DisneyWorld Wins! How the Mouse Came to Defeat a Vegetarian and a Carnivore

[itchin2go]

Thanks everyone!

TigerKat - He did not try the mussels at Spoodles. I think he was all-musseled-out by that time. We had the dips and the 4 cheese flatbread -- yum! We'll definitely go back to Spoodles though (maybe in October? ), so I'll remind him to try those!

 

[TigerKat]

Thanks everyone!

TigerKat - He did not try the mussels at Spoodles. I think he was all-musseled-out by that time. We had the dips and the 4 cheese flatbread -- yum! We'll definitely go back to Spoodles though (maybe in October? ), so I'll remind him to try those!

Definitely remember!!!!! We had them at LeCellier, Flying Fish & Spoodles and Spoodles were the best!!

 

[itchin2go]

So on day 3, we had an ADR for Kona for a good caffeine injection!

This was my first visit to the Poly, so seeing the place was a joy. My daughter LOVED it.

We started off with the pressed pot. Ahhh. Sweet relief. We went two whole days without decent coffee! Good stuff. We drank the whole thing.

My husband had the eggs benedict and I had a cheese omelet. The little one had the Mickey pancakes. I don't want to get flamed, but everything was just ok. I'm sure it was our fault for not ordering the signature things like Tonga Toast and Macadamia Pineapple Pancakes. I actually *intended* for us to order those things but we just didn't have a sweet tooth that morning. My daughter's pancakes were not very good. They seemed like they had been sitting somewhere for awhile. A good pancake is tender, but these were a bit tough on the outside. Not gross, just nothing special. I think DH liked the eggs benedict better than my daughter and I enjoyed our meals. My omelet was a standard cheese omelet. It tasted similar to scrambled eggs and cheese. The eggs were not very tender (now, I don't like eggs UNDER-cooked, but you know how when you cook them too long, they get a bit rubbery? Yeah.) As I said, it was all ok. Sadly, the eggs on my croissant from Beach Club Marketplace were better. Go figure.

We'd go back again for the coffee for sure, but I would try something different from the menu. Not a fan of the omelets or the Mickey pancakes.

 

[itchin2go]

I'm going to put the review in the next post, so you can skip this post if you want to go straight there!

"How did we end up at Big River Grille for lunch?" you might ask... I mean, the place NEVER gets good reviews. Well, here is where we really began to veer off my carefully planned spreadsheet. The first veer was on day 2 when we chose not to eat at Chefs de France as planned, and instead "snack" our way thru Epcot, a decision based in large part on the previous day's lunch at HBD, where we got so full and so tired that we weren't sure we'd make it through the day! But on day 3, we veered so far off of my plans that I think we only kept one of the 6 or 7 ADRs that we had left. The best laid plans and all....

Anyway, this was an MK day and we were supposed to eat at Columbia Harbor House. However, there was this momma duck and a smattering of cute, fuzzy baby ducks that had just hatched near the Haunted Mansion, which is also near CHH. My first reaction to these fuzzballs was like everyone else's: "Awwww. How cute!" Then I began to notice that Momma duck wasn't making really good decisions. Like, she wasn't keeping the babies over in the grassy area. She was leading them out into the walkways. All was still well when we moved on to Big Thunder Mountain, but I was afraid of what might happen to those little guys. I mean, you're not generally looking at the pavement when you're walking through MK, trying to open a map, trying to see your way clear through the throngs of people, pushing a stroller or what have you. Plus, I'd seen this mean little boy trying to kick full grown ducks the previous day. I couldn't take seeing something happen to those little guys. So, we made sure never to walk past that area again that day. So, no Columbia Harbor House. (By the way, I did think about spending the day standing there hovering over momma and babies and keeping them safe. Seriously. I can just imagine what my husband would have said had I suggested that... "So what about tomorrow, Einstein?" I wanted them to be safe, but not everything is controllable by me. Plan B was to just not be there if something bad happened. Would have stayed on my mind forever. I can't KNOW about bad things happening to animals. It tears me up. So, ultimately, I decided to put my faith in Momma duck and Disney. With any luck, all the little ducklings are thriving in the MK.)

My husband had been wanting to sample the beer at BRG and suggested going there. Ok! Just keep me away from those tiny little ducks! Plus, I'm pretty overbearing in my planning, and I like to try to give the other members of my family a little say-so. When it suits me, anyway. So off to BRG we went.

By the way, does anyone know if there's a staff at Disney to handle wildlife issues like that? I mean, you would think someone would be alerted to this issue, because seeing a tiny duck squashed in the MK is certainly not magical. CMs are maniacal about cleaning up the tiniest speck of trash, so you'd think someone would take an interest in this kind of thing as well.

To be clear, no ducks were harmed in any way to my knowledge, and for all I know Disney dispatched a crew to take the ducks to a safer place. I don't know. Just wondering out loud...

 

[Pirate's Princess]

Your reviews are so vivid! Even without the pics, it's very descriptive. BTW I know what you mean about the embarassment of photoing your food, but trust me, it's worth it. I did have someone make a comment, but who cares. It's my life, and my food and I adore those who post pics here.


Ps: here's a delicious recipe for parsnip soup (I totally did make it for thanksgiving and it was a hit) http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/240675

 

[itchin2go]

We had no ADR (veering off the spreadsheet and all), but there was only a short wait. They took us in through a side door, which was odd, but ok. It was kind of an out of the way table by the restroom, so I never really saw what the place looked like. We went back out the side door where we came in.

We started with the chips, salsa and guacamole. Should have started with the jalapeno spinach cheese dip. Oh, well. We thought my daughter would like salsa better than the dip. It was basically chips, Pace picante sauce and some strange, but oddly tasty guacamole. I like Pace picante sauce, but I expected homemade salsa. Should have asked, I guess. My daughter LOVED the chips and salsa, so go figure. I guess in that respect, we made a good decision. The odd thing about the guacamole was that it was darker in color than normal guacamole, and when we tasted it, we found out why. It had chili powder in it. Now, this was odd, but not altogether untasty. Actually, pretty good. I'm guessing not everyone would like this twist, but I kind of enjoyed it.

I had the beer cheese soup and the greenhouse salad, while my husband had the meatloaf. My daughter had the mac & cheese.

The beer cheese soup was on the good side of ok. It was thin, light golden yellow in color, with a few flecks of green (chives, maybe). It erred on the side of too thin, but it was tasty, nonetheless. If it had come with a hunk of baguette, that would have been better. Anyway, I finished the bowl, so it must have been pretty good! I'd eat a bowl of it right now if someone put it in front of me. It bore no resemblance to the soup at Le Cellier, but I think my feelings on cheese soup are similar to my feelings on cornbread. The best way to sum up those feelings? YES. Jalapeno cornbread? YES. Sweet cornbread? YES. Dry cornbread? YES. Moist cornbread? YES. Cheesy cornbread? YES. Cornbread with corn kernels inside? YES. You get the idea. So, thick cheese soup? YES. Thin cheese soup? YES. Cheese soup with bacon? I'm a vegetarian, but YES. Anyway, not a bad soup, but not really a reason to visit BRG.

The salad was excellent. Here's the description from the menu: Greenhouse Salad - fresh mixed salad greens, topped with Roma tomatoes, carrots, cheddar and jack cheeses, sunflower kernels, and croutons. It was exactly as described, plus it had hard boiled egg wedges. I ordered it with the balsamic vinaigrette. The greens were, indeed, fresh & crispy. They were chopped into nice bite-sized pieces - very easy to eat, unlike some salads. There was a generous amount of sunflower seeds sprinkled over the top, which I think is what made it so delicious. The dressing was tasty. I ate that salad until I became tired of chewing! Best salad of the trip, without a doubt. Again, go figure!

Here's the menu description of the meatloaf: made with ground beef and Italian pork sausage, topped with rich, brown gravy, served with garlic mashed potatoes. DH thought it was meatloaf was excellent, and I can verify that the garlic mashed potatoes were fit for human consumption! Yum.

My daughter's mac and cheese was the best of the trip. It was cheesy and gooey, unlike the mac and cheese from the Disney-run restaurants. It was made with elbow macaroni, not some cutesy shape of pasta. It was a little unnaturally orange, which had me a little worried before I tasted it. Not to worry - it was REALLY good.

DH enjoyed sampling a beer or two as well.

So, I learned something new, as I did not know that BRG served an excellent salad. Go figure, indeed.

We would definitely return here if we were staying close-by. I don't know that I'd go WAY far out of my way to stop by, but if I'm in an Epcot area resort, I'd certainly pay BRG another visit.

Next up: Dinner at Spoodles...

 

[itchin2go]

Pirate's Princess - that recipe sounds great! Don't you just love Epicurious? I actually tried to buy parsnips yesterday at the supermarket, but the ones they had were kind of, umm, past their prime. I'm going to try another store today. The world should know about the beauty of parsnips!

 

[disneyfav4ever]

Great reviews so far!

 

[itchin2go]

The original plan was to go to Raglan Road for dinner. We were wiped out though! We decided to stay closer to home and go out on the Boardwalk. We had enjoyed the Boardwalk our first night out (sans daughter), and we knew our daughter would love it too. So, the whole family headed to Spoodles.

We were a little early, so we dropped some $$$ on the carnival games outside. My daughter loved this! She ended up with 2 stuffed animals, but we probably spent $40! Oh, well, vacation memories are priceless.

We also chatted with the girls at the candy shop. We discussed what WAS and what WASN'T eligible to be a "snack". We ended up using a snack credit for a butterfinger and chocolate covered Mickey-head pretzel. Yum. There are a lot of not-so-good things about being an adult, but one GOOD thing is that you can eat candy before dinner if you want to.

DH and I ordered the four cheese flatbread and the mediterranean dips for appetizers. The little one didn't want anything. She did want one of those kids' drinks with the light up tinkerbell on it. She enjoyed that.

Of course, you don't NEED to order appetizers at Spoodles because they bring you this delicious focaccia to dip in a spicy olive oil mixture. Now, lots of places do this. The chain that has nailed the concept, I mean REALLY nailed it, is Carrabba's. This mixture was not AS good as theirs, but it was really yummy.

The flatbread is described as 4 cheese flatbread with roasted garlic puree and sage. How could you possibly go wrong? You can't! It was delicious. VERY flat bread with a thin layer of melted goodness over it. I couldn't tell you what cheeses were used, but there was just the right amount. If they had glopped it up with cheese, it wouldn't have been as good. It was just divine. When I had a cold piece of it the next day (oh, yeah I did), it seemed as though the bread had a subtle sweetness to it. It also reminded me of pie crust, which I'm sure does not bode well for its nutritional profile.

We also had the mediterranean dips, which come with pita bread and olives. There were 3 dips: a feta cheesy dip, a cucumber raita-type dip, and a reddish dip that I've never encountered before and have no idea what it's made of. Of the three, the mystery reddish dip was the winner. I don't know how to describe it, really. It was kind of middle eastern tasting, definitely had exotic spices, it was smooth, with kind of the texture of hummus, but WAY tastier. I don't know, but it was heaven in dip form. The feta cheesy dip was good. It tasted like feta cheese, only transformed into a dip instead of a chunky cheese. The raita style dip was nice as well, kind of yogurty-y and cucumber-y. Our server also brought us hummus, although I'm not sure it came with the med. dips and I'm not sure we ordered it. It was tasty as well, but totally unnecessary.

We took several bites of all this deliciousness and asked our server to box it up. We knew if it was sitting on the table, we would just keep on eating it, and we wanted to save room for entrees, and yes, dessert!

For entrees, our server STRONGLY recommended the shrimp pasta to my husband ... several times. Although he's not a big pasta guy, her enthusiasm for the dish pushed him in that direction. If she says it's THAT good, how can we possibly go wrong? Well, it wasn't good at all. It tasted like pasta tossed with a bit of olive oil and shrimp. Utterly unseasoned. In retrospect, we should have noticed that she kept emphasizing how many shrimp you get in the dish, and how big they were. Her criteria for a good dish were just different from ours. We're looking for tasty, and she's looking for quantity of seafood. Anyway, I wouldn't recommend that anyone order that particular dish, unless you're partial to bland, unseasoned food. Oh, well. Live and learn.

I ordered the white bean moussaka. Sounded odd to me, but I like white beans, tomato sauce and mozzarella (as the menu described it), though I was not sure I'd ever had the three ingredients together. Well, it was pretty good. It was odd, for sure, but tasty. Layers of chunky, garlicky white bean puree, cheese, and tomato sauce. It was sort of like a layered bean dip cooked in a crock and eaten with a fork. (Come to think of it, I probably would have loved it if they had served it with some Fritos Scoops!) I would have liked some element of chewiness to the thing because it was all just really mushy. Not bad at all, just lacking a substantial texture. Our server warned me it was spicy and it was.

Given my vegetarian choices, I probably made the right decision. We had discussed choices prior to ordering. I could have the moussaka, the shrimp pasta minus the shrimp (no, thank you), or the rigatoni with sausage, tomatoes and mushrooms minus the sausage. If I went to Spoodles again, I might go with the latter option. I would eat the moussaka again, but it might not be my first choice.

The little princess had mac and cheese. This was Disney's mac and cheese, not like the kind at Big River Grille. It was some sort of cutesy shaped pasta, with melted cheese on it. It wasn't very tasty.

YAY! We saved room for dessert tonight!

SO glad we did, because these were the best desserts of the trip. I ordered the mascarpone cheesecake and DH ordered the baklava. My daughter had the ice cream with toppings she could add herself. I don't think she ate a bite, but she had a good time playing with it all.

Here is how the menu describes the cheesecake: Mascarpone Cheesecake - with a walnut crust served with fresh strawberries and a balsamic reduction. To be honest, I don't even remember the strawberries or a balsamic reduction, and I'm pretty sure the cheesecake doesn't need these things. This was GREAT cheesecake. It did have a walnut crust, because my DH and I both agreed that the CRUST tasted kind of like the baklava (which is a good thing). Needless to say, the crust was delicious. The cheesecake itself had a perfect cheesecake flavor, but a lighter than air texture, due to the mascarpone cheese. Just melt in your mouth, cheesecake-y goodness.

The baklava was good. Bless my husband's heart, he thought HE had THE dessert to die for, that is until he tasted MY dessert. If the cheesecake hadn't been on the table, I would have ooohed and ahhed over the baklava too. As it was, my fork and mouth were busy with the cheesecake. But seriously, it was really good baklava. And when you got a bite of baklava AND a bite of cheesecake? Ahhh -- dessert nirvana.

Ok, so, fun fact about Spoodles? Mascarpone cheesecake. Run, don't walk, to get you some.

I will definitely go back to Spoodles. I will stick with appetizers and desserts though!

Coming Up -- Day 4: Cape May Cafe, Akershus (Princess Storybook Lunch), and Beaches & Cream for dinner!

 

[CPer'sMom]

Really enjoying your reviews Great job!

 

[TigerKat]

I had the shrimp/pasta dish at Spoodles and mine had lots of preserved lemon and garlic in it, along with lots of shrimp. It was really good. Sorry your DH's wasn't as good.

 

[itchin2go]

I had the shrimp/pasta dish at Spoodles and mine had lots of preserved lemon and garlic in it, along with lots of shrimp. It was really good. Sorry your DH's wasn't as good.

Hmmm. Sounds like the kitchen maybe had an off night when we were there. Preserved lemon... yum ...

 

[itchin2go]

So, it's day 4 and we woke up hungry. We were headed to the Captain's Grill (old Yacht Club Galley), but as we were walking by Cape May, we decided to see if they could take us. We were walk-ups at first seating time and we got in right away. Yay for Cape May!

I hear lots of mediocre reviews for Cape May, so I expected very little. WOW! Just walking past all the food as we were escorted to our seats, I knew we were in for a treat. The characters descended upon us almost immediately. We saw Goofy, Minnie and Chip. They were SO sweet to my daughter. Goofy and Chip both told her (in character sign language of course) that they had broken their legs too, and they graciously signed her cast. Goofy "said" he broke his surfing! She's still talking about that interaction.

The food exceeded my expectations. The berry bar was decadent. Loads of hugh, fresh strawberries and toppings: some kind of honey yogurt, dried cranberries, nuts, granola. Yum.

The hot food bar was just gorgeous. They had two kinds of eggs - scrambled with cheese, and then this puffy veggie thing. I don't know what it was, but it was tasty. The breakfast potatoes were just ok. Why does Disney have so much trouble making tasty breakfast potatoes? The breakfast pizza was yummy. Do they put some kind of mayonnaise on that thing or is it just butter? It's a yummy pizza crust, seems to have some kind of savory spread on it, and then it's topped with scrambled eggs and cheese. MMMMM! There were also Mickey waffles, pastries, breads (including bagels and lots of toppings), giant platters piled high with crisp bacon and loads of other stuff, can't remember it all -- too much to eat. The standout was this fantastic bread pudding thing. A spongy vanilla bread thing with icing on top. Kind of decadent.

The coffee (although the typical Disney swill) was plentiful and our server was great.

I wish I could remember more details, but it's kind of a delicious, happy blur.

Bottom line is this: we had breakfast at Crystal Palace the next day and we MUCH preferred Cape May. They had more items at Crystal Palace (and the breakfast potatoes were yummy there), but man, it's kind of a dog-eat-dog place! You have to hunker down in a long line to get your food, or cut in line like the rude-crew, and risk a fist-fight. Ok, I'm exaggerating, but really, there's no quick, convenient way of getting to the food at CP. For that reason, we're now Cape May devotees. It was SO much more relaxing and enjoyable.

So, we left stuffed, happy and relaxed. Is there a better way to start a day at Disney World?

 

[Liliyana]

We liked BRG too! And you know what, I think we arrived/exited through the same door. I had a nice appetizer - hummus with pita, cucumber slices and feta. Just looked and it seems I am one of 3 who have put BRG foodp0rn pics on the Dis,

I'm so glad Spoodles still has the mediterranean dips!

 

[Kae]

We love Cape May for breakfast. The first time we ate their at was at the end of our trip & I had never been so happy to see fruit. It was quite tasty & the serve was the best we have ever had at a Char Meal. When we whet DS was in his Chip & Dale & Peter Pan phase so he C & D on one side of this Lanyard & pan on the other. Goofy went & gave him a Goofy pin. DS tried to do A trade but Goofy said nope, just wanted him to have a goofy pin. 6 years later & it is still DS's fave pin wearing on his ski coat now.

Kae

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I am on the fence about booking Cape May for my next trip, this pushes me a little bit more to go for it!

 

[Silly Girl]

itchin2go - Loving your reviews so far. I too had the same experience with the Shrimp Pasta dish at Spoodles as your DH. I haven't reviewed it yet in my Dining Review but it just wasn't very tasty and I really had expected tasty. I'm like you, I would go back to Spoodles but only for appetizers and dessert.

 

[ndepaola]

By the way, does anyone know if there's a staff at Disney to handle wildlife issues like that? I mean, you would think someone would be alerted to this issue, because seeing a tiny duck squashed in the MK is certainly not magical. CMs are maniacal about cleaning up the tiniest speck of trash, so you'd think someone would take an interest in this kind of thing as well.

To be clear, no ducks were harmed in any way to my knowledge, and for all I know Disney dispatched a crew to take the ducks to a safer place. I don't know. Just wondering out loud...

YES, there are people who look out for such things. A couple of years ago we were at Epcot and saw people grouped at one of the bridges by the Africa "area" and when we got there we saw people in a regular old boat with a net fishing out a KITTEN who had somehow fallen in the lagoon. Everyone cheered and this big maintenance guy in the boat hugged the kitten and said he would be taking it home.

 

[itchin2go]

Well, after the big Cape May breakfast, we were really not enthused about lunch. Truthfully, lunch at Akershus is less about lunch and more about princesses, though.

I had heard horror stories of disorganization at Akershus: names not being called, hordes of people crowded around a podium, rude CMs and princesses... Thankfully, this was not our experience. We arrived about 10 minutes early and checked in. Soon thereafter, they called our name and in we went. Yellow-ballgown-Belle was the greeter princess on this day. She was beautiful and charming and gracious. I asked if we might trouble her to sign my daughter's cast, and she said, "Of course." She curtseyed down LOW, spreading the skirt of the ballgown around her to sign the cast. It was SO beautiful a sight, that the Disney photographer snapped it for the photo-folio thing that they offer you. Great picture, by the way.

So, then, we're off to our table where they explain the whole cold bar thing. For those who haven't been there, your "appetizer" is the "cold bar" or koldbordt, I think, where they have an array of Norwegian (or Nor-merican anyway), specialties. Despite having read descriptions of this beast plenty of times before, I did not really have a good idea of what it was. I expected a small table with cheese, cold-cuts and pickled fish. Not so. It was a very large, LONG buffet type spread. Offered were green salad with choice of dressings, cubed cheese, potato salad, shrimp salad, pasta salad, croissants, cold-cuts and yes, several types of pickled fish, among other things. It was a much bigger and more varied spread than I had imagined, and I quite enjoyed it, despite not being very hungry. I had a nice lettuce salad (the lettuce was crisp and fresh and the dressing was delicious), some cheese, some potato salad and a bit of pasta salad. The most notable of these was the potato salad. It had roasted potato wedges and veggies tossed in a nice vinaigrette dressing. The best part were the whole roasted garlic cloves tossed in. YUM! My daughter tried a bite of cheese (SO not hungry), and my husband tried a bite of everything. I don't recall what kind of pickled fish he tried, but he was surprised he liked it. Overall, thumbs up on the cold buffet at Akershus. WAY better than I expected.

So, for entrees, our server recommended the soup and sandwich to my husband. The sandwich was described as "pan-seared salmon served open-faced on toasted multigrain bread, lettuce, tomato and topped with a roasted garlic caper mayonnaise". Pretty accurate explanation from what I saw. It was a very attractive sandwich. He liked it, but he liked the seafood chowder that accompanied it better.

My daughter had the ravioli, which she had two bites of. I can tell you all about it, though, because that's what they suggested for a vegetarian entree for me. The kids' ravioli consisted of several Mickey-shaped raviolis topped with a chunky and slightly watery tomato sauce. To make mine more adult, they topped mine with some roasted vegetables as well. It was ok. I mean, I LIKE ravioli with tomato sauce, even if it wasn't particularly good ravioli or tomato sauce. The roasted veggies (carrots were the predominant one) were fine. Again, I LIKE roasted veggies. I just don't think that topping Mickey-shaped ravioli with a lackluster tomato sauce and some roasted veggies can end up being anything more than a passable vegetarian entree. So, it was passable. No biggie. I wasn't hungry anyway...

The desserts were nice, but not particularly memorable. There was a coffee mousse cake of some sort, a rice pudding, and a berry torte type of thing with yellow cake and a yellow pudding-y type filling on top. I liked the filling. Tasted mostly like vanilla pudding (which I like, and don't have occasion to eat very often). They were better than my entree, but really just ok. I wouldn't seek them out. Why don't they just bring you schoolbread and be done with it?

The princess interaction was better than I had expected. I've said it before in other threads. Here's where you get the most princess bang for your buck. We saw Ariel, Aurora, Pocahontas, Jasmine and Belle at the door, of course. All were very gracious about signing my daughter's cast.

So, there you have it. For me, Akershus is not a dining destination, it's a princess destination. If you go in with those expectations, you'll probably be pleasantly surprised. If you go in looking for the best food in Epcot, well, you'll probably be disappointed.

Next up: Beaches & Cream for dinner.

 

[itchin2go]

It's all kind of fuzzy in my head, but I think we were supposed to go to Chefs de France for dinner. We were feeling lazy, though (hey, you're supposed to be able to be lazy on your vacation, right?), so we opted to hang out at the resort. We headed for Beaches & Cream. At first, it looked like there would be a wait, but that evaporated once the LARGE party ahead of us got in at Cape May. YAY for us!

It is small, but it really is a cute place. My husband didn't realize how LARGE the burgers are, so he ordered a double. Whoops! It was a lot of food, but he said it was delicious. He also ordered some onion rings. YUM. Could have eaten all of them. Thick cut rings of onion covered in a tasty, crunchy breading. DE-licious.

I expected the veggie burger to be the only veggie entree, but there was actually a veggie wrap of some sort advertised on the board outside of B&C. I asked our waitress about it, and she seemed kind of hesitant to recommend it. Her response, was kind of like, "It's good if you like that type of thing." That could mean anything, I guess, but I went with the veggie burger instead. It was not very good. To be fair, I'm kind of hard on veggie burgers. I tend to like the ones that are made of recognizable food, rather than the ones that are made of something masquerading as meat. I like the black bean patty at Chili's, for instance. It's clearly made of beans and rice and veggies and has a great flavor. Despite the menu description of a "grain and vegetable patty", this one seemed more of the "trying-to-seem-like-beef" variety to me. I didn't enjoy it, but I chalk this up to my own personal taste. The other components of the burger were fine - fresh bun, lettuce, tomato, etc. There was no cheese, but maybe I should have asked... Anyway, I removed the meat patty, placed a couple of thick, delicious onion rings on the bun and voila, I had a pretty tasty onion ring sandwich. I wouldn't recommend it as a dietary staple for health reasons, but it was a flavor sensation.

My daughter had a hot dog and fries. It was, indeed, a hot dog and fries. The fries were ok. I guess they may have suffered in comparison to the onion rings.

We were too full for dessert. Yes, it's a crime to go there and not order SOMETHING for dessert, but seriously, we were stuffed. Someone did order a kitchen sink while we were there. We didn't know what was going on when the lights went dim and the red light on the wall started flashing. That was cute. The little one was impressed.

I have no doubt that most carnivores would love B&C. Vegetarians? Well, I'm thinking that's a hit and miss type of thing. I knew the menu limits going in and I took the risk. If I went again, I might JUST order onion rings and a dessert.

Last day: Crystal Palace, Grand Floridian Cafe & Yachtsman Steakhouse.