Something About Nothing..........#6

[circelli]

Thank you Tricia!!!

You are a great help!!

Anyone else want to add thier favs??? They will only be there 4 days I think then on to the cruise!!!

 

[macraven]

Thank you Tricia!!!

You are a great help!!

Anyone else want to add thier favs??? They will only be there 4 days I think then on to the cruise!!!

i have done the ddp at disney for the last 4 years.
i know you said one of your relatives will be going to the motherland and is not set up yet for dining.

tell me what type of foods are they interested in.
are their any foods that they will not or can not have?

are they wanting to do table service for character meetings or do they want decent to great food?

i think i have been to most of the ts places at the hotels and in the parks with the exception of the beach club and yacht club resort area.
have not done the 2 french resturants in epcot also.

if they are on the dining plan, they need to chose the counter service places that are not the $6-7 total cost.
if you are paying $37.99 plus tax for the ddp, you need to break even at the minimum to make the ddp worth it economically.

 

[Metro West]

Hi Todd ...

Hi Bonny!

 

[marciemi]

Crazy day here, but I'm back. Restaurants. I don't do DDP, so if some of these aren't on the plan somebody make sure to point that out... okay?

MK -

For a character meal, my favorite is the Crystal Palace. You can have any meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) with Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger. It is a buffet with a lot of choices. CS here that I like are Columbia Harbour House, Cosmic Rays, Pecos Bills and Aunt Pollys (but it probably won't be open in January). CS here that I would avoid are Pinocchio Village Haus or pretty much anywhere in Fantasyland. I have yet to eat good food in Fantasyland, and I am by no means a picky eater. TS I have enjoyed would be Tony's Town Square Restaurant and Liberty Tree Tavern.

Epcot -

For a character meal, we enjoyed the Garden Grill for lunch... oh, wait... didn't they stop the lunch with Mickey there? The food was good if you enjoy family style service. I don't know that I would eat there just for the food, since we were there mostly to see Mickey. CS here that I like are Sunshine Seasons (the best CS in WDW in my opinion), Liberty Inn, and the CS place in Norway has good sandwiches. The only CS here that I would avoid is the place in Japan. TS I have enjoyed would be Coral Reef (but it has been a couple of years since I've been), San Angel Inn (as much for the atmosphere as for the meal, lovely spot for lunch), and Le Cellier (but I'm not sure if Canadians would want to go to the Disney version of a Canadian steakhouse?).

DHS -

CS here that I like are Backlot Express and Studio Catering Company. CS here that I would avoid are ABC Commissary and Pizza Planet. TS I have enjoyed would be Sci Fi Dine In (another one for the atmosphere) and Brown Derby.

AK -

For a character meal, we enjoyed the breakfast at Tusker House with Donald, Daisy, Mickey and Goofy. It is a buffet with some standard and some unusual choices. CS here that I like are Flame Tree Barbeque (right up there with the Sunshine Seasons) and Restaurantosaurus (mainly because it is the only other CS that serves chicken, which is the only meat one of my sons will eat). I haven't eaten enough to have put anywhere on my "don't go there" list. The only TS meal I've ever had here was at Rainforest Cafe, which is a chain so it is the same no matter which one you go to.

I'm sure somebody can give you more/better lists, but that's mine.

I agree with much of Tricia's so I wanted to highlight some of them (good or bad!).

MK: I have to strongly agree with Crystal Palace (go if they at all can - the food is better at lunch than breakfast, which is just standard, but either is a lot of fun) and Columbia Harbour House (eat upstairs and get away from the chaos).

Epcot: Not sure how recently they stopped Mickey if they did at Garden Grill but we had a blast here last summer (07) and he was there then. The food is pretty good and it's nice that you can just sit and relax and not have to get up and walk back and forth to a buffet, but get all you want to eat.

I have to DISAGREE with not liking the CS place in Japan. This is, without a doubt, my kids' FAVORITE restaurant. When Stephen and I talked about going for free dining, he asked if we could eat there every day, twice a day if possible! Now granted, you have to like that kind of food, but we loved the salads and the shrimp noodle bowl (which was a cross between soup and pasta).

Coral Reef we were very disappointed in the food for the cost. Just mediocre seafood for a lot of money. If you have really young kids, the view is neat, but really what you can see upstairs for free.

MGM: Brown Derby is a bit fancy and pricey, especially with young kids, and just keep in mind that it is two credits if you are on the dining plan. DH & I enjoyed it; I wouldn't take my kids there even now because of the cost. 50's Prime Time we really enjoyed and it's reasonable prices and food, plus fun. We enjoyed the Sci Fi (and if they've never been it's fun to do once for the atmosphere), but I wouldn't go again. Too loud, poor service, and hard to carry on a conversation because of how the "cars" are set up.

AK: I agree with Flame Tree being really good, and I also like Rainforest, but as Tricia said, they may have one near them. Our kids really liked that when they were young.

If they want to do ones out of the parks, some ideas would be Chef Mickey and Whispering Canyon. Really, though, making ADR's a few weeks out, they may be limited to what they can get. Give them the link to the menus and they can call, see what's available, and look at if they'd like to eat anything there:

http://allears.net/menu/menus.htm

 

[circelli]

i have done the ddp at disney for the last 4 years.
i know you said one of your relatives will be going to the motherland and is not set up yet for dining.

tell me what type of foods are they interested in.
are their any foods that they will not or can not have?

are they wanting to do table service for character meetings or do they want decent to great food?

i think i have been to most of the ts places at the hotels and in the parks with the exception of the beach club and yacht club resort area.
have not done the 2 french resturants in epcot also.

if they are on the dining plan, they need to chose the counter service places that are not the $6-7 total cost.
if you are paying $37.99 plus tax for the ddp, you need to break even at the minimum to make the ddp worth it economically.

They are on the Standard dining plan I believe, no Chinese !!!

Do you know of a good Italian place???

I am not sure if they want to do the Character dining.....their youngest DD would love it I am sure. There are 5 of them 2 male 3 females!!!

Thanks for taking the time and helping me help them

 

[donaldduck352]

Howdy All!!!
This DDP would drive me nuts.How would I know what I want too eat 6months from now!!

I just remember the last time we stayed.It was at Fort Wilderness(great cabins)but at the Crocketts Tavern and that bill almost made me fall out of my seat..There was 6 of us and we all had pizza soda for the kids and adult drinks and the bill was $120 Never again!!

Now Biergarten at Epcot was a good deal..Yes I love SOURKRUAT!!

 

[macraven]

I kind of wondered about the "empress" thing when addressing your Christmas card!

ok, i will confess........

keisha and i know each other from about 5 years back.
she was active on the test thread, (which i still post on and talk to myself there when the others jumped ship on me)

she made a comment years back on the test thread that she should really be an Empress.

some of us would affectionately call her Empress then.

so, when we did last year's ornament exchange, i gave the person that had her name include the Empress instead of miss, mrs, or ms.

i thought she would get a kick out of it or maybe her mail man would start bowing to her...

then a few on that exchange last year wanted to carry over to a Christmas card exchange. after i got the ok from everyone, i sent out the list of the names and addresses for those on the ornament exchange.

i did list keisha as Empress on the list everyone received.

believe it or not, some of the homies did address her envelope as Empress.

that is why marci has empress on her old list for this year's cards she is sending out.....


i just like to liven things up

i am swamped with stuff to do.
i was supposed to get a few pm's out late last night but fell asleep.
today was busier than usual for me and still haven't finished up on my correspondences.




catch you all later.

you too Empress!

They are on the Standard dining plan I believe, no Chinese !!!

Do you know of a good Italian place???

I am not sure if they want to do the Character dining.....their youngest DD would love it I am sure. There are 5 of them 2 male 3 females!!!

Thanks for taking the time and helping me help them

i will list them later tonight.
i have some things here i have to deal with and bbl to give suggestions.

i looked over the lists that some of the homies gave you.
i'm not in agreement with some of them but i based my opinions on the food more than the ambiance in the places.

marci, oct 5th was the last lunch with characters at Garden Grill this year.
i had made all my adr's at 180 days out.
i received a call from disney dining a week before my trip to let me know they were changing to dinners only there with no characters.

my original adr was for the 6th.
they switched me to the 5th for lunch.

the only difference between the lunch and dinner in all the past years was, the lunch did not include a salad and the dinner did.
also, the lunch was much cheaper than the dinnner.

 

[donaldduck352]

Well homies,the duck is done..See Ya in the morning all.Goodnight!!

 

[roseprincess]

HI homies-
Been busy yesterday getting teacher gifts together(about 12 of them).
Today I went shopping at Target for last minute stuff and went to do my weekly library visit, to get dvds and DS game for the kiddos, so they don't get too bored before Christmas.
Woke up with a cold/ sinus headache this morning.
Have to call the plumber and see if they can come out sometime tomorrow. We have been having a lot of water back-up in our kitchen sink, due to clogging in our common pipes(the people upstairs). Flooding our kitchen floor at times


Gotta run. Hope to bbl.

 

[RAPstar]

u know we want to hear ur list we live for this stuff

Speaking of which, I called today to try to do some reservations, but since they're switching to the new system they're only available til March, so I have to call back in January. But, and this was totally random, I book Cinderella's Royal Table for breakfast on my birthday! The other places I hope to get are

Tues: Le Cellier
Wed: 50's Prime Time Cafe
Th: Boma
Fri: CRT (brfst) not sure what I'll do for dinner yet, maybe just QS
Sat: Grand Floridian Cafe
Sun: Mama Melrose
Mon: Coral Reef

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

The other places I hope to get are

Tues: Le Cellier
Wed: 50's Prime Time Cafe
Th: Boma
Fri: CRT (brfst) not sure what I'll do for dinner yet, maybe just QS
Sat: Grand Floridian Cafe
Sun: Mama Melrose
Mon: Coral Reef

OK, my 2 cents ...

Le Cellier - great ... would definitely recommend it

Boma - we always make an ADR there each trip ... love it

CRT - never tried it

Grand Floridian Cafe - never tried it

Mama Melrose - another we enjoyed

Coral Reef - I didn't really enjoy it and wouldn't make another ADR there - waited forever for a table, then it took over 1/2 hour for them to even take our drink order ... the food was so slow coming out ... we basically wasted a whole afternoon there and didn't even do dessert (it was a lunch ADR and they were not busy - we were maybe one of three or four tables on the top platform)

 

[RAPstar]

OK, my 2 cents ...

Le Cellier - great ... would definitely recommend it

Boma - we always make an ADR there each trip ... love it

CRT - never tried it

Grand Floridian Cafe - never tried it

Mama Melrose - another we enjoyed

Coral Reef - I didn't really enjoy it and wouldn't make another ADR there - waited forever for a table, then it took over 1/2 hour for them to even take our drink order ... the food was so slow coming out ... we basically wasted a whole afternoon there and didn't even do dessert (it was a lunch ADR and they were not busy - we were maybe one of three or four tables on the top platform)

Hmmm.......I was mainly thinking Coral Reef cause of the atmosphere (I wanted to be a marine biologist at one time). And partyl something nice for my last dinner. Any recommendations?

 

[Tinker-tude]

empress [/I]is spoken for there can only be one jk

hope ur appt goes well too, no fun to be feeling poorly

You won it fair and square on this board! But I'll have you know I've been called Empress of the Universe at two different jobs.

Thanks for the well wishes, it gives me warm fuzzies.

Hmmm.......I was mainly thinking Coral Reef cause of the atmosphere (I wanted to be a marine biologist at one time). And partyl something nice for my last dinner. Any recommendations?

If you can swing it, run away from Disney, spend a day at Sea World, and eat at The Shark. GREAT food, and lots of cool fish in a giant tank. Big sharks! Or any of the restaurants at the GF are really good. We really love the Brown Derby in MGM for a great dinner or lunch. As others have said, it's a little expensive, but very worth it.

 

[RAPstar]

If you can swing it, run away from Disney, spend a day at Sea World, and eat at The Shark. GREAT food, and lots of cool fish in a giant tank. Big sharks! Or any of the restaurants at the GF are really good. We really love the Brown Derby in MGM for a great dinner or lunch. As others have said, it's a little expensive, but very worth it.

Well, as of right now, I'm doing 2 at the GF, the GF Cafe and The Wave for my birthday dinner. Of course, I'm mainly doing the GF Cafe cause I want to go to the spa and get pampered a bit on Sat (the day after my b-day). Then go to Disney Quest, lol.

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Hmmm.......I was mainly thinking Coral Reef cause of the atmosphere (I wanted to be a marine biologist at one time). And partyl something nice for my last dinner. Any recommendations?

It's cool but there are only so many tables next to the tanks ... you can see the tank from all the tables as the tables are on raised platforms. Also, if you do happen to get a table by the tank, beware that may end up with company (kids coming up to the tanks to see the fishes better, people coming up to the tanks to take pictures, etc) ...

This is the pic I took from our table ...

 

[KStarfish82]

Evening everyone!

We are supposed to get some snow tomorrow so I'm praying for an early dismissal!

Hope that any of you that are affected by this storm are OK

 

[macraven]

Evening everyone!

We are supposed to get some snow tomorrow so I'm praying for an early dismissal!

Hope that any of you that are affected by this storm are OK

how much is some?...........

our area could be looking at 8 to 14 ".
about 50 miles south of chicago the tv announcers are stating if you don' t have a generator, go buy one. the ice storm south of the city will be a bad one and they expect power to go out.

some of the schools nearby us have already cancelled school for tomorrow.
the schools in my town still plan to open.
75% tp 80% of all the hs students take the bus to school.

they only close if the busses don't start
if it is only a big snow storm, they school does a 2 hour delay and then starts......

i haven't looked at the weather website yet so don't know how much you will be hit by.

 

[KStarfish82]

I think about 2-4 inches. That's a lot for here!

 

[loribell]

Circelli - Tricia gave you great advice. I will add to it a bit. Oh yeah, Rain Forest Cafe is not included in the DDP. As for them not doing character meals I would advise that they do. Even my 17 year old son still likes to do them. The big plus is that you don't have to wait in lines for characters!

Okay now for meals:

MK -
Crystal Palace is great.
Cosmic Rays is our favorite CS. Pecos Bills & Columbia Harbor House are good too.

AK -
Tusker House with Donald and friends.
Flametree is the best. Pizzafari is okay.

DHS -
Hollywood & Vine is a decent buffet and can be used for the Fantasmic Dinner Package. You could also do Mama Melrose but we have not eaten there.

For CS we usually do Rosie's.

Epcot -
Le Cellier, you will not find a better meal in my opionion.

CS is good at Sunshine Season's, Electric Umbrella or Liberty Inn.

Resorts -
TS:
Whispering Canyon Cafe at Wilderness Lodge
Chef Mickey's at Contmeporary
Ohana for breakfast with Lilo & Stitch or for dinner is a lot of fun, at the Poly.
Boma is great.


CS:
Pepper Market at Coronado Springs is great.

Hope that helps.

 

[loribell]

Tamie - Well then I will just stick with Macadamia!


Hi & good night to everyone else!