Onceamonther
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2005
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- 11
I just returned from Disney last night after a long three month hiatus. One of the first things I did was make reservations at the newly re-opened Garden Grill (it was closed while THE LAND was being revamped for Soarin). I have never been so disappointed in my life!
Gone are all the good things that people went to Garden Grill for. No more all you can eat family style platters, no more garden salad with ranch dressing, no more sunflower bread with flavored butter, no more catfish or turkey and stuffing, no more strip steak, no more mashed potatoes, no more worms and dirt.
In an effort to fix something that wasn't broken they revamped the format and menu. You now get a bowl of salad with a very sharp and painful vinagrette dressing, followed by some chewy breadsticks with three dipping sauces, none of which tasted any good. You now have to choose one of five entrees, none of which come even close to the great menu they used to have. The portions were small and even though it's the Garden Grill, my steak came with only 5 string beans and a lump of rock hard mashed potatoes. To add insult to injury, they raised the price for $25.99. I can eat better in Manhattan for that price! They also consider any child over 9 an adult and charge them full price. What were they thinking? Some newly out of school accountant came up with this change.
The waitress admitted that bookings have been down about 50% since the change and I'm sure most of the people still booking are unaware of the menu changes since you won't find any mention of them outside at the podium.
To make matters worse, Disney fired all the bus staff so the wait staff now has to wait, bus and scrape plates so service has gone badly downhill.
I want to warn all the old timers - don't waste your time going back to this place. It's become quite horrible and even though it's still the best themed restaurant in the place with its revolving scenery, only boycotting and complaining will bring back the old family style farm meals that used to give this place its signature. Time to take back this restaurant from the know nothings who tried to fix something that wasn't broken.
Gone are all the good things that people went to Garden Grill for. No more all you can eat family style platters, no more garden salad with ranch dressing, no more sunflower bread with flavored butter, no more catfish or turkey and stuffing, no more strip steak, no more mashed potatoes, no more worms and dirt.
In an effort to fix something that wasn't broken they revamped the format and menu. You now get a bowl of salad with a very sharp and painful vinagrette dressing, followed by some chewy breadsticks with three dipping sauces, none of which tasted any good. You now have to choose one of five entrees, none of which come even close to the great menu they used to have. The portions were small and even though it's the Garden Grill, my steak came with only 5 string beans and a lump of rock hard mashed potatoes. To add insult to injury, they raised the price for $25.99. I can eat better in Manhattan for that price! They also consider any child over 9 an adult and charge them full price. What were they thinking? Some newly out of school accountant came up with this change.
The waitress admitted that bookings have been down about 50% since the change and I'm sure most of the people still booking are unaware of the menu changes since you won't find any mention of them outside at the podium.
To make matters worse, Disney fired all the bus staff so the wait staff now has to wait, bus and scrape plates so service has gone badly downhill.
I want to warn all the old timers - don't waste your time going back to this place. It's become quite horrible and even though it's still the best themed restaurant in the place with its revolving scenery, only boycotting and complaining will bring back the old family style farm meals that used to give this place its signature. Time to take back this restaurant from the know nothings who tried to fix something that wasn't broken.
and welcome to the DIS first poster! Sorry your first post had to be a complaint.
Just back, it didn't look crowded at all to us during lunch. I read the new menu and it didn't interest us, along with the price. The only character I saw was Pluto. It also appeared that the room no longer was turning. 
