I am so sorry this took so long to finish! I went away on vacation to visit grandma and grandpa for a couple of weeks and I am just now getting my bearings back. That is tough to do when you get out of the groove! Ok so where was I? Yes this was our last full day at Disney World and DD5 was just starting to get into the groove of things. She is an anxious child and has a hard time with change and it honestly took her a full week to start to relax and actually enjoy everything!
On our last trip the one thing that DD5 said she wished she had done was to meet Mary Poppins. My daughters have moved on from the basic princess movies and just love the music of Mary Poppins. This pleased me to no end because on a long car ride it is a lot easier on the ears to listen to Julie Andrews singing away than to listen to episodes of Dora the Explorer over and over again. So this time around I planned to start off our last day at Disney World with a breakfast buffet at 1900 Park Fare. Even though it was a late night last night we managed to get up early and were out of the room by 8 am. Within 5 minutes a bus pulls up the read Magic Kingdom. Great! We figured we would take that and grab the monorail to the GF from there and I guess another family had the same idea except they were heading to the Contemporary for Chef Mickey’s. Well it didn’t take long for us to figure out that we were NOT heading to Magic Kingdom. We pulled in at Typhoon Lagoon and a bunch of people got off and then we carried onto Hollywood Studios. Once there we went to the bus driver and explained our situation along with the other family. Apparently she didn’t adjust her sign until after we were on the bus and didn’t realize we had seen Magic Kingdom. She called her dispatcher to tell her what had happened and by this time were getting dangerously close to our adr. The dispatcher told her to take care of their guests! So off we went delivered directly to both the Contemporary and the Grand Floridian. Now that perked up our day!
1900 Park Fare was fabulous! So far we have been to Lilo and Stitch, Crystal Palace for breakfast and 1900 Park Fare was by far the best breakfast we have eaten at Disney World. It was actually a lot more intimate than I had expected! We arrived about 5 minutes late but only waited about 10 minutes to be seated. The room was a lot smaller than I had expected and I found it almost intimate. The Characters had plenty of time to make it around to everyone. The food was fabulous! There were the usual pancakes and mickey waffles but with three different types of syrup. There were lobster eggs benedict and bagels with lox, cream cheese onions and tomatoes (to be assembled to your taste of course). There was a personal omelet starting and a really good kids station. Fresh carved ham, croissants, pastries, bread and jams, sticky buns, I am sure I am missing something. We left very satisfied and DH designated this place as his favorite breakfast of the trip! My children helped themselves to a sundae bar without the ice cream so they each had a bowl in front of them filled with chocolate chips, gummy bears and m&m’s by the time the Mad hatter and Alice came by and they warned the girls not to let Mary Poppins see their bowls of candy since she thinks children only need a spoonful of sugar. Mary Poppins came over and in this beautiful British accent asked them their names. Well of course my girls clammed right up and just stared at her. She giggled and said how unfortunate it was that they were children with no names. I had a good laugh over that one. Now I know they use these lines over and over again but it totally did the trick on my kids. They are young enough to still have that magic in their eyes which is precisely why we brought them at this age against so may people’s advice.
Sausage, fresh pineapple, breakfast pizza, vanilla bread pudding, lobster eggs benedict, and bacon.
Sticky bun, bagel, strawberries, lox, red onions, bacon, scrambled eggs and fried potatoes.
Now the day just got crazier from there. The girls were tire but we wanted to spend some time at magic Kingdom for our last day. We had adr’s for 5:00 at the Wolfgang Puck Café and then a nice relaxing evening at the pool before heading out in the morning. This was not meant to be. Gary took the girls to the Swiss Family Tree House and his plan was to go to the Magic carpets afterwards and I headed off to ride Pirates of the Caribbean by myself since neither of the kids wanted to ride that again. DD5 never did agree to go on it this trip. Maybe next time! About 2 minutes into the ride the boats all come to a stop. I was just past the Davy Jones fogging machine that chanted Dead Men Tell No Tales over and over again and staring ahead and a skeleton driving a wrecked ship in the wind. Well we sat there for at least 25 minutes as they evacuated the boat in front of us unto the “beach” and eventually they turned off the wind machine and the recording of Davy Jones. They could not turn off the fogging machine however much to the dismay of the second to back row on our boat who sat directly underneath it. In the end the fire department evacuated us my helping us climb from boat to boat until we made it to a finger dock and were able to walk back to the entrance well over an hour after we started the ride. Apparently a boat got stuck in the waterfall portion of the ride and they had to evacuate because when they dislodged it, it would crash down. We were each given a single fast pass for any ride in the park. 1 fastpass? Evacuation by firemen and all that merits is a single fast pass??
After a few more attempts to have fun at Magic Kingdom, we gave it up and headed back to POR for an afternoon nap. I stopped off at the front desk and changed our adr from Wolfgang Puck to The Kona Café again but at 8:45 pm so that would give us a chance to enjoy some of Magic Kingdom later in the day. We really loved our first meal there and couldn’t wait to go back.
We had a good sleep that afternoon and then headed back to Magic Kingdom to try and enjoy the rest of our last day and I think the rest was the best decision I could have made. It was cooler, less crowded and we were in much better moods. We saw this man with his two children waiting in line for a ride. His t-shirt made us laugh out loud and it made our top tem list of things we never thought we would see at Disney World. How bizarre is it to stand in line behind a man with two young children for Peter Pan who is wearing a t-shirt with a big yellow happy face on it and below that it reads “Smile If You Swallow”?? Now that is good old family values isn’t it?
We left the park around 8:30 and grabbed the monorail over to Kona Café for the last table service credits of the week. It lived up to our expectations wowing us again with the appetizers and desserts. DD3 said that she wanted yogurt as a side but in the end never touched it. Too bad because it looks great! They both had hot dogs I think and then enjoyed the make your own sundae for dessert. It was late so a meal for them was not their top priority. They did however polish off a ton of the bread and macadamia nut butter beforehand so that might have had something to do with it.
DH and I started off with the Sticky Wings - Glazed Chicken Wings with a tangy mustard drizzle and toasted sesame seeds. These were wonderful! They were sticky and sweet and perfectly cooked to be juicy and not dry. The sauce was lick your fingers good. And they provided us with moist hot towels afterwards to wash down our fingers! Usually I am pleased if they supply wet naps but this was nice!
For my main course I ordered the Shrimp and Scallops - Panko breaded shrimp and pan-seared scallops with sticky rice and Ponzu, spicy guava, passion fruit, and wasabi cream sauces. This was really good but once again I was left wondering if I should have ordered something else. Breaded shrimp usually only work for me if it is tempura but these were fairly good for breaded shrimp. The scallops were cooked perfectly and the wasabi cream sauce that accompanied it went perfectly. These were by far the best part of the dish. I did enjoy the ponzu too. Next time I may try the coconut chicken or the pomegranate pork chop. Who knows, they may completely change them menu before I get back.
DH had an encore performance of the Beef Teriyaki - 10-oz sirloin strip, grilled with pineapple teriyaki glaze, mashed Yukon Gold potatoes, and stir-fried broccoli florets. He was in love with this dish last time and he was equally enamored this time. The steak was cooked perfectly for him at medium, crispy on the outside and pink on the inside. The sauce was amazing too and he is definitely a mashed potato kind of guy.
Once again we rocked out on the desserts. This time along DH ordered the Chocolate Macadamia Nut Tart. We had ordered that to go last time and I had polished it off in the hotel room with little help from him so this time he wanted one for himself with the ice cream. I was hardly allowed a taste! He loved it and we both can’t wait to go back to have this again.
I ordered the Banana-chocolate Crème Brulee. This is such a great twist to the usual crème brulee! The half banana on top was a work of art with a crisp butterscotch crisp on top and this beautiful swirl of chocolate finished the decoration. And then when you dip into the crème brulee, there is a layer of decadent chocolate on the bottom that just makes this dish sinful. I will definitely order this dessert again.
Check out the chocolate on the bottom!!
We are in love with this restaurant and it will definitely be on our list for our next visit.
We took the monorail home and put the girls to bed. Then I packed up all of our stuff for an easy exit tomorrow.
That’s it for the review! I hope you enjoyed it and if you have any questions, comments or recommendations for next time please feel free to post!
Thanks for reading!
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I was able to get a 4:30 adr at Capn Jacks though and that suited me well. I had wanted to try this place as well since I could have lobster on the DDP.
