My Disneyland dining reviews, with pictures

[Caseydilla]

This thread is so helpful. I should not have looked at it though with an empty stomach. I'm really looking forward to trying the Carnation Cafe now. I've been to DL so many times and never ate there. That potato soup and sandwich look like a good, light meal for me the night before my Disney race.

 

[Danauk]

OK, I'm English and have never heard of a tamale or a chimichanga. I'm not too sure what a burrito is either!! I think I am going to have so many cuisine experienses at DLR in the summer (what with these, dole whips, bengal BBQ skewers, tigger tails!!) Now the turkey legs I have seen at WDW, but, man what size turkey has those size legs?!!

 

[kaoden39]

OK, I'm English and have never heard of a tamale or a chimichanga. I'm not too sure what a burrito is either!! I think I am going to have so many cuisine experienses at DLR in the summer (what with these, dole whips, bengal BBQ skewers, tigger tails!!) Now the turkey legs I have seen at WDW, but, man what size turkey has those size legs?!!

The kind on serious steroids. I have never seen a turkey that has such big legs either but I have seen the turkey legs at Disneyland and have eaten one with my DH. It was yummy. Our kids love the chimichangas.

Michele

 

[Eeyore76]

OK, I'm English and have never heard of a tamale or a chimichanga. I'm not too sure what a burrito is either!! I think I am going to have so many cuisine experienses at DLR in the summer (what with these, dole whips, bengal BBQ skewers, tigger tails!!) Now the turkey legs I have seen at WDW, but, man what size turkey has those size legs?!!

Oh my gosh, you are too cute! Okay, so you just reminded me of a funny comic of ours named Jim Gaffigan. He had a schtick where he explained what different Mexican foods are and said (for every one), "It's a tortilla with meat, cheese, and vegetables!

Anywhoo, I will happily explain Mexican food to you! (In exchange for you explaining treacle tart to me.)

A tamale is made of masa, which is ground corn that has been softened with salt and spices and made into a kind of dough. This dough is wrapped around pork, or beef, or chicken...or green chile...you name it, it's been done, and it is steamed inside a corn husk. You don't eat the husk, but you eat about a half dozen tamales when they're good!

A burrito is a flour tortilla stuffed with meat, or beans, or both, and lettuce, cheese, salsa, guacamole, you name it, it's been done.

A chimichanga is a burrito stuffed with meat and cheese, and then fried. The veggies that goe inside a burrito are on top of a chimichanga instead! My husband chimichangas.

Hope this helps! (You owe me an explanation now!)

 

[Corpsebride]

Corpsebride,
I always love your little food reviews! It sounds like I have similar taste you yours so I carefully note what you say for future reference! Thanks to you and everyone else who posts on this thread!!!

Oh, have you tried the grilled half chicken in Rancho? I got it with the mixed veggies, mmm mmm! good stuff. oh and by the by, I do suggest getting a few pieces of marshmallow fudge at the candy store, if Disney Magic had a flavor , I think that is it!

 

[perlster]

I think the place in DCA is closed, but the chicken strips were especially good.
Yes, I ate that funnel cake all by my self.

 

[Eeyore76]

I think the place in DCA is closed, but the chicken strips were especially good.
Yes, I ate that funnel cake all by my self.

OM-God...that funnel cake looks MEGA delish!!

 

[KerTggr]

Those chicken fingers & funnel cakes look like the ones they serve @ the stage coach cafe. My hubby & I have gotten used to sharing a chicken finger basket for lunch. They are yummy and lots of dressing options.

 

[perlster]

 

[Lynzer Torte]

Here's the brownie one:

Yeah.....it was good.

 

[kaoden39]

I tell you I am gaining weight with this thread. DH and I have been looking at the pictures deciding where we want to eat in September. Everywhere I think.

Michele

 

[mommaU4]

OK, I'm English and have never heard of a tamale or a chimichanga. I'm not too sure what a burrito is either!! I think I am going to have so many cuisine experienses at DLR in the summer (what with these, dole whips, bengal BBQ skewers, tigger tails!!)

Oh, you are in for such a treat!!
I wish I could take you with me to Olvera Street when we do our DL/SoCal summer trip! They have taquitos to die for!!


Your post also reminds me when my DH and I played host to a visiting group from China. We ate lunch one day at the Pizza Port, and we had the BBQ Chicken pizza.
They'd never tasted any kind of pizza before and loved it!!

I remember thinking afterwards though that we should have better explained to them there are all different types of pizza. They might go somewhere else and try to order a regular pizza and end up wondering where the BBQ sauce and chicken went to??

 

[mom4princesses]

Funnel cake, do they still have it and where can I get one. Thanks

 

[mommaU4]

Funnel cake, do they still have it and where can I get one. Thanks

Last I heard they sell them at the Stage Door Cafe, the Hungry Bear restaurant, and the Mint Julep Bar.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

Funnel cake, do they still have it and where can I get one. Thanks

I can confirm they sell them at the Hungry Bear in Critter Country!

Last trip DBF eat a w hole one along with our very filling lunch! It was yum!

 

[Eeyore76]

Yowzaa!

 

[Lynzer Torte]

Funnel cake, do they still have it and where can I get one. Thanks

Got ours at Stage Door- where they sell the chicken strips/mozz strips & fries.

 

[VegasMike21]

don't have any pics, but i got some reviews for the places i ate at when at DL/DCA the other week.

1. French Market Cafe- I had the Royal Chicken with rice/beans which also came with a side salad and dinner roll. For $10.99 you get a pretty good sized meal here. You get 3 pieces of chicken (breast, wing, leg) atop rice and beans with sausage. You then get a pretty good sized side salad with your choice of dressing and a dinner roll. My fiancee had the French Dip sandwich with fries. Pretty decent sized sandwich with a lot of meat on it, was suprised on how much meat they actually put on the sandwich, she liked it very much.

2. Taste Pilots Grill- We both had the Aviator's Chicken Sandwich here. WOW, one of the biggest chicken sandwiches I ever seen! And you can't go wrong with the fixing bar here, they have everything you could want from lettuce and tomatoes to jalapenos. Ohhh and the chipotle mayo that they put on the sandwich is simply delicious!

3. Pacific Wharf Cafe- I had the Sonoma Chicken and Apple Salad in the bread bowl. Boy, I simply love the bread here, made fresh from the Boudin Bakery on site. The only problem is that the meal is just about nothing but bread and very little salad although the salad part is very good as well. The bread is so good, when we came home from vacation I went to the website and ordered 6 loafs of the bread to enjoy at home! Fiancee had the turkey sandwich with chips which she enjoyed, but she enjoyed picking from my bread bowl even more!

 

[mommaU4]

don't have any pics, but i got some reviews for the places i ate at when at DL/DCA the other week.

1. French Market Cafe- I had the Royal Chicken with rice/beans which also came with a side salad and dinner roll. For $10.99 you get a pretty good sized meal here. You get 3 pieces of chicken (breast, wing, leg) atop rice and beans with sausage. You then get a pretty good sized side salad with your choice of dressing and a dinner roll. My fiancee had the French Dip sandwich with fries. Pretty decent sized sandwich with a lot of meat on it, was suprised on how much meat they actually put on the sandwich, she liked it very much.

2. Taste Pilots Grill- We both had the Aviator's Chicken Sandwich here. WOW, one of the biggest chicken sandwiches I ever seen! And you can't go wrong with the fixing bar here, they have everything you could want from lettuce and tomatoes to jalapenos. Ohhh and the chipotle mayo that they put on the sandwich is simply delicious!

3. Pacific Wharf Cafe- I had the Sonoma Chicken and Apple Salad in the bread bowl. Boy, I simply love the bread here, made fresh from the Boudin Bakery on site. The only problem is that the meal is just about nothing but bread and very little salad although the salad part is very good as well. The bread is so good, when we came home from vacation I went to the website and ordered 6 loafs of the bread to enjoy at home! Fiancee had the turkey sandwich with chips which she enjoyed, but she enjoyed picking from my bread bowl even more!

Thanks for the reviews. Always good to hear thoughts on the food and prices.

I've never eaten at the French Market Cafe, but it sounds good.

We love the Taste Pilot's Grill. One of our favorite places to eat while in DCA. And I usually get that chicken sandwich. The toppings bar is really nice, and I love to get some BBQ sauce to dip those criss cut fries in. They give you a ton of fries too!

I ordered the chicken and apple salad from the Pacific Wharf Cafe once and was really disappointed. Like you said, there wasn't much "salad" to it. And whatever dressing they used on it, made my bread really soggy. Which wasn't good because I like to eat the bread.

I much prefer the bread bowl soups. Those are sooo good! And of course, we always have to buy a sourdough Mickey.
I didn't know there is a website you can order from. I'll have to check that out.

Anyway, thanks again for the reviews.

 

[mommaU4]

I've never taken pics of my food, even though I love looking at all the pics here! I was going to once and felt weird. LOL Like everyone would wonder why I was taking my food's picture.

But for this upcoming trip, I am going to try to get over myself and take some pics for this thread. We are also going to some other places in SoCal besides Disney, so I'll take some from every where just in case anyone else is planning a DL/SoCal trip.

And thanks to everyone else who has posted pics and reviews so far.