I know I'll be the odd man out.. but we've never eaten at Spoodles and our last recent trip we ate at both Boma's and Capt Jacks... we'd prefer Capt Jacks. ESPECIALLY if you are on the dining plan (we paid for ours, even better if you get the dining plan free!).
I really can't figure out the following for Boma's... none of us liked it that much. The food wasn't that great (and I tried just about everything to see if I could find something I would like) and although the desserts were yummy- that's a high price to pay for a dessert when you're a large 4+ family! Our waittress left much to be desired also. (although I did see other families with what appeared to be great service from their waittresses- so we may have just had bad luck on that. I think that bad luck followed us as I saw at other restaurants the same thing... less than desirable waitress for us, saw others that were great though.
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But capt Jacks we had a decent waitress (nothing spectacular but did her job and nothing to complain about) and the food was great! But we were on the dining plan so we had the expensive appetizers (delicious shrimp cocktail and crab cakes/etc.) and we had the lobster tail dinners (we all loved it!) and the desserts were delicious also!
We'd pick Capt Jacks.. in fact I wish we'd ate there more often- like maybe instead of Boma's. LOL Seriously... we only happened across Capt Jacks as an afterthought because our plans changed on that day due to rain. We ended up at DTD instead of our plans so we cancelled our PS at another restaurant and ate at Capt Jacks instead.
The reason I say if you're on the dining plan (paying or free) is because it was expensive. For just 2 adults (one child eating as adult since she was paid for as an adult on the dining plan) and one child (only one ate... the youngest wasn't hungry and sat there coloring the entire time) was almost $160 with gratuities included. I have to be honest and say I might not be so thrilled with this restaurant if I'd actually had to pay that amount for 2 adults/1 child! LOL
But even on the dining plan we were all disappointed with Boma. I never could find anything that really tasted great (except maybe the "rice" that wasn't really rice with black eyed peas put over it- that was alright LOL) and my kids don't have children's palates. They do NOT want to eat chicken strips or mac and cheese at every meal.... but at Bomas there wasn't anything like a 'normal' adult food for them to eat. It was either child's junk food buffet or adult buffet with a bunch of weird stuff they wouldn't eat after the first bite (and again- they aren't picky children... most of this stuff I didn't like the taste of either except dessert). And the food was cold to medium warmth straight off the buffet too.
