From England To OKW - 14 Nights On DDP COMPLETED LOTS OF FOOD PICS 2/3/2011

[dixonsontour]

Your daughter is adorable. How sweet, of course she cried not seeing Mickey, she was all dressed up as Minnie and looking cute as can be.

Great Food pictures!

I think DD has reason to be wary of the 'Steps', she makes a beautiful Cinderella!

Did she have a princess outfit for every day? How special for her.

Hmmm, I'm suddenly hungry! Wouldn't have anything to do with your food pictures

Yes we took a suitcase full of princess dresses with us, DH took a picture of the closet after I unpacked - completely full of dresses.

I bought most off ebay but she did get a new tiana one this trip for BBB.

 

[dixonsontour]

Thanks for taking the time to post these wonderful reviews

Your photos are excellent and DD looks adorable in her various dresses

Looking forward to reading more

Thanks for reading along I'm trying to do two reports a night.

 

[Belle5]

Your daughter is SOOO adorable! You are such a good mommy to let have all those dress-up gowns for her. I would have done that, but... I had six PIRATES!

 

[Linda67]

Great updates

I don't suppose you happen to remember if the soup at LC has bacon in it?

It looks like there is some on top but I wondered if there was any in the soup itself?

I sooooo want to try it but I don't eat meat (yeah I know but DH does and will love it there )

Your DD looks so cute in her various outfits. I love the Tinkerbell one

 

[dixonsontour]

Great updates

I don't suppose you happen to remember if the soup at LC has bacon in it?

It looks like there is some on top but I wondered if there was any in the soup itself?

I sooooo want to try it but I don't eat meat (yeah I know but DH does and will love it there )

Your DD looks so cute in her various outfits. I love the Tinkerbell one

Yes bacon in it definitely and chicken stock aswell I think.

 

[CoachZ]

Your daughter is adorable!!!! I too love the princess dresses!!! My neice will only be about 4 months old on our trip in June. We are anxiously awaiting her arrival!!!! I know my sister would dress her in princess dresses too.

I love the pictures of your daughter with the princesses in matching dresses. I'll have to suggest this to my sister for our family's little princess.

Great trip report!!!!

 

[lilandvisma]

Your little girl is just about the cutest little thing ever!! My 3 year old is totally envious of all her dress up stuff Enjoying your reviews !

 

[Tinker12]

Great job with the reviews!!

 

[dixonsontour]

We started the day at Wolfgang puck express at DTD marketplace. Used 3 cs credits.

Great place for a cs breakfast but only really suitable for a non park day as it doesn’t open until 9am.

DD had choc chip waffles, with cream on the side, milk and juice.

I had spinach and mushroom omelette, breakfast potatoes, fruit and coffee.

DH had tomato and cheese omelette, fruit and coffee.

They were happy to switch a cup of fresh fruit for one of our drinks (you got 2 drinks with breakfast in 2010).

Food was good and I also bumped into another UK Diser in the line behind us.

Lunch was at typhoon lagoon, leaning palms. No photos sorry.

This was a lot of food. I think it was one of the only times we ordered 3 cs meals at lunch time.

I had a huge chicken wrap, fries and large coke. DH had burger fries and large coke and DD hot dog, fries and a drink served in a green pail like at restaurantosaurus. We all had cookies for dessert.

My wrap was nice enough and easily sharable between two. Dh’s burger was the standard cs burger. DD enjoyed her hot dog. DH and I didn’t eat the cookie think DD had hers.

A lot of wasted food, would share next time we ate here.


Dinner

Our first try with a signature restaurant , yachtsman steakhouse. This was for DH’s birthday celebration.

I made the adr for 5.40pm as we had DD aged 4 with us. DH wore a collared shirt and dress shorts. I had linen pants and a cotton top. DD had a cotton dressy sundress. We felt fine – not overdressed or undressed. A lot of children were in the restaurant and DD behaved beautifully. The server gave her a colouring sheet and crayons and spoke to DD making her feel really welcome.

DD had lobster bisque (which I ate), pasta with tomato sauce and chocolate puzzle dessert and a drink.

I had the new York strip cooked medium, with brandy sauce, dauphinoise potatoes and pistachio ice cream dessert. Coke to drink.

DH paid oop for a Samuels Adams beer flight. He then got the porterhouse and fries and a chocolate sampler dessert with a coke.

We all really enjoyed the meal. Service was attentive not stuffy and we didn’t feel out of place at all.

We all started with the excellent bread- warm and good especially the onion rolls. They were served with butter and roasted garlic.

My steak was very good but my favourite thing was the potatoes which were excellent. Out of the dessert sampler , I loved the ice cream. DH had a bite and agreed it was excellent.

He enjoyed his porterhouse – the filet part of this was melt in the mouth – I tried some. A lot better that the le cellier filet I'd had, different league. He enjoyed his chocolate dessert but it was too rich for me and I do like chocolate, I needed something lighter after a rich meal.

The children’s food was excellent. The soup was a decent portion and very tasty it had chunks of lobster and a bandy taste.

The pasta was a huge bowl, DD barely made a dent in it. Easily sharable by two younger children imo.

Her favourite part was the dessert. She assembled the white chocolate puzzle and then painted it. I don’t think she ate much of it but it kept her entertained a long while. She kept asking to go back for the puzzle dessert.

Used 6 TS credits plus tip and alcohol oop

 

[dixonsontour]

Breakfast in the room as usual.

For lunch at AK we tried Flame tree bbq for the first time.

I had chicken, coleslaw and key lime mousse with large coke. DH had pulled pork sandwich, key lime mousse and a large coke. I think DD had a hot dog and a cookie and a drink.

Used 3 cs credits.

I told DH and DD to sit by the water, best seating there according to what I have read on the DIS. I got the tray of food. The drinks have no lids on so it was difficult to carry and heavy. I start looking for DH and realise I have no idea where he is! After wandering around I find him sat by the water as I'd told him to.

He said the sandwich was only ok, a bit dry. My chicken was very black and dry looking and was only ok – ate 2 pots of coleslaw with it – DH doesn’t do coleslaw.

The dessert was a lot better than it looked very nice tasting. One of the best cs desserts.

Our snack was a jalapeño cheese pretzel from a stand somewhere near a bugs life. Used 1 snack credit. Good use of a credit as it cost over $4. It was excellent – I could eat one now. We both agreed next time we will get one each for lunch.

Later we had 2 frozen drinks, one coke and one lemonade from drink wallah – used 2 snack credits. Really good and ideal on a hot day.

Boma dinner

This was a re do from last trip but not a must do. We talked a lot about whether we should give it another try. Last trip we did it on our last night and were tired. The server and our table position were not good. We decided to give it another try as whilst we were not blown away by the food we both loved the chicken curry coconut soup and I make this at home at least once a month now.

Well we were still very underwhelmed by the food. I think the problem is it’s sweet rather than spicy. We eat a lot of spicy food, if we eat out at home it is usually Indian food. Nothing was spicy or really exotic to us just sweet. We also have good friends from South Africa and love eating at their house – maybe we are spoiled?

They had the seafood coconut curry soup on the menu. I loved this and will make this at home. DH dislikes seafood so was disappointed he couldn’t have the soup.

I ate some hummus but it just tasted to me like the stuff I get week in week out from the supermarket at home. I often have the 3 mini pots – red pepper, lemon and coriander and regular for lunch at work.

I had a little salmon which was dry. The beef was bloody rare which neither DH or I eat.

DD was fine – she stuck to pasta, fries and chicken nuggets.

The desserts are nice. I like the mango one. The zebra domes, I had one again are ok not rave about.

Both times this has been the busiest buffet with the longest lines. I understand it is supposed to be pods but they are so close together it forms one line and to try and jump ahead to another pod feels like you are cutting in line.

Used 3 TS.

So we’ve tried it twice and it’s not a must do for us.

 

[dixonsontour]

Today was our shopping day. We ate offsite at village inn for breakfast. This is near the convention centre and there were a few tables near us with delegates. I had a BOGOF coupon from signing up to the e club so paid less than $25 including tip.

DD had sausage and toast and fruit, DH breakfast burrito that he really enjoyed. I had the same veggie crepes with hollandaise I had last year after studying the menu for about 15 mins. The breakfast menu is huge. The decor is dated but the food is good and we will certainly eat here again next year.

We had a late lunch at Earl of sandwich. I knew what I was having the holiday sandwich. I had this last year and it was excellent – turkey, stuffing, gravy, mayo and cranberry. DH had an Italian. DD just wanted a ham sandwich. They accommodated her – ringing up a kids turkey and swiss, no turkey and swiss add ham.

You just get a sandwich and chips or dessert. I picked up 2 of the cupcakes with sprinkles and one peanut butter filled brownie. DD picked at the topping on the cupcake. The brownie was excellent and I'm not even a huge peanut butter fan. It was very rich. I shared with DH. The other cake got back to the room but wasn’t eaten.

Dinner Tutto Italia Epcot

Our adr was 6.25pm and we were deliberately just on time as we had eaten a late lunch and I didn’t want to be seated early.

The restaurant was beautiful and DD liked being able to crayon on the paper tablecloth. The Italian server was also very nice and attentive.

Myself and DD enjoyed this meal and would go back DH not so much. Think this was our most expensive 1 TS meal. The children’s meals were very very expensive – I think what DD had would have been $20!

We all enjoyed the bread which came with oil. I tried one of the pickled vegetables, not my thing.

DD’s appetiser was deep fried mozzarella balls which DH and I ate.

DD had the pizza. I had the cannelloni and DH the sausage pasta.

DD enjoyed her pizza, which looked tasty and was a decent size.

DH was disappointed with the pasta. Nothing special, like something I'd make at home and the portion was on the small size.

I enjoyed my spinach cannelloni which was very rich, couldn’t finish the portion.

For dessert DH had a sampler trio which he pronounced just ok. DD had an ice cream sundae in a glass not the usual make your own one.
I chose the panna cotta sundae. The server took some time stressing it was alcoholic. I was saying yes it’s fine. I thought it would be a big fuss over nothing but it was very alcohol tasting.

I really enjoyed the whole dessert – tie for best TS dessert with the Gers bread pudding I think. This was the most expensive dessert of the trip - $14.

Used 3 TS plus tip.

We then watched the fireworks , a nice end to our evening.

 

[Hootiss]

Love your food pictures. I agree with everyone else, your daughter is precious

 

[Linda67]

Lots of great updates to catch up on

Boma seems a bit hit and miss with people. We tried it once and it was great for me but just 'OK' for DH

Oh how I wish I could pop to EOS for lunch today

 

[vettegirl]

Nice Tutto pics!

 

[dixonsontour]

Breakfast was at Cape May, our first time there.

We had our adr for 10.05am but waited at least 20 mins past that to be seated. There was a tv with cartoons DD watched whilst we waited.

Cape may was a lot busier and nosier than Chef Mickey's. I think this was down to the adr time – we ate at 7am at chef Mickey.

The food was ok, usual breakfast food with the addition of bagels and smoked salmon. DD barely ate at this meal – nothing seemed to catch her eye.

Character interaction was good and the server brought DH a cupcake for his birthday. The characters interacted with DH as well as DD.

Used 3 TS plus tip.

We then went to blizzard beach. Still full from breakfast we just used a snack credit on an itzakadoozie lolly for DD.

It was MNSSHP night for us. So 3.30pm ish we ate at captain cooks at the poly. Our first time there.

Food was excellent and the place was quiet. Will be back without hesitation, our favourite cs meal of the trip.

I had the adult grilled cheese with poly chips and coke. DH had the aloha pulled pork with chips and coke. DD had a kids chicken nugget meal with carrots and a cookie.
For dessert we had dole whip.

My sandwich was excellent, different sorts of cheese on multigrain bread. DH was wowed by the taste and portion size of his – why haven’t we been here before he said! DD ate virtually nothing confirming to me she doesn’t like the chicken nuggets.

The dole whip is help yourself – I didn’t overfill as we were full from the sandwiches.

Used 3 cs credits. You ordered at a computer screen not from a person but paid a cashier.

Much later on we got burger and fries and 2 chocolate cakes from cosmic rays and 2 large cokes. DD did the hula with a cm and some other children. Food was ok and a huge portion. Cost 2 cs credits.

 

[dixonsontour]

We were at the Halloween party until midnight the night before so all slept in.

We had an early lunch at WPE at DTD. We actually got to the counter at 10.55am but they were happy to take our lunch order – lunch starts at 11am.

DD had pepperoni pizza, cookie and bottled water.

I had turkey sandwich, fries and soda and cheesecake

DH had meatball pizza with cheesecake and soda.

I like the fact that WPE has real plates and knives and forks and you can help yourself to drink refills. Great use of a cs credit

My sandwich was excellent but I could only eat half. The fries were garnished with sage and did taste of this. I don’t mind sage but it was a little odd with the fries.

DD enjoyed her pizza more than the previous cheese one as it had sauce and cheese on it like a normal pizza.

DH also likes the WPE pizza.

The cheesecake was not on the menu but I asked and they had it. It was ok but I prefer their crème brulee. I should say I'm not a huge cheesecake fan.

Dinner was at Ohana a must re do from last trip.

I can’t really give this a fair report. DD was very tired and out of sorts. We ate the salad, wings and pot stickers. DD ordered a hot dog and fries. Just as the meat started to arrive DD said she was feeling sick. She wasn’t sick thankfully but she was obviously not ok so we left. DH paid whilst I waited outside with DD. He did ask if we could get dessert to go but the server said this wasn’t possible, so no lovely bread pudding.

Used 3 TS plus tip.

What we did have was tasty and DD wanted to go back the next day to the ‘hula cafe’ as she had loved it last year. Sadly we didn’t have time to try and go back this trip.
DD went to sleep as soon as we got back to the room and slept for 14 hours! Next morning she was more or less back to normal thankfully.

 

[laur roo]

i love your reviews! i've been sneaking back everyday to read them. and i love all the outfits for your daughter, she's so cute!

i also kind of laughed when i saw your pics from ohana dinner, you sat at the same table my friend and i sat at when we ate breakfast there last month! i recognize it from the pile of wood in the background

 

[Linda67]

Great updates yet again

I love that DD's dress was beach themed for your Cape May ADR .... she is one stylish girl

Shame about the Ohana dinner but good news that DD felt fine the next day

 

[cymbaldiva]

Do you happen to have any more information as to what beers were included in that Samuels Adams beer flight from the Yachtsman Steakhouse?

 

[dixonsontour]

Do you happen to have any more information as to what beers were included in that Samuels Adams beer flight from the Yachtsman Steakhouse?

Boston lager, Octoberfest and Boston brick red - the full drinks menu is on the wdw website if you go to make a reservation at the steakhouse.

DH enjoyed them.