Easy to Please Thread?

[ellie0101]

Add me and my family to the Easy to Please List.

Sci-Fi is a must do place for me and my sister. We're always satisfied with the burgers and love that it is cool and dark. A great place to go for lunch! I can't imagine going to HS and not eating at Sci-Fi.

We also don't mind the CS places in the other parks. When eating on a budget, all we need is a place to sit, air-conditioning, and properly cooked (or cooled, depending on what we're eating) food.

Although, I have to say, we do always treat ourselves to one "fancy", high-rated place like Artist Point to satisfy our foody sides.

 

[Withacy]

I wonder what it is that makes some people easy to please. Is it a lack of sophistication? Personality? Expectations?

I know some people hate buffets. I like them. I like Boma - especially their stews. I love soups & stews. And their desserts. I do have a sweet tooth.

I also like fruity drinks with glow cubes.

 

[scdak]

My group is very easy to please, so much so that I base all dining choices on my choices because Mom and VJ eat about anything! As long as you keep my water or diet coke glass filled, keep sauces or gravies off my plate and get my bill to me quickly I am content, we are all fast eaters and hate to sit there waiting on a check and never seeing the server, we want to pay and be on our way to our next adventure. I love this thread, lots of interesting thoughts about good vs bad places, I have read almost every thread there is about dining to see how my choices fare in the opinion of others.

 

[bangzoom6877]

We're easy to please too!! We love and appreciate lots of different foods though...everything from burgers and fries, to a good chicken dish, to filet mignon and lobster! As for dessert, we love the simpler things like plain ice cream, but also appreciate a good creme brulee or a nice hunk of delicious chocolate cake.

We ate a some places that get some terrible reviews, but wanted to judge for ourselves. We loved Chef Mickey's dinner and will be back on the next trip, loved San Angel for lunch and will be back on the next trip, loved dinner at the castle, and loved Sci-Fi for lunch. We don't go to WDW expecting 5-star gourmet fancy food (unless maybe we were ot go to V&A's), we just expect it to taste good and to have a great time. That happens every time!!

On the other hand, while we thought the food at Le Cellier was good, I don't see all the hype it gets. Still good though...just nothing special in my opinion.

 

[Amysita]

I also like fruity drinks with glow cubes.

While we're admitting our Ez breezy (un)sophisticated dining and drinking pleasures that apparently are lost on the gourmet foodies crowd...

I LOVE CRAZY STRAWS!!!! There...I said it, I'm a grown woman who is still quite amused with drinking things from crazy straws.

 

[HunnyJar]

While we're admitting our Ez breezy (un)sophisticated dining and drinking pleasures that apparently are lost on the gourmet foodies crowd...

I LOVE CRAZY STRAWS!!!! There...I said it, I'm a grown woman who is still quite amused with drinking things from crazy straws.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.

 

[DisGirl23]

I wonder what it is that makes some people easy to please. Is it a lack of sophistication? Personality? Expectations?

If being a picky eater and still being able to enjoy all my WDW dining experiences makes me an unsophisticated food junkie, then label me GUILTY!
I think it's our great personalities that makes it easy for us to enjoy our meals! We don't have time to get bogged down with every little detail about a restaurant... hello! We're in WDW!
And I think our expectations are reasonable for restaurants that cranking out food constantly and servers that are running around non stop from the moment the doors open straight up until closing for the most part.

 

[Amysita]

Yeah...can ya tell...I'm more of a Guy Fieri Drive-Ins, Diners, & Dives kinda gal than a Barefoot Contessa debutante.

 

[DisGirl23]

Yeah...can ya tell...I'm more of a Guy Fieri Drive-Ins, Diners, & Dives kinda gal than a Barefoot Contessa debutante.

I love that guy!

And although I can't remember the last time I drank from a crazy straw, I'm sure I'd be just as amused with it as I am with my glow cubes. Heck, DBF is a grown man who still uses the glow cubes he bought on our trip! And I get picked on for drinking everything from my refillable mug...

 

[of the seas]

We love Sci-Fi and WCC also! We always go to Sci-Fi!
We have never had bad service in any DW restaurant, maybe we are easy to please. We only have 1 never to do again restaurant at DW and that is Hollywood & Vine, but that's only based on food, not service or atmosphere.

 

[Amysita]

Disgirl23...looks like you're pulling into POFQ a few days after I leave...I'll try not to eat their whole stock of Beingets so you can have some when you arrive.

 

[Amy&Dan]

Oh yeah, count me in. For sure some places I love more than others, but there has not been one meal in 25 trips to Disney that had me barfing, complaining or rushing to get a burger at Pecos Bills because my food was so nasty I couldn't eat it.

But what do I know, I would probably pick a McDonald's double cheeseburger for my last meal on death row! Unless a nice prison guard would bring me something from Cracker Barrel that is.

I like Chef Mickey's for the food (I mean come on people, those mashed potatoes alone are worth my time and effort), think Sci Fi is wonderful and would gladly eat Italian food at Tony's all of my days. If it tastes like Prego, no problem, that's my sauce of choice!

I do have to say the only place I haven't been thrilled with was The Wave. It was too gourmet. I got chicken pot pie and and it was nothing like any chicken pot pie this non gourmet girl has ever eaten. I was about ready to call Prime Time and ask them to bring me some decent chicken pot pie! The pashion fruit mojito's made it all okay though.

I don't post reviews anymore because all I ever say is "It was delicous".

I like buffets, the moderate and value food courts and have yet to be displeased with anything because "I can get better food at home". Maybe, but I'm not at WDW so its not going to be as good!

 

[EastonCat]

I have extremely high standards -- I want my food to be reasonably resemble the description provided to me. I would like each of the items to be cooked as described. I would like the server to know what the restaurant offers on the menu. I would prefer that the server not disappear for long periods of time between taking our order and bringing what we asked for. If a mistake is made, some attempt to acknowledge it and simply say "sorry" lets me know that, while I'm one of hundreds of people the restaurant will serve on a given day, they appreciate that I've waited for months to show up and eat there and have developed an interest in enjoying it. I've never sent a dish back, I've never asked to have something taken off my check (including food that never showed up) and I've never asked to see a manager and I'll tell you this, I've had some amazingly bad dining experiences at Disney. They are by far in the minority of my total sum of experiences. And the worst was at one of the best respected and sought after venues that just had an off night. Sparing the details, it was supremely unacceptable what happened to my family and we paid our full bill (for 9 people) and tipped the servers well. Off nights happen.

I think this is a reasonable bill of dining rights, and I also think that it is an acceptable standard for "easy to please". Even when I've kicked off the meal with a couple of martinis.

On the "michelin" front, I expect Casey's to give me a delicious hot hot dog and frosty soda just as much as I want Narcoossee's to cook my fish all the way through (except for the tuna, which I like seared and raw in the middle). The cost and popularity of the venue does nothing to change the definition of meeting the expectations that the venue sets.

 

[EastonCat]

I wonder what it is that makes some people easy to please. Is it a lack of sophistication? Personality? Expectations?

I know some people hate buffets. I like them. I like Boma - especially their stews. I love soups & stews. And their desserts. I do have a sweet tooth.

I also like fruity drinks with glow cubes.

I think that people who are easy to please recognize a few things:
1) All food is interesting and fun. The best thing I ever ate is a tie between some ribs I had from a roadside barbecue and some complicated thing I can't even name or describe that I had at a hotel restaurant in NYC.
2) The people that work in restaurants are people. And many of them are not well paid. They're serving you, but they aren't servants, they're people. They deserve to be treated at least as well as you'd like them to serve you.
3) Dining is about sharing a meal and experience with people, not a search for fashion or perfection. When I want people to understand how much I love WDW, I get them a hot dog at Casey's and we eat outside in front of the castle and we watch kids react to being there.

Sophistication is being able to talk about fine things. I'd rather be eating and talking about my kids.

 

[DisGirl23]

Disgirl23...looks like you're pulling into POFQ a few days after I leave...I'll try not to eat their whole stock of Beingets so you can have some when you arrive.

Yes! Please save me some! This is my first trip to POFQ and I am so excited to experience it and try those beingets!!!

 

[DisGirl23]

I think that people who are easy to please recognize a few things:
1) All food is interesting and fun. The best thing I ever ate is a tie between some ribs I had from a roadside barbecue and some complicated thing I can't even name or describe that I had at a hotel restaurant in NYC.
2) The people that work in restaurants are people. And many of them are not well paid. They're serving you, but they aren't servants, they're people. They deserve to be treated at least as well as you'd like them to serve you.
3) Dining is about sharing a meal and experience with people, not a search for fashion or perfection. When I want people to understand how much I love WDW, I get them a hot dog at Casey's and we eat outside in front of the castle and we watch kids react to being there.

Sophistication is being able to talk about fine things. I'd rather be eating and talking about my kids.

This is all very well said and I agree 100% with you!

 

[Withacy]

Yeah...can ya tell...I'm more of a Guy Fieri Drive-Ins, Diners, & Dives kinda gal than a Barefoot Contessa debutante.

Amen!

A few years ago, I went to NYC with some friends - spent way too much on food, and probably ate in some decent restaurants (or so they tell me).

Right after I came back, I went on a business trip for work around rural Mississippi. I ate in some hole-in-the-wall places (asked the locals where to eat) - and had some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. And probably gained 10 pounds (it's southern food, y'all). And spent next to nothing on it.

I don't know much about food - just what I like. I tend to like simple things, and usually things that aren't good for me. But when I'm at WDW, it's mostly about the how fun the restaurant is. Crazy, wild, loud, childish - it all works for me.

 

[emmabemmainc]

Count me in, too! While I've had so-so food in some of the WDW restaurants, I'd go back to any of them. I've never had anything I couldn't or wouldn't eat either.

Add me to the Guy F. fan club--I want his job!

 

[emmabemmainc]

My favorites are the ones where people say, "I usually hate mushrooms, but I ordered the mushroom dish anyways and now I'm giving the restaurant a bad reviews b/c I made a bad decision"---I see a few of those reviews and I am always confused!

 

[emmabemmainc]

Oh yeah, count me in. For sure some places I love more than others, but there has not been one meal in 25 trips to Disney that had me barfing, complaining or rushing to get a burger at Pecos Bills because my food was so nasty I couldn't eat it.

But what do I know, I would probably pick a McDonald's double cheeseburger for my last meal on death row! Unless a nice prison guard would bring me something from Cracker Barrel that is.

I like Chef Mickey's for the food (I mean come on people, those mashed potatoes alone are worth my time and effort), think Sci Fi is wonderful and would gladly eat Italian food at Tony's all of my days. If it tastes like Prego, no problem, that's my sauce of choice!

I do have to say the only place I haven't been thrilled with was The Wave. It was too gourmet. I got chicken pot pie and and it was nothing like any chicken pot pie this non gourmet girl has ever eaten. I was about ready to call Prime Time and ask them to bring me some decent chicken pot pie! The pashion fruit mojito's made it all okay though.

I don't post reviews anymore because all I ever say is "It was delicous".

I like buffets, the moderate and value food courts and have yet to be displeased with anything because "I can get better food at home". Maybe, but I'm not at WDW so its not going to be as good!

Too bad you're going right before me, b/c you sound like the kind of person I'd love to eat with!

Mmmmmmmmmmmm....Cracker Barrel!