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Ok -- all caught up! We had ADRs at Ohana our last night but it was a really really late time so we cancelled and ate in our room. I wish we could have made it there. Maybe next time! I think the drink Lapu Lapu? looks fantastic!!!!

I am still amazed at how you both eat all that food and are so nice and trim. Maybe in 2012 Sabrina can keep up?!?!

Keep the reviews coming -- it is making me want to go back to WDW now!
 
That lupa lupa was too strong for me to. I asked them to water it down for me and they did. They brought the pineapple back and another huge glass where they had made two drinks out of it to make it weaker. Do you know it was still too strong for me. I only drank half.
 
OMG you poor girl I can't believe those sausages! They looked just awful, I can't believe they cut up the top of your mouth!!:scared1: I have rarely sent anything back..but those would have gone back to the kitchen!
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For some reason I didn't even think of sending them back! :confused3 I must be crazy!!

The California Grill is one of our favorite restaurants. We are starting our trip with it the first night. :worship: We have been going to Disney since our kids were 5 and 8. Now they are 28 and 30 and we are going to take another trip with them this summer. As we usually do, I ask each one to choose a restaurant. Now that they are adults their tastes have changed and we now have ressies at Jiko, Blue Zoo, Narcoosee's and California Grill, among others. You'd think it was the food and wine festival. I am enjoying your reviews....keep them coming.

Wow you have got some great restaurants lined up!! We definitely want to try another signature meal next year. Have a great trip!

Great update!! Glad you got such a perfect table at CG, I'm sure it more than made up for the rock hard sausages!! :)

Can't wait to hear about WPE and Ohana!

It did, I soon forgot my pain!:rotfl:

I am so glad that you enjoyed your CG experience. It is our favorite restaurant in WDW so far.:thumbsup2

We loved it!:goodvibes

Wow! You sure lucked out with that Cali Grill view - I don't think it could have been more perfect! I love that you left it to fate, but I don't think I could have been so restrained - I'm just sure I wouldn't be able to resist begging for a MK view table! My hat is off to you!

We were so lucky - It almost makes me not want to go back again, in case it wasn't as perfect! The only time I ever requested something, was a certain area at Caribbean Beach resort a few years ago, and we ended up so far from everywhere else that I swore never to request anything ever again!!!!!

Great view at CG! Did you happen to get any photos of the fireworks?

Not that night, we watched Wishes again the next night fromt he beach at Polynesian, and took all our photo's then!

How lucky to get a great view and long enough meal to enjoy wishes! Your meals look so yummy (besides the sausages) :goodvibes

The suasages were the low point of the whole trip, so we didn't do too bad!

We did Norcoosees for our anniversary dinner and after seeing your picture I wish we had done California Grill! Much better view of the castle and you didn't have to stand outside to watch them.

Very cool!

Oh what was Narcoosees like? I'd like to try there!

Ok, I will admit, the Cali Grill has never tempted me before but now it's on my must-do list!! I have to get me some of that moist and bananary dessert!!

LOVIN' your reviews and can't wait for the next installment popcorn::

I think you would like it! Thanks for the nice comments!

More, please!

I love your attitude, your writing style, and you and your husband (and puppies!) are adorable.

Thanks for the reviews!

Ah thank you!!:goodvibes

What a great view you had at Cali Grill. I'd love to eat there someday. I think after reading your reviews, I might have to start taking pics of my food at WDW!

Oh yes please do! The more people that do it, the less I will stand out!!:rotfl:

Great review... I'm looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks!:goodvibes

Great TR! Wow did you get a great view without even requesting it.

I know!!:banana:

I really have to stop eating these food reviews when I've not had my dinner. I'm drooling on my computer.

Great job...can't wait for the next installment.

Thanks! Should be up tomorrow!

As for the food, it looked delicious as always, but unless you specifically wanted mashed potatoes with your pork, I believe you actually had the polenta, no?

Thanks for the wonderful food porn. :cloud9:

Well I was deliberately a little vague around that subject . . . I know I told Tony I was going to request "normal" mash, but I don't remember actually doing it! And all I wrote on my report was "great mash"!! :confused3 We will never know . . .!!
 
Sorry work's so hectic!

Hope it all calms down soon and you get some time to chill. :)

Oh its been a nightmare - the other lady in my office was off all last week, and this next week, so I am suffering!! We are chilling with a nice bar-b-q tonight though ast home!:banana:

Great post on the California Grill :thumbsup2

Glad you're enjoying it! :goodvibes

Wahooooo!!! Just stumbled upon your latest dining reviews, and I'm so pleased! Your last dining reviews were some of my favourites ever - and not just because your DH looks like Jake Gyllenhaal!! :goodvibes

Also, I'm a big fan of anybody who used the word, "bananary"!

:woohoo:

:rotfl: I forgot about that comparison!! He quite liked that!

I may have to use the word "scrummy-liscious" at some point as well! :rotfl:

Oh Sonya dear I finally found your food report and just got done catching up on all the posts. You amaze me at how much you and Tony are able to eat, yet how fit you all look! You lucky things.

I can't wait to see more!

Hi Lynsey - I am LOVING your trip report!! :goodvibes

Sorry about the sausages...they do look pretty gross! Glad your CG experience was good though, your view is awesome!:thumbsup2

I never knew sausages could be so evil!!!!

Hey you - great review yet again - I love the cake and what a wonderful view! Lucky you:woohoo: Hope work calms down for you and see you Saturday!xx

Oh no - we forgot to take food porn pictures of our lunch yesterday!! :rotfl: It was great seeing you all :hug:

Just caught up on your report...fabulous!!!! :goodvibes

You guys are such a cute couple :cutie::cutie::cutie:

Thanks for sharing your food adventures with us :thumbsup2

Ah, thank you!!

:surfweb:

I'm hoping that work today wasn't too rough and maybe we'll get another FABULOUS update?

It was a little late . . . I will try harder this week!!

Hi Sonya & Tony!!

It was so fun meeting you guys on the Magic!! I only wish we could have hung out more! We'll just have to make up for it in 2012!! :banana:

Just caught up on your food report. You guys are so cute! Can't wait to read more! BTW, here in So Cal, we have Tony Roma's everywhere. Gus and I eat there every few months or so. The ribs are pretty ribalicious!! lol.

Chasity (& Gus)

It was great meeting you!! Yey to 2012 - it will be here very quickly!
SO lucky on the Tony Romas! We tried the one just outside Disneyland in 2007 - yummo!

Sign me up :) Sonya and Tony, you guys are way too adorable :love: Your reviews are aweome, keep them coming :banana:

I'm glad you are enjoying them!

What is it about men and O'hana's? We have eaten here once or twice, but both dh and ds have asked we not go back. They didn't complain while they were stuffing their faces!
I agree about being fairly rushed too. So glad to see another report. We certainly understand about hectic weeks. :donald:

I know! I don't get it either! Last year he totally refused to go here, and this year I really had to twist his arm! And then he goes and loves it! :rolleyes:
 

Yaaay! A great update!! :)

Hope you have a nice peaceful weekend. :cutie:

Thank you! Such good weather here for a change! Its almost Florida-ish!

Thank you for your food reviews. I have an ADR at Ohanas and I can't with to try the bread pudding. Yum Yum.

That was SO good!!! I can't see how anyone couldn't love it!

Great update -- it was worth the wait!:goodvibes

We all hate bread pudding, too, but think that the dessert at 'Ohana is the BEST dessert at WDW! (It also doesn't hurt that you can ask for more if you want to ;)).

I'll be waiting for your next set of reviews!:)

NO I did not know I could ask for more!:mad: Sometimes I am such an amateur! Now we have to go back next year!! :banana:

I don't like being rushed, and my DH has actually told our server to bring things out slowly. I think they just want to flip tables as quickly as possible. And, yes, the entertainment can be grating...but there are A LOT of DISers that adore Lipoa (I think that's her name) - the ukelele player.

We go to 'Ohana for the food and for the chance to hang out at the Polynesian. Kona Cafe is really good - have you ever tried it?

Thanks again for taking the time to post!!! :goodvibes

If we went again I would definitely ask for the food to come out a bit slower . . . and I promise to try appreciate Lipoa a little more as well! :thumbsup2

We have only been on Kona for breakfast before, but I would like to try it for dinner (or even lunch, on a break from the parks). That may be one of our new places next year!:thumbsup2

Ohana's looks great to me. Especially that drink. Yum!

That's a LOT of rum!!! :goodvibes

We love those doughnuts at Blizzard Beach too - we got a bag like you guys and polished them off in about 30 seconds! :rotfl:

Great Ohana's review mmmmm its making me hungry!:goodvibes

I honestly think they are the worlds best donuts!! You just need something like that after jumping over waves for 2 hours!!

We booked 'Ohana for our upcoming trip. Its our first time dining there and after reading your review, I am really excited now!!! That bread pudding looks sooo good!!!!! Also looking forward to the dumplings

You will love it!! :thumbsup2

We look forward to the mini donuts every trip!! I love to get mine with the raspberry sauce!!! Great, now I'm drooling all over myself! :rotfl:

Ohhh raspberry sauce?!! Now that is something I also need to try!!

Us too! I was going to try the dinner show but after this review I decided to try 'Ohana instead.

Well I haven't tried the dinner show, but I can highly recommend Ohana's!

Great report. Good reading while I'm in bed with the flu. I will read food reports while I'm bed ridden. Can't wait til our August trip.

Oh you poor thing - feel better soon :hug:

Thanks for the continued food reviews. The pizza looks great, as always.

WGP's was a great new find!

Great Reviews. O'hana's is on my list to try on our next trip.

I love the MYO treats at Goofy's and was soooooo disappointed in Jan. when there were no Reese's PB cup pieces. I was hoping it was just a temporary thing, but if you guys didn't have them either, maybe the change is permanent. Oh well, change is good, right?????

No it seems to be permanent . . .:sad1: And I haven't even got to the mostt serious change yet, which we discovered on our second trip . . .

WOW how good does that Sundae look!:thumbsup2 (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...:rolleyes1)

:rotfl: Oh bless you, that was SO funny!

I love that you eat all this food (and then show us pictures of it :worship:). The Warm Caramel Sundae looks good..I've been planning on getting one on my next trip :cool1:

You can't go wrong with anything at Ghiredellis, but this one was especially good!!

Yummy update. So is Ohanas family style? I've never been there and really haven;t read to much about it. I think I mya give it a try some day.

Yes its family style, they bring it all out on plates for you to help yourself from, and the meat comes to you on skewers! You can request more of anything apparently (wish I had known that about the bread pudding before!).

Ok -- all caught up! We had ADRs at Ohana our last night but it was a really really late time so we cancelled and ate in our room. I wish we could have made it there. Maybe next time! I think the drink Lapu Lapu? looks fantastic!!!!

I am still amazed at how you both eat all that food and are so nice and trim. Maybe in 2012 Sabrina can keep up?!?!

Keep the reviews coming -- it is making me want to go back to WDW now!

I want to go as well! Can we?!!

Sabrina can try . . .!!!!:rotfl:

That lupa lupa was too strong for me to. I asked them to water it down for me and they did. They brought the pineapple back and another huge glass where they had made two drinks out of it to make it weaker. Do you know it was still too strong for me. I only drank half.

I am so with you! It nearly knocked me off my feet (though I am renound for being able to get tipsy on two sips of wine!!:rotfl:). I was supposed to go to a tequila tasting on the cruise, and didn't even dare go in the end for fear I would miss the rest of the trip!!!

ANOTHER INSTALLMENT UP TOMORROW . . . ALMOST DEFINITELY!! HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND EVERYONE!
 
You've convinced me -- a caramel sundae at Ghirardelli's it is! You and Aussie Angel have a way with the food reports -- I think perhaps Americans don't appreciate the goodness the way our visitors do (or maybe I need to work harder to discover more great TRs!)

Maria :upsidedow
 
Sorry to have gone MIA, but I had a trip to Disney and 3night cruise on the Wonder :cool1: Anyways, I am all caught up and loving the reviews!:goodvibes
 
Your reports are wonderful! I couldn't wait to read your Ohana report. My family of 4 is bringing a another family of 5 to WDW July 4th. And we are all going to Ohana for dinner. Even though I love it, I read more and more bad reports. If you and Tony enjoyed the food, I feel confident my guests will too. My plan was to give them a couple of pineapple drinks so they wouldn't be too annoyed by the ukelele. But I might have to rethink because that didn't work for you!! ;)
 
I'm so glad to hear someone with a positive experience at 'Ohana! It seems I've mostly heard negative things lately, and we really enjoyed our last trip there (in 2007). At first we thought the entertainer was a female impersonator, or at least, we weren't entirely sure! At any rate, it seemed as much a spoof as real! :rotfl:
 
Thursday 7th May

I fear I may have built your hopes up and promised you a non-POFQ breakfast today?! Well I was wrong! BUT, it is our last one for a few days! So hold on, there is hope!:goodvibes

However on this day we did yet again stick with the food court, this time sampling Special K and sharing a blueberry muffin. I don’t remember the muffin very well at all, but I have given it 9/10 and a “very moist” comment, and Tony gave it 8/10, so must have been OK!!

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Mid-morning we were in MK, and decided to have a pretzel – we have NEVER had a fresh pretzel before! Hmmmm, kind of like eating a lump of bread! :confused: Filling and stodgy, but not exactly exciting!!!!! We both gave it 5/10.

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Now we decided to spend the afternoon in the town of Celebration as we had never been there, and after reading a couple of good food comments on a UK trip report we knew we wanted lunch at Market St Café. The menu is huge and full of things we like! We had to wait about 15 mins for a table then in we went! It’s pretty large inside, and the service was OK – a little slow, but she was friendly enough!

Now for some reason, after months of eyeballing all the lovely sandwiches on the online menu, I decided to go for the Greek salad?! Sometime the crazy just strikes me. :crazy2:This was OK – huge portion (though a little bit mean on the feta cheese I thought) and the dressing was a bit on the sharp side for me. I’d give it 7/10. Tony went for a chicken salad sandwich – he didn’t enjoy it very much, mainly because there was fruit (craisins) mashed in with the chicken!!!. He only gave it 6/10. It was a little like that scene out of Friends, when Joey asks what all that “red fruit cr*p” is doing on his cheesecake – Tony was not happy! :rotfl:

Salad
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Sandwich
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Dessert was VERY good! We went for the coconut cream pie, and really regretted sharing! The pastry was lovely and crumbly, and there was absolutely loads of coconut cream which was really thick and yummy. We both give this 9/10. I would go here again, as there is so much on the menu I want to try. Maybe if we go next Christmas we could have dinner here before watching the “snow” fall!

Coconut cream pie
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On the way back to the car Tony stopped at Kilwins Chocolate and Ice-cream shop – there was loads of really good looking ice-cream which almost made me regret the dessert we had just had! Tony just got a chocolate covered twinkie, and ate it the next day – “well it was refrigerated so not the best, but I will give it 9/10 as it was a stunning idea! Will buy another one when we go back, and have it at room temperature!”
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And this is nothing to do with food, but we were having a little after-lunch nap in the big rocking chairs around the lake, and we saw a ‘gator!!!!!! No one believes us, but we did!!! :scared1:

So, on to one we had really been looking forward to this evening – 50’s Prime Time Café – one of our absolute favourite meals last year.
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We only had to wait a couple of minutes for our table (a VAST improvement on last years 30 minutes), and got taken to a room at the back of the restaurant with just 3 other tables. Our sever was already in there . . . well right away we knew we were in for a night of it as she was busy telling someone off! Once she had finished we had to introduce ourselves to the rest of the room, after we had done this she then went back to this poor man! I can’t remember what he did but she made him stand against the wall for a while. Then before he was allowed to sit down again he was made to do the “I’m a teapot” song, with actions. Honestly she terrorised this man all night! It was SO funny! She was hilarious with all of us, but this poor man got most of the flack. It was most enjoyable!!!! She really made the meal to be honest – I thought last years server was good but she knocked her out of the park! Never have I been so terrified in case an elbow inadvertently touched the table though!

So onto the meal. Utter devastation ripped through my body when I discovered the fried herb cheese had been removed from the menu (why would they do that, why WHY?? :confused3), as I result I sulked and refused to have an appetiser!

Instead I ordered Mums Old Fashioned Pot Roast (slow cooked til fork tender, served with mashed potatoes, celery and onions), which Tony had last year and highly recommended to me.

Pot roast
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Tony went for Aunt Liz’s Golden Fried Chicken (served with mask potato, chicken gravy and southern greens).

Chicken
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Mine was pretty good – absolutely loads of meat, and the mash was good and creamy. What let it down was the veg - they were really over cooked and dry – they were like paper. However I ate them all as I had one thing on my mind this year – a clean plate sticker.

And lookey what we have here!!!! You knew I could do it!
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While this wasn’t quite as good as Tony’s Pot Roast last year, that is only due to the wrinkled up veg, so I would still recommend it for the rest of the meal – it gets 8/10. Yet again though, I ended up for the 2nd year running drooling over Tony’s plate! He gave me a piece of his chicken and I LOVED it. I should say that I love friend chicken at home, but my only experience of it in the US was a vile KFC last year, so I didn’t order it based on that. Well I wish I had! Really hot, fresh and crunchy! Tony gave it 8/10 and said it was good but a little greasy.

I was very excited to get to "use" the dessert menu this year, unlike last year!
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On to desserts – I knew what I was having – the S’mores. Ohh perfection on a plate. Sickly perfection, but perfection all the same. These were excellent and get 9/10 – what more do you need than cracker, chocolate and marshmallow all melted together?! Why we don’t make these in the UK is beyond me!

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Now I had a moment of greediness here (just the one Sonya?!) – I also ordered the peanut butter and jelly milkshake I had heard about . . . then I remembered Eeyore’s Tailfinders reviews from a couple of months ago, where she also ordered this and it sent her over the edge and she had to rush out of the restaurant or risk being unwell . . . well the s’mores were really sickly and I got a bit panicky about also being unwell. So I must confess I hardly drunk any of this – what I tried was good, just like drinking a snickers, which can never be wrong!

PB& Jelly - very thick!
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Tony went for a strawberry milkshake, which was really good and fresh. He also ordered the Dads Brownie Sundae – brownie with vanilla ice-cream, hot fudge, and caramel topping – he loved it and gave it 9/10. I would like to comment but he didn’t let me have any of it!!!! Our server didn’t charge us for the milkshakes, bless her, she was so nice (though a tad scary!). She did bring the check with the desserts which annoys me a bit (makes me feel very rushed!) but I forgive her!

Dads brownie
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All in all it was a very enjoyable night, with consistently good food. I would eat here again definitely, however want to try Sci-Fi or Brown Derby next year, so will probably give it a miss for a year.

Coming up is Captain Cookes, Peco Bills, 1900 Park Faire, and Main St bakery!
 
Another terrific installment - thank you! What, no pictures of the gator? :eek:

Have you had the S'mores dessert at LeCellier? If so, how would you say it compares to the one at 50's Prime Time? I love the presentation of the LeCellier s'mores, but I found it very difficult to eat and not all that tasty. However, I love the real deal, made at a campfire! If 50's PT is better I'd consider trying it there.

Looking forward to the next review!
 
:banana: Yay! Great update!!!! All these great reviews of 50pt are making me very temped!!!
 
My son claims that I will never be able to finish the milk shake @50's Primetime. Were you able to down the ginormous shake?
 
Fried Chicken, Milkshakes, and Smore's...what a perfect and well balanced meal! Can't wait to have almost the same thing this week! :)

Thanks for the great reviews!
 
I am REALLY enjoying your reviews. I am an old fan (back from Gluttony!)!

I cried real tears when I found out the fried cheese appy was gone. That was one of the best appetizers I had on our last 2 trips!!!! I was so upset we are eating at Sci Fi Dine-In instead of 50's!!!

Thanks for great reviews! I am in awe of you and hubby's ability to put away the food!

Ms. H
 
I just found this thread...I am loving your reviews so far! They are honest, funny and great pics...Keep 'em coming! :cheer2:
 
Loved Ohana's review I think that is the one meal i am most looking forward too as well as a little bit of home at Raglan Rd.

My tummy is rumbling yum yum yumpopcorn::
 
I have eaten at 50's PT before, but we won't be taking our daughter anytime soon. She's very picky and almost never finishes her food. I just couldn't chance getting a server like yours! Back when I was younger, I was brought to tears by a server because I was so embarrassed. I was a shy little thing as a child and would cry at the drop of a hat. Needless to say, I haven't been there since! Maybe when our DD is a bit older we'll go try it out.
 















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