mickeyluv'r
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Overall - more starches, even fewer veggies for the adults than last year- though there are now more veggies for the kids, albeit limited choices. The only fresh fruits offered in many places were red grapes and/or melon. AND - you had to pay extra or use a snack credit to get them! You can't get them at all with a quick service breakfast as your 'dessert.' Crazy! Some places allow a fruit as dessert later in the day, but not all. Creme Brulee was offered everywhere!
AKL concierge level - first day: It was nice to have beverages on hand whenever we returned to the room, but the food left something to be desired. I love Boma, so I was looking forward to some treats in the evening. The food offerings were minimal. I've seen a better continental breakfast at most Hampton Inns. For this kind of money, it should have been more, IMO. Still the lounge was beautiful, if a bit of a walk from our room. (a walk plus an elevator ride) At breakfast: a BIG bowl of melon with a big serving spoon, a tiny bowl of blueberries with a tiny spoon, and a tiny bowl of strawberries with small tongs. I wonder which fruits cost more? Still, it was enough that we were able to make a reasonable breakfast of it. The coffee was very good. The room was fabulous!
AKL Mara - Still had the butternut squash soup I like. Nothing else much struck me as all that intersting this time around. I only stopped by once in the afternoon.
Brown Derby - Good, but not a Wow! The Cobb salad wasn't quite what I expected (or had elsewhere) but it was quite good. Plenty for a meal! The kids offerings were standard and boring. The other entrees were good, but not outstanding (steak, pork loin? I think) Service was okay. The grapefruit cake was interesting. Don't really think the double credit charge is justified.
Chef Mickeys - WAY downhill from prior visit in 2006. Not that it was my favorite dinner back then, but this place has gone WAY down in quality! The salad bar has been reduced to lettuce, melon, starches, cole slaw, and the shrimp. I was REALLY surprised that they would have a salad bar and be too cheap to even have tomato or cucumber! The beef was seriously inedible! Not only was it lousy quality, the seasonings made it worse! The pizza was serious tomato-cookie type pizza. The only good thing was Mickey noodles with cheese (Not the good cheese of a few years ago) and Mickey ravioli. On the plus side, the characters did interact with much better than they have on other recent trip to character meals.
Tusker House - YUCK! I was told it was like Boma. It isn't. It shares a few of the weaker Boma dishes, but that's it. Lots of cheap starches, almost no meat, fruit or veggies. Limited desserts. The starches didn't even taste good. I felt sick to my stomach after this meal.
Coral Reef - Sure they only have a few seafood dishes left. One was tasty the other was just okay. Service was excellent. Again, where are the veggies? The menu lists veggies in the entrees, but they were not in the meal. On the flip side, they - like so many places - have added veggies to the kids' meals. They've also brought back the lobster bisque, but it's renamed.
Boma - by this point in the trip, I was very nervous that my favorite restaurant would be ruined;reduced to melon and inedible beef. I was extrememly happy to find that the quality was [mostly] still there. I did see more starches, fewer veggies than before - but still they had multiple salads, delicious soups with veggies. After the nasty beef at CM and TH, I was almost afraid to try it here, but it was as good as I remember! The head chef here is doing their job trying to keep the quality up despite rising food costs! The wait staff was off. She really tried to rush us at teh end. We just had gotten a plate on entrees and were sitting downto eat them when we were asked about coffee...it was odd. She also tried to over charge us and got snooty when we questioned her error.
Chefs de France - Shrimp dish was tasty, filet steak, had a strange burnt plastic taste. Some veggies at least. The sparkling lemonade was a treat! the service was pretty good. Not especially fast at times, but the server really tried to be nice and checked on us mutiple times.
Le Cellier - Don't read this part...I think the only place that was better than last year. Steak was delicious. Still, no veggies with adult meal...
'Ohana - our first time. LOTS of meat! Wow, they must throw away a LOT of food here. I was amazed that the meal came with not just one - but two veggies! (kind of three, since the second was stir fry of broccoli and sugar snap peas) Wow - sugar snap peas! WE had to seriously tell the wait staff to limit our portions to half of waht they were trying to give us. How do folks eat so much in one sitting? Never mind, I don't think I want to know...Still, the food was very good!
The Wave - our only TS breakfast. it was delicious. So nice to see veggies at breakfast and other healthy options, like protein fruit drinks! They actually had an egg stir fry that had cheese, tomato and spinach! Only the second place I've ever found that offered a non-pork breakfast meat. The chicken sausage was rather good. They had a great selection of hot teas! It was pretty! It was quiet! The staff here was VERY nice. The whole grain waffles still need work, but otherwise I loved this place! Shh...I don't want it to get too crowded. Just enough folks should go so that they keep it open!
The only QS that we tried this trip that stood out was Pepper Market. Everything we had there was outstanding: pizza, strawberries, steak, fajitas. Not the best fajitas I've ever had in my life , but compared to Chef Mickeys, it was outstanding! It was so great to get some tomato salsa and fresh grilled zuchini! WE were stuffed! Theonly thing I didn't care for was the yogur cup i got for dessert. Unlike the strawberry yogurt served elsewhere that only has a little high fructose corn sryup, the stuff they gave me there was LOADED with it! (Why they put any hfcs in 'light' yogurt that also has aspartame is beyond me...) the other dessert - a cookie - was also just okay. Not as good as the ones you get on Main St in MK.
F & W Festival - We only tried a few things, mainly because I made the ADR's well before we knew about the festival. Overall, I though the offerings were WAY better than in past years. Way more interesting, much tastier. We were only there the first official night (Friday) and the night before (soft opening of some places). It was great to be able to use snack credits here - since we had a bunch of them to blow. We were able to get a $7 lobster roll with a snack credit! I thought it was much better organized than in past years.
AKL concierge level - first day: It was nice to have beverages on hand whenever we returned to the room, but the food left something to be desired. I love Boma, so I was looking forward to some treats in the evening. The food offerings were minimal. I've seen a better continental breakfast at most Hampton Inns. For this kind of money, it should have been more, IMO. Still the lounge was beautiful, if a bit of a walk from our room. (a walk plus an elevator ride) At breakfast: a BIG bowl of melon with a big serving spoon, a tiny bowl of blueberries with a tiny spoon, and a tiny bowl of strawberries with small tongs. I wonder which fruits cost more? Still, it was enough that we were able to make a reasonable breakfast of it. The coffee was very good. The room was fabulous!
AKL Mara - Still had the butternut squash soup I like. Nothing else much struck me as all that intersting this time around. I only stopped by once in the afternoon.
Brown Derby - Good, but not a Wow! The Cobb salad wasn't quite what I expected (or had elsewhere) but it was quite good. Plenty for a meal! The kids offerings were standard and boring. The other entrees were good, but not outstanding (steak, pork loin? I think) Service was okay. The grapefruit cake was interesting. Don't really think the double credit charge is justified.
Chef Mickeys - WAY downhill from prior visit in 2006. Not that it was my favorite dinner back then, but this place has gone WAY down in quality! The salad bar has been reduced to lettuce, melon, starches, cole slaw, and the shrimp. I was REALLY surprised that they would have a salad bar and be too cheap to even have tomato or cucumber! The beef was seriously inedible! Not only was it lousy quality, the seasonings made it worse! The pizza was serious tomato-cookie type pizza. The only good thing was Mickey noodles with cheese (Not the good cheese of a few years ago) and Mickey ravioli. On the plus side, the characters did interact with much better than they have on other recent trip to character meals.
Tusker House - YUCK! I was told it was like Boma. It isn't. It shares a few of the weaker Boma dishes, but that's it. Lots of cheap starches, almost no meat, fruit or veggies. Limited desserts. The starches didn't even taste good. I felt sick to my stomach after this meal.
Coral Reef - Sure they only have a few seafood dishes left. One was tasty the other was just okay. Service was excellent. Again, where are the veggies? The menu lists veggies in the entrees, but they were not in the meal. On the flip side, they - like so many places - have added veggies to the kids' meals. They've also brought back the lobster bisque, but it's renamed.
Boma - by this point in the trip, I was very nervous that my favorite restaurant would be ruined;reduced to melon and inedible beef. I was extrememly happy to find that the quality was [mostly] still there. I did see more starches, fewer veggies than before - but still they had multiple salads, delicious soups with veggies. After the nasty beef at CM and TH, I was almost afraid to try it here, but it was as good as I remember! The head chef here is doing their job trying to keep the quality up despite rising food costs! The wait staff was off. She really tried to rush us at teh end. We just had gotten a plate on entrees and were sitting downto eat them when we were asked about coffee...it was odd. She also tried to over charge us and got snooty when we questioned her error.
Chefs de France - Shrimp dish was tasty, filet steak, had a strange burnt plastic taste. Some veggies at least. The sparkling lemonade was a treat! the service was pretty good. Not especially fast at times, but the server really tried to be nice and checked on us mutiple times.
Le Cellier - Don't read this part...I think the only place that was better than last year. Steak was delicious. Still, no veggies with adult meal...
'Ohana - our first time. LOTS of meat! Wow, they must throw away a LOT of food here. I was amazed that the meal came with not just one - but two veggies! (kind of three, since the second was stir fry of broccoli and sugar snap peas) Wow - sugar snap peas! WE had to seriously tell the wait staff to limit our portions to half of waht they were trying to give us. How do folks eat so much in one sitting? Never mind, I don't think I want to know...Still, the food was very good!
The Wave - our only TS breakfast. it was delicious. So nice to see veggies at breakfast and other healthy options, like protein fruit drinks! They actually had an egg stir fry that had cheese, tomato and spinach! Only the second place I've ever found that offered a non-pork breakfast meat. The chicken sausage was rather good. They had a great selection of hot teas! It was pretty! It was quiet! The staff here was VERY nice. The whole grain waffles still need work, but otherwise I loved this place! Shh...I don't want it to get too crowded. Just enough folks should go so that they keep it open!
The only QS that we tried this trip that stood out was Pepper Market. Everything we had there was outstanding: pizza, strawberries, steak, fajitas. Not the best fajitas I've ever had in my life , but compared to Chef Mickeys, it was outstanding! It was so great to get some tomato salsa and fresh grilled zuchini! WE were stuffed! Theonly thing I didn't care for was the yogur cup i got for dessert. Unlike the strawberry yogurt served elsewhere that only has a little high fructose corn sryup, the stuff they gave me there was LOADED with it! (Why they put any hfcs in 'light' yogurt that also has aspartame is beyond me...) the other dessert - a cookie - was also just okay. Not as good as the ones you get on Main St in MK.
F & W Festival - We only tried a few things, mainly because I made the ADR's well before we knew about the festival. Overall, I though the offerings were WAY better than in past years. Way more interesting, much tastier. We were only there the first official night (Friday) and the night before (soft opening of some places). It was great to be able to use snack credits here - since we had a bunch of them to blow. We were able to get a $7 lobster roll with a snack credit! I thought it was much better organized than in past years.
