No more potato wrapped snapper at Flying Fish?!?!

[Sydnerella]

I just reviewed the new FLying Fish menu and did not see my favorite entrée - the Potato Wrapped Snapper! I thought I read that they would be keeping this signature entrée with the newly imagined menu.

I am bummed and disappointed this was a favorite of many for good reason, if you can keep serving a steak, which is a tried and true non-fish option at a fish place, despite being boring and predictable... why not still continue to serve a tried and true signature fish meal at a fish restaurant which was unique and loved by all?

 

[JerseyJanice]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they bring it back after they try out the new menu.

If you watch the WDW Info vlog about the new FF, the food looks amazing, but IMO the new menu doesn't sound very enticing as you read it.

I am really hoping they bring back the chef's tasting menu. When we ate there in 2012, it was $67 and you got two half-size appetizers which were the Caesar salad and crab cake, two half-size portions of the filet mignon and the snapper dish, then a full size banana napoleon. It was fabulous and very well worth the price.

 

[KingdomHeartsFan]

Since they reopened the chef is putting a focus on sustainability, and due to overfishing, snapper isn't considered a sustainable resource at the moment.

 

[Stefecatzz]

Since they reopened the chef is putting a focus on sustainability, and due to overfishing, snapper isn't considered a sustainable resource at the moment.

Thanks for this info! I love that the chef is implementing sustainability!

 

[BoatDriver]

I couldn't wait for Flying Fish to open back up, and had reservations booked for our November trip as soon as they came available. Then I looked at the menu and started having doubts. Following that, I saw the reviews and started getting really worried. Ultimately, I cancelled the reservations. It's clear they're taking FF in a new direction, and with two little kids, it quickly fell off our list of favorites. I hope it remains successful, and maybe if we were still two adults and no kids, but it's just not for us anymore at this point in life.

 

[BGK]

Just my own opinion (TL;DR at that), but I don't think it's only sustainability. My best friend's husband is a skilled fisherman, and I go to their family's home for holidays, and we always have fish as one of the dishes. Grouper, snapper, whatever it is, it was swimming around the day before. Snapper is a pretty light fish, and grilling it with lemon and aromatic herbs, or Veracuz style (tomatoes, onions, capers, and olives) really makes the quality of the fish stand out. And the Flying Fish always had good fish.

I've been an average of seven times a year over the last eight years, and I've had the snapper maybe twice. Fried potato on the outside, leeks swimming in butter, and a sauce of demi-glace, red wine, and cassis (!!!) struck me as really heavy for that fish. I think (new) Chef Tim wants to move towards dishes that let the quality of the fish stand on its own. I went with a party of eight last week, and nothing we had made us miss the old menu. We managed to try about half of it, and everything was an improvement on what it (kind-of-sort-of) replaced. I thought I would never get over not having the mussels in pesto, but the new "taste of the sea" made me forget them pretty quickly.

 

[Lisa F]

I couldn't wait for Flying Fish to open back up, and had reservations booked for our November trip as soon as they came available. Then I looked at the menu and started having doubts. Following that, I saw the reviews and started getting really worried. Ultimately, I cancelled the reservations. It's clear they're taking FF in a new direction, and with two little kids, it quickly fell off our list of favorites. I hope it remains successful, and maybe if we were still two adults and no kids, but it's just not for us anymore at this point in life.

the bold is mine but IMO this is the biggest problem with FF right now. It is a very adult feeling restaurant. My kiddo is 8, behaves himself in a restaurant and we are staying at BWV so FF was on the radar. At the old one, definitely would have taken him, no issues. The new one just feels far less welcoming for families. Which is fine. Not every experience has to be family friendly even though it is Disney. However I would have expected something a bit more fun and lighthearted rather than dark and sleek at a destination like the boardwalk. I'm sure we'll make it someday but not on this trip.

 

[ddluvsdisney]

I was disappointed too! DH even more so. We've been there several times and DH always orders the snapper. I was excited to make an ADR for our November trip but decided against it after the snapper was taken off.
Hopi g it's gets back there soon.

 

[Leelo]

I have always wanted to try to Potato Wrapped Snapper at Flying Fish but had always picked other places first bc my DH doesn't eat seafood. I decided on our trip in 2017 that we were going to eat there and now I'm bummed that I never got to try that dish. I'm trying to decide if I am going to schedule it now.