Your most disapointing TS restaraunt at WDW was?

[tinkgirl126]

double ditto.....after a LONG wait..yuck

Um, i totally disagree! you have to make an ADR so your wait isn't long! The food is REALLY good. You will be let down if you expect gourmet food, but it is REALLY good!

 

[pperfectmom]

The only restaurant I would probably skip is Restaurant Marrakesh. The service was very slow and we really didn't like the food. It wasn't that it was terrible, it was just so bland. My Morrocan lamb tasted like it was straight out of 50's Prime Time. It was definately not what I expected. It is beautiful inside and I liked the music and dancing but I would rather eat at the CS.

 

[G's mommy]

We will not return to Whispering Canyon or Hollywood and Vine. Both were yuck!!!!!!!!!

 

[TigerKat]

Two years in a row we've been disappointed in KONA for dinner. There is no atmosphere to speak of and the food is at best OK.

 

[Camicar]

We had never had a negative experience until our trip one year ago this week. It would have been a tie between LTT and Prime Time. In both cases, the food was good, it was other issues.

We had been to Prime Time before and the key is definitely your server. This time we had a server who had all the personality of a week-old corpse. It was so disappointing bec we knew what to expect and all around us we could hear other diners having a great time with their servers. We felt like we had been seated at the dunce's table and were being punished for some unknown offence.

LTT, first of all, was FILTHY. From the dining room to the bathroom to the upper hallway/balcony, well.... I've been in cleaner greasy spoons in bad parts of town. Secondly (and this is not the fault of the restaurant, although clearly they need to do something about security), several families tried to barge into the dining room and accost the characters for autographs while the characters were at tables with paying customers. Thirdly, although all of our food was served within 45 minutes, it took nearly 90 minutes for all of the characters to get to us and after 45 minutes of additional waiting and missing Spectromagic, we were actually getting ready to give up and leave when our server went and got Goofy for us. Sorry, but that is outrageous. And finally, I wish they had a policy about handling out of control children. I have a LOT of tolerance for children at WDW, but this one group consisted of 3 families with approx 9000 children all SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS for more than 45 minutes, running around the restaurant and banging into other guests and their tables, etc. They were completely out of control. The parents did nothing and although several diners complained, the manager said there was nothing that could be done. They were so loud, we couldn't even talk to each other at our own table and another couple celebrating their anniversary got up and walked out.

After never having a bad experience before 2007 and then having two on the same trip, we do feel like Disney dining is on a downward cycle.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

Jiko. I keep on hearing rave reviews about it, but both times I ate there I found the food to be not anything special, most of it was okay, but there were a few things I did not enjoy at all.

I'm eating there again though, only because I want to be able to say I ate at all the signature restaurants in one trip, and since I have the deluxe DDP, which I got for $32 a night, it really isn't costing me anything.

 

[dburg30]

Coral Reef. Typical place that seems to think unless the outside of the steak is blackened, it's not done right. And this was a med well order. THe place was smaller then I thought, an unless there is more to it, the aquarium view was very disappointing..

 

[mickeys#1fan]

I was going to write about LeCellier and Whispering Canyon, when reminded of LTT. All three were letdowns for us, especially LeCellier.

Our disppointment in LeCellier was magnified by the hype it gets here. The Cheddar Cheese Soup is good, but not special. In fact, I have the recipe now and make it myself two or three times in winter. DW says my version is better. We didn't see what all the fuss was over the pretzel bread. The steaks were OK, but we've had better at CG or YS.

Our complaints about WC and LTT echo those of others who have already written - servers too busy, food too bland and/or cold, not as fun as we expected. We were particularly disappointed by the processed, bought in food at LTT.

 

[mickeys#1fan]

Spirit of Aloha was also pretty bad.

 

[december]

Jiko. I keep on hearing rave reviews about it, but both times I ate there I found the food to be not anything special, most of it was okay, but there were a few things I did not enjoy at all.

I'm eating there again though, only because I want to be able to say I ate at all the signature restaurants in one trip, and since I have the deluxe DDP, which I got for $32 a night, it really isn't costing me anything.

How did you get it for $32 a night? I would love to be able to afford the deluxe plan and have a character breakfast and signature dinner every day!

For me the worst meal in my 2 trips was Coral Reef. It was beautiful, service was great, but the food just wasn't what we like. I love spicy, but that catfish was just drowning in seasoning. ds's steak was good, but we didn't like any of the appys, sides, or desserts. 2nd to that was 'Ohana dinner. The place was great, and the server was wonderful, but the food just had a wang to it that we didn't like.

We've had great experiences at Garden Grill (our fave from 2006), and 1900 dinner (fave from 2007). We also enjoyed CRT breakfast, CP dinner, Sci Fi lunch (went with burgers!), Rainforest Cafe (AK) dinner, Donald's breakfast (before the change), Chef Mickey's dinner, 'Ohana breakfast.

 

[Tricia1972]

How did you get it for $32 a night? I would love to be able to afford the deluxe plan and have a character breakfast and signature dinner every day!

For me the worst meal in my 2 trips was Coral Reef. It was beautiful, service was great, but the food just wasn't what we like. I love spicy, but that catfish was just drowning in seasoning. ds's steak was good, but we didn't like any of the appys, sides, or desserts. 2nd to that was 'Ohana dinner. The place was great, and the server was wonderful, but the food just had a wang to it that we didn't like.

We've had great experiences at Garden Grill (our fave from 2006), and 1900 dinner (fave from 2007). We also enjoyed CRT breakfast, CP dinner, Sci Fi lunch (went with burgers!), Rainforest Cafe (AK) dinner, Donald's breakfast (before the change), Chef Mickey's dinner, 'Ohana breakfast.

If you have bounceback free dining booked already, you could upgrade to the DxDDP for $32/night.

If they offer free dining for the general public, you may very well be able to upgrade as well!

 

[disneyfav4ever]

How did you get it for $32 a night? I would love to be able to afford the deluxe plan and have a character breakfast and signature dinner every day!

That's pretty much what I'm doing.

If you have bounceback free dining booked already, you could upgrade to the DxDDP for $32/night.

That's how I got it.

 

[Chellymouse]

Our worst meal of any trip was Cinderella's Royal Table. LOUSY doesn't begin to describe it! We had an ADR (it was our arrival day of our honeymoon) we waited 45 minutes after our time before we were seated. While our table was cute and we did get the glassess and champagne, our food was absolutely awful. It was cold and it took over 2 hours to get our meals. We had horrible service, our server mixed up our order with someone else's and never did come back to check on us. DH finally left the table to find a manager. So much for the manager as our food was cold! We didn't even bother to send it back. We complained and they took 10% off and gave us free dessert (big deal!). It was still a $100 meal. We wound up getting burgers at the Lunch Pad before the parade. We haven't been back either!

 

[IHEARTNY]

We got a bounceback also. You have to have previously stayed at Disney during the September free dining to receive it again for 2008. The terms for getting again were that you were required to book for Sept 2008 from your hotel room in Sept 2007. If you haven't already exercised the bounceback option, you cannot do so now.
However, like last year free dining was offered for a limited time I believe in April (my DH took care of it so I can't recall the specific date) but I vagely remember the first of April and those who had a Disney Visa Rewards card were offered the plan earlier than those who don't. It's very useful becuase I've many not being able to get it because it is very limited.

 

[bowlingchicaroo]

i would have to say:

Hollywood & Vine and Coral Reef...food was not that great at all and i really don't think i will be going back real soon...

 

[IHEARTNY]

Anyway, my worst experience was at Spoodles, and it was the second to worst experience I have ever had at a restaurant, period.

I have said in previous posts before that I hate, ABSOLUTELY HATE when my drink runs out, especially when it isn't quickly (past 5 minutes is SLOW) refilled. But only did I never get refills, for the first half of my meal it was the wrong drink to begin with.

It was just my DH and I and we were sitting in the worst spot, right by all the traffic. And I realized that it pays sometimes to have a big party because then you don't get stuck in terrible locations in the restaurant. Our waitress was non-existant. She was never there except to take our order and give us the bill, other people we bringing our stuff for her. Our drinks which were supposed to be two diet cokes were regular cokes and when we sent them back the first time, we got regular coke once again. Finally after we had noticed that a party of 6 was being waited on spectacularly, we asked the waitress for that table to bring us the correct drink which we finally received. When we finally got our food, the steak that I had to be medium rare was well done and tuff not to mention both of our dishes were cold.

Later, we ended up talking to the waitress who we actually liked but didn't have. She was very nice, and very attentative. It turns out she was from our part of the country, the Pacific Northwest! In speaking to her she told us to our surprise that the lady who was supposed to serve us was actually a supervisor. Don't know why...

In the end though, as we are people who understand the value of tips to a server... for our $90 tab, our waitress didn't get nothing but just a few bucks. Melissa, the waitress we liked, we gave her $20.

 

[Cobbo]

I'd say that Coral Reef & San Angel Inn are consistently my worst WDW dining experiences. For CR, I love the setting, but the view only makes me want to be on the other side of the glass doing DiveQuest so I can play with the families near the windows. I've never found the food there to be anything special and have always been disappointed in the desserts. They always sound good but come out dry and tasteless (IMHO).

As for San Angel Inn, it's too dark & the service is the worst in any of the TS restaurants on a consistent day-to-day basis. I've never had a good server there and my food there has always been barely edible...soggy and blah. I've sometimes wondered if they've reduced the lighting there over the years just so you can't see the *&#$ they're serving there. Yet, I continue to go there about every 2 years just to see if there's been any improvement (I'm apparently a glutton for punishment, and my DW doesn't know why I bother to go there anymore)...I guess I keep hoping that one day it will get better, but for now I'll go on a rant in my own brain about what a horrible remodel they did to the boatride there by ripping out any sense of culture and putting in the 3 amigos...on second thought, I guess I'll just skip the entire pavillion for a few months until that memory passes...

 

[grinningghost]

Ours was the Garden Grill. We found that the food was not edible and that, coupled with the fact that we were seated in the upper section, right by the servers entry area to the center, made for the most disappointing meal EVER! Sitting in the upper section is also bad, as you cannot see the scenery (unless you would like to rude and uncomfortable and stand up continually)! The characters were cute, that was the only real plus of the night!

I'm with you! Garden Grille was awful. The food was greasy, slimy, disgusting. Our server was completely rude and it wasn't cheap! The only thing that saved the experience was the characters - at least they were friendly and available.

 

[deslynnpatterson]

San Angel Inn-- the atmosphere was beautiful but the food was not so good-- and it was so dark in there i could not see what i was eating!!

 

[goofyboyzmom]

Morocco in Epcot. Never Again!!!! We were soooo disappointed in the food, atmosphere and definitely waiter!!!