serendipity
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2006
Hi everyone. We had a lot of meals at the world and we'll be sharing them all with you. We had great experiences, as well as not so great experiences. Hpefully we'll be able to assist you in making some of your ADR's.
The Restaurants:
-Raglan Road
-O'hana Dinner
-O'hana Character Breakfast
-Food and Wine Festival
-Artist Point
-Tonys
-Garden Grill Character Lunch
-California Grill
-50's Prime Time Cafe
-1900 Park Fare character Breakfast
-Jiko
-Coral Reef
Boma
Counter Service:
-Flame Tree Barbeque
-Tusker House
-Flatbread Grill
-The Mara
-Roaring Forks Cafe
-Columbia Harbour House
-Pecos Bills
-Sommerfest
We'll also be rating several different snacks and drinks we had over the trip.
Day 1: Raglan Road
When I made an ADR at this restaurant I was expecting a small, warm pub. I don't know why I felt this way. I couldn't have been more room. Raglan Road is an EXTREMELY LOUD and large restaurant. The noise level is outrageous. It's the kind of restaurant where you have to scream at a person in order for them to hear you. We started off with soda bread which was pretty good. It came with an oil and guiness dip which was different but good.
We followed this by sharring the appetizer of the Dalkey Duo. The Dalkey Duo is little sausages breaded and deep fried kind of like cocktail hotdogs. This came with a mustard/mayo dip. This was suprisingly good and I found it hard to stop eating them.
After our apperizer was taken away it took another 50 minutes for our entrees to come out. That seemed like quite a bit of a wait as the people next to us who had come in at the same time, and ordered appetizers and entrees had already left before we got our meal. Regardless, for our entrees I apologize as we do not have any pictures. I ordered the sheperds pie and my fiancee ordered the lamb. These were both TERRIBLE. I'm really not exagerating. I'm not the kind of person who insults for no reason. The shepherds pie resembled a ground up hamburger and tasted awful. I felt like it was something I would use for dog food. Jay (my fiancee's) lamb was tough. I thought there was a bone in it and I found out it was just so tough that it felt that way with a fork and knife. The only reason we realized it wasn't a bone is because we felt it with our hands. We really had a terrible experience here.
It was so terrible in fact that I wondered how anyone had a positive experience here. This was our worst meal of the trip. I would give Raglan Road a D.
DAY 2:
This day we decided to have Breakfast at Roaring Forks. We weren't very hungry so I had raisin bran cereal while my fiancee had frosted flakes. Sorry we're not more interesting here!
We were hungry later at the Magic Kingdom so we wandered over to the bakery. The bakery was packed so we decided to go to the confectionary and split a chocolate and peanut butter rice krispy treat. This was DELICIOUS! You really must try these. We used a snack credit for the purchase.
After wandering around MK for awhile we took the monorail over to EPCOT for the last day of the Food and Wine Festival. The park was PACKED so we were only able to get food from Norway in which we got Norweigen Meatballs. This was absolutely delicious.
We had margaritas in Mexico (I love these). I had the fiesta which is a combination of Mango, Strawberry, Kiwi and Lime and Jay had just the lime. We both got it without salt.
We walked over to Germany where we got Bratwurst, sauerkraut and black forest cake. We split this CS. I don't know what it is about Sommerfest but they have the best sauerkraut I've ever tasted. I can eat it by the spoonful. It was wonderful. Solid A.
We followed this with shots of goldschlagger.
And finally a Bellini.
At this point we had to go back to our resort so we could make our dinner reservation,
Dinner was at O'hana. We really enjoyed this restaurant. We arrived a little early so after checking in we went over to the bar where Jay enjoyed a Lapu Lapu (something I would suggest) and I got my standard Bacardi and Diet Coke.
Our Camera battery died at this point! Sorry, we get better at taking pictures as the trip progresses, I promise! When we were seated first we were given the Fried Wontons. These were great, especially with the peanut sauce. The other two sauces were okay.
Next we were given the sweet and sour shrimp which I loved and the wings which Jay loved.
Last we had our skewers and potatos which were also great. The potatos were especially good.
For our dessert we had the bread pudding. This was my favorite dessert of the trip-yummmmmmmmmmmmm
We really enjoyed our dinner at O'hana. Watching the fireworks while eating was really fun. Overall I'd give this restaurant a B+
The Restaurants:
-Raglan Road
-O'hana Dinner
-O'hana Character Breakfast
-Food and Wine Festival
-Artist Point
-Tonys
-Garden Grill Character Lunch
-California Grill
-50's Prime Time Cafe
-1900 Park Fare character Breakfast
-Jiko
-Coral Reef
Boma
Counter Service:
-Flame Tree Barbeque
-Tusker House
-Flatbread Grill
-The Mara
-Roaring Forks Cafe
-Columbia Harbour House
-Pecos Bills
-Sommerfest
We'll also be rating several different snacks and drinks we had over the trip.
Day 1: Raglan Road
When I made an ADR at this restaurant I was expecting a small, warm pub. I don't know why I felt this way. I couldn't have been more room. Raglan Road is an EXTREMELY LOUD and large restaurant. The noise level is outrageous. It's the kind of restaurant where you have to scream at a person in order for them to hear you. We started off with soda bread which was pretty good. It came with an oil and guiness dip which was different but good.
We followed this by sharring the appetizer of the Dalkey Duo. The Dalkey Duo is little sausages breaded and deep fried kind of like cocktail hotdogs. This came with a mustard/mayo dip. This was suprisingly good and I found it hard to stop eating them.
After our apperizer was taken away it took another 50 minutes for our entrees to come out. That seemed like quite a bit of a wait as the people next to us who had come in at the same time, and ordered appetizers and entrees had already left before we got our meal. Regardless, for our entrees I apologize as we do not have any pictures. I ordered the sheperds pie and my fiancee ordered the lamb. These were both TERRIBLE. I'm really not exagerating. I'm not the kind of person who insults for no reason. The shepherds pie resembled a ground up hamburger and tasted awful. I felt like it was something I would use for dog food. Jay (my fiancee's) lamb was tough. I thought there was a bone in it and I found out it was just so tough that it felt that way with a fork and knife. The only reason we realized it wasn't a bone is because we felt it with our hands. We really had a terrible experience here.
It was so terrible in fact that I wondered how anyone had a positive experience here. This was our worst meal of the trip. I would give Raglan Road a D.
DAY 2:
This day we decided to have Breakfast at Roaring Forks. We weren't very hungry so I had raisin bran cereal while my fiancee had frosted flakes. Sorry we're not more interesting here!
We were hungry later at the Magic Kingdom so we wandered over to the bakery. The bakery was packed so we decided to go to the confectionary and split a chocolate and peanut butter rice krispy treat. This was DELICIOUS! You really must try these. We used a snack credit for the purchase.
After wandering around MK for awhile we took the monorail over to EPCOT for the last day of the Food and Wine Festival. The park was PACKED so we were only able to get food from Norway in which we got Norweigen Meatballs. This was absolutely delicious.
We had margaritas in Mexico (I love these). I had the fiesta which is a combination of Mango, Strawberry, Kiwi and Lime and Jay had just the lime. We both got it without salt.
We walked over to Germany where we got Bratwurst, sauerkraut and black forest cake. We split this CS. I don't know what it is about Sommerfest but they have the best sauerkraut I've ever tasted. I can eat it by the spoonful. It was wonderful. Solid A.
We followed this with shots of goldschlagger.
And finally a Bellini.
At this point we had to go back to our resort so we could make our dinner reservation,
Dinner was at O'hana. We really enjoyed this restaurant. We arrived a little early so after checking in we went over to the bar where Jay enjoyed a Lapu Lapu (something I would suggest) and I got my standard Bacardi and Diet Coke.
Our Camera battery died at this point! Sorry, we get better at taking pictures as the trip progresses, I promise! When we were seated first we were given the Fried Wontons. These were great, especially with the peanut sauce. The other two sauces were okay.
Next we were given the sweet and sour shrimp which I loved and the wings which Jay loved.
Last we had our skewers and potatos which were also great. The potatos were especially good.
For our dessert we had the bread pudding. This was my favorite dessert of the trip-yummmmmmmmmmmmm
We really enjoyed our dinner at O'hana. Watching the fireworks while eating was really fun. Overall I'd give this restaurant a B+