Two Germans Dine Deluxe Again ... (FINISHED!)

[danalee]

I'm glad your back!! I havent been on the boards in a while myself, but woke to your notification in my email and here I am

 

[lildebbie107]

The tuna appetizer at Yak and Yeti looks amazing. Do you remember how many tuna pieces there were?

 

[librarygeek]

The hoop-de-doo looks like fun. I'm just not really a fan of that comfort food type stuff. But I've heard the show is cute! Kouzzina breakfast looks tasty too, those berries look so fresh and delicious.

 

[nanienamou]

I read all your review today! Wonderful! I really want to try Kouzzina next year for breakfast!

 

[annichan]

I'm glad your back!! I havent been on the boards in a while myself, but woke to your notification in my email and here I am

In that case, welcome back to both of us!

The tuna appetizer at Yak and Yeti looks amazing. Do you remember how many tuna pieces there were?

Yes, it was wonderful - I'm not entirely sure how many pieces of tuna there were, I would say about 4 or 5. Actually, after staring long and hard at my own picture I will hazard to say that there were indeed 5 .

The hoop-de-doo looks like fun. I'm just not really a fan of that comfort food type stuff. But I've heard the show is cute! Kouzzina breakfast looks tasty too, those berries look so fresh and delicious.

Yes, the berries were wonderful! You are right about the Hoop-Dee-Doo, the show is not sophisticated but cute and a nice way to spend an evening, and the food is really only an accompaniment to that, definitely not the main player of the evening.

I read all your review today! Wonderful! I really want to try Kouzzina next year for breakfast!

Thank you for reading along! I cannot recommend Kouzzina outdoor seating for breakfast enough!

 

[annichan]

We didn't have any lunch planned for today and only grabbed something from quick service, so by dinnertime we were ready for a sit-down meal again .

During our last trip we had a lovely dinner at the Flying Fish, so I was very much looking forward to coming back. Unlike last time when there had been a bit of a wait for our table, we were seated straightaway this time.

As always when there is tuna on the menu, it took me only fractions of seconds to decide on my appetizer .

Yellowfin Tuna Tartare and Crispy Tempura Tuna-Vegetable Sushi Roll - Hijiki and Wakame Seaweed, Yuzu Tobiko, Wasabi Foam, with Sweet-and-Spicy Sauce.
This was wonderful, absolutely divine, fresh and beautifully presented. Also in the picture: the merest glimpse of the Sparkling Bellini I enjoyed with it (DH preferred a couple of Corona beers, which is also always a good choice ).


DH was being admirably healthy – or maybe just still perpetually non-hungry :

He had the Caesar Salad - Young Red and Green Romaine, Roasted Garlic Dressing, Parmigiano-Sonoma Jack Frico, and Pesto-Sourdough Croutons.


Like last year, he chose the Flying Fish's signature dish for his main course:

The Potato-wrapped Red Snapper with Leek Fondue with a Veal Glace, Red Wine, and Cassis Butter Reduction.
I got a little taste of this and really liked it, especially the leek fondue (I love leek).


MeanwhiIe, I went with Flying Fish's other signature dish:

The Char-crusted Certified Black Angus New York Strip Steak with Heirloom Beans, Roasted Parsnips, Celery Root, Rainbow Carrots and Fingerling Potatoes, with a Classic Sauce Foyot (whew, what an impressive description!).

The picture probably does not do it justice as it looks a bit overly blackened and somehow the portion looks really small to me (which it wasn't). In reality, however, it was wonderful. I even loved the sauce, and that is to say something as I'm not a big fan of sauces at all usually.


After these two yummy courses, DH and I looked at each other and immediately agreed that we didn't have any room left for dessert anymore. There is one thing that we find we can never be too full, for, though:

Mmmmh, cappuccino and cookies!


So once again, we really enjoyed our visit here. Our waiter (whose name I have forgotten unfortunately) was wonderful too, very friendly and very knowledgeable about the food.

Coming up next: It's the final breakfast … again.

 

[Pinkgirl]

Welcome back cant wait to try Flying Fish

 

[DisEscape]

I've really enjoyed reading your dining review--it gives me so many great ideas for my next trip! (I snuck back in time and read your previous one, too--I couldn't resist!)

I was quite convinced that I was going to have the Cobb salad at the Brown Derby, but I may have to reconsider after seeing your tuna appetizer. It looks INCREDIBLE.

In this case, you can "have your cake and eat it, too." The tuna is amazing as is the Cobb Salad. I almost always order the tuna or the crabcake as the appetizer and the salad (designed for two as an appetizer) makes a great entree portion. I did try the grapefruit cake last time--had always been too full in the past--and loved it. Not to be missed if you like grapefruit!

 

[bowbat]

Really enjoying your reviews! We'll be trying Flying Fish at the end of the month -- glad to read you liked it and MAN that tuna appetizer looks good! *drool*

 

[librarygeek]

The food at Flying Fish looks great! This is on our potential list of places we want to try for next time (since the trip is a year and a half away we still have plenty of time to decide!).

 

[Bellamouse]

When such a situation comes up, we just use the movie's German title:
"... And the groundhog says hello every day!" (I know, German movie title translators sure are weird )

Hallo Anni -

Thanks again for continuing on with your dining reviews! I LOVE your reviews, and we just came back from our trip last week where we enjoyed many of the same places you did. I thought of your reviews often while we were there. I intended to write my own review thread, but realized what a HUGE JOB it is to take pictures and notes of everything we ate!!!!!!! So I have even more appreciation and respect for what you are doing here!

That said, can you tell me the title of Groundhog Day in German please? I would love to be able to say this to my family when the need arises - they will be impressed that I know this.... ;-)

Can't wait to read the rest of your reviews!

 

[beachbug79]

we did the deluxe dining plan for the 9 days we stayed in August. We would do it again. It is a ton of food, but we ended up doing a late breakfast, or early lunch each day, using just one credit, then dined at signature restaurants each night, using 2 credits. We ended up with a lot of snack credits because we werent smart about it, and saved them and packed a cooler of water and juices each day. I ended up being liked by a lot of people when I started getting people I didnt know popcorn and soda for the parade. We are trying to go back in August of this year and will definitely do it again. This time being smarter and using the snack credits each day..

 

[DonaldDoleWhip]

Wow, your Flying Fish meal looks incredible. I've recently learned to enjoy strip steak (as long the fat isn't too spread out so I can remove the main strip), and I'd love to try that entree.

I've had that tuna appetizer as well, and it was wonderful (up there with the mussels IMO).

Wow. Flying Fish has never been my favorite signature, but all of a sudden it's the one I'm missing most. I guess that's what a good food review will do

 

[annichan]

Welcome back cant wait to try Flying Fish

Thanks everybody for all the "welcome backs" I got - almost makes me sad that now that I am writing again, my review will be over soon . Well, I guess I will just have to visit WDW again so I can write a new one!

(I do have food pictures from my 2011 trips - one Disney cruise and one Disneyland Paris visit -, but I'm not sure where to post them, really: in both those forums it's not really common to only do food reports instead of trip reports ... )

In this case, you can "have your cake and eat it, too." The tuna is amazing as is the Cobb Salad. I almost always order the tuna or the crabcake as the appetizer and the salad (designed for two as an appetizer) makes a great entree portion. I did try the grapefruit cake last time--had always been too full in the past--and loved it. Not to be missed if you like grapefruit!

That is actually a really great idea about ordering the Cobb Salad as an entree (with blue cheese on the side, in my case) - that combination of tuna and then Cobb Salad really appeals to me

Really enjoying your reviews! We'll be trying Flying Fish at the end of the month -- glad to read you liked it and MAN that tuna appetizer looks good! *drool*

Enjoy, and if you do end up ordering the tuna, please have a bite for me!

The food at Flying Fish looks great! This is on our potential list of places we want to try for next time (since the trip is a year and a half away we still have plenty of time to decide!).

Boy, can't we all relate to that planning years in advance. We have just booked a 7-night cruise for my 40th birthday (which is only 2 years and 1 month away, so no way did we book especially early ), and as long as we don't have to cancel that whole trip for some reason, I am sure we will end up doing WDW afterwards for at least a few days. Believe me, I have already started a list of must-do restaurants .

That said, can you tell me the title of Groundhog Day in German please? I would love to be able to say this to my family when the need arises - they will be impressed that I know this.... ;-)

Can't wait to read the rest of your reviews!

Thank you so much for the compliment! With your "Groundhog Day" request you have really made me laugh, as I guess the hard part is not writing down the German movie title but figuring out how to get someone not speaking German to pronounce that sentence!

This is the title:

"Und täglich grüsst das Murmeltier"

Now, I have given a lot of thought to how to transcribe it to make the pronunciation clear. So, here goes:

"oond take-lick gruesed does moor-mel tear"

All together now!

we did the deluxe dining plan for the 9 days we stayed in August. We would do it again. It is a ton of food, but we ended up doing a late breakfast, or early lunch each day, using just one credit, then dined at signature restaurants each night, using 2 credits. We ended up with a lot of snack credits because we werent smart about it, and saved them and packed a cooler of water and juices each day. I ended up being liked by a lot of people when I started getting people I didnt know popcorn and soda for the parade. We are trying to go back in August of this year and will definitely do it again. This time being smarter and using the snack credits each day..

Yes, we sort of tried to use that same strategy too, only that there were so many 1-credit restaurants I also wanted to visit (all strictly for the sake of science and this food report, of course ) - plus we ran out of signature restaurants because our trips were so long. Not that I am complaining ...

How sweet of you to share your left-over credits though, I'll make sure to do that too if I have any left over next time! (Not that I plan to use the Deluxe Dining Plan again, but who knows what might happen ... )

Wow. Flying Fish has never been my favorite signature, but all of a sudden it's the one I'm missing most. I guess that's what a good food review will do

What a great compliment, thank you!

 

[annichan]

A sad day, this: Our almost three-week-long trip to the-USA-and DCL-and WDW was coming to an end. I could easily have stayed for another couple of weeks, yet I decided against it as I kind of suspected that my employer might heartlessly stop paying me money if I no longer showed up for work .
So back to Germany it was going to be – but not until the evening, so we still had a couple of meals ahead of us .

This time, our final breakfast (the reference being to that old Europe song "The final countdown", of course – I loved that as a teen!) was to be at Cape May Café.

After all these days at WDW, it wasn't that we felt we desperately needed another character meal – but we did not want to leave the immediate area for breakfast since we had to check out of our hotel afterwards, and we had pretty much run out of alternatives in the vicinity. (Yes, we did like Kouzzina, but we did NOT want to have breakfast there a fourth time FLÖTSMILIE)

So, to Cape May we went.


Really hungry for a change (I really wonder how I managed to be that hungry after 10 days on the DxDP!), I heaped loads of yummy things onto my plate:

Scrambled egg and bacon, green asparagus (mmh!), a croissant and some fresh fruit.

A bit of a strange mixture, I know, but I couldn't walk past any of this or wait for a second trip – also because I didn’t want to miss any of the characters:

Miss Minnie Mouse, all geared up for a nice day at the beach and having to hang out with me instead, watching me have breakfast (this is probably the reason why I've got more of a tan than she does - I NEVER have more of a tan than anybody else!).


I didn't take a picture of what DH had first, but eventually he moved on to dessert:

Yummy fresh fruit with yoghurt and a Mickey waffle. Kind of a healthy choice again!


I had even better things, though:

Yummy fresh fruit with yoghurt and a cinnamon Danish. Sorry Mickey, I love you but I don’t really fancy your waffles all that much!


Along came somebody else who apparently also preferred our company to a day at the beach:

We were flattered, of course, and thought that we also much preferred his company to a night on a transatlantic flight. Oh well .


We did not dawdle, as we still had some last-minute packing to do – so we left, packed up, checked out, threw our luggage in the trunk, and were off to Epcot one last time.


Coming up next: Lunch almost totally by ourselves at Marrakesh …

 

[Linda67]

All caught up

When are you going back?

I want more !!!

 

[Bellamouse]

Thank you so much for the compliment! With your "Groundhog Day" request you have really made me laugh, as I guess the hard part is not writing down the German movie title but figuring out how to get someone not speaking German to pronounce that sentence!

This is the title:

"Und täglich grüsst das Murmeltier"

Now, I have given a lot of thought to how to transcribe it to make the pronunciation clear. So, here goes:

"oond take-lick gruesed does moor-mel tear"

All together now!

Thank you so much!! I guess I didn't make it particularly clear from my last post (so long ago!) that I actually DO speak German! I just wasn't sure exactly how the title went in German. I suppose I could have googled it though - I didn't know the word for Groundhog in German though, that's for sure

DH and I love to hear American movies translated German - it cracks us up!! Even German language movies (with English subtitles) - we learn so much German from those! LOL Weird stuff that normal people don't say (for instance, in the movie Das Boot, when the men had a "bug" problem, for example, they referred to it as "sackratten"!!! ) We laughed ourselves silly. We had never heard that before in our lives. I guess that's not a subject that comes up in polite conversation too often.... I know that's kind of crude, but the direct translation still makes us giggle whenever we think of it.

Anyway, zwei Freundinnen von mir kommen am 11.11 zu Besuch (aus Deutschland) und ich kann die neue "sprichwort" benuetzen! Vielen Dank nochmals. And thank you again for the fabulous reviews. We LOVED Cape May, although we only did dinner there, not breakfast. We'll have to put that one in for the next trip. Can't wait to hear about Marrakesh. We did that for dinner once, I am looking forward to seeing what it's like for lunch! Bis bald....

 

[Rienchen]

(I do have food pictures from my 2011 trips - one Disney cruise and one Disneyland Paris visit -, but I'm not sure where to post them, really: in both those forums it's not really common to only do food reports instead of trip reports ... )

I'd love to see a Disneyland Paris food report, I'm going there in less than 3 weeks and am quite nervous about the food choices

 

[Carrie_Cat]

(I do have food pictures from my 2011 trips - one Disney cruise and one Disneyland Paris visit -, but I'm not sure where to post them, really: in both those forums it's not really common to only do food reports instead of trip reports ... )

Hello

Even if you didn't want to do a trip/food report for DLP you could do your reviews with photos on the restaurant pages

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1181765

I try to take the twice yearly up to date menus but living so close rarely eat at the park

It would be really appreciated I think

 

[annichan]

All caught up

When are you going back?

I want more !!!

Okay, may I give you DH's phone number? Then you can call him and tell him to get his wife back to WDW asap .

Thank you so much!! I guess I didn't make it particularly clear from my last post (so long ago!) that I actually DO speak German! I just wasn't sure exactly how the title went in German. I suppose I could have googled it though - I didn't know the word for Groundhog in German though, that's for sure

DH and I love to hear American movies translated German - it cracks us up!! Even German language movies (with English subtitles) - we learn so much German from those! LOL Weird stuff that normal people don't say (for instance, in the movie Das Boot, when the men had a "bug" problem, for example, they referred to it as "sackratten"!!! ) We laughed ourselves silly. We had never heard that before in our lives. I guess that's not a subject that comes up in polite conversation too often.... I know that's kind of crude, but the direct translation still makes us giggle whenever we think of it.

Anyway, zwei Freundinnen von mir kommen am 11.11 zu Besuch (aus Deutschland) und ich kann die neue "sprichwort" benuetzen! Vielen Dank nochmals. And thank you again for the fabulous reviews. We LOVED Cape May, although we only did dinner there, not breakfast. We'll have to put that one in for the next trip. Can't wait to hear about Marrakesh. We did that for dinner once, I am looking forward to seeing what it's like for lunch! Bis bald....

Oh no, I didn't realize you actually spoke German - my transcription of the pronunciation must have cracked you up as much as it did me (and as much as your "Das Boot" comment did)!

I know, the German translation of American movies can be pretty bad at times - it's just too funny how we get used to their "German voices" and sometimes get to like them better than the original! Very useful for commercials as well, after all there is nothing like Bruce Willis telling you on the radio that such-and-such a store gives "20 per cent off of everything except pet food". Good to know, Bruce!

Anyway, der Marrakesh-Bericht kommt in einer Minute hinterher - Marrakesh report coming right up!

I'd love to see a Disneyland Paris food report, I'm going there in less than 3 weeks and am quite nervous about the food choices

Hello

Even if you didn't want to do a trip/food report for DLP you could do your reviews with photos on the restaurant pages

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1181765

I try to take the twice yearly up to date menus but living so close rarely eat at the park

It would be really appreciated I think

Thank you both for your comments about a possible DLP food report - I will think about it, I might do one after all and just put it with the trip reports on the DLP forum, then copy the instalments over to the restaurant threads. Might take me a while though, we have been back from DLP a month and I still haven't gotten around to getting all the photos sorted .