Sorry again about the delays, this has just been a manic week at work! Will answer all your kind posts tomorrow! For now, on with the show!!
Well here we were, awake, and would you believe hungry again?!!!!
We were going to try Earl of Sandwiches breakfast this morning, but, well to be honest, couldn't be bothered a sandwich just never feels that appealing first thing in the morning! So food court at POFQ it was again!!! Tony had pancakes which he gives 9/10 to as they were very fresh. I had waffles with raspberries, which again was very light and fresh - another 9/10! I just love these things -can't believe I had never had one before this visit!
Mid-morning was one of our favourite treats in the universe! Water park mini-donuts (Blizzard Beach this year)! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-liscious! We got 6 to share, and the best news of all was the cinnamon sugar was back on the menu this year. These are SO good. Is anything better when you are starving than hot, fresh donuts?! I give these 10/10, Tony gives them 8 (he was really grumpy at this point which I feel affected his judgment!).
Is it me or does the top one look like a mickey head?!
Off to a new place to us for lunch Wolfgang Puck Express. I have been dying to go here after seeing several excellent reviews. Huge menu to pick from which was good! I was surprised by how empty the place was it was about 1.30pm and there were only two other tables occupied! The staff here were all really friendly and helpful. You order at the counter, and then (although its counter-service) someone else brings you cutlery, your meal, and re-fills your drinks.
We decided to share two pizzas - Pepperoni and Mushroom (mozzarella and Grana Padano Paremesan with tomato-basil garlic sauce) and Four Cheese Pesto (creamy goat cheese, mozzarella, fontina and Parmesan with Roma tomatoes, fresh basil, garlic-basil pesto sauce and sun dried tomatoes). Tony picked a cookie for dessert, and I went for a brownie (I had been planning on trying one of their famous thanks to Dizneeat! crème brulees, but I couldnt face it after the two not-so-good ones I had already had this trip.
I really, really enjoyed these pizzas. They were good sizes, and the ingredients were really fresh. The bases were crisp and light as well. The cheese pizza had so much lovely pesto on it! I preferred the pepperoni one but it was close! Pepperoni and mushroom gets 9/10, and Four Cheese gets 8/10. I didnt eat the brownie straight away I think I had half of it the next day. It was OK, fairly moist but not the best Ive ever had. Tony really liked the pepperoni one and gave it 9/10; he wasnt quite so keen on the cheese and gave it 7. He said the cookie was just average and gave it 7/10.
Pepperoni
4 Cheese Pesto
Brownie and cookie
On to dessert at our favourite Ghirardellis!!! We decided to just share one again such self control! and after about a 20 minute debate finally settled on the Warm Caramel Sundae - Two scoops of premium vanilla ice cream layered with warm Ghirardelli creamy caramel and topped with whipped cream, chopped almonds, a cherry and our famous chocolate with caramel square. This was SOOOOOOOO good. Ooey gooey caramel sauce all melting over creamy ice-cream. Our only complaint was they were a little light handed when service the actual caramel sauce we needed more of the good stuff! I was 9/10 and Tony was 9.5/10.
Dinner was at Ohanas somewhere else we have never been. I have wanted to go here for ages, but had to beg and plead to get Tony to agree. Let me start by explaining he doesnt like turkey, not keen on steak, broccoli is dull, wings are only OK etc
- all I could do was promise him that if he came out hungry we could head straight off to Pop Century for a chilli cheese dog
. This was finally enough to get him to let me make an ADR (I was always going to make one this year, but it was so much easier to get him to drive us there this way!!).
We had to wait about 20 minutes for our table, which gave me the change to try something I have been drooling over for ages a Lapu Lapu tropical fruit juice, dark rum and Bacardi all served in a pineapple. Call me a lightweight but this was way too strong for me. I only had half of it and could barely walk straight when we finally got called to our table!
The first food to arrive was the salad (Mixed greens with a honey-lime dressing) is it wrong that we really loved the salad?! The dressing was so good! We cleaned the bowl out!
Next was the bread I thought it was supposed to be pineapple flavoured, but I couldnt taste any it was nice though!
Bread and salad
Next were the Honey-Coriander Chicken Wings proper wings with BONES in woo hoo! These were really tender I prefer hot wings, but these were good.
Then we had the pork dumplings with three dipping sauces one was hot, one was peanut I dont remember the third sauce but we enjoyed them all, especially the hot one. I confess I had never had pork dumplings before and I absolutely loved these could have eaten another plateful.
Then we had broccoli not much to say about broccoli. I think we had a floret each to try claim we had at least had one vitamin today!
The noodles then arrived I have heard great things about the Ohana potatoes, and wish I had managed to try them, but to be honest really enjoyed the noodles. I love noodles at the best of time, and these were really well flavoured, and because they are lighter than potatoes I think it helped me manage to eat a lot more!!!!
Then the meat started arriving! We said we didnt want shrimp (we don't like any shellfish), which seemed to surprise them. We were actually going to try it, until we saw you had to peel your own YUCK! I cant be spending my night pulling little corpses apart!
The grilled Pork Loin was really good and moist, as was the Grilled Tenderloin of Turkey. The Sirloin Steak was lovely as well the grill gave all the meats a lovely smoky flavour and kept it all really tender. I have just noticed Hawaiian Sausage on the menu, but I dont think we got any of that. I had really enjoyed everything we had had so far . . . so what of Tony who didnt want to come? He LOVED it even the turkey which he always claims to hate! He ate everything that came (including the wings, much to my annoyance!).
Steak
Turkey and pork (pork on the left)
Still to come was dessert - Ohana bread pudding served a la mode with Bananas and Caramel Sauce. I hate bread pudding even the one at Raglan Road which people seem to rave about tasted grim to me last year. Well it was a night for surprises because I just ADORED this the best part of the whole meal! Really sweet, light, with lovely sauce, and really good with the ice-cream. I give the pudding 10/10, and the rest of the meal 8.5/10. Much better than I was expecting, and would definitely return. Tony says the meat was good, and tender, and the dessert was very light. He gave it all 8/10 which is very good when you think of how negatively he went into the meal!
My only complaints about this night were the speed the food comes out. We were in and out in an hour! Its certainly not relaxing. And talking of not relaxing, the entertainment left something to be desired! If that woman with her little guitar thing (ukulele?) had wondered past screeching just one more time I think I would have lobbed my lovely bread pudding at her!
Coming next . . . Captain Cookes, Market St Café in Celebration, 50s Prime Time Café.
Sonya and Tony, you guys are way too adorable 
Your reviews are aweome, keep them coming 
(yes folks, I am the fool who didnt see the sundae's on the back of the menu...we were first timers, so can be forgiven...
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). The Warm Caramel Sundae looks good..I've been planning on getting one on my next trip 
