Seven Days of Dream Dining

[darwinsrule]

Who wants to hear about the Hurricane or the damage to Castaway Cay when you can look at food porn. So here you go. Seven nights of Disney Dream meals.

Leg 1 of the B2B - Rotation ERA
August 25th - Enchanted Garden

Thyme and Garlic Brioche

Heirloom Tomato Soup

Pan-seared Sea Bass

Strawberry Cheesecake

August 26th – Royal Palace

Iced Lobster and Jumbo Shrimp

Royal Market Green Salad

Aged Angus Grilled Beef Tenderloin and Lobster Medallions

Strawberry Short Cake Sundae

August 27th – Animator’s Palate

Wild Mushroom Risotto and Porcini Twist

Baked Potato and Cheddar Cheese Soup

Lemon-Thyme Marinated Organic Chicken Breast

Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake

Second leg of the B2B coming soon. . . . .

 

[darwinsrule]

Second leg of the B2B. At least the weather improved. At this point were we still terrified we would end up with 4 stops in Nassau.
Rotation AERR
August 28th – Animator’s Palate

Black Truffle Pasta Purseittes

Vine-Ripe Tomato Salad

Marinated Angus Beef Tenderloin

Cookies and Cream Sundae

August 29th – Enchanted Garden

North Atlantic Lobster Ravioli

Romaine Wedge

Grilled NY Strip Steak

Sorry – no dessert. Our 3 year-old was starting to meltdown. Did have an ice cream from Eye-Scream but didn’t take a picture of it.

August 30th – Pirate Night – Royal Palace

Black Beard's Jumbo Crab Cake

Jerk Chicken Salad

Jack Sparrow's Barbecue Marinated Beef Short Ribs (AKA - THE SINGLE BEST THING I ATE ON THE SHIP)

Angel Food Cake

August 31st – Royal Palace

Double Baked Spinach Souffle

The Comtesse du Barry's Soup

Baked Farm-Raised Organic Chicken Breast

Peanut Butter Mousse

Mickey Bar - A last night treat from the kid's menu

And a few assorted pic’s for you
A Pogo

Double Cut Rack of Lamb with a Dijon Crust (my FIL’s – he asked if I wanted a pic. How could I say no?)

 

[dlf246]

Darwinsrule:
Thank you so much for posting. I take pictures of many of our dishes (drives my teenagers crazy). Because of this, I have to say that the portion sizes do look smaller than when we last cruised in '08. Frankly, that could be a real good thing... some in the family would not be able to finish their plates. But for someone with a larger appetite, I have to ask: was it still a "piece of cake" (no pun intended) to ask for seconds?

 

[darwinsrule]

The portions seemed to be smaller than last year on the Wonder. The chicken breasts were either from the smallest chickens they could find or they cut them in 1/2 or more to stretch out how many people they could serve. They seemed to really cut back on the sides dishes more than anything. If you look at some of the pictures you can see that some of the meals only came with 2 or 3 carrots as an example.

Only thing I was tempted to ask for more of were the beef ribs on pirate night, but didn't. I did ask for two desserts the last night, and so did my wife. Our servers had no problem on it whatsoever. We had a couple of requests for our girls (3 and 7) and again no issues.

 

[Evan&Kimberly]

The serving sizes are smaller, but this may be good for those that are not big eaters and may help to cut down on waste. For me I have an appetite of a dinosaur and so does my 5yr old who only orders from the adult menu, I never hesitate to order whatever I want. I just make sure that I do it at the time the waiter takes or order, so that they don’t have to run back and forth to the kitchen. Thanks for taking time to take the food pics could you tell me what you thought of the taste and quality of the food. I love DCL’s Sea bass and that size portion seemed very small. If I order that it would have to be with the steak I guess I would make my own version of surf and turf lol...