Garden View Lounge Tea Room
I can FINALLY get back to writing my Food Trippie! I've been recuperating nicely from oral surgery and finally feel up to writing. I've been dizzy and out-of-it all day with a splitting headache. 
I've felt like I had a horrible hangover all day and I had to sleep it off to feel better. I've been drinking a lot of smoothies from Smoothie King and even had some Egg Drop Soup for lunch from my favorite Chinese place, so I'm doing good! 
Oh, and my DH surprised me yesterday after the surgery with some new Stowaways that our joining our family! They've been on the couch with me all day helping me to feel better! Meet our new additions, Squirt & Stitch!
I'm really hoping I left my memory card in Florida, so if I did, I promise I am coming back and reposting all of my pictures in my Food Trippie! 
Garden View Lounge is another spot that is hard to describe with words! The food and setting is just so beautiful!
This was my second time to the Garden View Lounge with my Mom! I made surprise reservations for us to go on Friday evening around 5:00pm because my Mom became obsessed with it after our first visit this past October! We fell in love with the place!
We had the last seating of the day and it was a different atmosphere in the evening then it is during the day. It was not as packed and it was quite nice. My Mom and I even got seated at the exact same table in the corner, which is our favorite spot! I think we'll have to request it every time we go now!
My Mom got the Garden View Blend tea the first time and she had to have it again! It is now her favorite tea! I wanted to try something different, so I went with the Mad Hatter this time! It was so yummy and had a blend of passion fruit in it. The Grand Floridian has got the best tea we've ever had!
This was going to be our dinner and our only meal for the day, so we were going all out! This was no afternoon tea for us!
We started with the English Blue Stilton Cheese, which was fantastic! It was served with walnuts and marinated berries. It was very filling and I think I ate over half of it! I even had to have a second order of crackers, so I could finish it off! Yummy!
It was time for the main course and my Mom and I wanted to try something differnent, than the last time we went, so we went with the Buckingham Palace! We love feeling like English Royalty at the Garden View Lounge and play it up! It's such a blast and we've always had the most wonderful waitresses, who play right along with us! It is such a fantastic experience and such a great time to share with my Mom! We love our dibs & dabs!
The Buckingham Palace started with traditional tea sandwiches, which were egg salad, shrimp salad, watercress, chicken salad, and an onion tart. We loved the watercress sandwich, it was definitely our favorite! I also loved the onion tart and ate mine and my Mom's! We were already getting full and we weren't even half way through our meal yet!
Our waitress then brought out our scones and jam tarts, which were served with strawberry jam in a small glass jar and a small plate of butter. The waitress told us to spread the butter on one side of the scone and the jam on the other. It was warm and scrumptious!
It was time for dessert and we were ready for it! By this time, there was only two other people in the lounge besides us and some of the waitresses had already begun to clean-up the restaurant for the day. We could choose between fresh strawberries & cream or a selection of freshly baked pastries for our dessert, but our waitress told us there were not as many pastries left as usual. She was nice and offered us the English Triffle as an option, as well. My Mom and I both said we were fine with the pastry selections and our waitress was shocked that we made that selection. She said, "okay then," with a big smile on her face and went over to get all of the selections she had left. There was about one of every item left, so if we each wanted the same thing, we would have been out of luck. All my Mom wanted was chocolate covered strawberries, so she was in luck! I decided to have the last Swan puffed pastry and a chocolate covered strawberry too! We just love WDW's strawberries! The best ever! My Swan was so yummy too!
We had another fantastic tea at the Garden View Lounge and we were not disappointed at all! This is our favorite food stop at WDW and it's now something we must do every time my Mom comes down for a visit! My Mom has really gotten into tea, since our first visit. We had wonderful service and the atmosphere is gorgeous! We can't wait to go back again!
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So, I'm having a problem typing. I got back to read what I typed and it will not make any sense! 
OK, so this place is now a MUST for our trip in Aug, because, well, you see, I'm slightly obsessed with pumpkin ravioli (well pumpkin in general but I have a special place in my heart for pumpkin ravioli - we had it at our wedding! 
tooth issues=NOT fun!
Boohoo! My friend has a timeshare at the Swan and Dolphin so I had to work around his schedule. SNIFF! You'll have to do another TR for the DIS meet! 
. I wish days off were more relaxing!!
You've had such a hectic start to 2007!
