April 1 - me and DH
LeCellier - Ahh...the reviews on here are not lying. This place is great! This was our first time at LeCellier, and it was fantastic. I had already told DH how good the steaks looked on the food porn thread, so that's what he was going for. I knew I HAD to try the maple creme brulee, so I wasn't going to fill up beforehand! We ordered the cheese soup for the appetizer to go with our bread. DH liked it better as a soup than a dip, but I liked it more as a dip for my bread. We both liked the pretzel bread, but I was a little partial to the sourdough. Then DH ordered the New York Strip well done, and I ordered the Caesar Salad (saving room for dessert, remember!). His steak come with roasted potatoes that were okay, but that steak was soooo good! I had a few bites and it was delicious! DH liked it too, it tied or was just below his favorite steak ever (which was the filet at CRT dinner that had a wine sauce...he loved that sauce on it.). So, still not better than the discontinued CRT steak, but close. I thought it was WAY better. My Salad was okay - it was HUGE, so I only ate like 1/3 of it anyway. The croutons were really good...I just am not a big fan of the caesar dressing they use at WDW. It's just alright. So, after eating the bread, and the soup and some salad and some steak....we ordered the Dessert Trio Sampler! It had a rasberry sorbet, chocolate whiskey cake, and maple creme brulee. I took a little taste of the sorbet, which was good, but mainly went for that creme brulee. DH devoured the chocolate cake and took a couple little bites of the sorbet. Before we were even halfway through the desserts, our waitress had seen my birthday pin and brought out a HUGE birthday dessert for me....so count them, we had FOUR desserts on our table!
The one she brought out was a chocolate mousse inside a dark chocolate bowl/shell with raspberries and a sauce drizzled all over. I only took one bite (and I am normally a chocolate lover, but for some reason, I was not in the mood for chocolate...I was happy with my creme brulee). DH also devoured it...as he was saying he was sooo stuffed! Anyway, one of the highlights of our trip. Great food, atmosphere, service, everything. 5 out of 5.
April 2
Donald's Breakfastosaurus - Although many on here dislike this place, it's one of our favorites. This is our third time to go and we really enjoy it. They have a great variety of foods DH likes (eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, etc.) and a variety of food I like (pancakes, muffins, donuts, yogurt, coffee cake). I actually ate less on this visit than usual, but it was still yummy. Our server also brought me a birthday card signed by Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Pluto, which is cool, and sang Happy Birthday to me. Lots of fun, great characters and food. Solid 4 out of 5
April 3 - My birthday!
Kona Cafe - I had read a lot about this restaurant on the disboards, and was VERY excited to try it. We're hoping to try dinner there soon. But for this trip, was breakfast for the Tonga Toast for me, and the Big Kahuna for DH. He was pretty happy with his giant plate of food, and commented on the eggs being really good - different somehow but he didn't know what it was. My Tonga Toast was soooo good as most of you know. DH being the french toast man he is even tried the edge of it (he doesn't like bananas) and claimed it had a good flavor, even with the hint of banana. I thought it was wonderful, as was the ham it came with. Definitely my favorite breakfast. 5 out of 5(for breakfast).
CRT Dinner - We waited a bit long for this meal unfortunately, as we had to wait for Cinderella to come out for pictures and I guess for the change over to dinner. Still only about 15-20 minutes I think, but we were hungry so it felt longer. We had our pictures made and then went up to be seated. They put confetti on the table again, but that was all. I didn't want more as I had already done the birthday thing at breakfast a couple days before. I thought the food was excellent, and DH enjoyed his as well. At dinner you have the choice of an appetizer, entree and dessert, and order them all at once. We both got the BLT salad for appetizer, which was really really great. The bacon was good, the dressing was good and light. I was worried about the onions in it, because I don't like onions, but they were not in the way and I really enjoyed the salad. For the entree, DH ordered pork tenderloin which came with a cheese casserole thing. I ordered the cheese tortellini, as I wanted to be sure I would have room for the dessert. DH really liked the pork and the gravy like sauce on top, but isn't big on casseroles. I really liked my tortellini, but left most of the vegetables in the bowl so I could eat lots of dessert.
The dessert for me was worth the moeny all on it's own...DH got the chocolate cake and liked it. I got the blueberry buckle crumb cake which comes with lemon ice cream on top...and it was divine! I ate every single bite and have thought about that dessert every day since. Boy was it yummy! Fabulous! We also got the photo package and the lithograph - which we thought was very nice! Great dinner. 4.5 out of 5 (dessert 10 out of 5
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April 4 - This was our departure day, we had breakfast before leaving
Crystal Palace - We had never done CP for breakfast before, only dinner. It was almost a tie with Kona for my favorite this trip. I really really loved this breakfast! They had fresh fruit, puffed french toast, croissants, eggs, sausage, bacon, hashbrowns, pancakes, etc. Lots of choices, and it was all really good. Of course, I love Pooh, so that doesn't hurt. I had confetti and streamers on the table when we got there and Tigger was excited for me on my birthday. The server brought me a card signed by the characters and a cupcake too. It was a great ending to the trip. Really good food. 4.5 out of 5.
