What Is Your Most Disappointing Restaurant @ WDW

[dmonroe]

While I don't recall ever having a horrible meal at WDW --where I sent something back, or just didn't eat it--we have had a few that were just not worth the cost. One was at Sci-Fi. The atmosphere was great; but the food was like counter service served at a table. Another was Chef Mickey's for dinner. The food wasn't especially hot or fresh or tasty. The character interaction was great though!

 

[Plutes]

I know I'm in the minority here, but I will never again step foot inside the Prime-Time Cafe. The food was mediocre at best - we could easily find better at any local diner. And, our server? Well, when we were first seated, our server was great - had us laughing right away! However, somewhere in the middle of the meal, he left & we got this super obnoxious, LOUD waitress - she was awful. Yes, we expected to be teased at this place, but she was just WAY too much. We couldn't wait to get out of there, and talking to the people at the next table, we found we weren't the only ones. Granted, this was several years ago, but this is still the only restaurant on property I will NEVER return to.

 

[katerkat]

Another one for Flying Fish. I had the steak, and I've eaten a lot of steak, and that was NO $40 steak. Plus, I ordered it well done (have to, due to a stomach thing) and it was brought to me really rare. Any competent chef should know the difference between rare and well done. Oh, and the waitress was, well, not rude, but not at all attentive. And she never did bring us water or ask if we wanted another drink.

ETA: DH had fish, and he thought it was OK but not worth the price.

 

[bunnyfoo]

I went to dinner at Cape May's and didn't think the food was anything special -- It was okay but nothing spectacular. The service was excellent though

I also wasn't too impressed with WCC at lunch. The service was good (I think our waiter sort of knew that we prefered to watch rather than participate ) but I found the ribs that were on the all you can eat skillet to be too fatty. If I go back, I think I might try ordering something other than the skillet.

 

[Nadine and Fred]

Some of the restaurants listed as peoples worst are our favorites. I will second both Citrico's (my food was awful; the tuna was inedible) and Flying Fish (the food was great but the service was terrible ).LOVE Boma, Fifties Prime Time, Brown Derby and Sci Fi. Will concede that Hollywood and Vine is the worst buffet at the World.

 

[Tiziminchac]

Originally posted by monarchsfan16
Crystal Palace. It used to be so good before they brought the characters in. The buffet choices back in the early 90's were great, even for kids. But when we ate in 1998, not realizing that there had been such significant changes made, we were really disappointed. We still remember what it was like before, and now it's not great. The character interaction wasn't too bad, but the servers were rude. We haven't been back since.

I agree with you and I miss the old Crystal Palace too. It was always a favorite of ours. But the restaurant I have no plans on eating in anytime soon would be L'Originale Alfredo di Roma Ristorante. The food tasted like it had been frozen at one time and rather bland. But what do I know? Some of the places I like were put down by others in this thread. To each their own!

 

[molly213]

Tony's - cold, extremely small portions for kids meals, burnt rolls, rude staff. Never again and this was our first meal of the trip. Thankfully the next was much better.

Sci Fi - Tried it 3 times and not again. Food is overpriced and not very good. It is worth a try once for atmosphere but that is it!

Pepper Market. We like the concept but food poisoning times 2 is too much of a coincidence. Never again!

 

[orvilleair]

Rainforest Cafe at AK

$12 salad with mostly lettuce and they have no idea what buffalo chicken means. Chicken strips on lettuce! Slow service to boot.

 

[Tamickey]

Coral Reef at lunchtime. Shrimp were actually rubber balls disguised as seafood. Service was horrible. Waiter brought a salad and a soup (I think) to make up for everything else. Maybe it was a kitchen problem, but he was pretty spaced out himself. The freebies were the only good things we had. Tempted to try again since the atmosphere is so neat.

 

[OneMoreTry]

Narcoosee's. BAD ahi tuna (which when properly done is a favorite of mine). This was a week after 9/11 so I'm not sure if that was a factor.

Tony's. Miniscule portions. So so food.

Prime Time.


We really DID enjoy Coral Reef. The food was great and the service was fantastic.

 

[Jockaroo]

Yak-itori House. Not sure what we ate, but it sure wasn't chicken. This meal was just gross. Will never eat here again. Love the sit-down restaurants in Japan though.

Second worst meal. Blue Bayou at Disneyland. Heard rave reviews about this place. Had freezer-burn tasting pathetic crab cakes and very cold steamed veggies. But the atmosphere here would blow you away--inside the Pirates of Carribbean ride. That part was awesome. Food was nasty.

 

[Alice42]

I think a lot of the dissapointment comes from food choices. I am a vegetarian and I absolutely love the vegetarian meal at Coral Reef and Boma.
However we have also been there at slower times, so if it would have been jam packed, I'm sure we would of had an unpleasant experience.


We didn't care for our meal at Les Chefs de France. It WAS busy that night and we sat directly next to other people. The food was okay, and I had a stomachache all night from it. The rolls were good, though!

I also didn't particularly care for Boatwright's at POR. It felt too much like a Denny's to me (IMO)!

 

[ducklite]

For us it was definitely Artists Point. We were so diappointed after hearing nothing but rave reviews. Our server was terrible, she wouldn't leave us alone, untilo she brought the food. Whle DH's was excellent, my steak ordered rare was served burnt to a crisp well done. Seriously overcooked, you could tell by looking at it. I sent it back, it was inedible. Even DH who will eat his steak cooked as much as medium well said there was no way he could have eaten it.

So I sent it back. The next one came out cooked medium, and on the medium well side of that. I had ordered it rare.

It was very disappointing.

We also had a bad experience at Portabello. The a/c was broken, and they sat us in a room that couldn't have been more than 60 degrees. We were so cold we had to leave half way through our meal, The server was terrible as well.

Other bad experiences...

Palio. The first time we ate there still ranks as one of the best meals/service we've ever had at WDW. We went back a year later with a party of six, the server was terrible and the food lackluster. Chocke dit up to a bad night and returned a year after that. What a mistake. The service was terrible and my sons chicken parm was served without sauce. Asked the server for sauce, she disappeared for half an hour. DS finally left to get a hot dog on the Boardwalk. We won't go back.

San Angel Inn, we went not expecting too much. What we got was below our already low expectations. Server took the order, we never saw him again. Terrible food dropped off by someone else. Over half an hour later we finally asked the hostess to find out check.

Le Cellier, last summer we had a terrible experienc with poor service and not so hot food. Chocked it up to a bad night, we've eaten there a dozen tiem prior and always been happy.

Others that weren't horribly terrible but I won't bother to return:

Tony's, lackluster service and food, not at all worth the price.

Pinnochio's Village House, terrible food, not enough seating.

Big River Grill, so-so food, so-so microbrew, and so-so service, so-so many better options.

Sci-Fi, been there, done that, not worth going back.

rainforest cafe, decent food but a bit expensive for the quality, pretty poor service.

Planet Hollywood, so-so food, so-so service, not worth spending vacation time to go there--basically a tourist trap.

ABC Commissary, food poisoning. DH and I ate the same thing, the next day both we so sick we couldn't get out of bed for two days. DS had something different and was fine.

Anne

 

[Puffy2]

Didn't like the Garden Grill - food was good but the set up of the restaurant is weird to me (I felt so closed off from everything) - I prefer the character breakfasts at Crystal Palace and Cindys.

 

[sha_lyn]

Chef Mickey's. Not only was it highly recommended here on the DIs but also by many people IRL.

The food was horrible. Everything was cold, over cooked and tasteless. The much raved about mashed potatoes were awful. I remeber one UK poster here describign them as wall paper paste and suggested that americans haven't had good mash potatoes before if those were considered great.
The Desserts looked like a bunch of kids had been let making sand castles in them. I wouldn't touch them.

We were seating unpstairs, which is apparentl ya section the characters don't know about. The kids in our section were all crying because they kept seeing the characters visit the other sections. The server from another table had to go get the characters for us. I think we had been there 1 1/4 hours by then.
the services was non existent. Saw our server 2X. when he took our drink order and when he came wiht the bill. Drinks anlong with tiny carafs (held maybe one refill) for refills were left on the table while we were at the buffet. Made the table extremely crowded since all 4 of us had different drinks. All of us needed refills. I believe we finally got water from another server.

 

[chloebob]

Another vote for Crystal Palace! We've been to lunch twice and both times were very bad. Last time though we were there for over an hour, the characters were terrible, 2 out of 4 never came to our table! Our waitress was non existant and the food selection was not good. I ate the childrens buffet! (mac&cheese, and pizza)(not worth $20!). I love Pooh, so having 2 bad experiences was such a bummer, we won't be going back anytime soon!

Also, we didn't like the pepper market. The food was not good and a little pricey for what it was. Also the service was not exactly Disney-quality. We saw a CM argue with a woman getting something for her son (who wanted fruit instead of a cookie and he didn't want to let hew switch. Is that really a huge deal?!?) After this, if we ate at the hotel, we just got those premade sandwiches from the convenience store, much better and cheaper!

 

[nhdisnut]

Toy Story Pizza Planet - We love pizza, but the pizza we had there might as well have been served on a cardboard crust - tough and no taste! We will certainly never go back!

 

[lat]

Mitsukoshi, Boma and Sci-fi -

Both are favorites of many, but I will not return. I did not like the food that Boma serves, too exotic for me, I ended up eating off kids' station and it was just not worth the $$ spent.

Sci-fi - overrated and overpriced. It was pricey especially both my kids wanted the souvenier cups with those glowing ice cubes.

The one we will definitely NEVER go again is Mitsukoshi in Japan. Expensive food and not so great food. Don't know if it had anything to do being it was NYE. But NEVER again.

 

[innoculation]

Akershus in Norway. All my wife could find that even tasted good was cold scrambled eggs.

 

[Pig Pen]

Rose and Crown. Our booth smelled like stale beer and I've had better fish and chips at Long John Silver's.