We had 4:40 dinner reservations for the Fantasmic dinner package at the Hollywood Brown Derby. My sis and BIL wanted to try and squeeze in a little Epcot in between dinner and Fantasmic, so I went to the counter to ask if I could move up my reservation, and they graciously moved my reservation up to 3:30pm. I am pretty sure that is when they begin serving dinner because the dining room was empty and we had no wait at all for our table. Gilberto, our waiter, was wonderful; provided excellent, friendly service. We never had to wait for a refill (which we really appreciated after waiting an hour and a half in the sun for Luke and Leia's autographs!), and he went above and beyond for us. I would highly recommend requesting him!
After reading many positive reviews of it, I had been dying to try the Cobb salad for years, but my husband would never share it with me and it is on the menu as 'for two.' I thought I could con my sister into splitting it with me, but alas, she wanted the market greens salad instead. I mentioned it in jest to Gilberto when I was ordering and he excused himself.
He came back a moment later and said "the chef asked me to tell you he will make you a smaller portion cobb salad if you like."
And it was every bit as good as advertised! I was surprised, though, that it goes well beyond a chopped salad, it is practically MINCED. Here is another *borrowed with no copyright infringement intended* picture
See what I mean?
My sister also loved her salad, which looked delicious. Borrowed pic:
For dinner, I had the salmon with gorgonzola and balsamic glaze. It was very good, the salmon was moist without being slimy, and the sauce was excellent and paired well with it. The polenta it was served with was very good as well, moist and flavorful but not overpowering.
My husband had the crab cake appetizer, which he said was okay, but not great.
For dinner, he chose the filet mignon with the garlic roasted potatoes. He ordered it medium, and was very pleased with it. Borrowed pic:
The kids decided to be adventurous. Instead of chicken nuggets (not a choice), they ordered...hot dogs! They also got the chicken soup as an appetizer. I tried some of my daughters and thought it was very good.
I had whispered to Gilberto that we had ordered a Star Wars themed cake from the cake hotline and he said they were preparing it, and then proceeded to take everyone's dessert order. Since we got the Fantasmic dinner package, dessert is included. I didn't take that into consideration when I ordered the birthday cake. So Two Desserts for Everyone!
Gilberto brought out the cake with several CMs and we all sang Happy Birthday (for the second time!)
Here is a picture of the Star Wars Cake...
Something missing, you say? Jedis, you see not? Agree, I would. (Okay, I'll stop the Yoda speak now!
) I asked Gilberto what happened and he didn't know, so he asked the manager to come over, who explained that when you order a cake from the hotline, they are supposed to send over the 'stuff' for the restaurant to make it with and they didn't send it, so they did what they could. The cake was delicious -- white cake with a vanilla pudding layer in the middle, the icing was not too sweet. But I was still disappointed. Luckily, the kids didn't know what they were supposed to get, so the only one disappointed was me.
The real desserts came shortly after. Not that we ate much of them! I had my favorite -- the grapefruit cake! So light and refreshing. And it paired perfectly with the most delicious pomegranate martini on the planet!
Husband had the creme brulee, which he liked. Sister had the Bananas Foster tower, which she loved! Borrowed pic:
The other side of the family thought it was very good, but overpriced. We didn't think so. We loved our dinner there and it will continue to be one of our must-dos! Unfortunately the rest of our day didn't go as well, a storm blew in so we didn't make it to Epcot and Fantasmic was canceled.
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My sister did order her glowtini by saying with great satisfaction - "I brought my ID, I'll have that glowtini!" But the waitress told her she didn't need it! She also didn't card my husband, either. My BIL, bless his soul, ordered a rootbeer float because he felt bad for me. Made up for some of the Disney-hating! 
My husband said they didn't have any -- I am not sure if that means they were out or if it is no longer available, but, *sigh*, no strawberries for me. The waffle itself seemed dried out, but edible. But what really threw me was the bacon. I like my bacon on the crispy side, I've even been known to burn the bacon 'accidentally on purpose' - those darn carcinogens don't fend me off! But even I couldn't eat the burnt cardboard strips soaked in grease that they called bacon. It didn't even taste remotely like bacon. It didn't taste remotely like anything! YUCK! My niece had the sausage and it didn't look much better. Here's a borrowed pic:
and it took like an hour of rubbing blue creme eyeshadow over my daughter's face and arms for her Star Wars costume!) So maybe we were getting the bottom of the barrel leftovers and it was not typical, I'm not sure, but we waited until we got to the parks to eat breakfast the rest of the trip. 
Keep 'em coming!
So true!!!!
We grab a primo table by the water's edge and dig in!
Luckily, this all happened in a split second and my daughter didn't see what happened. She LOVES those little lizards! I looked in shock at my husband, whose jaw was dropped. "He DID NOT just do that?!?" 
