Your review needed for Wine Country Trattoria please

[dizneekrazee]

Hi, we are planning lunch at Wine Country Trattoria this Halloween . We have never eaten there, and I am very interested. Can anyone who has eaten there please provide with their experience, service, food, etc.?

TIA!!

 

[fairycat]

I really like it and go often. You can eat on the patio, which sits above the walkway (so no one watching you eat), their is a night fountain in the center. Or you can eat inside which is also nice, though if its not cold I prefer outside.

The food is sandwichs, salads and italian. My sister loves the lasanga, I always get the Caprese Sandwhich. The food is good, and I think a good price too. They also serve beer and wine.

Overall I have to say its my favorite place to eat in DCA.

 

[bumbershoot]

I got the Caprese sandwich as well, with a side salad. WAY too much food for me! OK so I also had a water and a beer, so those filled me up even before I got the sandwich.

I have a tenuous relationship with mozzarella (it's texture can hit me very negatively) but it was fine.

 

[ScooterL]

I also like the Trattoria very much - I think the food is very good and the prices aren't too bad. And put me down as another Caprese sandwich fan. The breadsticks that come with the meal (not sure if you get them ordering a sandwich by itself, though) are very good also. I've found the service to be decent - generally "decent" is all you can expect inside the parks!

 

[Monkey Monkey]

I got the lasagna rustica and really enjoyed it. My whole party liked their food, but the service was awful. We had PS's but weren't seated for a good 20 minutes, then everything took a long time. We had a large party (7 adults and 5 toddlers), but we were never checked on other than when we ordered and were brought food and drinks.

To boot, my friend ordered the chocolate cake, and it arrived with a dead fly in the sauce. My friend pointed it out, and the waitress said "Oh, that wasn't there when I brought it out", as if my friend did it! The cake was replaced, but wasn't comped. I don't go to restaurants looking for ways to get free stuff, but having worked in the food industry, if there is a dead bug in my food, I kind of expect to get a replacement and at least some kind of discount.

I would eat there again for the food, but it wouldn't be my top choice because of the service I experienced.

 

[honeymom]

We ate there last week and had a very good experience although I will acknowledge that my experience with Disney dining over the years has taught me that for Disney at its best is hit or miss which will account for experiences like the above poster who I sympathize with.

I had lasagna rustica, husband had caprese sandwich, kids had pasta. All were quite delicious and for such a nice restaurant at Disney, we thought the prices were in the normal, not overpriced range (i.e. my lasagna was about $12).

Our server had a break in the middle of the meal. Another server came over to explain that he would fill in while she was gone. Both servers were extremely professional and attentive and we did not suffer the service problems of the above poster. But, we went for dinner and perhaps there is better service at that time. We also were seated very quickly when we arrived at the restaurant.

Dessert was delicious although I am still on vacation and my mind is a blur over what we ate (I remember daughter had tiramisu, I think I had a chocolate creme).

We have all decided that we would like to eat here again. I hope we have another hit, not a miss, as we have been all too many times at that end of the Disney stick as well (i.e. had the most awful meal at Rose & Crown at WDW when everybody else raved about it and absolutely hated the much adored prime rib there).

 

[MPHARJ]

We are on our way to DLR in 11 days, and was wondering if I would need to make an ADR to eat lunch here? We passed by it last year on our first trip but I thought it would be too pricey for me and the kids. However you all have me wanting to try the caprese sandwich.

 

[audrabolster]

I'm also interested in these reviews. I'm trying to plan a birthday dinner surprise, but it's tough since she is a vegetarian and a lot of the sit down dinners don't offer a lot of options as far as that goes. But this one does

 

[NWPrincess]

Has anyone tried their salads?

 

[DSNY4ever]

I ate there on my last trip and it was pretty good. My husband complained about not enough sauce on his spaghetti, but overall we all liked it. You can click on my trip report in my siggie- I have a bunch of pictures from the food when we ate there. Sitting outside is nice on a warm day. It is fun to people watch

 

[mousiemom]

we have a ps here for next wed. night for an outside table to watch the parade. i know i want to order the lasagna. we are leaving tomorrow morning...can't wait!!!
mousiemom

 

[avalon451]

I have a tenuous relationship with mozzarella

Molly, yer just asking for it from the tag fairy sometimes, yanno?

Thanks for all the info posted here! We were wondering about it, too. I think we'll make PS's for Oct.

 

[bumbershoot]

We are on our way to DLR in 11 days, and was wondering if I would need to make an ADR to eat lunch here? We passed by it last year on our first trip but I thought it would be too pricey for me and the kids. However you all have me wanting to try the caprese sandwich.

I didn't have a PS for my visit, but then I was solo and it was a rainy evening in late January. So that might be why I was seated so fast.

Has anyone tried their salads?

Side salad was very good.

Molly, yer just asking for it from the tag fairy sometimes, yanno?

Oh man.... I'm going to blame that brainfree moment on this horrid move and all the money in pro-rated extra days we're paying. It's the 4th and we still have stuff over there. I'm blaming it on that.

 

[dizneekrazee]

Thanks everybody. Sounds like its a go for us!! I will make PS in early September!!

 

[wendylady36]

To boot, my friend ordered the chocolate cake, and it arrived with a dead fly in the sauce. My friend pointed it out, and the waitress said "Oh, that wasn't there when I brought it out", as if my friend did it! The cake was replaced, but wasn't comped. I don't go to restaurants looking for ways to get free stuff, but having worked in the food industry, if there is a dead bug in my food, I kind of expect to get a replacement and at least some kind of discount.

I would eat there again for the food, but it wouldn't be my top choice because of the service I experienced.

but, I experienced something similar at Ariel's Grotto. I found a piece of hair in my cake and I wasn't feeling well already so that made me get sick. They offered to replace it, but we didn't get offered a discount. I was very disappointed in the service there.

As for Wine Country Trattoria, I've never been. I've heard so many great things about it though, and the pictures on the food thread look so yummy. I'm hoping to go there the next time that I'm down there.

 

[Nftysqrt]

I absolutely love all the soups here. Service can be slow sometimes but the food makes up for it. It's good to experience it at least once.

 

[ballarinamom]

We aways pit the ceasar salad which is large enought to share. Dh usually gets the lasagna rustica and I get the chicken lasagna. He wants me to remind him to get the chicken lasagna next time as he thought the rustica was good but the chicken was better (sage cream sauce- YUM!!!) and we split a tiramisu. It is alot of food but we only eat two meals a day at DLR usually a brunch and then a late dinner

 

[Dobie]

Wine Country Trattoria is perfectly fine.

It is comfortable, you can make a PS, which is convenient on a warm, busy day, and it is air conditioned and lovely cool inside.

I find the food to be too heavy for lunch. However, being middle aged and grumpy as I am, anything more than a tuna on rye at noon puts me into sudden, irresistible nap mode these days, so you probably shouldn't listen to me. I would put the Trattoria on par with Olive Garden--absolutely adequate, nothing special, basically overpriced, you can make a better meal at home with Costco ravioli and Paul Newman's canned sauce, but who has a saucepan on vacation?

Now that I have assumed the role of know it all in the matter of PS lunches at Disney, my preference is for Carnation Cafe. The menu is much better suited to a midday meal, and it is cheaper.

But, like all the other posters have said, WCT is perfectly fine.

 

[honeymom]

Wine Country Trattoria is perfectly fine.

It is comfortable, you can make a PS, which is convenient on a warm, busy day, and it is air conditioned and lovely cool inside.

I find the food to be too heavy for lunch. However, being middle aged and grumpy as I am, anything more than a tuna on rye at noon puts me into sudden, irresistible nap mode these days, so you probably shouldn't listen to me. I would put the Trattoria on par with Olive Garden--absolutely adequate, nothing special, basically overpriced, you can make a better meal at home with Costco ravioli and Paul Newman's canned sauce, but who has a saucepan on vacation?

Now that I have assumed the role of know it all in the matter of PS lunches at Disney, my preference is for Carnation Cafe. The menu is much better suited to a midday meal, and it is cheaper.

But, like all the other posters have said, WCT is perfectly fine.

Our meal was a bit better than Olive Garden and definitely better than what I can make from Costco. Also, when compared to other Disney choices for sit down meals, it was not that overpriced (lasagna rustica was about $12, not the $20 plus that we expected).

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

We ate dinner there last month and loved it. DBF had the Caprese Sandwich and I had a salad and I don't remember what it was called. It had salami and ham sliced on top with a bunch of good veggies and a vinagerette dressing. We also shared the orange sorbet for dessert which was fantastic. We had a great time, much better than Olive Garden IMO (I don't really like Olive Garden though).