Dining at Coronado Springs

[MissBritt]

We will be staying at CS in December. I have read the reviews for the dining options there, but am hoping for more input. Care to share your thoughts and experiences? Thanks!

 

[bobbie68]

Hi,

We stayed at CS last Sept. and ate at the pepper market once for dinner and three times for breakfast. We were on the regular dining plan. We enjoyed the food very much and liked the set up of it. There are plenty of choices and they were great with my daughter's dietary needs.

We are going back in a couple of weeks and will try the Maya Grill this time. They have just changed the menu and it looks really good. It is nice to be able to have a full service restaurant at your resort.

I will let you know how the Maya Grill is when we come back.

 

[MissBritt]

Great, thanks!

 

[molfrog]

We ate at maya lase september. The food was awful. The spices they used did not taste good, and made our stomachs ache the rest of the night. We were fine when we woke up in the morning.

 

[KatMark]

We will be staying at CS in December. I have read the reviews for the dining options there, but am hoping for more input. Care to share your thoughts and experiences? Thanks!

We've stayed at CSR eight times (will be back in less than four weeks). We have eaten numerous times at the Pepper Market and have never had a bad meal there (I do prefer the lunch/dinner options over breakfast). I LIKE the fact that you can go to the counter and order the food you want and it is made fresh while you wait. We've only eaten at the Maya Grill once and that was when it was a breakfast buffet. I have a good friend here on the DIS, OhioDisneyLover, who ate at Maya Grill last year for dinner and loved it so much that even though they are staying at a different resort this year, they are going to the CSR to eat at Maya Grill.

We also like the options at Siesta's by the pool (the nachos and cheese are very good; didn't care for the hot dog...but I'm picky about my hot dogs).

They also now have the new grab and go, Cafe Rix, which has some nice otpions for breakfast, lunch/dinner (if you go to the link in my siggy for the "unofficial" CSR thread, you can see part of the menu for Cafe Rix).

 

[MissBritt]

Thanks KatMark! Very helpful. Anything to try or avoid at PM for breakfast?

 

[KatMark]

Thanks KatMark! Very helpful. Anything to try or avoid at PM for breakfast?

I wasn't real fond of the omelets/potatos. I'm not a fan of Mexican food at all, and it just had that "flavor" to the potatos. My DH, on the other hand, loved it.

 

[tndisneyfan]

My family enjoys eating at Pepper Market. They have a decent variety and the food is good. To me the only downer is everybody seems to get their food at a different time. Once DH and DS were finished eating before I even got my food.

 

[GaPaige]

We like the food at Pepper Market a lot. If you are taking kids, it can get very frustrating with their stamping system (especially if everybody is in a different line). With just the adults, it's a breeze.

 

[ROEDISNEY]

Maya grill is very good

 

[MissBritt]

Thanks everyone. No kids with us (well, except for the baby in my belly). Are they good about honoring special requests at PM, like eggs well-done?

 

[skater]

I liked the PM a lot when I was with an adult, but found it a little more difficult with kids since we all wanted something different . Still, most of the food was tasty and I guess that's what matters most .

My DS and I had a breakfast buffet about a year ago at Maya Grill and found it almost tasteless. Maybe its better now . It did fill him up though which is a challenging feat!

 

[Cafeen]

We did PM 3 times and Maya Grill twice last year (and I picked up a Sandwich at the Grab n' go place for my friend...wow we ate at the resort a lot....). At any rate:

Maya Grill. The menu has changed since we went in September, but we both really enjoyed our meals there (so much that the 2nd time wasn't planned, it was a 6pm walk-up during free dining ). It was quiet and our servers were great both times.

Pepper Market. Wasn't impressed with breakfast, but both lunch and dinner were good. Again, service was very good (except that breakfast). I had steak ranchero for one meal, and... um, something else for the other (likely some sort of beef dish, I'm a bit picky ). Friend had some stuff that I can't remember.

Grab n' Go. Forgot why I picked stuff up here one night, probably the night we didn't have dinner planned /shrug, at any rate, picked up some sort of chicken sandwich that was deemed quite good as well. No personal experience, as I just snacked on stuff we bought at WalMart that night.

I'll be back there in a month (exactly today!), this time I'm planning on the new breakfast menu at Maya Grill .

 

[MissBritt]

Hmm, no one seems to love PM for breakfast. It's a one night trip to see La Nouba, and I just booked with basic DP figuring we will have lunch near the outlets on arrival day, Raglan Road for dinner before the show, and catch breakfast in the morning before we leave. Maybe I should plan on WPE for breakfast?

 

[ChloroFiend]

We stayed at Coronado this past February. Truth be told, the dining options didn't really knock our socks off.

We only had breakfast at the resort...it seems there's a theme that the breakfast offerings are lacking compared to the lunch and dinner, so take this with that in mind..

Both Cafe Rix and Pepper Market seemed to be more expensive than any other resort QS/CS offering. The breakfast sandwiches at Rix were large, but the taste was merely average. Pepper Market was fine, but nothing stellar. The diversity of options is a nice thing to have, but the cost would preclude us from eating there again.

 

[MissBritt]

We stayed at Coronado this past February. Truth be told, the dining options didn't really knock our socks off.

We only had breakfast at the resort...it seems there's a theme that the breakfast offerings are lacking compared to the lunch and dinner, so take this with that in mind..

Both Cafe Rix and Pepper Market seemed to be more expensive than any other resort QS/CS offering. The breakfast sandwiches at Rix were large, but the taste was merely average. Pepper Market was fine, but nothing stellar. The diversity of options is a nice thing to have, but the cost would preclude us from eating there again.

If you were to go again and had CS or snack credits to have breakfast on, which would you choose, PM or CR? We will have basic DP and I don't really want to travel to DTD for breakfast.

 

[ChloroFiend]

I can't really say as we've never been on the dining plan so I'm not sure what counts as what. Assuming it worked, I'd probably grab a danish or pastry from CR and eat on the go, saving my appetite for a bigger lunch. That's our normal MO when staying at the other resorts....the cherry turnovers they have are a guilty guilty pleasure. I didn't see those anywhere at CSR, probably because the food service is not run by Disney (or so I've read). When we were there, we opted for hot breakfasts as it was wicked cold outside, so we wanted something to put some warmth in our stomachs.

It would also depend on what park we were going to; if it were MK, the Main Street Bakery has some awesome breakfast options. Starring Rolls over at DHS isn't bad either.

 

[jshuff1]

i never ate there

 

[MissBritt]

I can't really say as we've never been on the dining plan so I'm not sure what counts as what. Assuming it worked, I'd probably grab a danish or pastry from CR and eat on the go, saving my appetite for a bigger lunch. That's our normal MO when staying at the other resorts....the cherry turnovers they have are a guilty guilty pleasure. I didn't see those anywhere at CSR, probably because the food service is not run by Disney (or so I've read). When we were there, we opted for hot breakfasts as it was wicked cold outside, so we wanted something to put some warmth in our stomachs.

It would also depend on what park we were going to; if it were MK, the Main Street Bakery has some awesome breakfast options. Starring Rolls over at DHS isn't bad either.

Okay, thanks. We love MSB, but aren't doing a park... it's our day to head home after staying to see Cirque for my birthday. We are only 2 hours from WDW, so we do a lot of quick weekend trips to Orlando.