenniferhornsby]

I'm in!

 

[popstar7867]

Hi Everyone!! Thanks so much for all of your posts!!!! Here come the reviews!

Crystal Palace Dinner - Magic Kingdom
We had an 8:35 Dinner ressie which we planned so once we could finish we could walk right out to view Wishes! This is one of my fav Disney restaurants. It's a character buffet starring Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eyeore, and Piglet. The character interaction here is always great! I had some of the turkey and prime rib which was awesome! I also had the broccoli which was really good, some of the kid's mac and cheese, and i think some roasted potatoes. It was all really good! My boyfriend, who is more of a fish eater than me, tried the salmon too and said it was really good!

We shared desserts and sampled almost all of them. We tried the bread pudding (which we had a lot of this trip!), apple crumble, peanut butter chocolate cake, and tiramsu. I think they also had some cheesecake and cookies out too as well as the soft serve ice cream machine.

Service - ***
Food - ***
Price (Value) - ** 1/2
Atmosphere- ****
Will We Return? - We are going to skip this one next time and just do breakfast. We had way too many buffets this trip, but I would return if we had some more days in disney!

Crystal Palace Breakfast - Magic Kingdom
We had an 8:05 AM Ressie for CP Breakfast. I always like to get in there early to get some good pics of the castle. Although the morning we went it was really hazy!

Crystal Palace is our favorite Breakfast buffet! It's always nice to get into the parks before opening! They have a lot to offer at Breakfast! I had an egg white omelet with cheese, peppers, and onions from the make your omelet station, some breakfast potatoes, breakast pizza (which is sooo yummy), fresh fruit (watermelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, and strawberries), and some banana nut bread. Brendan had the hard boiled eggs, protein cereal, yogurt and granola, oatmeal, and salmon. My favs were the breakfast pizza and make our own omelets. The fruit it always really fresh here too! Brendan liked everything but the protein cereal. He said it was a little sweet.

Service - ***
Food - ****
Price (Value) - *** (the only buffet we had with the make your omelet station!)
Atmosphere- ****
Will We Return? - Most def! We are going again in December!

Next up: Tony's Town Square and Sci-Fi Dine in Theatre!

 

[suzimar57]

both meals at the crystal palace sound great - and that "foggy" picture of the castle is cool!

 

[popstar7867]

Tony's Town Square Lunch - Magic Kingdom
I think we are some of the only Disers out there that really enjoy Tony's! We have been for lunch and dinner and recommend going for lunch! The lunch menu is a little bit simpler and less fancy and that's how we role! Lol It's also cheaper! In between Breakfast at CP and Lunch at TTS we went water tubing for an hour at the Contemporary. I highly recommend trying this if you have some extra time in the world! We have done this 3 times and have always had a blast. We had Jason this time as a driver and he was great! We had Kim the other two times and she's awesome as well. You pay a flat fee for the boat rental for the hour and as many people as you'd like can go out and take turns or tube two at a time. I believe it was around $160 for the hour and then they took 10% off for our annual pass discount so it ended up being around $145. Ok on to lunch!

By the time we got to Tony's we were pretty hungry!!! We split the Tony's flatbread pizza which had chicken, onions, fontina and spinich on it. It was soooo good! We both got chicken ceasar salads for the meal which were really good as well! The chicken on them tasted awesome! I don't know why so many people hate on tony's because we always really enjoy it and are from Boston, so we are used to some good Italian food!
The theming here is really nice. It's all themed after Lady and the Tramp! You can sit outside over looking main st square or inside.

Service - **** (Our waiter was great! It was our 5 year anniversary and they had confetti and some pretty ribbon on the table and the waiter was so nice and friendly!)
Food- ***
Price (Value) - ***
Atmosphere- ***
Will We Return? - Prob not next trip because we want to try some new restaurants, but we would definitely return if we had more time for lunch, not dinner!

Here is a picture of us in the lobby of Tony's:

Sci-Fi Dine in Theatre Dinner - Hollywood Studios
This was our second visit to Sci-Fi and we go more for the atmosphere than anything. Hollywood Studios is a tough place to find good Table service so we figured we'd give Sci-Fi another go. I was a little bummed that they took the Ceasar Salad off the menu. That is my go-to staple when nothing else on the menu appeals to me. We had a 7:45 ressie and checked in early. We weren't seated until close to our ADR time. We sat in the back of a car and had a really nice waiter, although he was a little spazzy lol We split the Spinich and Artichoke dip which was pretty good and then got the mixed green salad with grilled chicken. The grilled Chicken was awesome! This wasn't on the menu, but they were really accomodating. The atmosphere and theming here is always fun!

Service - *** (He was very quick refilling drinks, but things seemed a little hectic)
Food- **
Price (Value) - ***
Atmosphere- ****
Will We Return? - Probably not. It's nice for a first experience for atmopshere, but there are so many good restaurants in the epcot resort area that we would prob just eat there! The boardwalk, beach club, yacht club, swan and dolphin are all just a 10 minute walk away from the studio so we will prob eat there next time

 

[LMO429]

very cool reviews! subscribing!

 

[popstar7867]

both meals at the crystal palace sound great - and that "foggy" picture of the castle is cool!

Ya Crystal Palace is prob my second favorite restaurant in Disney World after O'Hana (but lets see if that changes after trying the new menu! haha) Ya it was really neat to get that pic of the castle. It didn't rain it all the week we were there so I'm not sure why it was so foggy that morning???

 

[popstar7867]

Hi Everyone!!! I'm taking a break to catch up on Lost since I missed it last week Next up is Le Cellier lunch and Tappan Edo Dinner! I will try to get to them tonight, but if not tomorrow

 

[Krissalee]

Loving your reviews so far and looking forward to more!

Thanks for taking the time to share them!