tribevegan
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Dec 25, 2011
- Messages
- 1
I'm vegan and my mom is gluten free/mostly vegan. We just did four days in Disney world, stayed at Pop Century. I'm mostly writing this to warn everyone about my bad experiences...haha. First though I'll talk about the good. Babycakes was great! You wanna make sure you go sometime early in the day though because when I first went at 8pm there was a limited selection. Also, if you see something online someone else got (like I saw a parfait) that might not be there because they make different stuff everyday. The first night though, I got a jelly filled donut, a mini chocolate crunch donut, a banana cupcake top and a brownie bite. It was all really good! I had read the banana wasn't good but it was. The second day I went around noon and they were still baking and frosting things. I got six donuts which are the best thing to get, one cupcake with mint frosting (it tasted JUST like mint chocolate chip ice cream), and another brownie bite. They had gingerbread men, but I really liked the donuts so stuck with those. They were also baking some wonderbun/cinnamon roll type things, but they weren't ready yet 
...
Anyway, The best places I ate in the parks were as follows:
Magic Kingdom: the hummus/tomato sandwich at Columbia Harbour House was just ok. The hummus was really good, I just wish they had something else. That day I ate at Boma for dinner, so nothing in the park.
Epcot:The best place was Tangerine Cafe. I got the veggie platter with cous cous, tabouli, hummus, falafel, onion/lettuce salad, olive salad and a gluten free/vegan roll. Best food in any park! Also got an iced mint tea, which was great!
Hollywood: Backlot Express grilled veggie sandwich w/ no cheese on the multigrain roll is awesome.
The bad: For dinner in epcot I wanted to try the counter service mexican place, La Cantina...I hadn't heard good things, but I thought hey, this is disney....wrong. They offered chips with black beans, guac, salsa, lettuce tomato onions. That sounded pretty good....until we got it and it was literally a pile of chips with black beans on one side and a small scoop of guac on the other. for $10. crazy. So we asked for more guac and to speak to the chef again...he said they don't have lettuce tomato and onion....so weird since he said before we would get it. It also didn't taste that great anyway....We should have just shared another veg platter from Morocco or gone to the Land, but we were trying to watch the Illuminations show...oh well.
I thought Boma would be similar to tusker house which was AWESOME last year...well Boma was not as good. There were very few gluten free and vegan options...pretty much everything gluten free was just vegetarian and had butter in it and the chef (chef Arol) did not offer to make anything special for my mom. I had a few more options, but not much. It was just so surprising since I thought Boma was supposed to be so veg friendly! He asked if he could make anything else and I suggested a tofu dish...he made one with asparagus and broccolini. It was really good and then we got raspberry sorbet for dessert which I liked but my mom didn't. After this meal, my mom started to feel sick-she had eaten some mayo out of a dispenser at Columbia Harbour house earlier that day....it was runny and not right, but she ate it anyway. It had to have been that and she had food poisoning for the next two days, so we couldn't go to Kouzzina...
I ended up eating two meals in the Pop Century food court though, which were great! Chef Jose made me two awesome gluten free vegan pizzas and sweet potato fries. The cheese wasn't the best kind but it was good, and the sauce and veggies were really good (mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers, olives, onions, artichokes). Honestly I realized this trip I should stick with Chef tj if I can and just eat at pop century-people don't realize how good the cheap food can be I think.
I did not make a reservation for 1900 park fare because I had heard about the crappy atmosphere and the chance you might not get chef tj, so I just didn't want to risk that. But the atmosphere at Boma was just as crowded and noisy as 1900 park fare is supposed to be-it's also really dark...I wish I had just took a chance with 1900 park fare.
I almost forgot-I tried Fresh A'peel the first night...got the plain salad with balsamic and the veggie chili....The salad was boring and tasteless, even with more dressing and the chili had the weirdest taste and I like weird food, but this was just strange..like it was too much of something.
To sum it up, magic kingdom food is nothing special and there only about one or two places to eat in Hollywood and Epcot. I definitely recommend the Pop Century Food court...there are so many choices and the chef will make you whatever you want. Go to Babycakes early in the day and don't eat at fresh a peel. Boma is not that great, you should try to get chef tj at 1900 Park Fare if possible. Hope that helps with your planning!
...Anyway, The best places I ate in the parks were as follows:
Magic Kingdom: the hummus/tomato sandwich at Columbia Harbour House was just ok. The hummus was really good, I just wish they had something else. That day I ate at Boma for dinner, so nothing in the park.
Epcot:The best place was Tangerine Cafe. I got the veggie platter with cous cous, tabouli, hummus, falafel, onion/lettuce salad, olive salad and a gluten free/vegan roll. Best food in any park! Also got an iced mint tea, which was great!
Hollywood: Backlot Express grilled veggie sandwich w/ no cheese on the multigrain roll is awesome.
The bad: For dinner in epcot I wanted to try the counter service mexican place, La Cantina...I hadn't heard good things, but I thought hey, this is disney....wrong. They offered chips with black beans, guac, salsa, lettuce tomato onions. That sounded pretty good....until we got it and it was literally a pile of chips with black beans on one side and a small scoop of guac on the other. for $10. crazy. So we asked for more guac and to speak to the chef again...he said they don't have lettuce tomato and onion....so weird since he said before we would get it. It also didn't taste that great anyway....We should have just shared another veg platter from Morocco or gone to the Land, but we were trying to watch the Illuminations show...oh well.
I thought Boma would be similar to tusker house which was AWESOME last year...well Boma was not as good. There were very few gluten free and vegan options...pretty much everything gluten free was just vegetarian and had butter in it and the chef (chef Arol) did not offer to make anything special for my mom. I had a few more options, but not much. It was just so surprising since I thought Boma was supposed to be so veg friendly! He asked if he could make anything else and I suggested a tofu dish...he made one with asparagus and broccolini. It was really good and then we got raspberry sorbet for dessert which I liked but my mom didn't. After this meal, my mom started to feel sick-she had eaten some mayo out of a dispenser at Columbia Harbour house earlier that day....it was runny and not right, but she ate it anyway. It had to have been that and she had food poisoning for the next two days, so we couldn't go to Kouzzina...
I ended up eating two meals in the Pop Century food court though, which were great! Chef Jose made me two awesome gluten free vegan pizzas and sweet potato fries. The cheese wasn't the best kind but it was good, and the sauce and veggies were really good (mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers, olives, onions, artichokes). Honestly I realized this trip I should stick with Chef tj if I can and just eat at pop century-people don't realize how good the cheap food can be I think.
I did not make a reservation for 1900 park fare because I had heard about the crappy atmosphere and the chance you might not get chef tj, so I just didn't want to risk that. But the atmosphere at Boma was just as crowded and noisy as 1900 park fare is supposed to be-it's also really dark...I wish I had just took a chance with 1900 park fare.
I almost forgot-I tried Fresh A'peel the first night...got the plain salad with balsamic and the veggie chili....The salad was boring and tasteless, even with more dressing and the chili had the weirdest taste and I like weird food, but this was just strange..like it was too much of something.
To sum it up, magic kingdom food is nothing special and there only about one or two places to eat in Hollywood and Epcot. I definitely recommend the Pop Century Food court...there are so many choices and the chef will make you whatever you want. Go to Babycakes early in the day and don't eat at fresh a peel. Boma is not that great, you should try to get chef tj at 1900 Park Fare if possible. Hope that helps with your planning!
:
)
