RAGLAN ROADS - 10/15 -- Confessions of a Foodaholic: A DDP First Timers Review.

[Vallie]

Hello all! and welcome to my very first Disney Dining Review!! This is a companion to my TRIP REPORT. which you can go ahead and read too if you want!

So a little about us, its me and DBF on this trip, August 22-31. His first trip EVER and my first trip onsite and on the disney dining plan. We got FREE DINING! which was awesome! I wanted to do a dining review because when I was planning my vacay I spent alot of time drooling over food porn and reading reviews on this board! so thought I would contribute!

And as youll probably notice, we ate at PoP Century many times because we liked to just grab some food, relax and watch some TV while eating. It was a nice way to end the long hot days!

So onto the food! The delicious, the not so delicious and the raw chicken!
Day 1 - Arrival Day
Drinks and Snacks

Day 2 - Magic Kingdom
Brunch: 1900 Park Fare
Dinner: Pecos Bill

Day 3 - SeaWorld
Lunch: At SeaWorld
Dinner: PoP Century Pizza

Day 4 - Hollywood Studios
Lunch: Sci Fi Resturant
Dinner: PoP Century Food Court

Day 5 - Animal Kingdom
Breakfast & Lunch: Yak and Yeti CS
Dinner: Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show

Day 6 - Typhoon Lagoon
Lunch: Snack Shack and Typhoon Tillys
Dinner: Raglan Roads (DownTown Disney)

Day 7 - Epcot
Lunch: Les Chef De France
Drinks and Snacks around the World Showcase
Dinner: PoP Century Food Court

Day 8 - Universal Studios
Breakfast: Pop Century Food Court
Lunch: Circus McGurkus Cafe Stoo-pendous
Dinner: PoP Century Food Court

Day 9 - Magic Kingdom
Lunch: Columbia Harbour House
Dinner: Cinderellas Royal Table

Day 10 - Departure
Brunch: Chef Mickeys

Bonus:
A Little Bit of Magic at Home

 

[DLo]

Looking forward to your reviews. especially Les chefs - eating there for the 1st time next month and scifi - ate there several years ago and trying it again.

 

[Vallie]

Looking forward to your reviews. especially Les chefs - eating there for the 1st time next month and scifi - ate there several years ago and trying it again.

welcome!!! both of those places were pretty good!

 

[Vallie]

Day 1 - Arrival Day Snacks and Drinks

Sorry this one is gunna be a boring one!

Our plane left from Buffalo at 7pm so we stopped and grabbed a quick bite for dinner beside the airport. I dont remember the name of the place but I do remember the food was pretty blah. I would have taken pictures buy my DBFs parents were with us and I didnt want them to think I was crazy .

So while we were waiting at the airport we grabbed some drinks.

DBF had a Sam Adams for the first time.

he said it tasted like juice. im not a beer drinker, but i tried a sip and i thought it just tasted like beer?

I got a malibu and orange which is my fave.

it was pretty good!

We arrived at PoP Century at 1am and we were feeling peckish but everything was closed for the night so we grabbed some chips from the vending machine.

we dont have this flavour in Canada and let me say they were YUMMMY! we use a few snack credits on these over the trip!

so thats about it... i cant believe i took pics of airport drinks and chips lol but a girls gotta do what she can for a dining review right?!

uP next: Our first Disney Meal, 1900 Park Fare for a late breakfast!

 

[Quacktatty]

Great so far, can't wait to read more! I'm especially interested in your experience at Universal - I'll be going there for the first time in October.

 

[onejellyshelly]

Looking forward to your report!!!!

 

[Nancy for Disney]

looking forward to your reviews.

 

[devonsmommy]

I'm on board!

 

[PrincessTrisha]

Great to read reviews from a fellow Canuck.

I would swear I've seen the Cheddar and Sour Cream chips somewhere but can't for the life of me remember

 

[Ciciwoowoo]

Looking forward to reading more...

And you have dill pickle potato chips and poutine in Canada so I think that totally beats out cheddar potato chips here..

 

[bluejasmine]

More! More! LOL

 

[iluvpluto27]

I'm in!

 

[Sandy321]

Sam Adams tastes like juice

Hope you continue to post your dbf beer reviews!!

I hear that the chip and snack companies have different flavors for different countries! I am not a fan of the vinegar flavored chips...

 

[Vallie]

Great so far, can't wait to read more! I'm especially interested in your experience at Universal - I'll be going there for the first time in October.

hii! welcome! you'll have a great time at universal! its lots of fun! if u wanna read about my time there you can check out my TR too

Looking forward to your report!!!!

looking forward to your reviews.

I'm on board!

thanks and welcome!

Great to read reviews from a fellow Canuck.

I would swear I've seen the Cheddar and Sour Cream chips somewhere but can't for the life of me remember

helllo fellow canadian! if you remember please let me know! hehe

Looking forward to reading more...

And you have dill pickle potato chips and poutine in Canada so I think that totally beats out cheddar potato chips here..

lol dill pickle is kinda bleh.. dbf likes it but not me... but that is true... we do have poutine.. mmm poutine!!

More! More! LOL

I'm in!

welcomeee you'll get more soon! next installment comin up!

Sam Adams tastes like juice

Hope you continue to post your dbf beer reviews!!

I hear that the chip and snack companies have different flavors for different countries! I am not a fan of the vinegar flavored chips...

lol i dont know if he'll remember all the beer he drank, this one stuck out in his mind though! lol he will be helping me out with his opinions on some of the places though!

im not a huge fan of salt and vinigar chips either... they hurt your mouth after a while! i had some kung pao chicken flavoured chips today... i kid you not! lol they were pretty good actually!

 

[Vallie]

Day 1 - Brunch - First Disney Meal of the Trip

So since this was Craigs first trip and all, I wanted to plan soemthing special for our first morning, so I booked us a late 11am-ish breakfast at 1900 Park Fare. I thought it'd be a nice way to ease dbf into the whole disney thing and breakfast buffets are always yummy!

We loved loved loved the inside of this resturant! its so very pretty! Mary Poppins came to see us first, and she was great! Followed by Alice, Pooh and Tigger. We got to see all the characters twice! We liked Mary Poppins the best!


I'm sorry to say that for our first round of food I forgot to take pics until half way through Craig reminded me!
Sorry for the half eaten food pics! it wont happen again! promise!

My plate:

The mickey waffles were delish! i will give them that! I was really excited to try the Eggs Lobster Bennidet but I didn't like it at all.

Craigs plate:

Craig had tons of bacon and really liked the bacon, and potatoes... he didnt like the waffles much but he doesnt like waffles really anyways!

These are round two...

My plate:

The breakfast pizza also gets a thumbs down I had it again later at Chef Mickeys and thought it was great but this day .. not so much!

Craig's plate:

We shared this plate and it was very yummy!

Overall we enjoyed 1900 Park Fare but there were some things that I would say needed improvement. The biggest being that we didnt find there to be a whole lot of variety here for a buffet and the food was just good, nothing to write home about. We both gave it a 7/10. If the characters were not there we would probably only rate it a 5/10.

uP next....
Magic Kingdom snack + Pecos Bill

 

[Sandy321]

kung pao chips See - now THAT's what I'm talking about!! never heard of them!! They sound good to me!!

What do you mean he cant remember the Beer? He better start trying!! Dis'ers are looking forward to imparting his wisdom on their dh I mean - seriously try to remember the BEER!!

Looking forward to the rest of your reviews! I agree- 1900 is a beautiful place, even if it is a buffet - I really like the atmosphere!

where are the character pictures? Did you see Mary Poppins? Does she know he may not remember the beer?

 

[Vallie]

kung pao chips See - now THAT's what I'm talking about!! never heard of them!! They sound good to me!!

What do you mean he cant remember the Beer? He better start trying!! Dis'ers are looking forward to imparting his wisdom on their dh I mean - seriously try to remember the BEER!!

Looking forward to the rest of your reviews! I agree- 1900 is a beautiful place, even if it is a buffet - I really like the atmosphere!

where are the character pictures? Did you see Mary Poppins? Does she know he may not remember the beer?

lol i had never heard of them either! but my aunt brought them home and honestly they were pretty yummy chips!

so im with Craig right now and he said he does remember most of the beer he drank so he can give some reviews!!

and we did take lots of pics but those will be on my TR! feel free to take a look at it if u are interested! the link is on the first post here and in my siggy! Im just posting food pics on here!

 

[princess_momma]

I'm here too!! I cancelled our 1900PF but we had a dinner ressie. Can't wait to read the rest! You're such a good reporter!!

 

[shordiebecka]

1900 Park Fare is at the Grand Floridian right? It all looks so yummy! I can't wait to read the rest of them!

 

[Vallie]

Day 1 - Pecos Bill (and a Snack!)

Snack
Midway threw our day at Magic Kingdom, while we were in Tomorrowland we decided to stop for a snack. We split a cream cheese filled pretzel from the Launching Pad in Tomorrowland.

I thought it was soo yummy! It was kinda sweet but also salty with cheese sprinkled on top! Craig on the other hand did not like it at all, he liked it on first bite but then decided after one more he hated it. That was a-ok with me though, because I was more then happy to finish it! I gave this a 7.5/10 and Craig gave it a 4/10.

Pecos Bill
After much thought as to what we wanted to eat we decided on Pecos Bill. And boy, that was a very good choice! We both got Taco Salads (I only took one pic but we both got the same things on it pretty much – except I didn’t get tomatoes because quite frankly... i hate chunks of tomatoes yuck!) I don’t remember what we got as a snack... I think it was a cookie but I didn’t take a pic – sorry!

this one was a pic of mine... you can see how i skimmed around the salsa just to get the juice without tomatoe chunks im crazy, i know lol

We both LOVED this! It was so so yummy and we loved we could pick our own toppings from the topping bar! Craig was able to eat all of his but I wasn’t able to finish mine, it gets pretty heavy near the end. I also really loved that you could get pickles on the side from the topping bar! We both gave it a 9/10.

Just another tip for Pecos Bill... We were able to watch the spectromagic parade from here as well, we pulled up some of the chairs outside up to the fence and stood on them to watch the parade go by, it offered an okay view and there weren’t many people there.


uP next - Seaworld