Gluttony . . . Pure Gluttony. 14 nights food reviews from two little piggies!LAST DAY

[Tikitoi]

ALERT!! AVOID THE FAKE CHEESE!!!

You will love TE! Not glamerous I(sp?!), but nice and hearty! Went down so well after a days swimming!!












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I may just listen to you, because that chili cheese dog at Beaches n Cream looks so much better! Then I may be off to Ghiradellis for that sundae. Thanks again for your reviews and pics.

 

[Sam'sMom0126]

Love the reviews!!! I check every day for updates!

Now for Bahama Breeze. I think it's hit or miss. The only thing I really like there is the appetizer that is bread with really fresh tomatoes and cheese. Sooo yummy. Ohh and of course they have a really good frozen drink layered with all kinds of goodness. Last time we were there I had some paper in my veggie sandwich which I was not a fan of!

Can't wait to see what's to come!

 

[mama03]

Fantastic reviews!!! I, like many others, cannot believe you can eat all that with your slim figure . Sorry to read you did not like Busch Gardens, we so enjoy going to the park. If you ever do get back to Tampa, you must go to our KK and get a dozen and our Bahama Breeze is always really good and its right on the bay.

 

[pixiedust1125]

Thanks so much for these great reviews and I really cant wait to have some tonga toast next time we go and hopefully it will be like the first time you went not the second

 

[Ms Sleepy]

Tuesday 20th May

But fate had other ideas and on our way to the Mall at Millenia (I needed more Crocs, you cannot have enough Crocs)

Did you manage to get some crocs? How much were they I just paid £29.99 for Ruby Red pair from Ideal World Shopping Channel.

Really been enjoying reading you reviews of your meals..

 

[DisneyJo]

OMG the Willy Wonka bit was hilarious

B&C did look delicious, can't wait to eat there in August, not sure I'll be able to finish those ice creams though!!!

BTW is the creme brulee a SC on the DDP?

 

[audrey2580]

OMG - I'm at work and literally spit out my coffee at the Willy Wonka thing!

Super funny!

Love your reviews

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

Wow great update. You sure do love your ice cream don't you, but that peanut butter sundae looks yum. I might make a special trip to Beaches and Cream just to get one.

DO IT!!!!!!! So scrummylicious!

Another great update!

Thanks!! Only two more to come

I think these are the BEST reviews I"ve ever seen. Question: you mentioned your TG gained 14 lbs. May I ask how much you gained? I would have gained about 10-12 I"m sure. And you look like such a little thing. How did you do it? And are you practically fasting now after all of that?

I put on 7lbs - oink!! I've hardly lost any so far because I had a stinking cold for two weeks when we got back so couldn't exercise and lived on icecream for my throat! But now I am on the diet an exercise straight and narrow . . . apart from yesterday when we went out for our anniversary and had a dozen Krispy Kremes! That addiction will never die!

FYI anyone in the UK, TGI Fridays now do an oreo milkshake which we discovered yesterday - IT IS GOOD!!!

Wow, so loving your reviews!!! I can eat for England, but you beat me!!!

I never realised I ate quite so much until I started these reviews! Its bad!

OK firstly the NO way Jose is on the menu, I am bigger than you but there is no way I could eat that AND the meal before hand so we might just go for the dessert.

Bahama Breeze... You are right the wings don't look that flash, although I wasn't planning on ordering them or ribs but shrimp all the way.... I wonder if that is better?????

Kirsten

The fish could well be better! TG didn't mind his meal, I think I was just unlucky.

Gosh I am so jealous of your trip you seem to have tried everything! I can't wait until Aaron and I go alone and can try some more exotic places to eat. However I will say that Josh did surprise us this trip. He actually tried sushi!

Oh bless him how brave! I'm way too chicken to ever go near sushi! Fish should be covered in batter and deep fried or it just isn't food!

Thanks for sharing! The pics and reviews are great!

Ah thank you!

Once again I'm blown away by the amount of food you can consume girl, and stay SKINNY!!!!

If you look at the later photo's you can see I have way more chins than at the start of the trip!!!

Oh, my! I really must get off my duff and get something done this evening! Thanks so much for your reviews and pics. I really need visuals to make decisions.
I'd love to have those itinerary templates, but they won't let me PM anyone until I have 10 posts! I'll have to work on that in the next few days!

I will PM you with my email address!

I think the No Way Jose can be summed up in one word.

WOW!

I sooooo want to go here on my upcoming trip now. I've seen different threads about it, but your review makes it sound just delish! And I think I may have a table service credit floating around that I hadn't decided on yet...sounds like a plan to me!

You MUST go!It was totally one of our favourite places of the trip!!

Oh wow!!! What a bummer that bahama breeze was so bad. The menu choices at least sounded good...too bad all the meat was tough! How do you make tough chicken wings?? I didn't even think that would be possible...
Looking forward to more!!!

I know, they were ghastly!!! I keep wondering if I was too harsh, then I look at the photo and the memories come shuddering back!

Great update
I can't believe that Fudge mud slide - whole oreos for decoration...
Sorry you didn't have a good meal at Bahama Breeze. We ate there a few years ago and loved it. If I remember rightly, I had the mahi mahi and it was YUM!

Four oreos and he didn't give me even one!!!

Maybe I'm going to have to start trying fish in some places!

Ive really enjoyed your reviews. how on earth did you tuck all that food away? I showed the reports to my 15 yr old. He says that he aspires to eat as much as you and that he WILL in August. We'll see!

Maggs

Oh no, tell me I don't eat more than a teenage boy?! That's terrible! Tell him he must beat me!!

I may just listen to you, because that chili cheese dog at Beaches n Cream looks so much better! Then I may be off to Ghiradellis for that sundae. Thanks again for your reviews and pics.

That sounds like the perfect combo!!

Love the reviews!!! I check every day for updates!


Can't wait to see what's to come!

I've been a bit slow this week with th reviews, had so much on! More to come next week!!

Fantastic reviews!!! I, like many others, cannot believe you can eat all that with your slim figure . Sorry to read you did not like Busch Gardens, we so enjoy going to the park. If you ever do get back to Tampa, you must go to our KK and get a dozen and our Bahama Breeze is always really good and its right on the bay.

I thinke were just grumpy that we weren't at Disney! We really must learn to expand our horizons more - we didn't even go to Universal this year!

Thanks so much for these great reviews and I really cant wait to have some tonga toast next time we go and hopefully it will be like the first time you went not the second

That was some GOOD toast! You will enjoy it!

Tuesday 20th May

But fate had other ideas and on our way to the Mall at Millenia (I needed more Crocs, you cannot have enough Crocs)

Did you manage to get some crocs? How much were they I just paid £29.99 for Ruby Red pair from Ideal World Shopping Channel.

Really been enjoying reading you reviews of your meals..

Arghhhh stop!!!Don't pay UK prices for crocs!!!!! I paid is dollars what we pay in £'s over here! We are shockingly ripped off! There is a croc shop at Orlando airport, one in the Florida Mall, and most of the sports shops (and shops in Disney) sell them as well, and they are all around $30, rather than £30!! I stocked up on 3 new pairs!

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

Willy Wonka's ...... Thanks for the laugh & great food pics.

He is so naughty . . . he didn't phrase it quite as politely as I did and was a bit loud . . . I was convinced we were about to get chucked out of the park! It was a wierd tasting thing though!!!!

OMG the Willy Wonka bit was hilarious

B&C did look delicious, can't wait to eat there in August, not sure I'll be able to finish those ice creams though!!!

BTW is the creme brulee a SC on the DDP?

I'm a bit duff on the DDP as I've never used it so not sure if its a SC - sorry! Its worth paying for though!!!!! Twice apparently!!!!!!

Ohhh are you going to B&C -You will love it!!! I just wish they took ADR's - I was traumatised turning up somewhere without one! You will be able to manage a sundae - you just need to start training your tummy now by increasing your portions at home - trust me, I'm a pro!

OMG - I'm at work and literally spit out my coffee at the Willy Wonka thing!

Well I hope it didn't fuse your computer - whatever will you tell I.T?!

 

[arieljasmine]

Great update, thanks for sharing. Those ice cream sundaes look amazing. Sorry to hear about your meal at Bahama Breeze, tough meat, yuk.

Laur's

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

A relatively small eating day coming up . . .

Friday 23rd May

Well you may have gathered by now that we love the Pooh characters, especially Eeyore. Its always our tradition to go to Crystal Palace for dinner on the trip but I kept hearing good things about the breakfast so we booked that as well this year!

Our ADR was for 8.05, we were seated about ten minutes later and it was already very packed by the time we got in there. This place gets busy!

Before we start on the food just need to have a good old rant about the server! We didn’t see her for ages and we were gasping for drinks. We don’t like to go up to the food until we have seen a server (it just seems rude some-how!) so we sat there waiting. Eventually she came over with coffee, which I had for a change. Preferred the coffee in the foodcourt, but then I am quite tragic with these things. Anyway I know she was trying to be friendly and I am being really unfair here but she kept us talking for AGES literally going over everything we would find in the buffet. Just let me get over there and find out for myself woman!!!! I was sooo hungry. I could see TG on the edge of his seat as well ready to sprint up as soon as she released us which was quite funny!

She did give us one good tip which was to ask the chef to make me a choc-chip Mickey shaped pancake, but more of that later.

I asked for another juice at some point . . . then asked twice more before I got it.

Agreed none of the above is especially bad . . .I haven’t got to the worst bits yet! We had reached the bottom of the safe in our hotel room so only had large notes left to pay with. We put the money in the little wallet thing with the cheque and played with Eeyore – by the time he was gone the money had gone as well. Eventually she came back and said “You did say to keep all the change didn’t you? I just thought I’d check as it’s quite large”. I don’t know if she was expecting us to get all British and embarrassed and tell her to keep all the change, but we’re not that daft!! Hello, we never even spoke to her when she took the money! So we confirmed we would be partial to receiving our change if she didn’t mind, so that we could actually then choose what tip to leave.

A few minutes later she stomped back and told us that we had “had to leave her a bit of a tip anyway” as the restaurant didn’t have any coins to give out in the change!!! Is it me?! How can a restaurant not have any coins?! It was about 75c so its not like it matters in the long run, but surely they should have given us a full dollar, rather than taking the 75c off us?! Anyway that just annoyed me a bit . . . a LOT! And yes, we did top up the 75c tip! Though not as much as we would have if she hadn’t tried to keep all our change!

Anyhow, onto the good stuff!!!

Quite a bit of food coming up as Eeyore took an hour and 15 minutes to reach us, so we felt we should keep eating in order to guard our table!

I had some nice fresh fruit first (pineapple and strawberries), and a croissant – I don’t usually go for croissants but this one was lovely – really soft and fresh. Made me wish I had been picking them at all the other buffets we had been to! TG had fruit also

Then on to the hot stuff. I had some bacon which was the best bacon of the trip, some breakfast potatoes which I loved, and a biscuit and gravy (which we really need to get into eating in the UK – SO good!), and a little Mickey waffle as it was my last chance to have one (major sob). Then I thought I would take Lady-Chats-a-Lots advice and go get a Mickey choc-chip pancake. . .

There was an icy chill of fear in the air as I approached the chefs area, no one was speaking, no one was requesting food, people were just standing there, looking terrified. Then I realised why . . . this was the scariest chef EVER!!!! He was so grumpy, I was convinced it was a comedy act at first, but it wasn’t!!!! He was literally grunting at people when they ordered, and lord help anyone who tried to order before he raised one evil eyebrow in their direction to acknowledge them. I stood there for about a minute before my legs gave way in fright, so yet again I did what every good woman does . . . returned to my seat and made TG go up for me!!!!!!

TG also returned a shaking former wreck of himself, but he did better than me and did in fact return with the delightful choc-chip pancake for me!!! This were GOOD! I took the advice of Lady-Chats-a-Lot-AND-Steals-Your-Change and put my maple syrup on the side in case it was too sickly together. This is good advise for anyone with a normal constitution, but for me it wasn’t needed and I soon poured that little jug of heaven over the pancake!

TG was exceptionally brave and returned to grumpy chef man to request two fried eggs to go with his hot stuff, but Grumpy had already been replaced by another chef by then! Phew! He also had pancakes, pizza, bacon and waffles.

Onto dessert. I had some banana nut bread which was a little dry, but OK, a chocolate croissant which was good, and decided to also try the famed breakfast lasagna. Now look at my plate – I think that is a perfectly respectable sized piece of food! Lady Annoys-Me-a-Lot told me off for taking such a big bit before I was sure whether I liked it or not – would she rather I tried a bit up there off the serving spoon before deciding?!! And she forced TG to try a bit of mine (which he hated!). Anyway I liked it, it’s a little weird and not something I could eat everyday, but nice for a change! I would try it again.

TG had some Krispy Kreme holes (KK’s on a buffet!!) and these were quite good. I seem to have failed to take a picture of his plate though – oopsie – so have one of the big guy instead!

What a geek!!!!!!!

All in all this was very nice (with the exception of the server), the food was a good quality and the atmosphere and location as nice as ever. It seemed to take the characters much longer to get round than in the evening, so plan on eating slowly! I give this 9/10. TG says “8/10 - annoying waitress, lasagne was weird. Good KKs though, and fresh eggs”. He’s so much more concise than me!!!

Wondering around MK a couple of hours later and we happened upon Aloha Isle. I wasn’t in the slightest bit hungry, it was just instinct to order a pineapple float as I hadn’t had one so far this trip, which was very naughty. TG went for a vanilla soft serve. This was by far the hottest day of the trip so far and these things were melting like crazy and dripping all over us . . . that made us grumpy and combined with the fact we weren’t hungry resulted in about half of each being binned I am ashamed to say. They were very, very nice, as ever, but we just didn’t need them. It was the only time I got upset with myself over unnecessary calories the whole trip (which if you go by how much we ate really isn’t bad going!!). Here they are, what a waste!!! I still give it 8/10 – those whips are pure quality! TG “annoying as they overfill the pot, giving you about 5 seconds to eat it before it liquidises. 5/10”

So off to lunch and my spur of the moment (well last night which counts as last minute when you have been planning meals for a year) booking at Grand Floridian Café. First off, what a lovely room! Really light and airy, and much bigger than it looked from the outside. We had a lovely, friendly waitress. I ordered the Roast Beef Sandwich - balsamic onions, pesto mayonnaise, arugula ssalad, and tomatoes served on focaccia with marinated cucumber salad or home made chips and TG ordered the Rustic Chicken Sandwich - herb-marinated chicken breast with cold smoked vine ripe tomatoes, cheddar, pesto mayonnaise and arugula salad served on warm ciabatta bread with marinated cucumber salad or homemade potato chips (but TG had fries!)

The hard to find pink lemonade!

Rustic chicken sandwich

Roast beef sandwich

So, did we like the food at this place, which we had not researched and had hardly seen any reviews of?

Does this help answer it?!

Licked clean people!!!!!!!!! By far the best sandwich of the trip, the bread was light, the filling just the right amount, the pesto mayo was divine, and the hand-cooked chips – perfection!!!!!! To be fair it is double the price of a sandwich at the Earl of Sandwich, so you gotta pick your battles, but for a change from there this was absolutely lovely. 10/10. SOOOO on our to-do list next year! TG also loved his and gave it 9/10 “excellent food, nice atmosphere” – to get a 10 it apparently needed more pesto mayo! Some people just have no idea of balance!!!!

Then guess what happened . . . paid in cash . .. server comes up and says “sorry we have no coins so I have had to keep some of your change”!!!!!! Is this a new Disney policy started today?! Look after the pennies and the millions will take care of themselves?! I just find it impossible to believe two restaurants have NO change in them, and if they really haven’t got any then surely they should give extra change to the guests rather than short changing them?! Again I know its only a few pence and obviously we gave her a tip on top of that, but I just don’t like feeling ripped off!! Grrrr! BUT lovely place and great food - not ruined at all by this!!

Apparently we didn’t snack in the afternoon – I find that hard to believe but there are no photo’s so we will go with it. Which takes us to dinner at Raglan Road. We went here twice in 2006 as we loved it so much, and so had saved this for the last night of the trip . . . really looking forward to it!

Arrived and were seated pretty much straight away. We like to be traditional so we ordered a pint of Guinness for TG and a Baileys for me. Sweet nectar, I so adore Baileys. Laughed hysterically when TG’s “pint” arrived – I think pints must be measured differently in the US as this was about a third smaller than ours!!! You would think they would measure it the Irish way, but nope! Luckily measures of Baileys are the same worldwide.

I had known for two years what I was having to start – the Goats Town (Irish goats cheese terrine made with sauteed garlic, shallots, ****ake mushroom. Served with grilled crostini). I LOVE goats cheese with a passion and had it both visits last time – I was so scared they would take it off the menu in the meantime, but phew – there it was! TG went for the Heaven on Earth (baby back ribs in a Guinness and honey glace).

Here I made a fatal error. I had been planning for my entrée to have the ribs plus a side of asparagus, all my fave things in one meal (apart from wings, darn it). Then I saw the sausages on the menu, and I love sausages but only ever have the low-fat ones at home (which lets be honest, are naff) so I made a snap decision to have these. NEVER ever alter your plans, what was I thinking?! TG went for the fish and chips. The actual dish I went for isn’t on allears, but it was guinness sausages and mash, in beef stew.

Firstly they bring out bread and oil to dip it in. The bread was very dense and well flavoured - we just had one slice each - how's that for willpower?!

First the goats town, just as good as I remembered. You get SO much goats cheese its just to die for, a nice amount of salad and a really good dressing on it. There is nothing about this dish that would stop me ordering it a million times over.

Goats Town

TG let me have one of his ribs (OK, “let” is a bit of a strong word, was whined into submission is closer to the truth) and this was really good – quite meaty and gorgeous flavour. Already I was regretting not ordering these for my entrée.

Heaven on Earth

Onto entrees. TG’s fish and chips arrived and looked and smelled absolutely divine. Now I was also regretting not having these. He wolfed every bite down without passing so much as a solitary chip in my direction, so I figure they were good.

My sausage and mash arrived. Now don’t get me wrong – these were good quality and really tasty – But I just didn’t fancy them!!!! I wanted ribs or fish and chips!!! Why did I dally with my plans?! Plonker!!! Like I say it was very nice (I wouldn’t want to put you off it), but just not what I wanted at that time. I ate about half of it. The only complaint is that instead of gravy it is served with beef stew, so in the middle of my mash I had a couple of lumps of beef – I didn’t like that!! It needed proper gravy, and also a lot of it – I like to drown my sausages!

The plus side of this being that as I only ate half of my entrée we were good to go for dessert!!! TG likes bread and butter pudding (I despise it and so would you if you were raised on my mothers ghastly attempts at it, bless her) so I recommended Ger's Bread & Butter Pudding to him from all the reviews I had read on here about it. I went for the crème brulee (which isn’t on Allears either). TG loved the pudding, though did say you need more room in the bowl to fit all the sauce in! I tried a bit and didn’t like it! Darn my mothers cooking!!!!!!!! The crème brulee was very nice and light, more like a cheesecake than a tart though. To be honest I thought it wasn’t quite as good as the one in France in Epcot, and France’s was cheaper so I would probably go for that one again given the choice.

Gers bread and butter pudding

Crème Brulee

The waitress was lovely, we finished eating about 8.50 and she asked if we wanted to stay at our table and hear the band at 9pm. We had a sweet young Irish couple at the next table who had moved to America the day before and were starting work at Raglan Road two days later. They looked so nervous I didn’t know whether to hug them or lock them away and steal their identities so we could stay!! I did neither which is quite impressive.

All in all an excellent night and will definitely return again next year. Its not their fault I ordered the wrong entrée, and the food was all well cooked, excellently flavoured, and really good quality. I give it 9/10. TG - “good food, bit too dingy in there for my liking, pudding was also excellent. 9/10 (loses a mark for the dinginess)” . This is my fave place at DTD though House of Blues is an exceptionally close second!

Coming up . . . last day. Breakfast at CRT, lunch at Beaches and Cream.

 

[pixie08]

Another great installment. I have been dying to try Raglan Road...I think i must next trip!

 

[mom2my3kids]

I just love reading your trip report!!! I have rounded up to a 1.00 when giving change back if I didn't have enough. I can't believe they would just keep your change.. WOW..Those sandwiches look small at the grand Floridian but they sure look yummy!!!

 

[sandym718]

Great update!!! I too would be totally shocked by large-scale restaurants having NO change! That is just ridiculous!! And you're right, if that truly is the case - then the change gets rounded up in the customer's favor - not just kept!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm also in disbelief over your CP server - commenting on how much of something you took??? Please, mind your own business, and let me eat my breakfast - oh, and go get the juice!! LOL!!! You two have great attitudes and great appetites!!!! Loving these reviews!

 

[DisneyJo]

The server at CP sounded terrible especially with the tip But the food looked lovely and you got your MM pancake

The sandwiches do look yummy at GFC and what a nice change from a park restaurant!

 

[Zeebs]

Seriously that is terrible, keeping the money, I know Brits have a bad rep for tipping but if someone pulled that stunt on me, (both the keeping my money cause they didn't have change and the keeping my change because they thought they could have it for a tip) they certainly wouldn't be getting beggar all tip for the dishonesty of it all.

I like the look of that chocolate chip pancake, I might have to ask for one of those when we visit. It is our last meal at WDW, maybe i will have to ask for 5 just to get me through the rest of the day.

Kirsten

 

[CJ]

I adore Raglan Road and cannot wait to return.... but I ordered the Bread Pudding based on everything I'd read here (had never had it before) and didn't like it. But that's no fault of the pudding!

Thanks so much for the amazingly great reviews! You and your DH seem like an awesome couple!!

 

[TigerKat]

Thanks for the review of RR, can't wait to go for the first time next trip!

 

[Michelle_and_Aaron]

I showed Aaron the pics from your dinner and he was super excited! He loves a good plate of fish and chips.
It is so sad though that your trip report is coming to an end.

 

[TarzansKat]

Hon, may I just say that after reading that wonderful review I'm STARVING!

I'm so bummed, I want to go on my vacation right now! Thanks for the great reviews, I'm really enjoying them...so much so that I thought about trying to fit in the Grand Floridian Cafe, you raved about it so! I still might...hmmm...