Tuesday!
We stayed at Port Orleans for breakfast and used the food court again. I really wanted beignets but we thought we should use some counter service credits up! So I ordered the waffle and Tony ordered the pancakes. The pancakes came with bacon, and I had strawberries with my waffle (I like to try have at least one portion of fruit a day!!!!).
I wasnt looking forward to this to be honest, I thought it was going to be quite dry, but it was lovely. Really fresh and light, and strawberries covered in maple syrup really are very passable! Nice sized portion as well. I gave this 9/10! Tony gave the pancakes 8/10 and says they were light and fresh . . . he only gave the bacon 1/10 saying it was fatty and inedible!! We cant bear streaky bacon, its all fat!!! Here they are
Waffle
Pancake
Mid-morning we got a bit peckish so thought we would share something. We were near Sunshine Seasons (we were in Epcot, by the way!). There was SO much choice on the bakery counter, took a good 5 minutes to choose! Went for the Key Lime Pie in the end. This was just OK. The base was very nice, and the meringue topping was nice, but I didnt like the actual pie filling. It was more like lime mousse, than the usual key lime pie filling. Not much substance to it! I seem to remember Tony liked it, but he hasnt written his comments down so I will get him to come on here and comment later!
Lunch! Very excited about this trying Le Cellier for the first time. We purposely booked lunch as were not massive steak fans but really wanted to try the place we had heard so much about . . . I know its not popular to waste table service meals on lunch, but the lunch menu just appealed to us more.
We got in about 10 minutes after our ADR time. First of all I was really surprised by the size I have heard loads of people commenting on how small it was so I was expecting something Beaches n Cream size!! Its not quite that bad! But man do they cram the tables in! The man at the next tables elbows was virtually on my plate at some points. And while on the subject of the tables next door on one side we had a couple who literally never said a word to each other all through the meal and were having a good listen in to our chat; on the other side a family of 4 who saw fit to comment and laugh every time I took a picture of my meal
! I was getting really annoyed with them by the end I had the great urge to shout out Do you Dis?, just to see the puzzled looks on their faces !
Anyhow, on with the review!!! I had planned what I was having I was going to go with the three course menu which you can use as a dining credit, just so I could try the famous cheddar cheese soup. But when we got here I really wanted the filet steak (mainly because it comes with mushroom risotto which I adore). So Tony agreed to have the three course menu so we could share the soup yey!!!!
This is the only picture I have of the bread sorry! I didnt love any of the breads, they were all OK, nothing stunning! We ate them all though, and Tony certainly seemed to like them (again Tony, you seem to have missed this off your review sheet I knew I should have been checking it each night!).
Then the soup arrived this was GOOD. Cheesy, creamy and loads of bacon. I only gave this 8/10, not sure why! Tony gave it 10/10.
On to entrees; I ordered the Le Cellier Mushroom Filet Mignon (with wild mushroom risotto, white truffle and herb butter sauce) cooked medium well and Tony went for the shaved Prime Rib sandwich (toasted ciabatta with cheddar cheese, sautéed onion and horseradish cream sauce). He gave this 7/10 sandwich was just OK but the fries were excellent. I had a fry and they were really good more like proper British chunky chips!!
On to my meal! The risotto was superb I have a huge thing for risotto and this was just excellent I could have had a whole bowl of it. Creamy and cooked to perfection - I gave it 10/10. The steak I gave 9/10 to it was tender and had a lovely chargrilled flavour. Tony tried a bit of my steak and gave it 10/10 best steak he had even had apparently!
Dessert time (you know we had room!!). I talked Tony into trying the chocolate mousse as I really wanted to see it! Well he wasnt very happy with me!! He didnt think much of it, saying it was dull and a bit bland. I tried it and thought it wad a slightly strange flavour, not great. He gave it 6/10.
I ordered the maple crème brulee - I love me some crème brulee!! Again though, this was only OK, I found the maple flavour a bit overpowering, and it was burned so badly in places that the after taste was quite bitter. Only 6/10.
All in all an excellent meal though I wouldnt go back for the desserts, but I certainly would for everything else! Our server was very friendly as well, though took ages coming with the cheque at the end.
Now I am a little embarrassed by this next entry I can only put it down to stress (we had to spend the rest of the afternoon taking our hire car back as that had now developed a problem!). All I know is apparently we had room for something else to eat, even after a three-course lunch, as I seem to have a trip to Ghiradelis on my food-notes! In our defence we did just share one!! We went for our favourite from last year the Mint Bliss (one scoop of mint icecream and one of chocolate ice-cream, dark chocolate fudge sauce which we replace with normal fudge sauce- whipped cream and a mint chocolate). This was so good! Is there any better combination than mint and chocolate?! I gave this 9/10. Tony hasnt commented again, so will have to update you himself!! You would think he wasnt enjoying having to write a food review in bed every night before he was allowed to sleep!!!
For some reason I failed to get a picture of this, so this is last years!
It gets worse on the piggy front. We then went to Goofys to get a make your own snack (which I swear we put in the fridge and didnt even touch until the next day!!)! I was a little disappointed to see they no longer have crushed up Reeses cups, they now have Reeses pieces instead. More disappointment when I saw the choc chips are no longer mixed chocolates, they are all dark chocolate now (more of the choc chip situation when I get to our second visit next week!!). I was game though and so ordered my favourite combo from last year marshmallows, dunked in milk chocolate, rolled half in Reeses and half in choc chips, then drizzled in caramel. To be honest I was a tiny bit disappointed the Reeses pieces made it so much harder to bite in to as they were so crunchy. I miss the ooey gooeyness of the cups! It was OK (7/10) but I wouldnt order them again. Tony ate most of this though and seemed to really enjoy it!
Marshmallows
Tony has a Mickey rice crispie head in milk chocolate, rolled in oreo crumbs and choc chips, and drizzled in caramel. He says it was good, think it was a mistake to refrigerate it, as it went rock solid so quite painful to eat in the end. 8/10.
Mickey Crispie Treat
Dinner, and another new place for us T-Rex. Now we had no expectations of the food being good (after a vile meal in Rainforest Café in LA a couple of years ago) but we really wanted to see the dinosaurs and the meteor showers! So we planned this meal on a day when we would be having a large lunch, so we could just have a one course dinner, just to see the effects inside!
This is the outside - not a very good shot I'm afraid, and none of my inside dinosaur ones really came out! Sorry!
We got straight in at our reservation time (that never happens at RFC either!!) and went into a large room (not sure of the name of it, wasnt the blue ice room).
There was actually quite a lot we fancied on the menu, so we decided to share a couple of things. We started with a couple of drinks Tony had a Caveman Punch which he saw the pretty picture of on the outside of the menu and just ordered! Only after he had ordered did he see what it actually was rum, banana liquor, peach schnapps, and fruit juice - he had thought it was a fruit punch going by the picture! Strong is a slight under-exaggeration!!! 7/10 and just lucky we werent driving!
I had a smoothie where you could pick from loads of different ingredients I took a piccie so you can see the choices available
I went for Reeses pieces with chocolate sauce! More a dessert than a drink, didnt help my thirst at all, a bit sickly BUT very good!!!!!!!! 8/10!
You can see I already had my sweater on - air con was freezing! be warned!
We had a lovely server, very friendly and knowledgeable and she brought us some extra plates to share on. We had ordered the Red Earth Rigatoni (Rigatoni simmered with Italian sausage, caramelized onions and mushrooms in a red wine tomato sauce) which came with garlic bread, and the Gigantosauras Burger (Two burgers piled high with onion rings, lettuce, tomato and cheese), which came with waffle fries. We also added bacon to the burger!
Half the burger!
Pasta
Other half of burger with some pasta - look at the size of those burgers!!
As I mentioned we really werent expecting much of the food, but we really, really enjoyed it. The pasta was really flavoursome and fresh we both gave it 8/10. The burger was lovely, really moist and tasty and just what we fancied. Waffle fries were also very good. Be warned portions are HUGE. We didnt even nearly finish! Food wise this place was far superior to RFC, and I would return. Theme-wise though we prefer RFC and the tropical storms and the chimps screaming! To be honest you could barely tell when the meteor storm happened here - the room doesnt go nearly as dark as at RFC, and I didnt hear any dinosaurs roaring! Would definitely return though!
Up Next . . . another foodcourt breakfast, Cookes of Dublin and California Grill.
And the best thing about it is, I don't even like chicken nuggets! 
We are nowhere near a Tony Roma's here in hicksville Illinois, but I am drooling on myself. Sometime I need to venture off Disney Property and check out the rest of Orlando...but Mickey has a strange hold on me and my pocketbook to where I can't bear to leave!!! 
Can't wait to read more!
