Dishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dining (Reviews: Apr20-28 w/pics!) Finally DONE

[DisneyCrazyX5]

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[DisneyBaby2004]

 

[SadieG]

Hurry!! More!!

 

[Quicklabs]

Sushi and ice wine!? Oh, we would have no trouble dining together! Looking forward to your adventures.
(By the way, we celebrate Birthweeks as well in our family!)

 

[pperfectmom]

Sounds good so far. Keep it coming!

 

[curiouser]

What a great idea Birthday WEEK!

Great start, Your food pics look great! I'm already hungry & we haven't even seen any Disney food yet!

Thanks!! We just got a new camera and I love taking food photos with it!

Great! I can hear those little kids right now...."DISHES (dream a dream) DISHES (eat some for meeeee)..." well you know the rest Looking forward to more

I was actually singing that all through MK (Yes, I am that big of a dork that I had my Dining Report titled before I even ate anything!!)

OMG. I absolutely LOVE The Lube! My FAVORITE! Some people just don't know what they are missing. I just started counting WW points (again) today, so if I can't eat them, at least I can look at them!

I can't wait to read the rest!

Thanks!! I count WW points, too! Well, I do when I'm not at Disney. I save ALL my flex points for The Lube. Their pretzels and beer cheese dip are phenomenal!

Sushi and ice wine!? Oh, we would have no trouble dining together! Looking forward to your adventures.
(By the way, we celebrate Birthweeks as well in our family!)

Hey, we might be there the same time as you for our next trip! We can have a DIS ice wine meet!!

Thank you everyone for your kind words!! Next post up soon!

 

[amy1976]

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[MA pigletfan]

you might be my food hero
Buca di Beppo
sushi...and arby's...love it...
ALSO you mentioned your Nintendo DS, i am a proud new owner of the pink ds lite..which i fully intend on toting with me to the world as well..nothing like Disney Meteos on the plane!
keep the good times rollin..i am all for BirthdayWEEKS by the way!

 

[Kata]

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[Ciciwoowoo]

I'm hooked!

More please!!!

 

[larklynn]

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[curiouser]

Editors Note: I feel the need to preface this entry by saying that we are not big breakfast people. I eat breakfast every day but mostly to save the rest of my intestines from being brutally cannibalized by a stomach launched into mad panic at the prospect of starving to death (My drama queen gene seems to be firmly lodged in my stomach – it probably ate it at one point). Jeff would prefer to not eat breakfast and subside on coffee alone. So I will tell you what we consumed in the a.m for 7/8 days: Me: Nuts Over Chocolate Luna Bar (pretty good.. chewy, chocolately, feels like snack time for breakfast) and a Sugar Free Red Bull; Jeff: Red Bull. Yes, we require copious amounts of caffeine, and since I just can’t stomach NesCrappé we find alternate sources of our legal upper.


One of themes of this trip (besides my birthday, of course)…

...is to try new things. Both food and attraction related. However, one tradition that could not be broken is to spend the first day in MK. It’s just not the start of a Disney vacation until you emerge from the shade of the train station and are basked in the warmth of a happy sun, illuminating the buildings on Main Street as you turn the corner, past The Emporium, to come face-to-face with the beauty and majesty of the Castle.

Normally, on our first day in MK, we have lunch at Chaos Rays, splitting a chicken fingers meal, but not today! Oh no, I was out to spearhead the momentum of change! We were to go to Pecos Bills for the chicken wrap!!

(The irony here is that we’ve been to Pecos Bills before and the only thing we’ve ever had at Pecos Bills is the chicken wrap.)

I blame old age in the fact that my body now operates on a timed schedule. My drama queen stomach now knows that when the big hand and little hand are both at the 12 its time to start getting really excited. Unfortunately, this is the WORST time to be getting hungry at Disney because everyone else is hungry too, and inevitably there will be crowds, the fight for a table and the accusatory “How many of those chairs do you need????”.

Anyway, on to the food. We ordered one chicken wrap because really, like most things at Disney, it’s big enough to share. The entire wrap is served chilled. The tortilla wrap itself is chewy with a good density in texture paired with the soft bite of the seasoned chicken. The lettuce was crisp and the tomatoes nicely bite sized – any larger and their softness might have been a turn-off to my palate. The cheese was soft and clumpy, in that typical shredded, processed cheddar sort of way, but I like cheese. I believe all cheese has its place in the world, and in a chicken wrap like this the soft, processed cheddar is the way to go.

The wrap was good, not great. I remember it being better. The Pecos Bills sauce seemed like some sort of cousin to ranch. It added a little bit of flavor, but I think it really would have excelled had it had more of a kick to it. Overall, it was a good lunch option though; nicely filling and not heavy. You felt like you could still go out and conquer the parks instead of conquering the park bench in a food-coma-like state.

With the wrap we got the carrots option, to which I say to Disney: Seriously?! Seriously. You can’t give us the baby carrots we all know and love from the grocery store? We get soggy orange toothpicks instead? They were soggy. And root-sprouty. About 2/3 of the bag was actually edible, in my opinion (but I am vegetable freshness picky). Party foul, Disney. Par-tay foul.

But at any rate, we left Pecos Bill’s satisfied and totally unaware of the culinary delights before us that evening.. on the 15th floor, on top of the World.

 

[wilma-bride]

Great start - I love the idea of eating places you haven't experienced before (even though you did technically cheat and go to Pecos Bills AND order what you had when you went there before). Even so, a good report - I agree on the carrot front - I'm not a great fan of vegetables at the best of times but they at least have to be fresh

 

[shovan]

I eat breakfast every day but mostly to save the rest of my intestines from being brutally cannibalized by a stomach launched into mad panic at the prospect of starving to death (My drama queen gene seems to be firmly lodged in my stomach – it probably ate it at one point). Jeff would prefer to not eat breakfast and subside on coffee alone. So I will tell you what we consumed in the a.m for 7/8 days: Me: Nuts Over Chocolate Luna Bar (pretty good.. chewy, chocolately, feels like snack time for breakfast) and a Sugar Free Red Bull; Jeff: Red Bull. Yes, we require copious amounts of caffeine, and since I just can’t stomach NesCrappé we find alternate sources of our legal upper.

Not only are your pics great, but you are one hilarious writer!!!! I'm loving this!

And aren't we all on WW when not in WDW?!

 

[kyirish25]

Red Bull's to start the morning off with That is so my style!

 

[christinou]

Great report, thanks, I can't wait to read the rest.......

 

[sham101505]

 

[Kitten]

I'm really enjoying this review....keep it coming!!

 

[TruBlu]

Happy late Birthday!
Now bring on the food!

 

[Daisy14]

Loving your review ....More, more, more!!!