Taking a shot at a dining review - Our Honeymoon - Now Complete

[chell]

Great reviews and pictures! Can't wait to go ourselves!

Thanks! If I can give you more detail or answer any questions let me know. When is your trip?

 

[chell]

Your reviews are amazing - they make really good sense to me - but then I am a DIS Maniac (as DH affectionately calls me)!

Thank you!

 

[chell]

We are now on to Wednesday. You guys are going to think I second guessed every single meal but really it was only three. I forgot about second guessing Wednesday’s lunch until I started to do this review. We had lunch scheduled for Coral Reef. This was another restaurant that I wasn’t big on because of the seafood and fish, but I did want to go to because of the design and display of the restaurant. Well once again we were not disappointed.

Sorry but we forgot to take pictures here too. I think we were just too hungry since we didn’t even have a snack for dinner.

Larry ordered the Sea and Land for his appetizer, Grilled Mahi Mahi for the entrée and the Chocolate Wave for dessert.

I ordered the Mixed Greens Salad with Key Lime vinaigrette for my appetizer, the Grilled New York Strip Steak for my entrée and I honestly can’t remember what I had for dessert. I was going to be too lazy to look back through my receipts but now I’m curious too. I was thinking some kind of Crème Brulee but I don’t see one on the AllEars menu. Yep, I had Crème Brulee. Seemed like I could remember eating it there. I ate so many that they blend together a little. Hehe

The Sea and Land had wonderful tasting polenta. Larry said the shrimp and steak were both cooked perfectly and tasted great. The beef was very tender and full of flavor. My salad was very good and the dressing worked perfectly and wasn’t too strong.

Larry’s Mahi Mahi was good, but of course not as good as Yak & Yeti. Larry always says everything I cook is the best he has ever had. He also says when he tries something that he likes that I didn’t cook that I could cook it even better. But honestly I don’t think anything I could cook for him right now would be better than the Duck at San Angel or the Mahi Mahi at Yak & Yeti.

My steak was very impressive. Generally I am not a fan of a New York Strip steak. I’m a RibEye and a Filet fan. This steak was very tender and full of flavor. The potatoes were cooked and seasoned perfectly and the broccolini was very good as well.

The Chocolate Wave was good but Larry doesn’t like cherries so I got to try one and boy were they strong. He says not to let the portion size fool you. It was extremely rich and even though it was small it still filled you up and was actually the perfect size. It may be too sweet for some.

The crème brulee was great. The caramelized sugar on top wasn’t too thin or too thick. It was great.

 

[chell]

Dinner this evening was at the Yachtsman. And sadly again I have to tell you that we didn’t take pictures here either. We only took one picture. Sorry. We were too busy eating. HEHE.

OH, but we did take a picture of our snack in France, which is my favorite thing they offer. The chocolate mousse!!!

Never mind what I said about only taking one picture, we took more. Boy does my memory suck!

I ordered the Pumpkin Spice Martini. Neither of us are big drinkers, actually we had more drinks on this trip than either of us have had in a few years. I ordered this because I love all things Pumpkin but I didn’t really like this one. It was too strong for me. That’s why I don’t drink often because I don’t like the taste of alcohol.

But it was a pretty drink.

There I am taking a sip. Can you see my almost Mickey head brown spot on my left cheek? It actually looked much more like a Mickey head until the little spurt started between the “ear” and the “head”. In my family we call these “Mom Spots” because our grandmother we called Mom had them.

Larry ordered the Scallops for his appetizer. The scallops were cooked perfectly and had a wonderful flavor – at least that is what Larry said.

I decided to give the cheese plate a try for my appetizer. You may notice that the blue cheese is gone and I got two servings of the one in the middle because I can’t have blue cheeses. Did you know that if you are allergic to eggs that you shouldn’t eat blue chesses either? I never cared for them anyway. Blech!

This is the Waggu Beef, which is what Larry ordered. He said it was good but not as good as he thought it would be. He said he has had bettered steaks at home.

This is my entrée, which was the T-Bone Steak. It was very tasty and was cooked to my specifications. Most of the steak went back to our room that night in case we needed another snack after midnight. The potatoes didn’t make it back to the room because they all jumped in my belly. I don’t know how that happened. Guess they were that good.

This was our pre-dessert. Isn’t it adorable? It was wonderful and a very pleasant surprise.

We didn’t get pictures of desserts though and we sadly don’t remember what we had. Sorry.

Okay, I’m off to bed now and will be on Thursday tomorrow, which was Liberty Tree and Jiko.

Can I just say that I want to go back SO bad? It sucks that we will have to wait 2 years before we can go back. We have to save money this year to buy a car because Larry’s is so old and may not last much longer.

 

[MickeyNicki]

Thank you so much for your Coral Reef review, the only reason I booked dinner here for our January trip is because we are taking our 2 nieces with us and I thought they would love the huge tank and that would occupy them while we ate (since they eat like birds). DH and I are planning on ordering what you are Larry did, now I can rest easy!

 

[chell]

Thank you so much for your Coral Reef review, the only reason I booked dinner here for our January trip is because we are taking our 2 nieces with us and I thought they would love the huge tank and that would occupy them while we ate (since they eat like birds). DH and I are planning on ordering what you are Larry did, now I can rest easy!

Glad it helped. You are welcome. I would take a little something extra to occupy their time. If they are like our nephews they won't stay occupied by them that long. Have you thought of checking in a little early to see if you can make sure you get a table at the window? I think that would best for them.

 

[hgbluesparkles]

Good reviews! I'm going on my Disneymoon in March so I'm subbing.

 

[TigerKat]

Thanks for the Yachtsman review, we loved it there! Did you try the bread and roasted garlic........

 

[skellingtonfreak]

Great reviews! Now I know I have to make ressies for Yak and Yeti when we go back...not this trip, but definitely in September.

Keep up the fabulous work!

 

[Todd&Copper]

I had that Pumpkin Spice Martini in September of 2007 at the Pop bar. I thought it was good but not as wonderful as I had been hoping. It needed more pumpkin to balance the spice. I thought the nutmeg/cinnamon/clove was too strong.

 

[DizWisher]

EXCELLENT reviews. Just one thing...
Stop putting yourself down! You and DH are adorable, and will be a cute couple. I love your kittycat t-shirt.
My DH wants to eat at Coral Reef in Nov.-Dec., just for the fish tanks. He is 'eh' about (eating) fish, but loves seafood, I don't like either, and my nurse, the third in our party, likes anything. We are doing dxddp. Does the food rate a lunch or dinner, or is DH going on the Living Seas twice instead?
We're trying Yak and Yeti because you and DH had such a good time. I love cream cheese and pineapple, so the dessert you had sounds heavenly.
Keep up the great work!
DizWisher
aka
Miri

 

[chell]

Thanks for the Yachtsman review, we loved it there! Did you try the bread and roasted garlic........

Yes we did. How could I leave that out? YUM!

 

[chell]

EXCELLENT reviews. Just one thing...
Stop putting yourself down! You and DH are adorable, and will be a cute couple. I love your kittycat t-shirt.
My DH wants to eat at Coral Reef in Nov.-Dec., just for the fish tanks. He is 'eh' about (eating) fish, but loves seafood, I don't like either, and my nurse, the third in our party, likes anything. We are doing dxddp. Does the food rate a lunch or dinner, or is DH going on the Living Seas twice instead?
We're trying Yak and Yeti because you and DH had such a good time. I love cream cheese and pineapple, so the dessert you had sounds heavenly.
Keep up the great work!
DizWisher
aka
Miri

Thank you! We had lunch at Coral Reef because I've just got too many favorite dinner spots. If you have other restaurants you want to try for dinner make this one a lunch. Like I said the steak was very good.

I'm so glad to hear you are going to Yak & Yeti. I hope yours is as good as ours if not better.

 

[chell]

Sorry but no new reviews tonight. We babysat our 4 & 6 year old nephews. We can't believe how good they were tonight though. It was almost scary. The 6 year old watched Lilo & Stitch then Dinosaur. The 4 year old kicked me off the computer so he could play the games on the "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse". I didn't mind letting him so that he would stay out of trouble.

If I don't get one on tomorrow I want to wish you all a very Happy New Year!!!

 

[MelanieC]

Thanks for the great reviews - I can't wait to try Yak and Yeti this summer.

 

[keenercam]

What an awesome TR/Food Review. Thank you so much! You ate at many of the restaurants that DH and I will try over the next couple of weeks and it is so helpful to read your reviews. Thank you!

 

[mcrabeck]

Congrats on your new marriage! What a great place to spend your honeymoon! Thanks for sharing your trip and pictures with us- they are great!

 

[chell]

What an awesome TR/Food Review. Thank you so much! You ate at many of the restaurants that DH and I will try over the next couple of weeks and it is so helpful to read your reviews. Thank you!

I'm glad it has been helpful. Let me know if you have any questions that I can try to help you with. I bet you are super excited that your trip and Vow Renewal is almost here. Congrats!

 

[chell]

Thanks for the great reviews - I can't wait to try Yak and Yeti this summer.

Congrats on your new marriage! What a great place to spend your honeymoon! Thanks for sharing your trip and pictures with us- they are great!

You are welcome and thank you both.

We are both already ready to go back!

 

[macraven]

Chell, i'm here reading.
loving your reviews!