Our dining plans

[kelleigh1]

So I think we've picked all the places we plan to dine on our trip. Now I need to figure out which meals we'll have at each place, although I made some headway with that too. We are planning on getting the DxDP because this is a big celebration trip for us and why there are so many signature restaurants.

So here is what we have:

Citricos
Artist Point
Jiko
Flying Fish
California Grill
CRT (breakfast)
Cape May Cafe (breakfast and dinner)
Tusker House
Akershus (breakfast)
Chefs de France
Ohana
Garden Grill
Teppan Edo
Yak & Yeti (TS)

We are planning to stay at the Yacht Club. I say "planning" because we haven't booked it yet. I'm going to do that right after the first of the year.

 

[newdeal]

Looks like some great choices (except chefs de France IMO)

 

[kelleigh1]

Looks like some great choices (except chefs de France IMO)

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I actually wasn't sure about that one myself when we first started making the list, but then I read more and more reviews and the appeal definitely grew so I put it on the list. We haven't ever been to any of the places on this list, which was part of the plan. We wanted to try all new places for us.

 

[nkereina]

If Chefs de France isn't appealing, Bistro de Paris is on DDP for 2012 but for 2 TS credits. There are also a bunch of restaurants in DTD now on DDP for 2012 that you may want to look into. I know it really changed my dining plans for next year.

For Ohana, I would do dinner and avoid breakfast there. Also, I was disappointed in Teppan Edo. Hibachi at home is much better with a bigger menu (and fried rice!) so it wasn't a unique experience for us. If you've done hibachi before or have it at home, there's nothing special about Teppan Edo IMO.

 

[kelleigh1]

If Chefs de France isn't appealing, Bistro de Paris is on DDP for 2012 but for 2 TS credits. There are also a bunch of restaurants in DTD now on DDP for 2012 that you may want to look into. I know it really changed my dining plans for next year.

For Ohana, I would do dinner and avoid breakfast there. Also, I was disappointed in Teppan Edo. Hibachi at home is much better with a bigger menu (and fried rice!) so it wasn't a unique experience for us. If you've done hibachi before or have it at home, there's nothing special about Teppan Edo IMO.

We've only ever done a hibachi place once and it was a little hole in the wall place in NJ with the in-laws. We figured the show at Disney had to be better than that one.

I've eaten at a fair number of places at DTD because a friend used to live in Orlando and when I'd visit her, we often went to DTD, so with wanting to try new places, we didn't even look at options at DTD. I actually started narrowing down the options about a year ago and it took until just a few days ago for us to finally say "ok, this is it."

And I think I do have Ohana as a more likely dinner choice than breakfast. I was looking over things last night and I think I marked that in the dinner list, but haven't made it "official" yet.

 

[minnie mum]

If you are only going to be in AK for one day, then I'd go with Tusker House for breakfast and Yak and Yeti for dinner. With a big buffet breakfast, I'm not sure that you would want much at all for lunch (maybe just snacks).

I'd definitely go with Ohana for dinner- then maybe watch Wishes from the beach?

Chefs de France could easily be done for lunch. This wouldn't take that much time away from your touring of Epcot. But plan for a late dinner that night!

Garden Grill might be best for dinner, simply because doing it for lunch would take a lot of time out of your touring day.

 

[kelleigh1]

If you are only going to be in AK for one day, then I'd go with Tusker House for breakfast and Yak and Yeti for dinner. With a big buffet breakfast, I'm not sure that you would want much at all for lunch (maybe just snacks).

I'd definitely go with Ohana for dinner- then maybe watch Wishes from the beach?

Chefs de France could easily be done for lunch. This wouldn't take that much time away from your touring of Epcot. But plan for a late dinner that night!

Garden Grill might be best for dinner, simply because doing it for lunch would take a lot of time out of your touring day.

All sounds good and a lot of it is in line with what I was thinking. Not sure about AK though. We get park hoppers and jump around from park to park all the time, so we are likely to go there at least twice during the week. We'll work out the details on that more when we see park hours. But we are so flexible with things. We just plan everything around where we eat and we don't mind it at all, which is probably why the new ADR cancellation policy doesn't bother me at all.

We will be there for F&W (so lots of snack credit opportunity) and MNSSHP, so we will want to plan around those too and since we'll be staying at Yacht Club, Epcot is an easy jump to eat any meal.