Hi all!! I rarely post but I know how much I enjoy reading dining reveiws so I thought I would share our recent expriences. Our travel party consisted of me, my DS 14 my sister and her DS 5. We stayed at Beach Club for the location to Epcot, we planned on doing a lot of eating there.
10/30-Arrived about 1030 and knew we had an early ADR at LTT before MNSSHP. We decided to go to DTD and grab a bite at Earl of Sandwich. We orderd a tuna melt(5 year olds choice) and the roast beef without hoarsradish sauce, and the cream of tomato soup. Everything was tasty although the roast beef was a little gristly. The soup was really good, the tuna had too many onions and celery for the 5yo but he liked the bread.
Our ADR for LTT was at 430. We arrived on time and were seated momentarily. Our server was friendly and efficient. The food was as always. We all enoyed he bread and salad. The mac and cheese was pronounced "too cheesy" by the 5 yo. No one else ate any. The turkey, beef and pork were better than usual. The flank steak was a little too rare for my DS and a plate of medium well came moments after the request. Dessert was great although we were so full it was difficult to enjoy!! The character interaction was wonderful. Chip and Dale were very playful. Minnie sweet and gracious, Goofy was, well, goofy. It was a very nice dinner. Got us into the MNSSHP mood. ( As a side note-at PFTS on sat night we met both the executive chef and the general manager for LTT. They actually had one fo the best most popular dishes, a short rib with Yukon gold gratin, absolutley fantastic! Anyway, we were chating about what a nice dinner we had on thursday night and I mentioned how much we would miss the characters next year. The GM told us the fight was not over and they were doing their best not to let it happen. They had hopes that the chaacter dining would remain. Lets hope so as it is one of our favorte character meals).
10/31-No one was terribly hungry when we got up and decided to just wait until we got to AK to grab a bite of breakfast. We ended up getting muffins and cherry danish at a stand by the safari, they were fine. We had planned on eating lunch at AK but nothing was appealing to any of us. We decided to go have lunch at Epcot at the F&W festival booths. That day we tried the beet salad, beef tenderloin, lamb sliders, lobster roll, and german sausages in pretzel rolls. Everything was really good with the standouts being the lamb sliders and sausages according to the 14yo. We then had a bit of a sweet tooth and found ourselves in front of Norway. We got a school bread and a chocolate mousse cake. I liked the new school bread. The custrad tasted the same, the bread was light and flufy and I liked the toasted coconut. I didn't notice the glaze being "carmel" flavored, it tasted the same to me. The mousse cake not so much. Very dense, almost crumbly, this was the 5yo choice and we limited his choices after that!!
We had a 6:30 adr at Raglan Road and we had never dined here before. We had planned on trick or treating in DTD but we got so much candy the night before it was not really necessary. We were seated quickly and had a very nice table in the center of the room. Out waiter was very efficent and engaging but we did have some difficulty at he end of the meal. He quickly took our drink orders and explained the evenings specials as well as highlighting some of the menus best dishes. The 5yo ordered the kids shrimp, my sister the fish and chips and I got the chowder dish. My son opted for the special ribeye that night which was not on the menu but had been offerd as a special. We also order the gin and tomato soup which was fantastic. All of our meals were wonderful. Very fllavorful and beutifully presented. At this point the waiter inquired as to if we would be ordering dessert. I said yes, we were on the dining plan and would like dessert. At that point he let me know that my sons dinner was an exclusion on the dining plan and would not be coverd. To this I responded "Oh, you didn't tell us this was an exclusion." His response was, "You didn't tell me you were on the dining plan". I did not want to spoil what had been a lovley meal so decided to just suck it up. We orderd dessert, bread pudding, toffe pudding and ice cream for the 5yo. The bread pudding was really a great dessert. My sis loved the sticky toffe pudding and shared it with my son since he didn't order any dessert. The kids went outside to wait while we settled the bill and I was annoyed by the dismissive attitude of our waiter. When I made the ADR I was asked if we were on the dining plan and really felt the waiter should have confirmed if we were on the plan and let us know of any exclusions. I paid the bill and decided to discuss the incident with a manager. I asked for the manager at the hostess stand and she approached me after 1-2 minutes. I told her what a lovely meal we had, and how much we enjoyed the food, but was dissipointed about he server not explaining the exclusions of the plan. She immediatley apologized and offered to remove the charges and use an additional TS credit. That is all I wanted and was very happy for the quick, efficinet resolution. (BTW the ribeye special was $2 more than the sirloin that was on the menu, my son just wanted steak and would have happily ordered the sirloin if he knew the ribeye was excluded).
Well, I need to take a break for now. I will updated more later-Toy Story Pizza Planet and PFTS on 11/01. Thanks for reading-Gail
10/30-Arrived about 1030 and knew we had an early ADR at LTT before MNSSHP. We decided to go to DTD and grab a bite at Earl of Sandwich. We orderd a tuna melt(5 year olds choice) and the roast beef without hoarsradish sauce, and the cream of tomato soup. Everything was tasty although the roast beef was a little gristly. The soup was really good, the tuna had too many onions and celery for the 5yo but he liked the bread.
Our ADR for LTT was at 430. We arrived on time and were seated momentarily. Our server was friendly and efficient. The food was as always. We all enoyed he bread and salad. The mac and cheese was pronounced "too cheesy" by the 5 yo. No one else ate any. The turkey, beef and pork were better than usual. The flank steak was a little too rare for my DS and a plate of medium well came moments after the request. Dessert was great although we were so full it was difficult to enjoy!! The character interaction was wonderful. Chip and Dale were very playful. Minnie sweet and gracious, Goofy was, well, goofy. It was a very nice dinner. Got us into the MNSSHP mood. ( As a side note-at PFTS on sat night we met both the executive chef and the general manager for LTT. They actually had one fo the best most popular dishes, a short rib with Yukon gold gratin, absolutley fantastic! Anyway, we were chating about what a nice dinner we had on thursday night and I mentioned how much we would miss the characters next year. The GM told us the fight was not over and they were doing their best not to let it happen. They had hopes that the chaacter dining would remain. Lets hope so as it is one of our favorte character meals).
10/31-No one was terribly hungry when we got up and decided to just wait until we got to AK to grab a bite of breakfast. We ended up getting muffins and cherry danish at a stand by the safari, they were fine. We had planned on eating lunch at AK but nothing was appealing to any of us. We decided to go have lunch at Epcot at the F&W festival booths. That day we tried the beet salad, beef tenderloin, lamb sliders, lobster roll, and german sausages in pretzel rolls. Everything was really good with the standouts being the lamb sliders and sausages according to the 14yo. We then had a bit of a sweet tooth and found ourselves in front of Norway. We got a school bread and a chocolate mousse cake. I liked the new school bread. The custrad tasted the same, the bread was light and flufy and I liked the toasted coconut. I didn't notice the glaze being "carmel" flavored, it tasted the same to me. The mousse cake not so much. Very dense, almost crumbly, this was the 5yo choice and we limited his choices after that!!
We had a 6:30 adr at Raglan Road and we had never dined here before. We had planned on trick or treating in DTD but we got so much candy the night before it was not really necessary. We were seated quickly and had a very nice table in the center of the room. Out waiter was very efficent and engaging but we did have some difficulty at he end of the meal. He quickly took our drink orders and explained the evenings specials as well as highlighting some of the menus best dishes. The 5yo ordered the kids shrimp, my sister the fish and chips and I got the chowder dish. My son opted for the special ribeye that night which was not on the menu but had been offerd as a special. We also order the gin and tomato soup which was fantastic. All of our meals were wonderful. Very fllavorful and beutifully presented. At this point the waiter inquired as to if we would be ordering dessert. I said yes, we were on the dining plan and would like dessert. At that point he let me know that my sons dinner was an exclusion on the dining plan and would not be coverd. To this I responded "Oh, you didn't tell us this was an exclusion." His response was, "You didn't tell me you were on the dining plan". I did not want to spoil what had been a lovley meal so decided to just suck it up. We orderd dessert, bread pudding, toffe pudding and ice cream for the 5yo. The bread pudding was really a great dessert. My sis loved the sticky toffe pudding and shared it with my son since he didn't order any dessert. The kids went outside to wait while we settled the bill and I was annoyed by the dismissive attitude of our waiter. When I made the ADR I was asked if we were on the dining plan and really felt the waiter should have confirmed if we were on the plan and let us know of any exclusions. I paid the bill and decided to discuss the incident with a manager. I asked for the manager at the hostess stand and she approached me after 1-2 minutes. I told her what a lovely meal we had, and how much we enjoyed the food, but was dissipointed about he server not explaining the exclusions of the plan. She immediatley apologized and offered to remove the charges and use an additional TS credit. That is all I wanted and was very happy for the quick, efficinet resolution. (BTW the ribeye special was $2 more than the sirloin that was on the menu, my son just wanted steak and would have happily ordered the sirloin if he knew the ribeye was excluded).
Well, I need to take a break for now. I will updated more later-Toy Story Pizza Planet and PFTS on 11/01. Thanks for reading-Gail
We also enjoyed Toy Story Pizza Planet & especially Raglan Road.
