The "Mr. and Mrs." Report--6 days DXDP, partly vegetarian, with pics, 8/26-9/1

[sherry8253]

Great reviews and pics. Thanks for taking the time to post.

 

[heatherlynn444]

great reviews, thanks for sharing! can't wait for more!

 

[DLo]

Enjoying your reviews and pics. Believe it or not last year was our 1st time at Goofy's Candy Co. How could we have missed this? Seeing your pictures makes me want to go there right now!! Well, I only have 2 months until I enjoy something way too fattening but worth it. I think my ds10 already knows what he wants to order.

 

[smartestnumber5]

After 1900 Park Fare we headed on over to Blizzard Beach. Around 12:30 after various swimming activities, we were hungry for a few snacks.

We stopped at the Warming Hut which was right next to the wave pool and scoped out the menu. GF really needed to sit down and we realized that we'd gone an awful long time in the sun without even a sip of water. So she sent me up to order water and nachos (without the chili) while she took a seat.

I was hoping to mostly only use snack credits for anything we wanted to eat other than TS meals. After all, with that many TS meals and snack credits it just seems silly to spend a lot of money on even more food.

When I got further ahead in line I saw that the nachos were actually listed as "nachos with chili and cheese" and cost over $4. I was wondering if they'd be cheaper without the chili and might then be under $4 and count as a snack credit. I doubted it though. For a minute I debated whether to buy them if I had to pay OOP. But then I figured GF did specifically ask for them and there was nothing except ice cream and drinks that seemed like they'd count as snack credits at The Warming Hut. So I thought I'd just go ahead and pay OOP.

Turned out that the nachos did count as a snack credit when you got them without the chili. I also decided to throw in a Mickey ice cream sandwich at the last minute. And I used a third snack credit for a bottled water.

Nachos with cheese—?
Ice Cream Sandwich--?
Bottle of water--?
Tax--?
Total--? 3 S
(Not sure of the prices on these).

GF had asked for jalepenos on the nachos, but when I asked when ordering I was told there was "jalepeno sauce" by the napkins and ketchup. When I got over there I found packets of liquid that looked like bbq sauce. I didn't necessarily taste like anything--it was just hot.

The nachos were your standard carnival/theme park nachos with cheese. We enjoyed them. The Mickey ice cream sandwich had traditional chocolate sandwich parts but shaped like Mickey heads. The ice cream seemed to be cookies and cream, but without any large cookie bits. It was a nice satisfying ice cream treat.

After a bit more of the wave pool and lazy river, we decided to head out. We had heard about the mini-donut stand and decided to check it out. Unfortunately, they didn't accept snack credits, so we decided to pass. We didn't really need the donuts.

I did remember having seen a menu at BB including snowcones so while GF went to change and get our stuff from the locker we had rented, I went searching for a snowcone.

It wasn't so much a cone, but a large cup filled with ice.

I decided on watermelon flavor and headed back to find GF. We each had a bit of the snow cone, but it didn't take very long for the ice to melt and we were left with a very sweet, very icy watermelon drink. It was good while it lasted, but we ended up throwing at least three quarters of it away.

Snow cone--3.50
Tax--.23
Total--3.73 1 S

 

[sherry8253]

Enjoying the reviews.

 

[Twilightlover]

sounds yummy

 

[smartestnumber5]

We had a long break between breakfast at 1900 Park Fare around 9am and dinner at Flying Fish around 8pm that day. The snacks held us over well, but we left Blizzard Beach by 2pm and then took a nap back at the room and watched some TV. By about 6:30pm we got kind of bored waiting for dinner. So we headed over to the Boardwalk thinking maybe we could get in early.

When we checked in the hostess gave me a pager but said it was unlikely we'd get in before our ADR time. We walked around the boardwalk a bit and then sat outside of the Sweet Shop for a bit. Right around our ADR time, our pager went off.

We were seated in the back of the restaurant in a room that had perhaps 8 tables in it. At first the room seemed to be only about half full and pretty quiet. We perused the menu and asked our server for her thoughts on a couple of dishes. Surprisingly when it came to appetizers GF decided to go with a cheese plate. She loves seafood and this was a seafood heavy restaurant, so I thought for sure she'd get a seafood based appetizer.

Of course, I was plenty happy with her choice because I meant I got to try some of her appetizer which rarely happens. I debated between the mozzarella salad and the Mediterranean salad. In the end I just wasn't feeling mozzarella at that moment, so I chose the Mediterranean one.

Shortly before the appetizers came out our server brought us some bread. It ws some type of foccacia bread. Neither of us are big fans of foccacia bread, so it was a bit of a disappointment. I think last time they had some type of multigrain sourdough type bread which is more up our alley.

GF enjoyed her cheese plate greatly--as she put it "cheese is always delicious." Unlike the California Grill cheese plate, however, this one did have the one requisite repulsive cheese. I'm not sure what kind of cheese it was, but she is right--it was repulsive. She liked all the rest of the cheeses though. I thought there was one other one that had an unfortunate
aftertaste. I mostly only had one bite of each and left them for GF and she devoured all but the respulsive one.

My salad was good. The all ears description says: Salade Méditerranée - tender greens, cucumbers, plum tomatoes, Bermuda onions, radishes, Nicoise olives, Greek feta, fines herbes, and lemon-dijon vinaigrette.

The feta was the best part. It was in big squares which made it more fun to eat than when it is crumbled and spread throughout the salad. (This way you can control exactly how much cheese you get in each bite depending on how much of the sqaure you put on the fork!) At one point GF decided to help herself to some of my salad and she grabbed an entire cube of feta (I'm talking like a 1 x 1 x 1 inch cube) on her fork. There were only three cubes at most in the salad and I'd already eaten one when GF stuck her fork in one and tried to take it off my plate. She must have noticed she was taking all the rest of my cheese, because she stopped and cut off just a part of the cube.

While I liked this salad, I couldn't help but wish for the salad I had during our last trip to Flying Fish. It was something like arugulat with peaches, gorgonzola, and candied pecans. That salad was sooo yummy. It had the best gorgonzola cheese I've ever had. And the salad came with a "crostini" that had melted gorgonzola on top of it. Yum! It was still on the menu at Flying Fish that was on all ears until just a few months ago and I was quite disappointed to see that it had been changed. We make salads with gorgonzola at home, but that must have been a very high quality gorgonzola; I've never had one that good before or since.

For entrees GF was debating between a trout dish (listed as the "Chef's Thunder" entree) and a salmon. The trout sounded good because it was pumpkin seeded. The salmon sounded good because it came with "sweet corn pudding." In the end she went with the trout--it was the Chef's Thunder after all!

I didn't have much choice for my entree. There was only one vegetarian entree on the menu. Last trip there had been no veggie entrees, and the server had sent the chef over to talk to me and to create my own tasting plate which included four small dishes. This time, though, there was an entree on the menu, so that was the one I got: Ligurian Trofie Pasta Dumplings - Summer's Bounty Heirloom Tomatoes, Chantrelle Mushrooms, and Basil Sun-dried and Fresh Yellow Tomato Compote, Truffle-Based Oil, Pecorino Foglie di Noce

GF described her entrée as "innovative" and said it involved lots of flavors. Her server had warned her when she ordred it that part of the entree was hot (the trout) and part was cold (the tabbouleh which came with it.) She really liked the caviar sauce on the fish, but said the rest of it wasn’t the best thing she’d ever eaten. She felt like it needed a little something, but wasn't sure what. She didn’t care for the tabbouhleh as it had some spices she didn't like. The trout, though, was very moist and she liked the pumpkin seed coating, but she wished it had more of the roe based sauce which was the only flavor they had added to the fish.

My entrée was very good. I hadn't been expecting all that much when I had read the description. I sort of thought, "Eh--pasta. Isn't that always the vegetarian entree?" But this was very good and very different from most pastas. The server had described the pasta as "like dumplings but without filling" and they did have that type of texture. Along with the dumplings were mushrooms and tomatoes as well as truffle sauce (or so said the description). I enjoyed this a lot and GF said that she would even considered ordering that as an entree (which is saying a lot given that she loves meat and seafood and would consider foregoing that in order to have a vegetarian dish).

While we were eating our entrees a family was seated at the table/booth next to us. There were three or four children, two of them appeared to be twins and all of them seemed to be between ages 6-10. They were quite cute and clearly dressed up for the occasion. At California Grill the night before we had also been sitting next to a family with children--two young girls who seemed to be between ages 3 and 6. We were surprised throughout the trip at how many children of various ages we saw at signature restaurants. I hadn't remembered seeing so many children there on previous trips and I wondered if the various DDP plans--specfically the DXDP--was the reason.

After our entrees we looked over the dessert menu. There was a panna cotta on the menu, but it came along with tropical fruits and was coconut flavored. Our server warned GF that it was very sweet. GF being ambivalent about sugar decided against that one even though she loves panna cotta. With that dessert off the table, she didn't know what to choose. Eventually she decided on a lemon blueberry tart.

I didn't have such problems deciding on a dessert. I knew right away that the chocolate peanut butter bread pudding was the one for me! (I am a chocolate peanut butter worshipper .)

As we waited for our desserts another family was seated behind us. I couldn't see this family as they were behind me, but GF had a good view. They apparently had three children under the age of 5 and as soon as they sat down said children began making their presence known. I heard the loud screeching, but GF also reported that they were getting up and running around the table. I have a very high tolerance for babies and children making a ruckus, but GF does not. She was clearly annoyed--by the screaming in particular. She's very sensitive about noise and I like to tease her about how she will survive having kids of our own.

Our desserts arrive and GF's wasn’t quite what she expected. The menu had said something about almond crème, so she was expecting a creme that would cut the strong flavors of the blueberry and gingersnap crust, but there seemed to be just a bit of unsugared lemon cream on top. She did like the gingersnap flavor of the crust, but she thought it was a little strong.

The word for my dessert was basically "yum." How can you go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter?! Actually as I thought about it afterwards, I was not sure how “well done” the dessert was. I may have just enjoyed it a lot because I love anything with chocolate and peanut butter (it also had banana). I also thought it didn't seem to really fit the sophistication level of the restaurant. I mean, it was chocolate-peanut butter-banana bread pudding and not one that appeared to be specially made or to have strange ingredients. Of course, what do I care if it was "sophisticated" enough--it sure tasted darn good!

We liked our server a lot. She was nice, friendly, down to earth, and told stories/laughed a lot. We also thought she seemed too causal in her manner for what the restaurant was going for. But since we are pretty casual people, we liked it.

Unfortunately, throughout the dessert the children behind us continued to scream. GF was happy to get out of there. On the walk out she exclaimed that she could not understand why folks would bring toddlers out to a fancy restaurant at 9pm or later and not even attempt to quiet them while they scream. This was a theme throughout the trip. It all started on the plane, where a child who seemed to be about two years screamed through almost the entire flight. The child was sitting in a carseat next to a woman who I assume was her mother. Whenever the mother held the child the child stopped crying. And on the very few occasions when the mother talked to the child or tried to entertain her, the child stopped crying. But for the vast majority of the trip the mother didn't talk to the child who sat with no toys, nothing to play with and screamed. At one point the flight attendant actually tried to entertain the little girl and it worked. But the flight attendant had to go and do her job, and the little girl began screaming again.

As we were walking out to the car GF said, "I don't understand. Do these parents like this think that everything that comes out of a child's mouth is precious and should be treasured?!" I agreed with GF, but I still teased her about her very low tolerance.

Dinner—Flying Fish
Med Salad—10
Cheese plate—16
Pasta Dish—26
Trout--32
Iced tea—2.19
Iced tea—2.19
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bread Pudding—8
Lemon Blueberry Tart—8
Tax—6.79
Subtotal--111.17
Tip—20.88

 

[adsrtw]

Never thought about trying Flying Fish ~ hum, might have to now! Parents need to know their kids limits. If my kids are too tired, they will be cranky. I don't take them to nice restaurants then.

Keep it up!

 

[TigerKat]

Enjoyed your review of FF, it's one of my favorite places!

 

[butiflfeet]

FF sounds really good! I'm with your GF on the kids thing. From what you described the kids were not appropriate for the atmosphere and it's up to the parents to settle them down. When I was a kid my parents would never tolerate that behavior and we would have been out of there and in sooooooooo much trouble for ruining the other diners' meals! I know being a parent is extremely difficult, that's why I don't have kids. I wouldn't want to have to give up a fine dining experience because my kids can't behave and I wouldn't bring them there in the first place. Especially late at night.

Anyway, sorry to rant about kids. They're not all bad, it's just the few that ruin it for the rest!

I'm enjoying your reviews!

 

[TPCShauna]

FF sounds yummy. Sadly, it's a no-go for us as DH doesn't like seafood and the meat entrees don't appeal.

I am SO with your GF regarding kids at late dinners. DH and I purposely eat after 8:30pm assuming that people won't bring their over-tired, over-stimulated children to dinner in nice restaurants. We are consistently disappointed because of that assumption. I guess everyone should enjoy the little darlings' inappropriate behavior.

 

[eventamy]

Waiting for more! Great reviews!

 

[wilma-bride]

Sorry that your meal was interrupted by an annoying child. I often wonder why paretns take their childrwen out to eat quite so late. Our DS is used to eating at 5 pm here at home. I would no way expect him to behave himself after a long day at Disney at 9 pm at night.

Anyway, onwards and upwards - FF sounds like a good meal despite the interruptions.

 

[iluvpluto27]

Enjoyed your Flying fish review, and I'm pleased the veggie entree was good. Last time DH had the specially prepared veggie sampler after speaking to the chef, so I'm happy there's a vegetarian option on the menu now.

 

[CanadianPaco]

You are a great writer! Can't wait for more!

 

[smartestnumber5]

We started off the day with some breakfast in the room which I picked up while GF was showering. It was a simple breakfast--a chocolate muffin and three beignets--but it was pleasing.

Breakfast—Sassagoula Floatworks

Choc Muffin—2.89
Beignets—1.99
Tax--.32
Total--5.20 2 S

I had one beignet and left the other two for GF. She swallowed them down quickly and managed to get powdered sugar everywhere! Somehow I didn't realize that one could choose either 3 beignets or 6 of them for a snack credit. I kept thinking I could only get 3. I don't know where I got that idea.

After breakfast we headed over to Animal Kingdom. We had an ADR at noon at Tusker House and were eager to try a new restaurant. Around 11:20 we were getting off Kali River Rapids and were trying to decide what we could do for about 30 minutes to entertain ourselves. Since we were pretty hungry we decided to just check in early thinking maybe we'd get seated early.

When we got to Tusker House there was a dancing/acrobatics show going on outside in front of the Dawa Bar. The check in desk was near the bar outside of the restaurant. We checked in and were given a pager. They told us they didn't start seating for lunch for another 5 minutes, but that there were only about 10 groups in front of us to be seated so it shouldn't be long. Indeed within about 7 minutes our buzzer rang.

We both enjoyed the meal. GF was very pleased and emphasized that there was a lot of variety and that everything she tasted was delicious. We felt that there were a lot of the same flavors and types of food that we'd had at Boma in the past, but at Boma GF's response to a lot of the dishes was just "eh--it's okay." Here she actually enjoyed pretty much every dish.

Her favorites were the carved steak tip and the salmon. There was also an orzo salad with feta and olives which she liked a lot. She wasn't so impressed with desserts though--the only thing she really liked was the pecan bars. Still, she declared that she rated the food an A+.

GF's first plate

My review isn't as glowing as GF's, but I did have a good meal there. I liked the desserts best. I thought they had a very nice dessert selection. I tried carrot spice cake, baklava, bread pudding, a lemon tart, a 7 layer bar, and some kind of cream tart with a chocolate shell. It was nice to have baklava on a buffet as I've never seen that before. I know baklava can be kind of expensive so I wonder if that's why it's unlikely to be found on a buffet.

As for the non-dessert items, there were a lot of vegetarian items—I was surprised at how many. I really liked mashed potatoes. I don’t know why--they weren't really special mashed potatoes. Guess I was just in the mood . There was one dish that was tofu and veggies and I was impressed that they had tofu. All of the salads and entrees were good, but none really stood out to me except the one which was orzo with feta and olives. So I would probably rate the buffet more like a B+/A- but more like an A/A+ for desserts.

My first plate

My second plate & desserts

In terms of service things were fine. We really didn’t see the server much at all, but then again we also didn't need much. We were probably only there 50 minutes or less.

Lunch—Tusker House

Buffet x 2—39.98
Tax—2.6
Total—42.58 2 TS
Tip—7.00

 

[smartestnumber5]

We had an ADR for The Wave at about 6:05pm. At about 5 pm GF was taking her afternoon nap (I had already awaken from mine) while I was on the phone with my mom. I had set an alarm for GF which went off while I was on the phone. I told her, "Honey, you have to get up so we can go eat again."

This was the first time on the DXDP that we just weren't hungry for the next meal. I think we had just scheduled lunch and dinner way to close together. But, we were planning to pleasure island that night, so we needed to finish dinner somewhat early.

So we headed over the Contemporary without being all that hungry. We did as the concierge instructed and told the host/hostess that the other two people in our party had decided to stay at MK. They didn't miss a beat and promptly seated us at a two person table. (I thought that was weird. If there were no ADRs for 2 left for this time, why did they have a 2 person table free?) Here's a pic of the table setting:

Our server informed us that on the DXDP our drink could be a non-alcoholic specialty drink. This was the only time we encountered this on the DXDP (though we didn't ask anywhere else so perhaps the servers just didn't go out of their way to give us that information?). I picked a chocolate milkshake and GF got a raspberry smoothie like drink. Her drink was described in terms of its antioxidants and health benefits, but she wasa just in it for the raspberry taste. (She said it was like someone squeezed a fresh raspberry into her glass.) Our drinks also came with cardboad straws. We'd had these earlier at Tusker House and I assumed that was because of the animals at AK. I thought in the past there were no straws in AK, but I guess now the TS restaurnts have cardboard ones. Well we got the same straws at The Wave. I don't know why, though, as there were no animals anywhere near the Contemporary that I know of. I guess they were just going for some kind of "organic-antioxidant-environmentally friendly" kind of thing at the restaurant. (I think they also make a deal out of their sustainable fish.) GF refers to the group of people who are likely to be wooed by these kinds of things as "wu wu" people. (She being the child of hippies in the 70s-80s has had lots of experience with wu-wu things.) In any case, we're all for enviornmentally friendly products and sustainable foods. But we did think it was an odd kind of theme for a restaurant.

The restaurant actually had its normal menu but also a lounge menu which had drinks and another 7 or so appetizers on it. I think there were two vegetarian appetizers on the normal menu (an avocado salad and a regular salad), but the other menu also included a few others--summer vegetable rolls, edamame, and skewers of papaya and either chicken, beef, or tofu.

I decided on the summer vegetable rolls from the lounge menu and GF went with the lettuce wraps. While waiting for our appetizers the server brought out some very good bread with butter topped with wine salt. It was quite yummy.

GF was very happy with her appetizer. She said the lettuce wraps were her favorite appetizer of the trip so far. The wraps included lamb and scallops which she didn't think would go well, but in fact they were delicious. The scallops were really tender, and the lamb (which she said was in the shape of meatballs) was very flavorful. The meat/seafood came in a savory salty sauce with some cilantro, tomato, onion. She described the sauce as very flavorful.

My appetizer was good but not what I was expecting. I was thinking of fried summer rolls, but these were Vietnamese rolls with a raw sticky rice/noodle wrap. I had never had this type of roll before, but GF knew of them and told me what the rolls were made of. Inside were carrots, cucumbers and some other vegetables done julienne. The rolls came with a good sauce which was a bit spicy. They were interesting and something new I’d never had before. But I would have liked a little more in the rolls than just carrot and cucumber.

For main dishes GF chose the beef tenderloin (as it was listed on the menu) which the server said was a filet mignon. (We were wondering why it was listed as beef tenderloin if it was a filet mignon?) I went with the only vegetarian entree on the menu--vegetarian stew.

GF's main dish was not her favorite. It seemed like an average meat and potato entrée w/out anything really spectacular. The sauce on the meat was supposed to be a wine reduction but it was very sweet--almost like a bbq sauce. That was really only thing that was flavorful in entire entrée. After she got this dish she regretted it and wished she'd gone with the chicken pot pie. At this point in the trip she'd had a lot of fish, so that was out. But she was planning to get the filet mignon the next night at Jiko, so she wasn't sure about getting the beef either. I thought the chicken pot pie was a good option because it was something different--something that wasn't on any other menu. But unfortunately her desire for red meat got the best of her and she ordered that entree even though it really didn't sound that exciting. (She then wasn't in the mood for more beef at Jiko the next night, so she probably missed out on a really good filet mignon then.)

My entrée not that great either. It was green beans, zuchinni, tomatoes, squash, some other vegetables, and multigrain rice in some broth. But not enough broth to make using a spoon necessary (and then isn’t it not really a stew?). There was no protein in the dish. This is not an unusual problem regarding a lot of vegetarian dishes. The model often seems to be "just think of a meat based dish and then subtract the meat." Unfortunately with the meat goes the protein, and then you just end up with vegetables and starch--which was essentially what the stew was. It wasn't bad tasting or anything--I think it had a nice flavor. But I really needed cheese or tofu or something other than veggies and rice. It wasn’t a big deal, though, since I wasn’t that hungry to begin with. I had some more of the yummy bread and butter and even asked for a second basket so I had some to dip into the stew. (That didn't totally work since the stew didn't have much broth, but to me that's the best part of stew!)

On to dessert. The dessert menu at The Wave has three options--something like creamy indulgence, decedant indulgence, and one other I can't remember. Each choice includes three different mini desserts. I think GF went with decedant and I went with creamy. I can't remember what her three mini-desserts were, but I know she liked the caramel one the best.

My three desserts were a panna cotta, a cheesecake, and a mousse. The panna cotta had some type of unsweetened citrus juice on top of it which was really bitter—even GF who likes fruit stuff and loves panna cotta wanted to spit it out as soon as she put it in her mouth. The cheesecake was yummy and had some crème brulee kind of topping. It was in raspberry sauce which I didn’t care about one way or the other. I'm not big on fruit adorning my cheesecake! The chocolate mousse was also good. We both enjoyed getting to taste a few different flavors for dessert.

GF also got some coffee with dessert and it was Columbian instead of the Nescafe crap, so she was pretty happy about that. Our server actually didn't charge us for the coffee (even though it was a 2nd drink for GF) which was nice of her. Service was good and she was very helpful. As we ate dessert GF and I were debating about a political/philosophy topic and pretty deep in conversation. Our server came by to check on us and drop off the check and strangely she kind of interuppted the conversation to chat with us about what we were doing later that night. I really think she must have been thinking "I should be really friendly and nice right before they write in my tip" because it was just odd given our conversation that was already going for her to start up another one with us. Whatever, it didn't affect her tip one way or the other.

The Wave

Vegetable Summer Rolls—7.49
Lettuce Wraps—11.99
Beef Tenderloin—28.99
Vegetable Stew—17.99
Choc Milkshake—4.29
Mega Berry Smoothie—4.29
Creamy Indulgence—7.99
Decadent Flavors—7.99
Coffee—2.19
Tax—6.06
3% House Charge**—2.8
Tip—18.64

** Does anyone have any idea what this "3% house charge" is? This is the only restauratn where we saw this and I have no idea what it means or why it was on the receipt. It was paid by the DXDP, but I'm just curious as to what it was.

 

[wilma-bride]

Great updates - Tusker House sounds like a great option for vegetarians. Not sure that the food at The Wave appeals to me much

 

[smartestnumber5]

Saturday was a day off from the parks. We had intended to have lunch and then just hang around at the pool. In the morning we decided to hit Starbucks so GF could get some cans of coffee. (Our coffee pot didn't work. The pot didn't fit the maker and so it wouldn't brew correctly.)

For lunch that day we had a choice of Beaches and Cream or Kona Cafe. Both of us felt like Beaches and Cream when we woke up even though it's not the best use of TS credits. But it was what we wanted.

We arrive a bit before noon and check in. We were told there was a 20-30 minute wait for first available (which could be the counter) and more like 40 minutes for a table/booth. We decided to wait for the table/booth and grabbed a table out by Stormalong Bay. Just about 40 minutes later, we were buzzed and seated.

Our server was very quick and efficient. Not very friendly, but not unfriendly. It seemed like her goal was just to get us in and out as quickly as possible without much fuss. That was fine with us.

This was one of the a couple of places where the server asked to see our DXDP card before we ordered--she seemed to want to make sure that were indeed on the plan that included appetizers. Once she confirmed that she informed us that the appetizers were chicken noodle soup or onion rings (and maybe fries--I can't recall).

That made my choice of appetizer pretty clear--onion rings. I'm a fan of onion rings, though, so that's what I was hoping to get as an appetizer anyway. GF decided she might as well try the soup since she could eat some of my onion rings. I chose the obvious veggie burger (with cheese) for an entree and GF went with a cheeseburger. (She controlled herself and went with a single rather than a double.)

Our appetizers were out very quickly. GF's soup was cold, and not very exciting. But on the plus side it did have Mickey noodles in it. My onion rings were a huge serving (a nice size for the $3.99 they would have cost OOP!) and were very tasty.

While we were eating our appetizers, we saw a kitchen sink come out. I had one of these with my parents and brother when I was a teenager and it was a fun experience, but a little gross too with all of those flavors. Anyway, when they brought it out they announced that the person who ordered it was taking "The Challenge"--if he could eat it all himself in 2 hours it was free. I didn't know there was such a challenge. When we left the restaurant about 45 minutes later we saw that he'd surprisingly done a pretty good job eating it, with mostly a lot of ice cream melted in the bottom. Impressive!

Our burgers were very satisfying. GF said she felt like hers was especially good compared to your average burger joint burger. She thought that maybe they had buttered the bun--that's a trick we'll have to try. My veggie burger was good. It was served on a multi-grain bun. This bun was fine, but I've had some multigrain or wheat ones that are kind of gross. I don't understand why restaurants seem to assume that anyone ordering a vegetarian entree is looking for healthy food. I mean, a veggie burger (while it's certainly not nearly as bad for you as a beef burger) and fries is not healthy food--why would I want it on a multigrain bun?

For dessert I, of course, got the No Way Jose as always. I just love peanut butter and chocolate in ice cream . GF was happy because usually she has to share my dessert (because it seems excessive to order two sundaes when paying OOP given their size) and she doesn't share my love of peanut butter. GF with her new found ice cream freedom made her own sundae with coffee ice cream and hot fudge.

My sundae was yummy as usual. I ate all of the peanut butter and hot fudge sauce and then left the leftover ice cream--who wants ice cream without peanut butter or hot fudge on it? GF was impressed with the flavor of their coffee ice cream. I took a bite and it was pretty good--a very strong coffee flavor.

We left quite happy. And it was a very quick meal. That was kind of nice given we were eating to TS meals a day and the signature meals each approached 2 hours. Numerous times during the trip at meals especially GF would say "Okay, the topic is 'religion'" and she'd want me to tell her a story that had to do with religion because we'd run out of things to talk about at that moment. I guess this is why people have kids. So you can fill in those times with scolding them!

We were surprised that we enjoyed this one so much given it was food that we could have gotten at any Applebees type restaurant. I think it was because we had been eating so many good meals--we just needed a little bit of junk food! I think we'll definitely go back in future trips for a less expensive, quick, yummy meal.

Beaches & Cream
Iced tea—2.19
Coke—2.19
Cherry syrup--.29
Chicken soup—5.99
Onion rings—3.99
Cheeseburger—8.99
Veggie burger—7.99
No way jose—7.99
Sundae—5.99
Tax—2.97
Total—48.58 2 M
Tip—8

 

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We started off the day with some breakfast in the room which I picked up while GF was showering. It was a simple breakfast--a chocolate muffin and three beignets--but it was pleasing.

Love it! Now that's a breakfast of champions! A wonderful way to start one's day! Thanks for sharing, your reviews are great!