Worst restaurants in WDW?

[tatajess]

With so many restaurants to choose from, I thought it would be a good idea to find out the restaurants to avoid.

List the restaurants in WDW that you think are the worst (horrible food, etc.)

Have you or someone you know gotten sick after eating at a restaurant? Please Share!


As for me, I think that Narcoosee's is a disappointment. The atmosphere is great, but to pay $25 for 4 scallops is crazy!

 

[sha_lyn]

My vote goes for chef Mickey's. I knwo many love it but we had a horrible experience there for dinner on our first trip. It came hgihly reccomended by several personal friends, and here on the DIS, so manybe we just it it on a very bad night. The experience was so bad that I doubt we would ever return.

We were seated in the area behind the buffet. It is up a few stairs (maybe 5). Stair, kids and a buffet are not a good mix.
I don't think the servers or characters know that there are tables up there LOL. The service was non existent. Also we watched the character visit the other areas several time in the course of 1 1/2 hours. Our DD and the the kids at the table near us couldn't understand why they were being ignorred. Finally the server for some of the other tables up there when and told someone that the characters needed to visit our area.


The food was horrible. Luke warm, bland and very over cooked.
Desserts looked as if kids had been making sandcastles in them all day.

The atsmophere is so very loud. the music is loud and over bearing. Then people have to scream to be heard over the music.

 

[swilphil]

San Angel Inn--Overpriced taco bell to me. Too dark. So many better choices in WS. We've eaten there twice and neither my husband nor I liked our meal either time, but my brother-in-law loves it.

My sister-in-law supposedly got sick from Cinderella's Castle last summer. She thinks it was the cream in her coffee. I don't know if she really had food poisoning. She seems to get sick a lot, especially when she travels.

 

[thevolcanogod]

Check this out:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=605788

 

[mickeys#1fan]

The very worse: Restaurant Akershus. I like a food adventure and thought I would find it here. Wrongo!! None of the six of us that ate there that day liked it. The food was bland and cold (even the hot buffet). We got this as part of the Candlelight Processional package - never again!

Next: Whispering Canyon. Not as much fun as hyped. The all you can eat was cold - on every serving. Yes had more than one - wanted to get my money's worth. Service was inattentive at best.

Last: Le Cellier. We showed up early for our PS, and were told it would be about 10 minutes. 40 minutes later we were being seated. Service was OK. IMHO the cheddar cheese soup is very overrated as is the pretzel bread. All we could taste in the soup was black pepper. I also ordered some steak special. I think it was listed as a NY strip, but it definitely wasn't that. It was very tough and overcooked. The single highlight was the tuna tartare. I love raw tuna, and the wasabi cream sauce was spicy enough to provide a little sting without burning the hair off my toes.

Avoid any flourless cake at any of the restaurants. They are all dry and flavorless.

 

[mickeymousefan]

On my honeymoon, the Sci Fi Dine Inn gave me the WORST stomach cramps. After eating lunch there, we headed over to MK to catch the parade. Waiting for the parade my stomach began to cramp. It steadily got worse and then I started to be literally blinded by the intensity of the pain. DH got me to the bathroom at CP and kind of just pushed me in there. Of course there was a line , and I dropped to my knees groaning. (DH tried his best). 2 CM's came in after me and helped me to the nurses station . Incidentally, I bumped into Pooh while he was greeting a family and he almost lost his balance.
At the nurses station, I answered a bunch of questions. She asked me where I was from and I said PA (we lived there at the time). She said "oh - that explains it... you had a heat stroke. Happens to a lot of northerners when they visit during their colder months." Heat stroke - my a-s. It was 72 degrees that day. I told her I ate bad food at Sci Fi and she denied it. Oh well... I will just never eat there again.

 

[mla973]

If I had to choose the least favorite restaurant at WDW, I must say that it would be Boma at Animal Kingdom Lodge. The service was great, and the desserts were delicious. I just was not prepared at the exotic variety of food.

This is not a vote to encourage people not to try it, but to be aware that the buffet items are much different than anywhere else in the park. I am pretty picky, and did not care for most of the food.

To be fair, I have heard really great reviews about it. Maybe if you are unsure, check out www.allearsnet.com to see menus. I was just pretty disappointed at the cost of the meal and the enjoyment I received from it.

 

[Megara79]

The WORST in my experience is The Yachtsman Steakhouse. Nasty staff, nasty food.

 

[jann1033]

the tie for all around worst for us was Yakitori house..frozen peas and carrots, a few little chunks of abnormal chicken and some rice...worse than supermarket "Japanse" & chinese carry out ( forget the name,) might as well buy a frozen package of eggrolls and heat them over a candle, same effect, less money

a few others we probably won't go back to but not horrendous ( maybe one thing stunk but somethings were ok or was very overpriced) boma, ohana,sci fi, tony's( not sure it is still called that), )

 

[jann1033]

double post

 

[bigtinkfun]

My least fave restaurant has to be Nine Dragons: the food was roughly teh same quality as what I'd get at my local Chinese take out, but at three times the price. The atmosphere was lovely though.

 

[jay-nee]

Our worst experience has been with Alfredo's. DH and I went on our honeymoon in '88 and had a lovely and memorable meal. Decided to go back for our 15 yr anniversary last year, we found the meal to be comparable with Pasta-Roni, very expensive Pasta-Roni. Also, the waiter was impolite. We will NOT be returning to Alfredo's EVER.

 

[Jordan's MOM]

The only "horrible " place we have ever eaten at was Yakitori house. The food was cold and greasy. I can not understand now why we did not take it back! The place was dirty and we had to eat outside on a cold night.
There have been places we were disapointed in just becasue we had built them up so much in our minds before the trip. Cheif Mickey is our least favorite character meal of all times though many wave about it, and though my DH LOVES WCC I am not crazy about it.
That's pretty good considereing how many meals we have eaten at WDW!

Jordans' mom

 

[sotoalf]

Captain Jack's at Downtown Disney. It's been there for at least 20 years and is a laughing stock. On our last visit my seafood pasta was covered with an unidentified orange gunk I'm pretty sure was dredged up from Lake Buena Vista.

 

[jana]

Mine is Planet Hollywood. I went there for the first time in 98 and loved it. Then went again last summer and won't go back. I feel it has gone down hill quite a bit. The food wasn't as good and the music was WAY too loud we couldn't hear each other talking across the table.

 

[enchantedpixiedust]

I think the worst experience I've had is Chef Mickeys. I was surprised since everyone always raves about it - I'm thinking we just had a bad night there but now I'm hesitant to spend the $ to go back.

The buffet was a mess and the service was non-existent. I would compare the service to a Soup n' Salad place or something similar. We saw him maybe 2 times total for refills, no conversation at all and felt like we were bothering him. We didn't have dessert because, frankly, it was a nasty mess. It looked like it had been played with by a bunch of kids - stuff spilled everywhere, mixed, etc. There was food on the floor around the table as well.

Anyway, maybe it was a bad night and maybe eventually I'll try it again but who knows.

 

[Sabor]

For Worst Service - Fultons at DD.

For the Worst food - The Brown Derby at MGM.

WE loved it back in 98.
We went back in 2000 and it was definitely lower than before.
Gave it another shot Sept 03 and the atmosphere was gone the food was fair to poor and overpriced. And almost half our large party had stomach issues later that night.

 

[macraven]

san angel inn had the worse service and food. we went three times, yea we are stupid, and each time it was bad.
food was over glorified taco bell, limited seasoning, food dry. orders mixed up and took forever to get the bill. last time was the final straw. took server 20 minutes to come back with our check. bill was $68. manager noticed how mad we were and told us lunch was on him. we will never return there.

chef mickey was a real mess. kids serving themselves while the parents did their thing. food mixed together on the buffet bar, food not replenished until a 20 minute wait, food just okay, nothing to rave about. crowded where we sat. half booths with small tables and no room to get up to return to buffet bar. too many kids roaming w/out supervision. lost my appetite when i saw how food mixed together and no cm cleaned up these messes. tried cmickey twice. over priced and not satisfied with food or service so never to return.

sci fi: another loser for us. forever to get service once seated. impossible to get refills, but they are quick to come back to offer dessert. set up not appealing to us. been there 3 times with either 4 of us in our group but last time just 2 of us. placed with another family whose kids tried to monopolize our conversations. no privacy when in a small group. food overpriced for what you get. some foods fine, majority of them for us were not tasty and disappointing in what it really was compared to what the menu stated or waiter described.

 

[WeLoveThePoly]

We used to love Narcoosee's and it was our last night tradition to eat there, watch the EWP from the restaurant's deck, and then walk back to the Poly via the beach. Not anymore.

When we ate there in 2002 we were very disappointed in the meal. The entire meal just wasn't very good and DH had ordered the lobster and he got two tiny lobster tails with vanilla sauce on them. Blech!

We'd noticed over the years that the portions were getting smaller and smaller and the prices were getting higher and higher.


Edited to add: We also won't eat at the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater either. We shared a car with another family and the three of us were crammed into the back seat. No elbow room to eat ..... DD couldn't see the screen because the other family's parents were sitting in front of us ..... and the food was nothing to write home about.

Debbie

 

[Jen D]

Chef Mickey's.

It was like a badly run Luby's.

Decor was nice, though, and I liked the monorail. I might give it another chance for breakfast but dinner was a huge rip-off.