For dinner that night we had a 7:30 reservation at Citricos. In the past this has definitely been DH's favourite restaurant so I was really hoping he'd enjoy his meal here tonight.
We arrived about 10 minutes early but we were seated very quickly. The restaurant seemed much busier than on previous visits, and a lot louder but it was still a nice atmosphere.
Our waitress here was excellent, definitely the best service of the trip. She was friendly, efficient, knowledgeable about the menu and she never kept us waiting for anything.
To drink I had a Citricos Bellini, this was a tasty cocktail, a good peach flavour but not too sweet.
For an appetiser I had the Gateau of crab. I first tried this a couple of years ago and thought it was excellent, luckily it was still just as tasty this time round. Huge pieces of fresh crab, surrounded by a creamy, fennel and orange flavoured sauce. The fennel is quite mild and certainly doesn't overpower the crab flavours at all, the tomato fennel slaw on top provides a good contrasting texture, a truly excellent dish.
DH decided to go with the Goats cheese truffles. 3 pieces of goats cheese rolled in tomato, cracked pepper, and sesame seeds, served on an arugula salad. Normally it comes with bacon but DH asked our waitress to omit it, which was no problem. The goats cheese was very fresh and incredibly tasty, the tomato one was DH's favourite and the sesame seed one his least favourite. The sesame seeds did overpower the goats cheese and he's not a huge fan of sesame seeds anyway. Overall a tasty, well presented dish, only criticism would be the salad could have used a little more dressing.
For my entree I chose the salmon fillet, served with fingerling potatoes, sprouts, bacon and a light mustard sauce. Apparantly this was a new dish, just added to the menu that night but it was very good. The salmon was perfectly cooked (medium rare) and incredibly tasty. The potatoes were good although one was slightly undercooked, the sauce was spicy at all but did have a good mustard flavour, and was thick and silky in texture. The sprouts were tasty but there were only a few on the plate, overall a really good, well balanced dish. I had the recommended wine pairing with this dish, a Marlbrough Savignon Blanc which was very good, and went well with the salmon.
DH had the Seared Tofu served with Angel Hair Pasta, Zucchinni, Eggplant, Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Lentils, and Sun-dried Tomato Coulis. This has been Citricos veggie option for years, but they have changed the presentation of it from last year. The tofu was good, two big pieces of it were on the plate, it was well cooked but could have done with a little more marinade. It sat on a bed of sundried tomato sauce which had a really good flavour to it.
The pasta was nicely cooked, and the lentils, courgette and spinach went really well with the tofu, making it a good, well balanced vegetarian dish, and a huge improvement after Narcoossees.
I was pretty full by the time it came to dessert so thought I'd choose a light option, Angel food cake with berries, honey and cointreau sauce. This was very nice, the cake was incredibly light, and the sharp berries and thick sweet cream complimented each other perfectly. A very good, light dessert, perfect after a big meal.
DH had the tiramisu, which is one of his favourite desserts back home. He said this one was good, nice and creamy with a strong coffee flavour, the chocolate coffee beans were tasty but it only had a slight alcohol flavour.
Overall we both had an excellent meal here, good quality food, excellent service and we were able to see Wishes from our table which was nice (although it's not the same without the music). This is still DH's favourite restaurant in WDW and it's in my top 2, definitely worth a visit if you haven't been yet.
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