Mikka and Redwitch's F&W Food Porn with pics | UPDATED 11/2, Paradiso 37

[Mikka]

Hello, I'm Mikka. And I'm doing a food trip blog-y thing.

(This is one of the first things I'm doing here on the DIS, you might notice. Do I even have the post count to put up pictures yet?)

My mother (Redwitch- she usually hangs out on the budget boards) and I are at a nice little condo down near Disney World, and we are using said condo as a base as we go to the parks and eat as much possible. This trip, we're concentrating on the food and wine festival (we hope to hit every booth), but we're also eating at a wide variety of restaurants ranging from Chef Mickey's to Jiko.

That starts tomorrow, though. The beginning of the trip, and thus the first few reviews, are from (gasp! shock!) the Universal Studios parks and entertainment complex. Please bear with them; we'll get to Disney soon, I promise. It's only a day away...


A little about us, for those who care. I am Mikka, I am 25, and I am a food snob. I tend to turn up my nose at most counter services like a spoiled little brat, I can't stand lamb or mint, and I am lactose intolerant but prone to ignoring that in order to eat delicious ice cream and cheese (I pay for it later). Mother is also known to the general public as Jenn, and is not nearly as snobby as I am about food. She doesn't like onions and she's allergic to Gin, and she will inevitably come in to this thread and post smart-alack comments and embarrass me. It's sort of how the mother-daughter thing works.

Once we're home and have a decent keyboard, I'll update this first post to link to every food post I make. Until then, please just follow along at your leisure. <3


First up! The dark side. And alas, they do not have cookies.

 

[Mikka]

I could bore you about the crabcake I had in the airport on the way down, but I know I'm already boring some of you with the whole Universal thing, so I'll just skip that part. Just let it be known that the wine bar in BWI gives some very generous pours. Cheers, wine bar in BWI!


When we stumbled in to the nice (and totally out of our budget-range) Portofino Bay hotel, it was around ten-thirty in the evening. Groggy from travel, we asked someone where we could still get food, and we were told the fancy restaurant, the slightly-less fancy restaurant, and Sal's.

Sal's sounded like a pretty good choice, so we found our way to Sal's Market Deli which was completely deserted so late in the evening, and offering some nice free ice water. Mom kept eying that, so I made the decision on what to eat, and I ordered the antipasto.

(Okay, it admittedly is under the salads heading on their giant bulletin boards, but I was still expecting a platter for some reason.)

This is it unmixed and undressed, which sort of does the salad a disservice. The salad was put together in layers, and thus you can't really see that there were a variety of meats, and that there was more then one lonely baby tomato. All in all, the salad had the sweet peppers on the top, lots of lettuce, probably three different sorts of meat, baby tomatoes, mozzarella balls, olives both green and black, and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

It was also huge. Gigantic-huge. Definitely more then one person-portioned huge.

Mom's words to me when we started the salad were, "You picked good," and immodestly, I did indeed. Despite the late hour, all the ingredients tasted fresh (and the lettuce wasn't at all wilted). Neither of us being big on peppers, we mostly pushed them aside and ate the rest (or at least as much of it as we could finish... which was barely half). The salad stood up fine without the peppers, so I believe you could push aside any ingredient that didn't interest you and still have a yummy meal.

All in all, a good salad and just what we needed after a day of traveling.

 

[Mikka]

The next morning, we were hungry in Islands of Adventure, and at a relatively early nine o clock in the morning, there was no problem getting in to the Harry Potter Counterservice.

(The Hogshead Inn, food side? I'm not exactly sure on the true name of the place. Harry Potter fans, feel free to shoot me now.)

We ordered the English Breakfast Platter, and what you see is what you get. A croissant. Beans. Sausage. Black Pudding. English bacon. Potatoes and onions. Scrambled eggs. A random tomato.

It tasted like you would expect, for the most part. The croissant was the stand out of the meal, being light and airy and tasting fresh, while the scrambled eggs tasted mostly like absolutely nothing- airy in a different sort of way. Neither mom or I had ever had black pudding before; I had one bite and decided that was enough, while she managed the whole thing- she said she liked it. It tasted like sausage, but a bit dryer then sausage usually is.

Not pictured is our drink, which was butterbeer. But that's okay, because...

...We just went and had another one (and a Pumpkin Juice).

Butterbeer is delicious, in my biased opinion. It's like a cream soda, only not all that soda-y, with butterscotch flavoring (and foam). It seems to be one of those love it or hate it things- mother and I are on the love it side of the equation. This is the non-frozen version, but we find the frozen version just as good.

Pumpkin juice, I had more mixed feelings on. It tastes very much like an apple cider with a lot of added pumpkin. I'm not the biggest fan of pumpkin, myself. Mom enjoyed it a lot more then I did, loving pumpkin, but one thing we agreed on- it's way too expensive. Six dollars for a bottle that small is a lot of money, and I imagine we're mostly paying for the silly pumpkin on top and the nice enough looking but absolutely useless for anything but holding your drink bottle. The final consensus on the Pumpkin Juice was 'good, but not good enough'.

 

[Tarheel Tink]

The antipasto photo made my mouth water! I am on the butterbeer side also; very smooth.

 

[Mikka]

Mythos, the premiere restaurant in Islands of Adventure and the best theme park restaurant in the world (or something like that).

It's very pretty on the inside, with giant faces on the walls and water flowing and lots of windows.

And that's about as complimentary as I'll get.

The bread was nice. The server didn't stop to tell us what kind of bread it was, but the butter was heated and it was tasty. It was also cut in nice small portions so you didn't have to feel as guilty about eating it, which is always appreciated. Guilt-free food is a blessing.

Mom had the crab-cake sliders (also pictured: the watermelon-tomato 'salad' that came with both our meals). She found them okay, but... well, remember that great crab cake I had in the airport that I mentioned two or three posts ago? It was too soon after that for just 'okay' crab cakes. In the interesting complaints department, her primary qualm with them was that they smelled too fishy. Okay then.

(I did not smell the crab cakes, myself, so I suppose I can't tease her too much.)

I had the fish-tacos (also pictured: the potato salad that came with both our meals). I found the fish rubbery and plain, and the amount of sauce on the tacos too little to cover for the fact that the fish had very little flavor of it's own.

The stand-outs of the meal were the two sides, both which we enjoyed. Putting watermelons and tomatoes together would not be my first thought, but it made for a nice little salad. The potato salad was delicious and covered with a white liquid we could not identify (not mayo, not ranch- mom thinks it might have been buttermilk). They together almost made up for the disappointing entrees.

Dessert came in cute little cups, but we decided to skip it due to not having been impressed so far.

We ate at Mythos once before (ordering soup, pizza, and the pad thai) and weren't impressed then, either. I'm not really sure how this place got the Best Theme Park Eatery award over, say, Bistro de Paris (or insert your favorite Disney World restaurant here). Maybe we're missing something, and we'll give it a third chance, I'm sure. Yet so far, we're just not getting it.

 

[TigerKat]

We love many restaurants "on the dark side"!! In fact, overall, for fine dining, much better choices there.

 

[Mikka]

The antipasto photo made my mouth water! I am on the butterbeer side also; very smooth.

The antipasto was delicious. Definitely give it a try if you head by Sal's sometime!


One of our most looked forward to meals this trip was Portofino Bay's Bice, which is an Italian restaurant of the type that it makes Tutto Italia cry and look embarrassed (I'm not sure how it stands against the Italian restaurant at the Swalfin, but I do know that I'd pay to watch that fight). It's very tasty, and we enjoyed our meal very much, but it didn't have quite the magic of our first trip there.

Of course, our last trip they gave us free limonchello and cookies. None of that this trip. That probably is part of the magic loss.

We both ordered wine with our meal. In general, while I talk about cocktails, I don't really talk about wine when reviewing. I find wine tasting is even more subjective then food tasting, and I find wine served in restaurants average to good- I can't remember ever having a glass so bad that I'd need to complain about it that I didn't get a taste first and an option to say no.

Also, I'm lazy and generally don't have time to write down what wines we drink before the waiter takes the wine menu away.

The bread came out hot and delicious, and there were three kinds- white, whole-wheat, and foccasia (foe-caus-ia?). All were good. The dips were some sort of pesto, olive oil, and tuna fish, of all things. They were good, too.

Mom started with carrot-ginger soup with shrimp in it, a special of the night. Not much to say about it- it was delicious, sweet without being too sweet. She didn't let me have any of the shrimp, so I assume she enjoyed them.

I started with an old favorite, prosciutto and melon (with dried figs and breadsticks). It was also delicious. The melon was only a very good melon, not a great one, but it was still enjoyable. I left my plate clean.

Mom had, I quote, 'Oven Roasted Maple Leaf Boneless Duck Breast served with an Apple, Fontina Cheese soufflé topped with a Honey Brandy Truffle Oil glaze and served with steamed Asparagus'. It was, once again, delicious. The duck was very sweet, though the dish itself was of course savory.

I had one of those dishes people with lactose intolerance should never touch, but I regret (and regretted) nothing. 'Little purses' (as they were called on the menu) stuffed with pear and gorgonzola cheese, mixed in a four-cheese sauce. It was the cheesiest dish I've ever had, and I enjoyed it immensely. It was another of those sweet-savory dishes, although the pear was mostly drowned out by the many cheeses.

Mom's Limonchello and Ricotta cheesecake. It was a heavier cheesecake, due to the ricotta, so if you expect a light dish, you'll be disappointed. It was heavily limonchello flavored, though, and quite good.

My dessert was basically two giant creme puffs, covered in chocolate. At the end of the meal, I took to just scooping out the cream and chocolate and leaving the pastry aside due to fullness. The pastry shell was good, though. It all was.

As you can see, we really didn't have any complaints with this meal. The service was fine, we had a lovely bay view table, the food was delicious, and all was well. If we ever find ourselves in Universal again, we'll definitely eat there again. They're occasionally on Restaurant.Com too, by the way- we had a certificate.

 

[Redwitch]

So far, a yummy start. The ginger carrot soup at Bice was delicious and I must confess to helping myself to some of Mikka's pasta purses. They were a mouthful of cheesy goodness. As for Mythos' claim to fame, I think their last award was in 2008.

 

[jecskc]

you had me at "Food Porn" Looking forward to more !!!

 

[TigerKat]

Bice looks great! We'll have to try it next time we're there. Il Mulino is one of our favorites and they still give the complimentary limoncello.

 

[Mikka]

We love many restaurants "on the dark side"!! In fact, overall, for fine dining, much better choices there.

Bice looks great! We'll have to try it next time we're there. Il Mulino is one of our favorites and they still give the complimentary limoncello.

We've only eaten at Il Mulino once, but I think they and Bice are around similar quality. If you like one, you'll probably like the other. If Il Mulino is still giving out limoncello, though, then they'd probably win that fight for us. We love limocello.

Thanks everyone for your comments!


One more meal from the dark side (and the backlog), and then we'll be over to mostly Disney food (...and starting on today's meal). Coming from two days ago, Emeril's Orlando.

We had dinner reservations for the City Walk joint after a somewhat disappointing meal at Emeril's other restaurant at the Royal Pacific hotel last trip, but finishing at the parks early meant we actually ended up going for lunch. We considered the three-course pre-fixed meal, but ended up going for lighter fare. The lighter fare still filled us up, and we actually went without dinner that night.

We started off with some cocktails, and here I'm going to be useless and admit I don't really remember what they were. Mine was called the Pineapple Upside Down Cake, and the name of mother's drink was a play off of Dark and Stormy, but what it was exactly escapes me. Mine was a sweet cocktail (almost dessert-worthy), and hers was a bit more bitter (with ginger beer being an ingredient). What I can say is that both cocktails were rather strong for cocktails you order out, so yay for them. They did not hold back on the liquor.

We each received a roll of bread. It was fresh out of the oven and incredibly tasty, and I would have liked more of it, honestly. It was slightly sweet, but we weren't told what sort of bread it was and we were too busy eating it to ask.

Mom had the pulled pork sandwich (with sweet potato fries). It was a messy sandwich: she ended up having to use a fork to eat most of it. She enjoyed it and the fries.

I had the fried chicken BLT, which was great. The fried chicken was strong enough that it could have stood on its own with no issue, making the rest of the sandwich seem like an added bonus. I was prepared to ignore the 'demi side salad' as those aren't the sort of weeds () I usually enjoy (I like the crisp ones with no real flavor), but the lemon oil and balsamic vinaigrette dressing won me over and I ended up eating much more of the salad then I thought I would.

We ordered more drinks for our dessert- a sweet white late harvest wine for me, and a walnut liquor (it started with an F?) for her. Neither were that impressive to look at, but both tasted deliciously sweet.

Mom had the chocolate-peanut butter cake (with salted caramel). It's not on the regular dessert menu, only the three course special, but our nice waiter let her have it anyway. Inside was a moist chocolate cake with a layer of peanut butter running through the center. She offered me only the smallest taste and quickly finished it, leaving me to believe she found it quite enjoyable.

I had the Chocolate Dacquoise, and I have no real words to describe it. It tasted light and fluffy, it was all chocolatey and hazelnutty and raspberry-y, and I enjoyed it. I'd never had a dacquoise before, but I'll definitely have one again if this was representative of them.


I don't usually talk too much about waiters, because I never remember their names past meal time, but our waiter for this meal was excellent. The food was great on its own, but the incredible service means that we'll be back all the quicker.

 

[Mikka]

Yesterday, we ended up eating only condo-food. Today, though, we were back to being bad, and headed over to the Animal Kingdom. There aren't really a lot of choices there for food, so we ended up at our old stand-by of Yak and Yeti. We just wish they'd get around to taking Tables in Wonderland...

We started out with cocktails: I had the Bonsai Blast, and she had the Shanghai Express. Both had banana liquor in them, which both of us were a bit leery about, but it wasn't overpowering or fake tasting. I found both enjoyable, but mine was a bit better. Partially because it was blue. Blue cocktails are awesome.

We shared the whole meal, starting with the Dim Sum Basket (which is at least meant for sharing). One of the items was filled with shrimp: the rest were filled with pork. Of special note was the item that was new to us- the sweet buns holding sweet pork. They were delicious, and seemed like a good version of the mochi every Asian Fusion restaurant within twenty miles of our home tries to sell us for dessert.

Next was the seafood curry, which I wanted to try after seeing all the Dis reviews for it. It didn't disappoint. The mahi-mahi was a bit dry, but the rest of the seafood was great, and the curry was delicious. It was more sweet then it was spicy- while I wouldn't try it if you absolutely hate spiciness, I think it would be fine for people who can only tolerate a low amount of it. There was a ton of rice hidden under the curry, making the dish easily splitable.

Despite having eaten at Yak and Yeti probably a dozen or so times, we'd never had dessert there. Considering how good the mango pie was, that was probably a mistake. I regretted splitting this dish- I could have easily eaten a whole piece myself. It was a light pie, with texture similar to pudding. The little strawberry and mango salad was a sweet touch, and the dipping (dragging?) sauces only helped the already good dish.


The waiter gave no signs of annoyance with us splitting dishes, and didn't seem bothered in the slightest.

 

[Redwitch]

The walnut liqueur was nocino. Our sweet young waiter claimed it is "Emeril's favorite." I found it very tasty myself.

 

[Mikka]

For dinner, we headed back over to the Dark Side (probably for the last time this trip) to eat at the Hard Rock Hotel's the Kitchen. Can I mention now that it's a pain that the Universal resorts don't offer free parking for Annual Passes (or hotel guests, for that matter)? Because it really is a pain. We took the cheap route, and ended up parking in City Walk and dancing around the crowds to get to the Hard Rock, which is at least good for a game of 'spot how many people are completely sloshed within twenty feet of you'. I got a pretty high score. Must be something about Sunday nights...

The Kitchen is a fun looking restaurant, and I like their dishes. I especially liked this one, which had pretzel bread (mmm!) and then rosemary cornbread. The cornbread was nice (sweet), but I mostly concentrated on the pretzel bread, which was good in the way that good pretzel bread is good, which basically means it was delicious.

For drinks, mom had an Eroica Riesling (I remembered that one!) while I had a Pop Rock Martini. Yes, those are actual pop rocks inside. I have no idea why that wasn't classified as a dessert martini, but it wasn't, so I felt fine having it for dinner. Fair warning, though- it was very sweet, with the occasional sour from the candy.

Mother had the pork chop with a caramel riesling glaze. It was moist, and not at all dry, which is sometimes a problem when ordering pork out. She liked that, but she really liked the little cabbage, carrot, and apple 'salad' on the side. I'm not a huge cabbage fan myself, but she wouldn't stop raving about it during her meal.

I had the New York Strip, which was cooked perfectly to order. Our dining had a bit of a hitch in that I managed to half-choke on a piece of meat, which meant the heimlich maneuver, security and a first aid persona being called, and a worried visit from the manager (all more embarrassing then anything, as it was my own fault for cutting too big a piece and I never had a blocked airway). That aside, the meat was good- but very fatty. I had to cut off quite a bit of it. I enjoyed the potato and bacon hash very much, mostly ignored the dreaded vegetable, and found the crispy onions oddly spicy for the dish.

Our two dessert drinks look very similar with the flash on. In any case, mom had the one that doesn't have the giant piece of bacon on it- called the Expresso. It indeed had a shot of expresso in it, along with around fifteen other different liquors. I had the bacon chocolate martini, which was made with bacon flavored vodka- a new one for me- and the usual chocolate liquors. The bacon was mostly drowned by the chocolate, and just served to give the drink a bit of a salty kick. Both were lovely.

Mom had the Oreo Cheesecake, though she noted she should have skipped it and shared my dessert. She seemed to enjoy it, though not enough to rave about it the way she raved about the cabbage.

I had the Elvis something-or-other. Basically, it was a funnel-cake baked in to a pie then filled with chocolate sauce and whipped peanut-butter, served with a scoop of banana-peanut-butter ice cream. I found it incredibly delicious and entirely too much for one person to eat (mom enjoyed it, but thought that the ice cream could use more peanut-butter and less banana (I thought it was fine )).

All in all, we'll definitely return.


Tomorrow, we're planning on Brown Derby for lunch and winging it for dinner. We're also planning on staying for Fantasmic, so it's likely I won't be doing tomorrow's update till the day after tomorrow (I suppose I should have put 'semi-live' in the title). Please stick with me till then!

 

[carobear]

Love the review so far! It's very entertaining to read and the food looks fantastic Thanks for sharing

 

[Mikka]

Thank you for the comment! <3


I decided I'm going to do just meals (and probably Epcot booths) for now, and then put all the snacks at the end when we get home. This is slightly easier for me, and covers the fact that I forgot to put in a shake we had earlier where it actually belonged. Oops.

Yesterday's late lunch was the Fantasmic package at the Brown Derby, which meant an appetizer, entree, and dessert for each of us. For a signature, Brown Derby has pretty big portions which makes it almost too much food for us, but we managed this trip without getting too stuffed. Somehow.

Mom started off with the Taste of California wine flight (all Cab Sav's). I like the wine flights at the Brown Derby- they come with the information sheet that tells you about each winery, what you'll be tasting and smelling, and all that good informative stuff.

I, meanwhile, had some mixed drink that's name escaped me. Cheryl's Peach Something-or-other Surprise? It was a vodka drink, which is my usual, with various peach liquors in it. Tasted sweet and peachy, not strong.

Our server, who was personable but very slow (we spent almost three hours eating) brought us bread. It was the standard white bread with salted butter that almost all signature restaurants are serving these days. Good and hot, but, well... it ain't pretzel bread.

Mom had the crab spring rolls. You know, it's much harder to talk about good food then it is bad. With bad food, I can point out what was unsatisfying and generally make a fuss. With good food, I just end up writing 'yummy', 'delicious', 'tasty' or such nonsense over and over. Probably makes for boring reading.

Ahem. The crab spring rolls were yummy and delicious and tasty. It also came with a snow crab claw, which was good as well.

I had the brie, midnight moon, and prosciutto cake. It was sort of like the consistency of cornbread, but it tasted cheesy rather then bready. I liked it; mom adored it. It wasn't quite as cheesy as the little purses I had at Bice, but it was an incredibly cheesy-tasting 'cake' despite looking like nothing more then bread.

Mom had the bison, and it was usual for the meal. I thought it was a bit more chewy then the one you can order at Artist Point, but also more delicious. It came with a cocoa espresso barbecue sauce that really made the dish. Mom enjoyed the side white truffle croquettes and pickled beets as well.

I ordered the duck two ways, and found it just okay. I enjoyed the duck mom had ordered at Bice much more, and couldn't help compare the two. The duck confit I really have no complaints about, but I found the duck pastrami incredibly fatty and having a bit of that grease-y texture some people constantly find on duck. The risotto and the small fruit salad were fine, though.

We ordered the recommended dessert wines with our desserts. We'd both had the Rosa Regale before, but we hadn't had mom's port (Banyuls Les Clos de Paulilles Rimage, R. Doutres the menu says). The bubbly was as good as ever, but the port was the standout. Very nice, but we're both huge port fans.

Lemon cheesecake for mom. She enjoyed it, but she enjoyed it a bit less then the oreo cheesecake (which she enjoyed a bit less then the limoncello cheesecake). She didn't think the 'citrus nest' had much flavor, and added that the blueberries were probably the best you could expect for this time of year.

Chocolate three ways! The top layer was chocolate-orange (flavored with, I believe, grand marnier), and that influenced the rest of the cake. It was definitely a chocolate-orange cake more then it was a chocolate cake. Having said that, the orange didn't taste fake and the chocolate was definitely there and not overpowered, so I didn't mind it. Also, while the blueberries might have not been in perfect season, the raspberries were. Yum.


Overall, the Brown Derby isn't one of my favorite signature restaurants, but it's by far the best restaurant in MGM (which will always and forever be MGM to me). While I didn't get any yesterday, they still have their full selection of teas, which was nice to see. The fantasmic package is a lot of food, but guaranteed seating really can't be beat. I tend to get anxious in large crowds, so being able to skip the crowds and line is a must-do for us, and Brown Derby is the best they have. We'll continue going there.


Coming next: today's breakfast.

 

[Redwitch]

I need to get off this cheese cake theme. The thing is.... We have an unwritten rule that we can't order the same item. And, I'm so nice ;-). I let Mikka pick first. If she steals the yummy chocolate item, I have to go with second best, which usually is cheese cake.

 

[Mikka]

Chef Mickey's was a new one for us. As I said in the first post, I'm a bit of a food snob, and I was pretty nervous about the breakfast. Chef Mickey's has been getting some horrible reviews here on the DIS, and I'm not the biggest fan of breakfast food in the first place. I was worried I wouldn't be able to find anything to eat, and mom was having nightmares about it not being clean enough from people reaching and grabbing food without using the tongs.

We survived, though. Actually, we did pretty good.

Oatmeal. We didn't get any, but they look to have a lot of mix in options.

Fruit, which is what I ate the most of. I found the fruit good and for the most part in season- the cantaloupe was slightly off.

I found the fruit mixed with granola particularly nice.

Stuff from the kid's section. People seemed to go through that french toast pretty fast.

The famous breakfast pizza. Mom didn't seem impressed, but I thought it was okay.

Empty carbs in a yummy package. It would have been nice if they were warm: they were actually a bit cold, not even quite room temperature.

Meats. I like my bacon chewy, not crispy, but that's impossible to get in Disney World. They won't even cook it that way for you at table service breakfasts. Is the bacon at Disney World precooked, or do they just think I'm shifty looking?

The first set of Mickey Waffles. And the healthish toppings.

More empty carbs, in a slightly sweeter package. Also cold.

Empty carbs ftw.

Cereal: the safe option for many a picky eater.

Cheese blitzs. Getting in to the sweets, now.


A few more photos...

 

[Mikka]

The rice krispy treats were very good. I liked them.

I'm not sure if that's actually fruit for you to eat, or just decorative bananas chillin' out.

Donuts. I didn't see any of the large Krispy Kreme's they have at the Tusker House buffet. Or that they used to have, anyway.

Pastries, which along with the donuts, are again more yummy empty carbs to enjoy.


I think mom missed getting a photo of the quiche. I know she missed the second Mickey Waffle station, which had chocolate and caramel topping for those of you who join me in believing every meal should have a dessert, no matter what time of the day it is.

Anyway, the food? It was buffet food, but it was good buffet food. We noted the difference between the scrambled eggs here and the scrambled eggs at Harry Potter Land's quickservice back in Universal: the eggs today were a bit creamy, and had flavor. The waffles and pancakes and the like certainly weren't as good as they'd be if you went down to the Wave, but they tasted fresher then what you usually get at a counter service breakfast. We had no complaints about the food quality.

There was a nice variety, but nothing really exotic or special. For good or ill, it's just plain American breakfast food. I think anyone could find something to enjoy, though, and picky eaters will probably be quite happy.

Oh, and the characters were lovely. They came around, they signed autographs, they gave kisses, they stood for photos, handed out hugs, and danced around. I wonder why Minnie didn't get her own chef outfit, though- she was in her usual red dress. Is she the wine sommlanier?

Shoot, I spelled that wrong.

(There was also no problem with the cleanliness, making mother's nightmares unfounded.)

The big problem with this meal was the pricing. It's expensive. Quite expensive. And on top of that, they expect you to pay for the photo taken of you on Mickey's plate. The combination of price and pretty boring food that you have to serve yourself means we probably won't be back, but it was fun to try and experience at least once.

For breakfast, I prefer Boma, Tusker House, the Wave, or Kouzzina. But it was nice to do Chef Mickey's once and see what the fuss was about, and I think it would be a good choice for a lot of people- just not really us. The food definitely wasn't as dismal as some people were saying, making me wonder if they went for dinner rather then breakfast.


Next: tonight we have a wine dinner at Citricos coming up. I'll try to review it tomorrow morning.

 

[Mad Hattered]

Great review so far!!