The Deluxe Dining that defeated us ...a German perspective! (FINISHED!)

[Busymom85]

Great reviews. Thanks for posting.

 

[annichan]

Hi everybody,

I am sorry I have kept everybody waiting so long for the next installment - I was so busy reading other people's reports that I neglected my own ... And I was also really busy at work. However, I've got one coming up in a minute and the next one will follow tomorrow, I promise!

Great reviews. Thanks for posting.

Thank you busymom!

 

[annichan]

After defeating the Big Kahuna we headed to Fort de Soto Park, Tampa, and spent a glorious day playing at the beach. When we got back to our hotel in the evening, we were hungry, tired and seriously ready to just hop on the elevator and try out a restaurant we could get to without any hassle or commuting: Our own hotel’s Artist Point signature restaurant!

We knew what it looked like as there was a lookout window on our floor from which you could see the restaurant from high above, and it had somehow become my habit to take a quick peek in there every time I passed by. It looked even nicer once we were down there, though: High ceilings, light woods, ceiling-high painted murals. Very nice.

The soft drinks we got given once seated were even nicer, as they had Mickey straws in them!

As it turned out, these were also for sale at our food court, but we hadn’t seen them yet and were delighted to have (and of course, be allowed to keep!) them. We bought another couple later to have all four colours .

I had originally planned on having a glass of wine, possibly even a wine flight, with this dinner. However, as I was so tired from a long sunny day, I decided to forgo the stronger alcohol and just have a Bud Lite (I wonder if that’s the Disney spirit at work on me here – I am never that timid about drinking at home! )

For starters, I had some trouble deciding what to get: I was really wanting to try the mussels, but never having eaten mussels (even though I love pretty much all other kinds of seafood!) and not really knowing the proper way to eat them, I chickened out on ordering .
So I settled for the very nice-sounding Mixed Greens Salad - with roasted pear and champagne vinaigrette, Black Diamond cheddar and candied hazelnuts instead.

This was actually a great choice: The freshness of the salad, together with the sweetness of the beautiful vinaigrette and the hearty cheese, helped revive me a lot, and I was no longer more or less slumped over the table waiting to be allowed to go to bed and sleep .

DH went for the Smoky Portobello Soup with Roasted Shiitakes and Chive Oil, which was a bit of an adventure as neither of us knew what kind of fruit, vegetable, herb or animal a Portobello was .

Just to annoy me, he wouldn’t let me try the soup to find out, he just said that it tasted very nice but that he STILL didn’t have a clue what a Portobello was. (Yes, I looked it up on the internet since, and have found out it’s a mushroom! Bit boring, really – it sounded far more sparkling and tasty back when we didn’t know what it was and the suspense was killing me .)

For my main course, I had really wanted to try the buffalo steak … Until I found out there was no such thing on the menu .

There might have been earlier and they have just taken it off the menu, or maybe there never was and I misread something – but I had really been looking forward to it and now there was to be no buffalo steak for poor Annichan .

DH had also wanted to try it – but he was unfazed and simply switched to the Braised Buffalo Short Rib - with parsnip potato grain, glazed leeks, and red wine jus. He said it was very good (in fact, he liked it so much he would have it again a later evening, but here I am getting ahead of myself ), and it looked it, too:

Only problem for me, though: I don’t like ribs! So I had to choose something different. Being a total seafood and fish fan, I decided on the Artist Point’s signature plate, the Cedar Plank Roasted Pacific King Salmon with roasted potatoes, brussels sprouts, smoked pork belly, and honey-truffle brown butter.

Now, this was nice but not really special. The salmon was yummy but tasted just like, well, like salmon pretty much always tastes when it isn’t somehow seasoned differently. I did not really taste anything of the honey-truffle butter. The Brussels sprouts were great, they are one of my favourite veggies and there could have been more of them, but I didn’t really like the pork belly in there. Too fatty, and not really good company to the salmon as far as I thought. So all in all, for a signature plate in a 2-credit-per-meal restaurant I found this dish a little disappointing, but by no means downright bad.

The time came to choose desserts … And once again, I knew straightaway what I was going to get: the famed Artist Point Cobbler - Seasonal berries and housemade black raspberry ice cream.

I must say that I ended up only eating the berries and the delicious fresh, yummy, not a bit too sweet raspberry ice cream, as I suddenly found out I was too full for the cake part of the cobbler after all. I tried a little bit of it and liked it, but alas, it was just too much.

DH’s decision fell on an item I cannot even find on the online menu any longer, so maybe they have taken it off the menu by now: the honey-rosemary crème brulée with a dried blueberry biscotti. As he is just sitting next to me, I asked him how he liked it, and he said “please not to disturb him as he is working but the crème brulée was good”. So there you go

To sum it all up, we were very pleased with our dinner at Artist Point – both with the nice atmosphere, the good food and the friendly server, and of course the fact that we only had two minutes from there to our comfy beds!

We would not hesitate to go back – and in fact we did do so during the same vacation, but I’m getting ahead of myself again.

Coming up next: death by omelet – back to Whispering Canyon …

 

[torsie24]

Hahaha, I love your husbands creme brulee reply!!!!!

Glad you had a good meal, Thank you for another great update!

 

[DisGirl819]

I am loving your review. It makes me chuckle to read a German perspective of American food. I'd never thought of some of the things you say, such as syrup on a waffle?

Also, spelling yogurt with an "h" must be a German or European spelling b/c DH spells it that way too and he lived in Germany and Australia growing up. I always got on him about misspelling it. Haha, now I have to tell him he was right too.

And, Artist Point looks so yummy! I am actually considering adding that to my ressies for our upcoming trip! Were there kids there? we have a 1 yo DD and I don't want to go there if it is more of a couples place.

 

[GoofySon'sMom]

Love your review of Artist Point! It is on our list for next trip! Love seeing the pics! DH wants to try the salmon ... I will be sure to show him the review. I think he will end up getting it anyhow but I want him to be prepared that it may not be anything special!

Looking forward to more!

 

[SSRJen]

Wow, the salad at Artist's Point looks great. Sometimes a salad like that coupled with an appetizer, makes a wonderful entree. Thanks for the review.

 

[ChelleinNC]

I am all caught up now

Kona looked great, and there coffee is wonderful! IIRC, the Lilo & Stitch statue is chocolate.

Haven't been to AP in years, but I remember it being wonderful. Glad to hear it was good enough for you to go twice in one trip The signature cedar plank salmon used to be a lot more special IMHO before every restaurant started serving a cedar plank salmon.

looking forward to the next review

 

[Flossbolna]

It really is a shame that they took the bufallo steak off the menu, it was fantastic. I really liked Artist Point but at the moment I find the menu not very interesting... But it is a beautiful place. Thanks for the review!

 

[annichan]

Hahaha, I love your husbands creme brulee reply!!!!!

Well, I'm glad HE's not the one writing these dining reviews, as the whole 30-odd reviews would have easily fit on one page!

Also, spelling yogurt with an "h" must be a German or European spelling b/c DH spells it that way too and he lived in Germany and Australia growing up. I always got on him about misspelling it. Haha, now I have to tell him he was right too.

Yeehaw, go me, the spelling expert! (Not!)
Say hi to your yoghurt-eating DH from me, or rather, say "Guten Tag"!

Love your review of Artist Point! It is on our list for next trip! Love seeing the pics!

It's definitely on OUR list for the next trip as well ... Maybe they'll put the buffalo back on the menu? Mmmmh, the prospect of it ...

Wow, the salad at Artist's Point looks great. Sometimes a salad like that coupled with an appetizer, makes a wonderful entree. Thanks for the review.

Yes, you're right - and I'm sure you'll also feel less horribly full afterwards.

Kona looked great, and there coffee is wonderful! IIRC, the Lilo & Stitch statue is chocolate.

Seriously!?! Oh dear, that means that DH was right and I was wrong. Mental note to myself: Never ever let him read him this thread

It really is a shame that they took the bufallo steak off the menu, it was fantastic. I really liked Artist Point but at the moment I find the menu not very interesting... But it is a beautiful place. Thanks for the review!

Oh, lucky you - you got to try it? Yum! I should have discovered Disney World earlier ... But well, it's never too late to start a new lifelong addiction!

 

[annichan]

Today we had originally planned to skip table service breakfast and grab a bite to eat at Starring Rolls instead, since we (or, rather, I – the obsessive compulsive planner) had today planned as a whole Hollywood Studios day. But then DH successfully put his foot down saying that a man should sometimes be entitled to have breakfast without trekking miles and miles across Disney property first. Okay honey – I have an original thought, why not go have breakfast at the Whispering Canyon for a change?

This time I asked for a window table on an impulse, not realizing that that decision got us right in the middle of the territory of that most scary of all servers: the magnificent Mountain Mo. She was a lady who had scared the hell out of us when we had dined here the first time, as she was really loud and boisterous and into the whole "shout and yell at the guests" spiel. As soon as we realized we would be served by her, we braced ourselves and tried to be brave and witty at the same time .

So she came closer and closer … (imagine the title theme from Jaws here, and us transfixed in terror). She smiled at us and sweetly asked where we were hailing from, we said “Germany” and she then proceeded to ask what we would like to eat, and NOT ONCE THE WHOLE MORNING did she act anything else than perfectly nice and friendly!

Did she take pity on us because we looked so scared?
Or is it that Germans are generally known as wussies in the Wild West?
Maybe she just has a soft spot for newlyweds and wanted to spare us (as we were of course wearing our Just Married buttons, as always).

No seriously, I think it was really because we were foreigners and non-native speakers, she couldn’t be sure that we would understand it was all some kind of game so she didn’t even start to get into it. Do I have to tell you that I was the slightest bit disappointed …?

Anyway, what did we have to eat? Once more, we both chickened out at the prospect of the ginormous All-You-Can-Eat skillet, opting for some healthy cholesterol instead : I chose the Western omelet (with ham, peppers, onions, red bliss potatoes and another one of those buns I didn’t like since they tasted of nothing).

DH decided to have the ham and cheese omelet I had had the last time we were here. So we dug into our egg-and-molten-cheese-fest until we could barely move anymore. (Did I mention that I have a rather high cholesterol level and only rarely eat eggs … normally?)

All the time, we looked on longingly as the other tables were subjected to all kinds of jokes including being served giant soft drink glasses (buckets, really) and the old ketchup game – while Mountain Mo treated us with nothing less than respect. Duh!

Eventually we gave up on waiting for some ill treatment, rolled out of there and were on our way to Hollywood Studios.

There will be more food pictures in the next installment, I promise!

Which will be coming up shortly: Pixie dust alert! - Dinner at the Hollywood Brown Derby

 

[Isthatyoutiger]

Hi Annichan,

I love the Whispering Canyon and your breakfast review was great....yum.

Western Omelet is the best.

Keep up the great report.

Auf Wiedersehen

 

[Jagdcarcajou]

Great reviews so far, really enjoy reading this thread!

 

[annichan]

There will be more food pictures in the next installment, I promise!
Which will be coming up shortly: Pixie dust alert! - Dinner at the Hollywood Brown Derby

Uh-oh, by letting more than a week go by since writing that sentence I have given a whole new meaning to the term "shortly". Ah well, I'm a foreigner, what do I know about the English language .

Anyway, next instalment coming up in a moment

I love the Whispering Canyon and your breakfast review was great....yum.
Western Omelet is the best.
Keep up the great report.
Auf Wiedersehen

Danke! Actually I wouldn't mind eating one of those omelets right now - I am so hungry, and I won't get anything to eat for another five hours, sniff!

Great reviews so far, really enjoy reading this thread!

Thank you - I hope you still think the same now that I have made y'all wait for so long for the next instalment !

 

[annichan]

This was a really early dinner – not that we were so hungry after our omelette fest that we couldn't have waited a couple hours longer, but I had decided on trying the Fantasmic! Dinner Package, and for that, the latest dinner time I could get was 3.50

For those among you who have never done the FDP, this is how it works (at least on the DDP):
The package is available at the Hollywood Brown Derby, Mama Melrose's and the Hollywood and Vine. When making your ADR, you simply say that you would like the FDP added. It does not cost anything extra (money- or credit-wise), and you eat off the normal menu, at least at the Brown Derby. However, with your meal you get a little voucher on which the server writes your names and party size.
This little yellow slip of paper then entitles you to preferred entry to that night's Fantasmic! show (if there are two shows on the day, apparently the voucher only works for the early one).

So this is what it sounds like in theory … In reality, however, they have eliminated the extra entrance that voucher holders were previously let in through, and you have to queue up at the normal Fantasmic! entrance at least 90 (!) minutes prior to the start of the show !!

With all that said (and to keep you in enormous amounts of suspense regarding how we fared at getting to Fantasmic! ), let's get to the actual dining experience! So, here goes:

We had to wait for only about three minutes until we were seated in the back of the restaurant, on the raised part right across from the entrance. We really liked the restaurant and its athmosphere: not too busy, nice and quiet, beautifully furnished and not too heavily air-conditioned (I hate freezing indoors after melting outdoors).

I don't really remember anything about our server Cheryl, apart from the name and the fact that she was nice. She highly recommended for us to start with the Cobb salad, which I had planned on doing anyway (I hadn't known that it was a shared appetizer for two, but luckily enough DH was more than willing to go for half a salad as there was the prospect of steak to come ).

The salad was chopped at our table – I wish I had been quick enough to take a picture of that! -, and consisted of finely chopped greens, turkey breast, egg, bacon, tomatoes, crumbled blue cheese, avocado, chives and Cobb dressing (whatever that may be).
We both really liked it although it was rather heavy for a salad, more like an entrée type dish, and we regretted not having asked for the blue cheese on the side, as there were lots and lots of it in there, and we both don't really care for it that much.
(As quite a few people here have already mentioned how they like reading about my European perspective on American food, I can tell you that I have not seen so many blue cheese dishes in my whole life in Germany as I have seen in two weeks in Florida. You guys sure love your blue cheese, don't you? )

Now, that was the moment when we started gathering some serious pixie dust: First, Cheryl appeared with two glasses of sparkling wine, garnished with strawberries, as a little present for our honeymoon. Yay, free alcohol!

So we drank to many happy years to come, and I became a bit sappy as I was so happy to have found this wonderful man, and to have married him, and to have a whole life with him ahead of me! I mean, isn't he just so gorgeous?

We were still sitting there and happily sipping our glasses of bubbly when another cast member appeared and asked if we were the ones celebrating our honeymoon? Yup, indeed, that's us.

Well in that case, would we mind having our picture taken? She wouldn't tell us what for, but she promised to be back in a bit so we could find out.
Intrigued, we agreed and smiled for a picture.

Shortly after that, our main courses arrived:

I had decided on the Hijiki Crusted Ahi Tuna Seared "Rare" with snow pea stir fry, amazu diakon, soy and wasabi sauces, and I will be forever grateful for that decision. Even though I can’t pronounce half of the ingredients, let alone know what they are – but who cares? This dish was ab-so-lute-ly delicious. It was juicy, spicy, soft and veggie-crunchy, hot and sweet and peppery all at the same time. My palate was really busy processing all these various tastes, then decided it was in heaven. Okay. I don’t need anything else to eat, ever – just another portion of this, please!

Well, back to earth and to my dining report … DH had the char-grilled 12 oz. New York Strip Steak with herb-roasted red potatoes, cremini mushrooms, tiny onions and cabernet syrup … or did he? It's what it says on our receipt, however on the picture it looks more like the pork tenderloin …
He can't remember what he had, and for some reason I didn't try nor even really notice it, I was too distracted with my heavenly tuna

We were both really happy and full afterwards, so we briefly contemplated skipping dessert yet again – however, we had committed that foul deed too often already, we we picked up our menus and ordered desserts.
DH went for the Double Vanilla Bean Creme Brulee with a dark chocolate dipped biscotti (definitely a creme brulée man, my DH is).

I gave the Grapefruit Cake a try, as I had read pretty much everywhere that this was the best dessert ever (or at least since the invention of cakes ). When it arrived, it surely looked beautiful:

However, I must admit that I really was too full to enjoy it. It was just too rich, and much too sweet for my taste. I guess I was expecting something really sour, therefore I was a little disappointed.
Same as with the Key Lime Pie at Olivia's Café, come to think of it – seems like I was on a quest to find a refreshing sour dessert during this vacation and didn't really succeed.
(From reading this, you would come to think that I don't eat sweets – from my dress size, however, one could infer otherwise ).

Anyway, afterwards we were sort of ready to settle the bill and leave – until we suddenly remembered that we were still waiting on that cast member to visit us again and let us know why she took our picture!

Almost as soon as we remembered that, she arrived – and presented us with a Brown Derby menu that only looked like a menu from the outside, but on the inside had some pictures of the restaurant and a picture of the two of us smiling happily into the cast member's camera, with the caption "Celebrating your Honeymoon"!
This was so cute, I was so happy to have received both the sparkling wine AND this for our honeymoon … What an unexpected amount of pixie dust!

Now, I promised I would let you know how the Fantasmic! experience went for us with the package vouchers.

Well …

erm …

you know …

We went past the entrance to Fantasmic! two hours before the start of the show, en route to yet another ride on the glorious Tower of Terror, and we were already quite tired and really hot and almost ready to go home. Then we saw that there was already a HUGE crowd waiting in front of the entrance, and when we got back in 30 minutes there was no way we'd be able to get past all these people without some serious pushing and shoving . And remember, once we did that, we would STILL have had to sit and wait an hour and a half for the show to start.

So what did we do, regarding the wonderful Fantasmic!, the best evening entertainment Disney supposedly has to offer, the one show that we had not yet seen and which MUST NOT BE MISSED?

We went and rode first on the ToT, then on the tram to the parking lot, then to our hotel and spent the evening lounging lazily by the pool. And the Fantasmic! Dinner Package voucher has found a new home in my scrapbook. Shocking, isn't it?

But I figure that with Disney, you can never see everything in one trip anyway (this was DH's first and my first since I was 10 years old, after all) – and there's always got to be something shiny and new to look forward to for next trip!

Coming up next: Screams and shivers - breakfast at Chef Mickey's …

 

[ChelleinNC]

Uh-oh, by letting more than a week go by since writing that sentence I have given a whole new meaning to the term "shortly". Ah well, I'm a foreigner, what do I know about the English language .

Glad you're back!

For those among you who have never done the FDP, this is how it works (at least on the DDP):
The package is available at the Hollywood Brown Derby, Mama Melrose's and the Hollywood and Vine. When making your ADR, you simply say that you would like the FDP added. It does not cost anything extra (money- or credit-wise), and you eat off the normal menu, at least at the Brown Derby. However, with your meal you get a little voucher on which the server writes your names and party size.
This little yellow slip of paper then entitles you to preferred entry to that night's Fantasmic! show (if there are two shows on the day, apparently the voucher only works for the early one).

So this is what it sounds like in theory … In reality, however, they have eliminated the extra entrance that voucher holders were previously let in through, and you have to queue up at the normal Fantasmic! entrance at least 90 (!) minutes prior to the start of the show !!


We had to wait for only about three minutes until we were seated in the back of the restaurant, on the raised part right across from the entrance. We really liked the restaurant and its athmosphere: not too busy, nice and quiet, beautifully furnished and not too heavily air-conditioned (I hate freezing indoors after melting outdoors).


I don't really remember anything about our server Cheryl, apart from the name and the fact that she was nice. She highly recommended for us to start with the Cobb salad, which I had planned on doing anyway (I hadn't known that it was a shared appetizer for two, but luckily enough DH was more than willing to go for half a salad as there was the prospect of steak to come ).

The salad was chopped at our table – I wish I had been quick enough to take a picture of that! -, and consisted of finely chopped greens, turkey breast, egg, bacon, tomatoes, crumbled blue cheese, avocado, chives and Cobb dressing (whatever that may be).
We both really liked it although it was rather heavy for a salad, more like an entrée type dish, and we regretted not having asked for the blue cheese on the side, as there were lots and lots of it in there, and we both don't really care for it that much.
(As quite a few people here have already mentioned how they like reading about my European perspective on American food, I can tell you that I have not seen so many blue cheese dishes in my whole life in Germany as I have seen in two weeks in Florida. You guys surely love your blue cheese, don't you?

Now, that was the moment when we started gathering some serious pixie dust: First, Cheryl appeared with two glasses of sparkling wine, garnished with strawberries, as a little present for our honeymoon. Yay, free alcohol!

So we drank to many happy years to come, and I became a bit sappy as I was so happy to have found this wonderful man, and to have married him, and to have a whole life with him ahead of me! I mean, isn't he just so gorgeous?

We were still sitting there and happily sipping our glasses of bubbly when another cast member appeared and asked if we were the ones celebrating our honeymoon? Yup, indeed, that's us.

Well in that case, would we mind having our picture taken? She wouldn't tell us what for, but she promised to be back in a bit so we could find out.
Intrigued, we agreed and smiled for a picture.

Shortly after that, our main courses arrived:

I had decided on the Hijiki Crusted Ahi Tuna Seared "Rare" with snow pea stir fry, amazu diakon, soy and wasabi sauces, and I will be forever grateful for that decision. Even though I can’t pronounce half of the ingredients, let alone know what they are – but who cares? This dish was ab-so-lute-ly delicious. It was juicy, spicy, soft and veggie-crunchy, hot and sweet and peppery all at the same time. My palate was really busy processing all these various tastes, then decided it was in heaven. Okay. I don’t need anything else to eat, ever – just another portion of this, please!

Well, back to earth and to my dining report … DH had the char-grilled 12 oz. New York Strip Steak with herb-roasted red potatoes, cremini mushrooms, tiny onions and cabernet syrup … or did he? It's what it says on our receipt, however on the picture it looks more like the pork tenderloin

We were both really happy and full afterwards, so we briefly contemplated skipping dessert yet again – however, we had committed that foul deed too often already, we we picked up our menus and ordered desserts.
DH went for the Double Vanilla Bean Creme Brulee with a dark chocolate dipped biscotti (definitely a creme brulée man, my DH is).


I gave the Grapefruit Cake a try, as I had read pretty much everywhere that this was the best dessert ever (or at least since the invention of cakes ). When it arrived, it surely looked beautiful:

However, I must admit that I really was too full to enjoy it. It was just too rich, and much too sweet for my taste. I guess I was expecting something really sour, therefore I was a little disappointed.
Same as with the Key Lime Pie at Olivia's Café, come to think of it – seems like I was on a quest to find a refreshing sour dessert during this vacation and didn't really succeed.
(From reading this, you would come to think that I don't eat sweets – from my dress size, however, one could infer otherwise ).

Anyway, afterwards we were sort of ready to settle the bill and leave – until we suddenly remembered that we were still waiting on that cast member to visit us again and let us know why she took our picture!

Almost as soon as we remembered that, she arrived – and presented us with a Brown Derby menu that only looked like a menu from the outside, but on the inside had some pictures of the restaurant and a picture of the two of us smiling happily into the cast member's camera, with the caption "Celebrating your Honeymoon"!
This was so cute, I was so happy to have received both the sparkling wine AND this for our honeymoon … What an unexpected amount of pixie dust!

Now, I promised I would let you know how the Fantasmic! experience went for us with the package vouchers.

Well …

erm …

you know …

We went past the entrance to Fantasmic! two hours before the start of the show, en route to yet another ride on the glorious Tower of Terror, and we were already quite tired and really hot and almost ready to go home. Then we saw that there was already a HUGE crowd waiting in front of the entrance, and when we got back in 30 minutes there was no way we'd be able to get past all these people without some serious pushing and shoving . And remember, once we did that, we would STILL have had to sit and wait an hour and a half for the show to start.

So what did we do, regarding the wonderful Fantasmic!, the best evening entertainment Disney supposedly has to offer, the one show that we had not yet seen and which MUST NOT BE MISSED?

We went and rode first on the ToT, then on the tram to the parking lot, then to our hotel and spent the evening lounging lazily by the pool. And the Fantasmic! Dinner Package voucher has found a new home in my scrapbook. Shocking, isn't it?

But I figure that with Disney, you can never see everything in one trip anyway (this was DH's first and my first since I was 10 years old, after all) – and there's always got to be something shiny and new to look forward to for next trip!

Coming up next: Screams and shivers - breakfast at Chef Mickey's …

HBD is our favorite restaurant and we have to go there every single trip! Love the Cobb Salad, I'm not a huge blue cheese fan but I'm liking it more as I get older. DH loves the ahi tuna and DD is already planning on ordering it on this trip I love their salmon with the marscapone polenta BTW, the pic looks the the strip steak, not the pork. DD has had both
When you go back, it's sweet but if they have the pumpking cheesecake on the menu you have to try it! It's delish and if you're expecting sweet maybe it'll hit the spot better

The "menu picture" is wonderful! I've never heard of them doing that before!

We haven't been to see Fantasmic in years. I'm one of those people that thinks it's ok (but needs an update), and not worth the wait in line. We used to use the FDP, but wouldn't bother now without the special entrance.

Great review and worth the wait

 

[aggielawyer]

Just wanted to let you know that I'm really enjoying your review--especially your perspective on American food. You and your hubby are so cute!

 

[Lynn5700]

I love Brown Derby!! can't wait to get back! That menu is so cute.

 

[pezaddict231]

We love the Brown Derby! I think your DH did have the strip steak, that looks very familiar to my DF's entree and that's definitely what he had. Don't feel bad about skipping out on F!, we did that last year. We had spent all day at DHS and were just exhausted! We decided that what would really be fantasmic would be to go back to our hotel and rest!

This year we had the package, but cancelled for a later dinner time, but it ended up pouring that night so there was no show. Oh well, there's always next time!

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I love Brown Derby too, it is one of two restaurants that I've eaten at every trip. As far as Fantasmic goes, it's a great show, and you'll have to get back there to see it someday, but I've used the dinner package before, and have missed the show.