We just returned from SOG last night! First off, the resort is beautiful! Can't wait to go back!!! Now for the food.... We ate at Mangino's our first night. Italian sounded so good. We failed to look at a menu until we had sat down and we were quickly disappointed. Everything was way overpriced and the menu was hard to read. We didn't know what half of the food was. I split the chicken parmesan with hubbie (it was the only thing we recognized on the menu) It was $18, which by disney prices is not too bad, but the portions were small and came with no sides. Even salad is an extra $7 per person. My Dad got a steak, it was $25, but had no side dishes, just some kind of sauce that came with it that he did not like. You would think you could atleast get pasta or a baked potato for $25. Also there is no kids menu. Only option for kids is spaghetti, which was odd because speghetti was not offered for adults. Overall we were very dissappointed. We spent more money than if we had eaten at a nice sit down at the parks and the food was not that great. Our service was worse. Even though we were literally the ONLY people in the restaurant (first clue not to eat here) we sat with empty glasses the whole meal and could never find our waiter. Huge dissapointment. They need to fix their menu to include normal things like spaghetti, lasagna, fetticini, manicotti, etc. None of that here.
My parents ate at the breakfast buffet one morning. Dad is a huge breakfast person and was also let down. He didn't want to go back. They said it was comparable to a low-end Shoney's breakfast buffet.
The only other place I ate was at the express cafe place by the bus stop. I grabbed a bacon-egg-cheese sandwhich for $3.50. It was edible, not awesome, but not bad. Cereal for the kids was like $3.00. This was on our last day, while waiting for our airport towncar service to arrive. The rest of our vacation, the kids ate breakfast in our rooms with food we had packed. The fridge in the room came in quite handy.
