The Piggies are back . . . and this time they're hungry! 12 DAYS OF FOOD! UPDATED!

[TruBlu]

I'm just a few days away from that tuna sandwich. Yummy!

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

Hi! Lets try get another short installment in!

That afternoon we stopped for a little something-something at Main St Bakery and the icecream parlour. I ordered my favourite - the walnut brownie from Main St Bakery; Tony ordered a two scoop icecream from the Parlour - a scoop of mint-choc-chip and a scoop of vanilla, and then we met up in the bakery seating area; we ate the mint-choc-chip from the cone, and the scoop of vanilla we put on the plate with the brownie and ate with it.

The brownie was absolutely to die for - I give it 10/10 and Tony gives it 9/10. It was really thick and easily filled the two of us. It was full of nuts, really crumbly, yet really moist - absolutely lovely. The vanilla icecream really went well with it as well. Soooo good!

The mint-choc-chip icecream was also nice - plenty of chocolate lumps in it and a really nice peppermint taste - 8/10.

That evening we stayed at Royal Pacfic Resort (ready for the WWOHP the next morning ) so ate at Hard Rock Cafe. We were told the wait would be 45 minutes but were in within 15 which was good. Service wasn't great, the food was quick fast but drinks and the check were fairly slow.

Tony ordered the BBQ Burger and says it was very nice and really filling - 8/10. I wish I had gone for a burger!!

Instead I went for the steak fajitas . . . they were really a let down. The wraps (in the paper bag in the picture) were as hard as cardboard and only luke warm, and the bottom one was stuck to the bag so unusable. They were the smallest wraps I have ever seen as well! There was plenty of sour cream, avocado, cheese etc to fill them with, but there wasn't even enough steak for two little pieces per wrap, so I felt a little cheated there. If we ever go there again I will be safer and stick to burgers! 5/10. Not a great hit with me!

Up next . .. plenty of Butterbeer, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Via Napoli!

 

[EmpressBubbles]

I'm so excited to hear an honest review of butterbeer! I can't wait!

 

[wayneg]

I'm so excited to hear an honest review of butterbeer! I can't wait!

All 3 of us loved the frozen Butterbeer, all disliked the Pumpkin juice.

 

[EmpressBubbles]

All 3 of us loved the frozen Butterbeer, all disliked the Pumpkin juice.

PUMPKIN JUICE?????

 

[wayneg]

PUMPKIN JUICE?????

$7-8 per bottle and disgusting.

 

[EmpressBubbles]

$7-8 per bottle and disgusting.

At least the bottle is nice!

 

[princess aleya]

Just got caught up, love it.

 

[Zeebs]

oh goody, you have been on another trip since I read the last one, need some inspiration on places to eat on our upcoming trip and I always like your reports.

Kirsten

 

[jopaly]

Thought I was reading someone elses report for a minute!

Can't wait to read more, keep the reviews coming...

 

[tinkangell]

Love the post and LOVE the dinning plan!

 

[Pooh&OurHunny]

just got caught up. At least you used the snacks points for yummy treat. We used ours for water, fruits and popcorns.

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

Hi everyone!!

Sorry for the delays - its been manic around here! We leave for our xmas trip to the world tomorrow (snow on the runway allowing!) so will finish up in the new year . . . merry christmas everyone!!!!

 

[Swalphin]

Have a safe trip and a Very Merry Christmas!

 

[dznyacct]

Hi Sonya ~ Can't wait for the rest of this report and your new one . I hope you and Tony have a wonderful WDW trip .

 

[Pooh&OurHunny]

Merry Christmas and safe travels...

 

[spaceacewannabe]

Sonya,

Those are naturally purple potatoes called Peruvian Purples. I have been told they taste the same as the white ones, but obviously not. I've only had them as chips (crisps?) However, they do have higher anti-oxidants, like blueberries (according to my chip bag!)

Keep the food pics up...I'm drooling!!!

They usually do taste roughly the same---I think you got a dud!

 

[annie1995]

Love everything!!! Can't wait to hear about the butterbeer!!!

 

[Pooh's-Honey-Pot]

Sorry for the delay and happy new year everyone!! So much going on at home that I have slowed down with this a bit, but I’m back!!

If you remember when I last updated we had stayed overnight at Universal to get early entry in to the WWOHP – due to a series of disasters which I shall save for another day we didn’t get our early entry – grrrr!!! We also didn’t get breakfast! So by the time it was about 10am we were starving . . . well what finer breakfast than a mug of creamy butterbeer, and a glass of frozen butterbeer?!

Butterbeer drink

Frozen butterbeer

Cheers!!

These were DIVINE!!! Words cannot express how lush they were! The frozen butterbeer is a really creamy, rich icecream. The drink was wonderful and I don’t have enough words to describe how delish the bubbly, creamy top is, that magically reforms itself everytime you drink it!!! I loved both of these – the icecream was probably slightly better (read: creamier!) flavor, but it doesn’t have the creamy top so if I had to choose a favourite I would probably choose the drink – in fact I did! I had another one on my way out of the park a couple of hours later!!!! SO good!! 10/10

I will whizz through lunch quickly as its not park related – we went to one of our old favourites – Buffalo Wild Wings on I-Drive. We had a portion of wings with honey BBQ sauce on them – these were excellent – not fatty, and plenty of meat on them. We had a portion of sliders (which were a little on the dry side) which were a whole meal in themselves as they came with fries as well. We also had nachos which Tony loved but I didn’t because they came with that cursed fake cheese!!! We had the best service here – a really lovely waitress, and we sat outside in the shade – such a pleasant hour! 8/10!

AS we didn’t have dessert in BWW we decided to treat ourselves to a Ghiredellis on the way back to the hotel. We shared a Strike It Rich – (Butterscotch Hot Fudge Sundae - butter pecan ice cream with butterscotch and golden almond nuggets under a layer of vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, chopped almonds and a cherry).

Now, I really love this one, its rich, sweet and huge and you get soooooo much sauce!! Tony on the other hand said it tasted just like the butterbeer and he had had enough of that today already!! Ha ha!!!! It does taste a bit like that, and it had been a bit of a “me” day (he doesn’t like Harry Potter). So I ate most of it myself!!!!!!!!!! Superbly good! 9/10!

Dinner was a new one for us – Via Napoli at Epcot. We were really looking forward to this. We arrived dead on time and were seated within a few minutes. The person seating us was very unfriendly, and service through the evening wasn’t great to be honest – quite slow and inattentive.

We decided to share two pizza’s – the Pepperoni (spicy pepperoni, tomato, mozzarella) and the Quattro Formaggi (mozzarella, parmesan, fontina, provolone). The cheese pizza was a “white” pizza (no tomato sauce) – I’d had my first ever one of these in New York the week before and fell in love with it (I’m not big on tomato sauce!) so couldn’t wait!!
Cheese

Pepperoni

The cheese one was really good – very light base, and loads of cheese. I give this 9/10 and Tony gives it 8/10. The pepperoni one was also good, though the base was a little eon the soggy side – we both give this 7/10. Definitely the best pizza in Disney (doesn’t have much competition to be honest!!!) and I would definitely have the cheese one again!

Dessert – I didn’t really fancy any of the options to be honest – in the end I ordered the Zeppole di Catarina –(ricotta cheese fritters with whipped cream and chocolate sauce). These were really tasteless and I left half of them.

Tony ordered the Coppa Di Brutti Ma Buoni (Amarena cherry and vanilla gelato sundae with cookies) which he thought was very average - not bad but nothing special.

Then we were brought out an anniversary dessert:-

Not sure what exactly it is, but again it was really bland! Desserts definitely not a hit with us here!!! I give the night 7/10 – pizza good, but get dessert around World Showcase somewhere!

Up next – Cinabbon, Earl of Sandwich, Starring Rolls, and Boma.

 

[wayneg]

Glad you are back to it
Frozen Butterbeer is a taste sensation.