My Mostly CS But Some TS Reviews 5/24-6/2 **Updated 6/8 11:42 am EDT @PICS@

[iluvpluto27]

Great updates, the pictures are fantastic.

 

[Esmerelda]

Thanks for taking the time to do these reviews and post your pics! You are doing a fabulous job....

I am leaving in 4 days for 9 days of the world myself with two teenage sons that will eat things if they are not nailed down...lol I can't seem to fill them up...I don't know if they shake a leg to make more room on top but man on man these two can eat...

I love the size of your photos...so realistic looking....I could just go get my fork and dig in

 

[tndisneyfan]

Thanks for taking the time to do these reviews and post your pics! You are doing a fabulous job....

I am leaving in 4 days for 9 days of the world myself with two teenage sons that will eat things if they are not nailed down...lol I can't seem to fill them up...I don't know if they shake a leg to make more room on top but man on man these two can eat...

I love the size of your photos...so realistic looking....I could just go get my fork and dig in

I only have a few more reviews left. Hopefully I can finish them off before you leave.

 

[2BusyPlanning]

Mmmmmm... I wish my computer had a "smell" feature for the salad dressing at Ohana! I LOVE that stuff. SO much, that I make it at home all the time. I am heading to the kitchen right now!

Thanks for the reviews, I am enjoying them!

 

[tndisneyfan]

Wolfgang Puck Express-Marketplace

Chinois Chicken Salad

DH had this and liked it. It reminded him of a slaw mix mixed in with greens. There was an ample amount of chicken and the wontons in the salad stayed crisp the whole time he was eating it. He thought it could've used a little more dressing.

Beef and Cheddar Sandwich

I've had this sandwich several times and have like it every time. This time I think it was a little better than normal. There is horseradish on it, and this time I could actually taste the horseradish. As you can see there is a lot of meat on the sandwich. I don't know what kind of bread is used, but it's a dense, chewy bread that I really like. Overall a great sandwich. The sandwich comes with homeade potatoe chips, which I don't really like. I tried to get them to let me have fries but they wouldn't do it. I just don't care for these chips, you can see some of them are burnt. What you can't see is most of them are soggy. Some of them are nice and crisp like a chip should be but most of them are burnt and/or soggy.

DS got the Spaghetti w/meatballs again. Didn't bother posting another picture. The spaghetti was just as good this time as before.

Mixed Green Salad

This is a picture of the mixed green salad that came with the spaghetti. It's just plain mixed greens with a vinagrette dressing. Overall it was good, I think this time I thought it could have used a little more dressing.

Overall Comments- Once again overall a great tasting meal. Once again I was bothered that all our food didn't come out at the same time.

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[tndisneyfan]

Ghiaradelli Soda Fountain

I forgot to write down the names of what we ordered. I went to several menu sites to try to find the names none of them are up to date. So I'll just give a description.

DH ordered this, it was vanilla ice cream with butterscotch and hot fudge sauce. He said it was good. He thought the butterscotch sauce was excellent.

This is what DS ordered. It is basically a warm brownie sundae with a banana. He really enjoyed it.

Warm Brownie Sundae

I thought this was just OK. The ice cream and hot fudge sauce were good, but the brownie was more like a piece of fudge instead of a brownie.

Overall Comments- Overall we thought the sundaes were good but just a little too overpriced for what they were. I was really looking forward to this so my expectations may have been too high.

Rating- Just so-so

 

[mdsouth]

This is exactly how I like to read dining reviews.....great pictures and honest opinions......Thank You and keep up the good work!!!

I agree with the quote above. I really appreciate the honest reviews and photographs. So often, people here on the boards just rave on and on about a meal and then when you try it yourself it is just bland or so so.

Thanks also for posting reviews on the counter service meals. We do some table service meals but do a lot of counter service because they are convenient and usually less time involved. Though I hate waiting and hunting for tables and standing in long lines. That is why I appreciate the TS meals when we have them.

 

[tndisneyfan]

Roaring Forks Breakfast

We checked into Wilderness Lodge and decided we would stop and get some breakfast. Our first non-pop tart, non-peanut butter cracker, breakfast. Something about Wilderness Lodge made me forget to take pictures of our food. Most of the WL places are without pictures .

Adult Breakfast Platter
DH and I both got an adult breakfast platter. I consisted of eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, and a biscuit. The eggs were scrambled well done, now this is perfectly fine with me because I prefer my scrambled eggs well done, but to some people they may be too done. The bacon was OK, it was a little too smokey for my taste. The hashbrown were just shredded hash browns, they were OK also. The biscuit was sort of dense and chewy. The biscuit was the only thing that I thought wasn't good.

Pancakes w/Bacon
DS got the pancakes. He said they were good. I tried a bite of one and they were fine. Nothing special just a decent pancake.

Overall Comments- I was used to being at POP with all the different varieties of food. It sort of came as a shock to see just two places with food and the small amount of seating. We actually ended up having to eat at some table they had set out in the hallway. I know this seems petty, but I didn't like eating with people walking by me. I noticed a lot of people taking food back to there rooms. Overall the food was fine, nothing special just a decent breakfast.

Rating-

 

[tndisneyfan]

Roaring Forks Lunch

Turkey and Brie Sandwich

I forgot to take pictures while I was eating so I went back later and got this picture and the next one in the glass case. This is the whole sandwich as you can see, cut into 6 slices. You get one slice. It's hard to tell from this picture but it's a good sized slice.

This is a picture of half of the whole sandwich just to let you see how thick the meat is and what it looked like inside.

Overall I really didn't care for this sandwich, and I wish I'd tried on of the others. The bread and the turkey was good, but there was something I just didn't like. At first I thought it was the Brie, I took it off and ate it without the cheese. It was a little better but it still wasn't good. I didn't realize until I was writing this review and went and checked one of the menu sites what the problem was. The mayo that was on the sandwich had tarragon in it. I appearantly don't care for tarragon. I love mayo but this sandwich was just loaded down with it, and if I think something's got too much mayo on it, it has got waaaaay too much mayo on it. Even without the mayo, the brie with the turkey just didn't work for me. It also came with a pasta salad that I really didn't care for. It was very tart and vinegary. It had more veggies than pasta, and the veggies were soft not crisp.

DS and DH both got double cheese burgers. Didn't bother to go back and try to get a picture bacause I'm sure ya'll are sick and tired of seeing my pictures of double cheeseburgers.


Overall Comments- The burgers were good, my sandwich wasn't. I miss the variety of POP.

Rating- so-so Mainly because I didn't like my sandwich.

 

[tndisneyfan]

Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe

Hot Dog w/Fries

DS ordered this. He said it was good. As I said before it's really hard to get any kind of legit dining review about his food.

1/2 Chicken & BBQ Rib Combo

This turned out to be really good. The ribs were OK, they were tender and fell off the bone, but didn't have a real great flavor. The chicken was awesome . I was afraid the chicken might be dry, but it was moist and juicy, and had some kind of seasoning on the skin that I really liked. The green beans were OK. I'm a southern gal, and I like my green beans broke and cooked down. These of course were not broken, but they were cooked down more than I thought they would be. Most beans like this are still sort of crunchy and I hate that. They did have a little bit of a rubbery texture, but they tasted OK. OK now the mashed potatoes, I have to say once again, I DON'T LIKE PEEL IN MY TATERS!. OK I think that's the last mashed tater rant. The potatoes were OK if you ate around the peel. Sorry the picture is so dark.

Overall Comments - Overall the food was good. I didn't like having to get into two seperate line to get our food. One line for the hot dog, another line for the rib/chicken.

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[tndisneyfan]

Whispering Canyon Cafe Breakfast times 2

As I said earlier something about Wilderness Lodge made me forget to take pictures of my food. We ended up eating at WCC for breakfast twice, once was planned with an ADR, the second time we decided the night before we would eat there since we were leaving. Since I didn't get any pictures either time I decided to just do both reviews together.

All You Can Eat Skillet
Overall this was good. The eggs were good but a little runny for me, if you remember from my Roaring Forks review I like my eggs scrambled well, but they were good anyway. The Red Bliss Potatoes were OK, they had onion mixed in with them but they were still sort of bland. The sausage was wonderful, they were the big, thick, fat sausage links like we've had before at Ohana. Loved, loved, loved the sausage, it was reason enough to to come back. The bacon was OK but it was a little too smokey for my taste. The biscuits were probably the same ones I had from Roaring Forks, they were too dense and dry to be a good biscuit. The gravy wasn't good at all. I'd read that the gravy had sausage in it but this didn't. It just tasted like grease and flour, Blah. The Mickey Waffles were excellent. That's the main thing I had been looking forward to was the AYCE waffles.

Overall Comments- The first time we went we had GoldRush for our server she was really into it, she even brought DH a super large Coke. It's a good thing she did though because she kept forgetting mine and DS's drinks. She pointed out to everyone about DH finishing his large Coke, DH wanted to tell her it was because three of us were drinking on it but he refrained. Our second server wasn't into it as much but she kept our drinks refilled. I sucked down the first coke and I got the big one this time!!!!

Rating Overall good for the money

 

[SmallWorld71]

Thanks for the great reviews! Just what I like, lots of pictures with right to the point comments.

 

[tndisneyfan]

roaring Fork

Grillled Chicken Salad

They make this salad right in front of you when you order it so it's easy to have them leave anything off that you want left off. This was supposed to have the same apple vinagrette dressing that WCC served, DH didn't care for that dressing so he had them leave it off and got a pack of fat free Italian. He thought the salad was OK but not great, and not near as good as the chicken salad at WPE. One thing he really didn't like was the walnuts on his salad. I asked why he didn't leave them off and he said he really didn't notice that those were walnuts.

Cheese Flatbread

I actually ordered a pepperoni flatbread but this is what came out so I just took it and went on. I thought this was decent. The crust was good, it was thin and the edges were crispy. The sauce just tasted like plain old WDW sauce, sort of bland. Overall it was good though.

Double Cheesburger

OK I swear this is my last Cheeseburger picture. DS ordered this and he said it was good.

Chocolate Cake

We all felt like getting dessert so this is what DH got. He said it wasn't very good, it was dry.

Brownie

Me and DS each got a brownie. DO NOT attempt for one person to eat this brownie. It is huge and very, very rich. I did manage to finish mine but DS took part of his back to the room.

Overall Comments- Once again a pretty good meal.

Rating-

 

[tndisneyfan]

Main Street Bakery

Cinnamon Roll

This was good but not as good as it looked. The cinnamon roll itself was pretty good but it was covered with a honey glaze that I thought was just OK. Overall it was good.

Krispy Kreme Donuts

DS had these. It was actually a pretty good deal, 2 KK's for $.99, not a bad price. We have KK at home so I probably wouldn't have got them at WDW but when a kid sees Krispy Kreme Donuts, they got to have them.

Crumb Cake

DH thought the crumb cake was good but sort of dried out, like it had been sitting for a while. You can also see in this picture the banana DS got to go with his Donuts.

Overall Comments- Overall this was a decent, cheap breakfast. We got all this and two jugs of milk for about $12. Not too bad in WDW for 3 people breakfast.

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[tndisneyfan]

Pizza Planet

Pepperoni Pizza

DH and I both got a pepperoni pizza, I think he got the Woody Combo with a Salad. I just wanted the pizza. The pizza was better than I thought it would be. Very similar to the pizza on Page 1 at Eddie's at DHS. It seems they've broke down and started putting some seasoning on top of the pizza to actually give it some flavor.

Cheese Pizza

The cheese pizza has the same comments that the pepperoni above.

Salad

As you can see, just a very small, very basic salad. It was just OK.

Chocolate Chip Cookie

DS and I each got a chocolate chip cookie. They were good sized and had big chocolate chunks instead of just chips. The cookie itself was good too, although I thought $1.79 was a little high for a cookie.

Overall Comments- The pizza was better that the last time we ate here it's still just mediocre. As an adult I probably wouldn't go, but DS always enjoys eating here.

Rating- just mediocre

 

[tndisneyfan]

Wolfgang Puck Express

Pepperoni and Mushroom Pizza

This was a good pizza. I enjoyed the mushrooms, on the standard WDW pizza pepperoni and mushroom is never an option. The crust was thin and crispy. I was concerned about it being burnt, I think you can see one side of the crust looks black, but it wasn't. It also had a lot of spices and flavor. The pizza was bigger than it looked and I couldn't finish it all.

Mixed Greens Salad

Again this comes with the spaghetti. I meant to get a Ceasar Salad to try something different but I forgot and got this again.

Spaghetti w/Meatballs

As you can tell, once DS finds something he likes that's about all he will order. So here is his spaghetti again, this is the same picture that I posted earlier but since this is my last full blown review I wanted to end it with all pictures. DS had this three times and it was just as good the third time as the first.

Chinois Chicken Salad

I used the same picture from earlier but DH swears this salad wasn't as large as the previous one. He ordered extra dressing this time. He said it was still good but not as good as the other one.

Overall Comments- I guess you can tell since we ate here 3 times, we really enjoyed WPE. I liked the large variety of food but DH and DS thought the same things were good. Even if you're not planning on doint DTD, I think it's worth the bus ride down to eat there. The best thing about WPE is it's not for at all from the WDW bus stop. **Just wanted to add: I've been looking at these WPE pictures and the spaghetti and the chicken salad look like small portions. Just to let you know, they aren't. They are good sized portions.

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[TigerKat]

So glad to hear great reviews of WP Express. We're staying at POFQ which is only a boat ride away and are looking forward to trying it for the first time!

 

[mom2my3kids]

I got the same pizza at wolfgang puck express, it was sooooo yummy.. I can't wait to go back in October!!!

 

[wilma-bride]

We really like WP Express. DH usually has the chinois salad too - he loves it. My DD adores their mac 'n' cheese.

I have to say that we were less than impressed by the counter service option at Widerness Lodge. When you compare to the value.moderate resorts, it seems that there is just not the same level of choice and variety. I suppose that is because WL has two full-service restaurants - but, still, for a Deluxe, you kind of expect a bit more.

That said, I did really like the flatbread from RF and actually had it 2 or 3 times during our stay

 

[arieljasmine]

Thanks very much for sharing your reviews with us, I have really enjoyed them. That WPE pizza looks lovely, I always miss having mushrooms on my pizza whilst at WDW - it's good to know you can get a little variety somewhere!

Laur's