Calling All Seafood Lovers!!!

[Wendi2000]

What are your favorite meals? I love reading reviews, but find that nearly all of them involve steak. I am an "almost vegetarian" and LOVE salmon - all seafood really! The worst salmon I had on our last trip was at Le Cellier, it just had no flavor at all, blah!

My planned restaurants for this trip are:

Day 1
Dinner: Boma (my favorite!)

Day 2
Breakfast: Tusker House
Lunch: Flame Tree (haven't eaten here before)
Dinner: 'Ohana (stuck with choices there, but the shrimp is good - and other courses)

Day 3
Breakfast: ABC Commissary
Dinner: The Hollywood Brown Derby

Day 4
Breakfast: Chef Mickey's
Dinner: Pecos Bill's

Day 5
Breakfast: Boma (yum... as good as dinner at Boma!)
Lunch: Snacking around F&W Fest (hopefully they'll do snack credits again!)
Dinner: Tempura Kiku

Day 6
Lunch: Sunshine Seasons???
Dinner: Cinderella's Gala Feast at 1900 Park Fare

Day 7
Breakfast: The Mara
Lunch: Tomorrowland Noodle Terrace
Dinner: Tusker House

Day 8
Breakfast: The Mara
Lunch: Columbia Harbor House
Dinner: Kona Cafe

Day 9
Lunch: Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe
Dinner: Coral Reef

Day 10
Brunch (11:15am): Hollywood & Vine Character Meal

Any recommendations at these particular restaurants? Any restaurant you think I've really missed out on and should add? BTW - I am willing to try a little chicken and maybe pork... I just don't normally eat meat and I won't be trying any red meat, so don't go there.

 

[AllyGirl_79]

I love the Brown Derby, and I've had good experiences at Chef Mickey's and 1900 Park Fare. I think Kringla at Norway is excellent. Pecos Bill and Harbour House are some of my favorites for fast food. Haven't tried the restuarants at AKL, but they're on the list for next time.

Coral Reef makes sense if you're a seafood fan, but I think the best salmon I've ever had was at Artist's Point at the Wilderness Lodge. If I remember right, it's denoted on the menu as the specialty of the house. My mother has been raving about it for years now, which, if you knew my mother, would be very impressive to you. (She's a very jaded food snob.) We go to the restaurant every time we visit WDW - always say we're going to branch out and order something else, but we never do.

 

[Wendi2000]

Oh, the Artist's Point menu looks great... not sure if I can justify two 2-credit meals though. Do you know if the prix fix meal is included on the dining plan? My 4-year-old would be thrilled with salmon on the kid's menu too, he always steals most of mine!!! I guess I should be the one who's thrilled with that, huh???

 

[BlindTyldak]

Oh, you have GOT to go to Garden Grille! First off the salad is great, the catfish is incredible, and the veggie selections are all top notch (and grown right there in the Land pavillion, you can't get fresher than that!). If you're willing to take a nibble, I also recommend taking a little sliver of the pork and apples. Tip: very tasty cut into small bits and sprinkled on the salad, just enough for flavor! The chicken is great for this too! They even have a vegetarian selection you can request, an excellent mushroom raviolli. SO GOOD.

 

[tabrizia]

Hubby is alergic to meat, can't eat it because it makes him sick. So he is also mostly vegitarian with the addition of fish which he can eat and really enjoys. So when we were deciding on our restaraunts what type of fish and if fish was offered (plus the different varieties offered) was a huge part of my planning (I also really like fish though I do enjoy steak as well).

Our plans for our stay is:

Day 1
We get in to MCO at 10am so we'll have at least half a day at the parks
Lunch: Mara or Tusker House
Dinner: Boma

Day 2
Dinner: Spoodles (this may change to Coral Reef due to the fact my cousin maybe coming on our Coral Reef night and we may not do a TS that night)

Day 3
Dinner: Jiko

Day 4
Breakfast: Boma
Dinner: Flying Fish

Day 5
Dinner: nothing planned right now but may add Boma again or possibly move Spoodles to this night.

Day 6
Dinner: CRT (hubby's request we did it on our honeymoon so he wanted to do it for our aniversery as well)

Day 7
Dinner: Coral Reef (but this may change due to scheduling problems with my cousin coming to visit, if so it will probably end up random counter service meal, this restaraunt was hubby's other main request so trying to keep it in our plans)

Day 8
Dinner: Artist Point

Day 9
Dinner: Raglan Road (we are doing Cirque du Soleil so we wanted something in DtD)

Day 10
Dinner: Le Cellier Steakhouse

Day 11
Dinner: Whatever strikes our fancy (we have our flight out at 9:20pm, we may do a really early Boma dinner here as our farewell if we don't add it on day 5)

I don't really have our counter service meals planned out since well hubby is calling me obsessive compulsive as is... We do have a bunch of two TS meals, we are paying OOP for CRT, Boma breakfast and at least one more of our 1TS dinners. We liked the foods offered at the 2TS restaraunts a lot and they tended to have a nice variety of fish avaliable which is why I chose the ones I did. I did try for restaraunts that had various fish dishes and everywhere I chose has atleast Salmon on the menu. I also only chose one buffet since my husband's semi-vegitarian eating habbits are by necessity not choice so cross contamination can be a big deal for him.

Overall I was really impressed by the number of various fish offerings at the different restaraunts at Disney.

 

[PrincessTrisha]

If you love salmon, take the ???? away from Sunshine Seasons and head straight there. They have a really great grilled salmon with mashed potatoes and I am not sure what the sauce was but it was good! I could not believe it was counter service.

Pictured here with Soarin Orange creme brulee and a drink.

 

[bicker]

Salmon is pretty easy to find at WDW, to a fault IMHO. I prefer a nice variety of fish, and it does seem that whenever a restaurant is inclined to offer just one seafood dish, they make it salmon. While we try to aim for restaurants that offer several seafood choices, that's not always possible.

 

[Docsknotinn]

Menues at Disney have become more standardized. All the food comes from a central commissary. So if Salmon is the fish then you will find it on most restaurant menues only prepared a different way. The same is true of the pork tenderloin. It's easy to notice the trend once you see a few menues and look for it. The key is to pick restaurants with signature dishes that no one else has or theming that appeals to you. I did not care for the snapper at the FF but it is still a good example. By the end of our last trip I was a bit burned out on the standard offerings. More varity would be an improvement IMO but then so would a few coffee stands or kiosks around Epcot in places like say....Italy!

 

[Redwitch]

My DD orders salmon 90% of the time. Her favorites at WDW are Artist Point and Flying Fish.

 

[Wendi2000]

If you love salmon, take the ???? away from Sunshine Seasons and head straight there. They have a really great grilled salmon with mashed potatoes and I am not sure what the sauce was but it was good! I could not believe it was counter service.

Pictured here with Soarin Orange creme brulee and a drink.

Wow! That looks sooooo yummy!!! The question marks are coming off!!! Thanks.

 

[Scrap_Vamp]

I'm glad the question marks are coming off as I totally agree about the salmon at Sunshine Seasons - I loved it

Also enjoyed the salmon at Boma, that was delicious.

I, too, am an almost vegitarian, although I do eat chicken, and found there was plenty to fill me up at Ohana - loved the salad due to the dressing they put on it, and had plenty of the vegetables and potatoes with my shrimp and chicken wings - was great as I had room for more dessert than DF, and the dessert is to die for

 

[faindrops27]

Does anyone know where to get fried clam strips. Not processed and minced formed and fried. But, actual strips fried. Anywhere in the world. TIA

 

[HappyDznyCamper]

One other dinner option I haven't seen listed is the clam bake at the Beach Club, it offers a variety of seafood and beef dishes, if you like steamed clams or mussels this is definatly a place to eat.

 

[christygobar]

The salmon and polenta at Brown Derby was really good! I think almost better than the grouper

 

[erikthewise]

Seems to me if you're a seafood lover, you've got to try either Flying Fish or Bluezoo!

The salmon I had at Artist Point last Dec was excellent, as it was at California Grill a few years ago.

Akershus (Norway) is also a good place for seafood lovers. There is a lot of seafood on the buffet, and the Poached Cod entree comes in a nicely spiced seafood stew. A very nice meal which included dessert.

Tusker House has a nice salmon, rice, & veggie meal for $8 that I can never pass up when in AK.

 

[LVSWL]

The best meal I had on our last trip was at the Flying Fish! Citricos was a close 2nd. Both were salmon. Wouldn't go back to the Coral Reef because it was not nearly as good as the two above and was so loud and we had to wait so long for our ADR. Have a great trip!

 

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

FF is great and has quite a few dishes we love.

 

[Mikka]

I love salmon- and I think Artist Point and Flying Fish had by far the best (Flying Fish also has a good selection of other Seafood dishes). Other then that, most places were good, but basically tasted the same save for the sause.

For a counter service, Tusker House's salmon was really really great.

 

[Simba's Mom]

My favorite meal at WDW is the Halibut at Jiko's.

 

[lizanne]

The best salmon I ever had at WDW was at the Brown Derby. I can't remember exactly how it was prepared, but I almost didn't order it because horseradish was used in the description.

Well, I really think it was the best salmon I ever had.