Disneyland food report - 12/16 - 12/17 (lots of pics!)

[Mary626]

My family and I went to Disneyland for two days this past weekend (12/16-12/17), I thought I would try making a food report out of the trip . It's not WDW, but it is still disney food!! There were four of us, my mother, two sisters, and myself. This is my first food/trip report, I hope the pictures show up okay..

Drove up to an offsite hotel, the Park Inn, on Harbor Blvd. From the hotel it was only about a five minute walk to Disneyland, very close. After walking around Disneyland for a while, we stopped at Riverbelle terrace in Frontierland. The line was just a little out the door, but it moved quickly. My mom saved a table while we were in line.

Here is the outside seating area:


And the inside:


I ordered the salmon sandwhich. It was salmon with bbq sauce on it on some bread. It came with cole slaw and grapes. I took the salmon off the bread and wiped the bbq sauce off, so I can’t comment on what it tasted like in sandwhich form, but the salmon was quite delicious actually!! I was very surprised as I thought ordering salmon from a counter service would be a mistake. Highly recommend it though! I had a few bites of the coleslaw, it was nothing special.



My mother had the 1/2 sandwhich with soup. She liked the soup and thought the sandwhich was okay.


My sister jenny ordered from the kid’s meal, she had a PBJ sandwhich, with no crust shaped like mickey. It came with cornchips also shaped like mickey and a small bag of jello snacks. Too cute!! She liked it, said it was just like any regular old pbj sandwhich.


My sister lisa had the BBQ platter – came with some bbq chicken and ribs I think. Also came with beans, corn on the cobb, and corn bread. She liked it but didn’t rave about it. It looked like you got a lot of food for your money though.


They also all ordered a strawberry shortcake dessert and finished it off, it looked delicious! You can see it in some of the above pics.

The restaurant was cute. On the inside the theming was well done. We sat in the outside area and had a view of the river around tom sawyer island. The ships sailed by and it was a nice place to people watch. It would be a good place to view Fantasmic from I think. Very cute restaurant, but the line can be quite long and frightening sometimes! Would return, as long as the line wasn’t too long!


Didn’t eat again until after the Christmas parade (which was adorable btw!). We went to “Refreshment Corner” (which is in the same place and pretty much the same thing as Casey’s Corner in WDW, so I always call it Casey’s, this one is definitely sponsored by Coca-cola, if you couldn’t notice from the pics). The foot long hot dogs here are pretty good – and made of all beef. They are about $5.19 for the foot longs. I got a foot long with no bun and added cheese. I was disappointed they didn’t melt the cheese at first, but it actually tasted really good non-melted. The lady behind me asked what kind of hot dog I got, and I said it was a regular hot dog but without the bun, and she laughed and turned to her friend and pointed at the hot dog. I thought that was a bit strange, but whatever. Everyone else in my family got regular hot dogs.

Anyway, we got seats outside and the piano player was playing Christmas music. It really is a very nice atmosphere for just a counter service! Though my sister did complain that we just spent $30.00 on a bunch of hot dogs. I wasn’t complaining, the hot dog was good and I enjoyed listening to the piano player. Will return as I always do!







My hot dog that somebody laughed at:



Everyone but me had a pineapple dole whip float at the tiki bar, later on. I’ve had them before and they are delicious!!


Continued in next post...

 

[Mary626]

The next day it was pretty cold outside so we decided to have lunch at the Grand Californian hotel – at the Storyteller’s Café. I thought the fireplaces inside would keep us warm, but actually it was pretty cold inside the restaurant – I was surprised. I’ve eaten here before and really like it though. They start out with corn bread and dinner rolls for the table (I abstained).


Myself and my mother both ordered a Cobb Salad. The ingredients were all very fresh!! It was a delicious cobb salad, but if you like your cobb salad ingredients mixed very finely, then this wouldn’t be for you. I could have eaten half of it and been full, but I ended up eating the whole thing and being stuffed. It was very good!!



One of my sister’s ordered a steak sandwhich. She thought it was okay but didn’t seem to enjoy it too much. Though she was coming down with a flu at that point, so I’m not sure how it was.


My other sister ordered the four-cheese ravioli. She refused to take a pic of it for me, but she said it was delicious and everyone who took a bite of it agreed.

The service was very good and pleasant. The atmosphere is cozy and relaxing. You can enter the Grand California hotel from the back entrance in Disney’s California Adventure, making this a nice, convenient respite from the parks. It’s between the water-ride and Soarin’. You exit the park and turn right, and the restaurant is right there. I recommend trying it out!
Some badly taken photos of the inside of the restaurant:





Everyone but me snacked on churros later in the day – they smelled delicious! I waited until dinner and ate at Pizza Oom Mow Mow in the back of DCA. I had a Chicken Caesar Salad. The ingredients were fresh but I didn’t really care for the dressing. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t that good either. But it filled me up. The restaurant is cute though. It looked like their pizzas would be delicious.









On the way out, we stopped in the candy store right past the entrance to DCA. I couldn’t try anything, but they had some really cute looking Christmas candy, I thought I would share with you.









I was very happy with the selection of choices I had while maintaining my “diet” everywhere in Disneyland. And we had a wonderful time at Disneyland, as usual! Well that’s pretty much it, let me know if you have any questions .