oybolshoi
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Fond greetings to you all from the land of bellies distended with tasty vacation food! I can't speak for my hubby, but I feel like a forest critter that has eaten six months worth of food and now needs to find a cozy, moss-lined den for hibernation. Jay always says "bye-bye belt" at the end of a WDW vacation; right about now I'm wondering how I'm going to fit into my clothes for work on Monday, hence the title of this post. 
I can't start any reviews until the pictures are uploaded and organized and that's the hubba's job. It's likely to be a few days before that happens so I thought I'd give you guys a few highlights and teasers to keep you happy until I can get down to work.
Please note: I have updated the first post on this thread - the "official" list of restaurants / snacks has been updated accordingly so that you all know exactly which establishments we will be reviewing.
In the reviews to come you will read about alternately exciting, delicious, annoying, and downright confusing things like free whiskey; zweetburgers; the WDW Foie Gras Situation (panderers); and a criminal lack of coffee beans available for purchase across the WDW resort.
You will learn how, despite purchasing filters weeks in advance of our trip, I still manged to screw up the coffee process. You will marvel at our ability to spend nine days at WDW and only ride three attractions while watching absolutely no fireworks, parades, or concerts. You, too, will wait with bated breath for the outcome of the Saratoga Springs Parking Lot Smackdown.
Our overall food experiences were quite good ... we thought breakfast at Boma absolutely lived up to the hype; Wolfgang Puck's upstairs dining room was fantastic and his lower level sushi bar was pretty damn good, too; Blue Zoo was awesome ... CA Grill was a wee bit disappointing ... Citricos was a delight ... and Dole Whips are lost on both of us.
And I almost forgot ... we canceled our dinner reservation at Kona on Sunday, October 12th, in order to enjoy a dog at Casey's, some more F&W snacks, and a sundae-and-a-half at Ghiradelli's (intrigued? stay tuned!).
In order of best to worst, we'd rank our F&W special events as follows: French Regional Lunch (BAM!); Party for the Senseless (pretty good); Kitchen Conversation w/Robert Irvine (once was enough for a multitude of reasons and we can't in good conscience recommend it).
The world showcase Food & Wine booths were offering pretty tasty food samples this year and in most instances the serving portions were generous. Our favorite booths: San Francisco, Louisiana, New Zealand, Spain, and the Cheesemonger. If there is a single booth I'd warn people away from it would be Poland ... the food was not good on the evening that we tried it and that $8.25 cocktail was a rip-off of gargantuan proportions and it was vile.
Finally, I must give a special shout-out to two self-described lurkers ... both of whom were kind enough to approach us during our trip and introduce themselves while saying some very kind things about our reviews. You know who you are and thank you very much - you both put a huge smile on my face.
And again, thank you all so much for the kind comments while we were gone and the birthday wishes today. You guys are the bestest!!!
I can't start any reviews until the pictures are uploaded and organized and that's the hubba's job. It's likely to be a few days before that happens so I thought I'd give you guys a few highlights and teasers to keep you happy until I can get down to work.
Please note: I have updated the first post on this thread - the "official" list of restaurants / snacks has been updated accordingly so that you all know exactly which establishments we will be reviewing.
In the reviews to come you will read about alternately exciting, delicious, annoying, and downright confusing things like free whiskey; zweetburgers; the WDW Foie Gras Situation (panderers); and a criminal lack of coffee beans available for purchase across the WDW resort.
You will learn how, despite purchasing filters weeks in advance of our trip, I still manged to screw up the coffee process. You will marvel at our ability to spend nine days at WDW and only ride three attractions while watching absolutely no fireworks, parades, or concerts. You, too, will wait with bated breath for the outcome of the Saratoga Springs Parking Lot Smackdown.
Our overall food experiences were quite good ... we thought breakfast at Boma absolutely lived up to the hype; Wolfgang Puck's upstairs dining room was fantastic and his lower level sushi bar was pretty damn good, too; Blue Zoo was awesome ... CA Grill was a wee bit disappointing ... Citricos was a delight ... and Dole Whips are lost on both of us.
And I almost forgot ... we canceled our dinner reservation at Kona on Sunday, October 12th, in order to enjoy a dog at Casey's, some more F&W snacks, and a sundae-and-a-half at Ghiradelli's (intrigued? stay tuned!).
In order of best to worst, we'd rank our F&W special events as follows: French Regional Lunch (BAM!); Party for the Senseless (pretty good); Kitchen Conversation w/Robert Irvine (once was enough for a multitude of reasons and we can't in good conscience recommend it).
The world showcase Food & Wine booths were offering pretty tasty food samples this year and in most instances the serving portions were generous. Our favorite booths: San Francisco, Louisiana, New Zealand, Spain, and the Cheesemonger. If there is a single booth I'd warn people away from it would be Poland ... the food was not good on the evening that we tried it and that $8.25 cocktail was a rip-off of gargantuan proportions and it was vile.
Finally, I must give a special shout-out to two self-described lurkers ... both of whom were kind enough to approach us during our trip and introduce themselves while saying some very kind things about our reviews. You know who you are and thank you very much - you both put a huge smile on my face.
And again, thank you all so much for the kind comments while we were gone and the birthday wishes today. You guys are the bestest!!!
tell Jay to get a move on Brenda! Doesn't he know how many people are just waiting around here??? 
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Really, I need to find some way to become independently wealthy so work can stop getting in the way of my DIS-ing!
