For those of you who say that you can have a bad meal at home just the same as at Disney,you're absolutely right.However,when you're at Disney,you get to go back to your pricey hotel room and steam about it,unlike at home where you don't.That adds insult to injury.As to the person who said that they starved at Universal,I doubt it.We now go to US/IOA because you can go to a restaurant when you wish to and enjoy a meal without setting the alarm to get up six monthes ahead of time.
Well, I guess I'd rather have a "bad" Disney meal, return to my really nice hotel, or go out into the gorgeous park, ride a ride I like or see a show, then have an actual bad meal and go home.
And I was the person who made the comment about US... Because when we went, it was true. The reason you didn't have to wake up 6 months in advance for ADRs was because there was no meal, no deal, and no experience that was so good that people were frantic to do it. Average-to-poor food, especially CS foods, that were shockingly expensive, in places that were, at times, quite filthy.
It was quite a bummer because US was my second favorite park behind MK, but the experience we had last time with dining, and the park as a whole, made us completely uninterested in going back. It wasn't worth the hassle, or price. And when I weigh out that this last trip that, with
free dining, 2 adults ate at Le Cellier for $24 (tip) and got things like steak, and the last trip to US the same amount at a quick serve got me 2 things of nachos (chips and chem cheese) and 2 drinks... Not worth it.
I didn't "say" it is rated higher - it IS rater higher. Feel free to peruse Orlando restaurants on tripadvisor.com.
Thanks for the advice. Since you "love to cook" I'm sure you know exactly what you are talking about.
Why so rude? People here have given tips, shared how to save on dining, given the names of their favorite places to eat, only to be told that the food was gross or the people were rude or they wouldn't ever go there again... So the next logical step is to suggest going to eat somewhere else, especially since people are sharing what places outside of the park are rated higher (for what's that worth... Which is very little I suspect). If somebody complained to me about all the places to eat at the mall, in spite of my suggestions I've made, I'd tell them to eat elsewhere too.
I'm not sure what you want anybody to do here. Short of calling Mickey himself, I think your solution is to either:
1. Wait for free dining and pay nothing for food you think is disgusting
2. Pay full price for food you think is disgusting
3. Leave the park and eat at places you don't think are disgusting
I'm not sure what exactly you expect to happen. You think the food sucks. A lot of people don't agree. It's not anybody else's fault that you don't like the food.
And FWIW to the quoted poster, the fact you love to cook and do cook as meaning something to the discussion.