Day 4 (Monday, 1/27)
Lunch Pecos Bills
Chicken Wrap, ¼-pound cheeseburger w/ fries, kids hotdog combo, and large coke
Total Cost: $20.00
Nothing too special about this place although I thought the fixins bar was pretty good. I enjoyed my burger but it would come to haunt me a bit later. DH enjoyed the chicken wrap but commented that there was quite a bit of mayonnaise. Typical counter service and the prices werent too steep.
Dinner-Marrakesh
Drinks: two sodas and a milk
Dinners: Shish Kebab, Chicken Kebab, kids hamburger
Total Cost (w/ tax and tip): $65.51
We had always entertained the idea of trying this place but never did because we always tend to gravitate back to our favorites. Even this time, we only ended up here because Teppanyaki had an hour wait and the Disney server was down so there was no priority seating. In retrospect I wish we wouldve waited the hour but DS wouldve never made it. There was no wait here (which mightve been a sign) and when we arrived (around 7pm) the live show was just starting. We were all a bit tired and cranky, so perhaps we werent in the best frame of mind for this show but the music was SO LOUD you couldnt hear yourself think let alone eat. (And we were in the back of the restaurant.) We got our drinks and took one drink of the water and almost choked it tasted horrible and left an awfully strong chlorine aftertaste so we were forced to order soda, which didnt make me too happy because I almost exclusively drink water and so does DS. Ive come to realize that January is a big training time down here, but for the money you are paying there is still a limit to what you can take. Our server was awful and whoever was supposed to be supervising him, wasnt. After seeing about three other tables that sat down after us receive bread I realized we were supposed to get some and asked. FIL ordered an appetizer the chicken patilla and it was horrible. It was literally petrified he couldnt even cut it with a fork and knife. I had a taste and it was like eating wood chips. Still no bread. We are hoping that our meals are edible. Finally the live music stops and there is a reasonable noise level in the place. Our meals come and DS says I guess we dont need our bread now which finally triggers something with our waiter and we get our bread five minutes later The meals were actually okay. The shish kebab was tender but the chicken kebab was very dry. MIL seemed to enjoy the chicken couscous. However we all agreed that none of the meals was worth the money. For some reason my FIL braved dessert and they brought him the wrong one which he ate anyway. On the way out, he asked another waiter if the patilla was supposed to be that dry. He said no. Oh well we can check this off our list of places to try. Food: 2, Service: 2, Atmosphere: 3
Day 5 (Tuesday, 1/28)
Lunch-Wolfgang Pucks Express
Drinks: large coke, bottled water, milk
Meals: pizza margerhita, caesar chicken sandwich w/ fries
Total Cost: $23.00
This is a cute little café but there are few seats inside and the express thing can be pushing it when the line backs up. But our food came pretty quickly after we placed the order. The pizza was just average as far as gourmet pizzas go. The sandwich was big and there were a ton of fries (which were crunchy like Burger King fries and cold this mightve been from sitting outside in this weather). Overall this is a good place in a pinch and pales in cost factor to the other restaurants in the Marketplace area but I thought it was overpriced even on a Disney scale.
Looking for the rest of my journal... will post more if I can find it!!
Lunch Pecos Bills
Chicken Wrap, ¼-pound cheeseburger w/ fries, kids hotdog combo, and large coke
Total Cost: $20.00
Nothing too special about this place although I thought the fixins bar was pretty good. I enjoyed my burger but it would come to haunt me a bit later. DH enjoyed the chicken wrap but commented that there was quite a bit of mayonnaise. Typical counter service and the prices werent too steep.
Dinner-Marrakesh
Drinks: two sodas and a milk
Dinners: Shish Kebab, Chicken Kebab, kids hamburger
Total Cost (w/ tax and tip): $65.51
We had always entertained the idea of trying this place but never did because we always tend to gravitate back to our favorites. Even this time, we only ended up here because Teppanyaki had an hour wait and the Disney server was down so there was no priority seating. In retrospect I wish we wouldve waited the hour but DS wouldve never made it. There was no wait here (which mightve been a sign) and when we arrived (around 7pm) the live show was just starting. We were all a bit tired and cranky, so perhaps we werent in the best frame of mind for this show but the music was SO LOUD you couldnt hear yourself think let alone eat. (And we were in the back of the restaurant.) We got our drinks and took one drink of the water and almost choked it tasted horrible and left an awfully strong chlorine aftertaste so we were forced to order soda, which didnt make me too happy because I almost exclusively drink water and so does DS. Ive come to realize that January is a big training time down here, but for the money you are paying there is still a limit to what you can take. Our server was awful and whoever was supposed to be supervising him, wasnt. After seeing about three other tables that sat down after us receive bread I realized we were supposed to get some and asked. FIL ordered an appetizer the chicken patilla and it was horrible. It was literally petrified he couldnt even cut it with a fork and knife. I had a taste and it was like eating wood chips. Still no bread. We are hoping that our meals are edible. Finally the live music stops and there is a reasonable noise level in the place. Our meals come and DS says I guess we dont need our bread now which finally triggers something with our waiter and we get our bread five minutes later The meals were actually okay. The shish kebab was tender but the chicken kebab was very dry. MIL seemed to enjoy the chicken couscous. However we all agreed that none of the meals was worth the money. For some reason my FIL braved dessert and they brought him the wrong one which he ate anyway. On the way out, he asked another waiter if the patilla was supposed to be that dry. He said no. Oh well we can check this off our list of places to try. Food: 2, Service: 2, Atmosphere: 3
Day 5 (Tuesday, 1/28)
Lunch-Wolfgang Pucks Express
Drinks: large coke, bottled water, milk
Meals: pizza margerhita, caesar chicken sandwich w/ fries
Total Cost: $23.00
This is a cute little café but there are few seats inside and the express thing can be pushing it when the line backs up. But our food came pretty quickly after we placed the order. The pizza was just average as far as gourmet pizzas go. The sandwich was big and there were a ton of fries (which were crunchy like Burger King fries and cold this mightve been from sitting outside in this weather). Overall this is a good place in a pinch and pales in cost factor to the other restaurants in the Marketplace area but I thought it was overpriced even on a Disney scale.
Looking for the rest of my journal... will post more if I can find it!!
