While Alfredo's is off my list of places I'll ever eat again (questionable service and terrible management policies...I'll elaborate below), the signature fettuccini is very good. I've come close to replicating at home, but haven't obtained the Plugra butter to make it complete. Other menu items are ok, but nothing to ooh and ahh about. You'll get just as good I talian in Chi town or Long Island. We've had better lunch experiences than dinner.
Now, here are the things that put me off about Alfredos, and it's mostly management related, although the servers are more often than not rushed to even rude and inattentive (but not always). You see, Alfredos is a little different from most of the Disney operated and managed Epcot restaurants. Alfredos is operated by an outside vendor, the company that has the original restaurant in Italy. Being that they are independently managed, they make policy decisions that I think are at odds with what Disney generally does. Yes, it is their right, but some of their decisions to me seem bad. Let me relate a couple of stories.
This one was the drinking straw that broke this camels back. As you know, softdrink refills are free at all WDW sit down restaurants (well, not all as I learned). That includes sodas and lemonade. I opt for the lemonade in the heat, and had been drinking lemonade, including free refills, at all manner of WDW restaurants for a week leading up to our last and final Alfredos meal. As usual, and as I've done at Alfredos before without issue, I had the lemonade. I had two refills. When the bill came this time I was charged for three lemonades. $6+ for lemonade. I politely brought it to the attention of the server, who seemed less than interested in helping me, and informed me that their lemonade comes from the bar and is not considered a softdrink. Well, things change I guess and you live and you learn......but in cases like that I always make management aware of my opinions. So I speak to the manager on the way out, and he progresses through a bunch of BS stories before we get to the heart of the matter. First he states that Alfredos lemonade if different from that served elsewhere throughout WDW. That was bu.....let's just say it was the same lemonade I'd been drinking for a week. Then he tells me about the management situation which doesn't move me as I think it's bad business, for Alfredos and WDW, to treat an item differently in their location than it's treated elsewhere in the World. So he elaborates a bit more on management decisions, which I agree are their right, all the while still unmoved as I state that it is my right not to patronize an establishment whose policies I don't agree with. To which he asks, "So you think the lemonade was too much?" Yes, this manager knew well and good that they were pushing a decision to try and squeeze out a few extra dollars of profit, and I assured him that it did indeed cross a line for me. At that point he did offer me my $4 back, but I refused as it was more about the principle to me, not the money.
Now I suppose one might overlook that principle issue if it were the only instance where I disagreed with management decisions, but it wasn't. Let me just say that I suggest avoiding Alfredos if you are on any kind of a package, or have any kind of a voucher. They limit your selections much more than any other location, and we've eaten at most places throughout WDW. When I've paid for a package or voucher that entitles everyone to an app, entree and dessert, it irks me when they tell me my kids can only have a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or that the only appetizer I can have is a salad.
End of rant.