Quick review of what we ate

[fumipappa]

We came back from WDW on last Sunday and following is the wick review of what we ate. FYI, (B) means breakfast, (L) means lunch and (D) means dinner.

Table service :

Garden Grill(L): The best place while we were there. The food was fresh, and service was very good. My kids are big vegetable eaters, and they were starving for any kind if veggies during this vacation. Unfortunately, kids meal at WDW does not include vegetable much. However, this restaurant had a plenty of green bean and carrots to satisfy them. The potato casserole was also good surprise. The character greeting was also good at here, no rushing, and very relaxed atmosphere.
Best food item: everything
Worst food item: none

CRT(L): The food quality was better than other restaurant and our server, Jay was very good. Only but very minor issue was the character interaction. They did not spend much time at each table. They signed autograph, took picture, and moved to next table quickly. I did not feel any "pressure" from any of the servers to leave restaurant quickly. Anyway, it was just lunch time, so we did not need much time. Kids meal was not my kids' taste. They did not like any of their choice except ice cream sundae.
I ordered the glass slipper dessert for my wife because this trip was 10th anniversary. The dessert was good, and Jay gave us a pair of champagne glasses as gift. It was very cute.
Best food item: Pan sealed salmon
Worst food item: Grilled chicken(Kids meal)

Sci-fi(D): Food quality was OK, but service was pretty good. My daughter wanted to go this restaurant but we won't go back there. The pizza of kids meal was bad, tasted like typical microwave pizza. The worst part, the restaurant was VERY COLD!. They turned on AC while outside was around 50F!. So my wife started feeling cold while we were there. Atmosphere was very neat, but it was good for "once in a lifetime experience"
Best food item: Shrimp Penne Pasta
Worst food item: Pizza(Kids meal)

Crystal Palace(B): Good quality of food, the restaurant decor was very cute. The service was very good, the character interaction was very nice. Because this is the buffet with character greeting, we felt like we were interrupted by a lot of thing, characters, kids going back to buffet queue, restroom, etc. So we could not enjoy the atmosphere. It maybe different if this is lunch or dinner. Nothing against restaurant, the breakfast at restaurant inside theme park was not good for us.
Best food item: waffles
Worst food item: none, hey it was just breakfast

I am going to post counter service review later.

 

[ciera321]

Thanks for posting. I'm looking forward to the CS reviews.

 

[KatMark]

We came back from WDW on last Sunday and following is the wick review of what we ate. FYI, (B) means breakfast, (L) means lunch and (D) means dinner.



Crystal Palace(B): Good quality of food, the restaurant decor was very cute. The service was very good, the character interaction was very nice. Because this is the buffet with character greeting, we felt like we were interrupted by a lot of thing, characters, kids going back to buffet queue, restroom, etc. So we could not enjoy the atmosphere. It maybe different if this is lunch or dinner. Nothing against restaurant, the breakfast at restaurant inside theme park was not good for us.
Best food item: waffles
Worst food item: none, hey it was just breakfast

I don't know if you would find lunch or dinner different as they are also character meals and buffets so you would have same issue.

 

[Minniespal]

Excellent

 

[swankybeth]

Thanks for sharing your reviews.

 

[familyS]

Thanks for writing and posting reviews. CP breakfast is one of our favorites

 

[fumipappa]

I don't know if you would find lunch or dinner different as they are also character meals and buffets so you would have same issue.

KatMark, I agree. Lunch, Dinner, probably it does not make any difference, but breakfast is the time my family does not want to spend much time, so it is not about restaurant again. Probably the our attitude toward "breakfast" made us think this way. we probably had same feeling if the meal time is the combination of buffet and character greeting no matter what

 

[Busymom85]

Thanks for the reviews.

 

[englishrose47]

We ate at GG DD didn't like the family style meals but I thought it was good, the potatoes were great! Characters and service awesome, I didn't like my food at Sci Fi( Shrimp dish) the others had steak and liked it, the oreo cookie milkshake was awesome as was the service. I would go back but order something else!! CP is my favorite , we ate dinner there, Iloved the peel & eat shrimp and the prime rib and the desserts were wonderful. Characters were great!! Looking forward to your cs reviews!!

 

[fumipappa]

We did not go to a lot of place for counter service but here are some of the places...

Pinocchio's Village Haus(L):
We ate at here twice. We intentionally visited there off time, once at 11:00AM(right after opening), and another time around 3:00PM as late lunch.
Regular combo meal, Kids meal were OK, nothing special but good enough to fill up our stomach. Service, VEEEEERY sloooow. I couldn't believe that they took more than 10minutes to prepare ONE Figaro fries. And there were no one other than us on any queue! Cashier did not have any confusion about new dining plan, they knew the new rule pretty well, but kitchen side was not efficient at all. By the way, it was worth to eat off time because we could have a table to watch "It's a small world" ride. The view was good.
Best food item: Figaro Fries - My wife, who is not a big fan of any junk food, love this item. We ordered one as snack but ended up to order another one.
Worst food item:none, if we have to say one item, maybe pizza

Intermission(B):
We visited there for quick breakfast, and kids desperately wanted to have Mickey waffle so we tried. The taste of food was .... just OK. Nothing special. But the efficiency of the service was really good. The kitchen people and cashiers were handling the crowd really well and they were friendly too. This place was the one counter service place I was impressed.
Only issue was the drink/condiments area. CM was trying to clean up the area as much as possible, but the way guests were using this area was HORRIBLE. Some people were splashing ketchup and some people were spreading sugar around the area. So the issue of this place was not restaurant itself it was guests,(I don't mean everybody staying ASMU was horrible but some people needed to learn how to use "common area")
Best food item: none, all of them are OK to fill up our stomach
Worst food item:none, all of them are OK to fill up our stomach

Riverside Mill Port Orleans Riverside Food Court(B,L):
First, We ate at here as late lunch so there were only few people. The Create-Your-Own Pasta was very good, Kids meal nuggets were also better than other place. At lunch time, the atmosphere was so good, very quiet, relaxing. The service was also good, very efficient, and very friendly.
We also visited here for quick breakfast. This time, I noticed the minor issue of drink/condiments area of this restaurant. Why do they keep the cup rid and fountain area separately? and why sugars are not placed area of coffee fountain? I was not only one who was confused by the location of sugar at that time. At least 2-3 people were asking each other to find out sugar and cup rids..
Best food item: Create-Your-Own Pasta
Worst food item:Chocorate cake- too sweet for us

Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory :
We visited here for just snack after browsing around resort. My kids got Mickey ice cream bar sand I got Beignets.
My kids loved décor of the food court. It was very small food court comparing Riverside mills but décor was very cute. Food was… not good… My daughters kept saying the beignets smell like Chinese cabbage ( I don’t know why). Because I ate Beignets at Café Dumont in New Orleans, I knew the real taste of Beignets. The Beignets of this restaurant were completely different item from original one.
Best food item: none – just snack
Worst food item:Sorry, Beignets, I am missing Café Dumont

Frame Tree BBQ (D):
We ate at here as early dinner. We took the seat facing Expedition Everest, near the river. The view was peaceful and beautiful. There was no one else other than us around this area. It was cold day(around 50F) so it was a bit chilly but we had jackets so there was no issue. The attitude of CM here was not friendly at all but quick enough.
Oh, by the way we were not arrowed to come back to have frozen lemonade as dessert later as some people reported at another thread. I got spare ribs which were OK, my wife got chicken and kids got hotdogs. We also ordered Onion rings as snack item. Food was just OK, baked beans was not our taste, it was too sweet. We enjoyed the view here, not food.
Best food item: Ribs were OK. Onion rings were also OK
Worst food item: beans

Main Street Bakery(B):
We ate breakfast at here. We ordered, croissants, Danish, and bagel. The CMs are very friendly and efficient. We visited there right after opening so the place was very busy but CMs did not lose any patience. (My kids were not quick decision maker so they had hard time to find out what they wanted). All items were good, not outstanding.
As a quick breakfast, this place was good.
Best food item: none – croissants
Worst food item: none

The Earl of Sandwich(L)(D):
We visited here once as early dinner. We were planning to visit Wolfgang Puck express at first but it was closed for renovation. So we tried this place. We were very satisfied with the food. The choice of dessert/drink was a bit confusing. The service was very quick. We tried "The full Montagu" and cannonballs, both were very good. Kids ordered Grilled Cheese and Turkey Swiss. They did not like Grilled Cheese but Turkey Swiss was delicious.
Before we left Orlando, we stopped at here and got cannonball, The Earl's Club, and two Turkey Swiss for kids as lunch inside the car(we drove from NJ). This is the one counter service restaurant all family members were happy about food. We used the dining plan this time. However, I found out the price at there was very reasonable, especially comparing with NYC price.
Best food item: All sandwiches except Grilled Cheese
Worst food item: Grilled Cheese

Yakitori House(D):
I listed this place as last one, because it was hard to judge the place. I am Japanese so all the food here was not good as the food we usually eat at home or in Japan. Actually, the food at this restaurant were bad. However, we were missing our "soul food" so much during the trip, we just craved the food at here. We ordered two tempura udon, one sushi(roll) and one kid's meal.
As desserts, we took ginger cakes. They were all terrible if we were in normal psyche but again, we were in craving mode to any kind of Japanese foods so it tasted sooooo good.
The situation proved that we cannot be a food critique because we cannot judge the quality of the food in any kind of condition. Too bad, we ate everything. Oh by the way the service was good enough.
Best food item: everything because we were missing Japanese foods
Worst food item: everything if we were in normal psyche


Again, my comment for the food is very subjective, I think a lot of people love Grilled Cheese at Earl and a lot of people hate Cannonball.

 

[englishrose47]

Were the Figaro Fries a sc and what else did you get as a sc on the new ddp? Thanks

 

[fumipappa]

Were the Figaro Fries a sc and what else did you get as a sc on the new ddp? Thanks

We could use snack credit to Figaro Fries. We used snack credits to

Pretzel at Hollywood studio x2
Mickey ice cream bar x2
Minnie strawberry bar
Child ice cream cone at Main Street ice cream shop
Beignets at POFQ
Croissants at Main street bakery
Danish at Main street bakery
Bagel at Main street bakery
Single serve pop corn x3
Figaro Fries x2
Coffee at POR
Danish at POR
Bagel at POR
Kakigori at Japan(EPCOT)
Onion Rings at Frame tree BBQ

Total 20 credits for 4 people ( my youngest is 2yrs old)