How We Ate The World for Free. COMPLETED! #189 Our final food quest.

[BabyPiglet]

Okay, yes. I know I know. It's really really late to be finally doing this report. But what the heck! I've got the Dining review bug I guess, because I'm fired up and ready to do this report!
We stayed at POP, September 21st to October 6th. 2 full weeks!

So, here we are.

Me (Jenny!)- I'd like to think I'm an adventorous eater, but I'm really more of a wanna-be. I'm not into fancy cheeses or funky sauces. And I like normal ol' food. I guess because I'm a hick. Not a big fish eater either. You might not see it here, but I really do prefer chicken over the other meats. If I were forced to be a vegetarian, I think I'd do pretty good.

Mom - Pretty much like me, except she admitted to herself she just wasn't adventorous. Not a big beef eater at all, would much rathar have a peice of grilled chicken over a grilled steak.

Dad - The most adventorous. He'll try anything once. Steak, Potatoes, Breakfast stuff. Ya know. Typical manly food.

We snabbed up the free dining as soon as it came out, so we were all ready to eat a ton! I made a lot of ADR's and plans and such before we left, but as you'll see, we basically blew most of it off. We've found out we're much more freestyle. And actually, love simple ol' counter service. We ate at the POP food court a LOT (lot lot lot lot lot) so I might not have pictures of all that, and plus, it was just a lot of repeats.

Okay, here is where I'll try to keep an updated list of the reviews, with links. Not that there's gonna be a lot of frivilious chat on here anyways. Also I'm getting a little confused about which days we went where, so I might get a few things mixed up. Hey, at least this isn't a trip report! But I'll try to post all the restaurants.

POP Food Court - Post 2
Wolfgang Puck Express - Post 20
Chef Mickeys - Post 20
Main Street Bakery - Post 35
POP Century - Post 35
Nine Dragons - Post 36
Pecos Bills - Post 45
Kona Cafe - Post 45
POP Food Court - Post 46
Raglan Road - Post 51
Sci Fi Dine In - Post 64
POP Food Court - Post 64
WolfGang Puck Express (this day is a little blurry, beware!) - Post 76
Pecos Bills - Post 90
Pop Food Court - Post 90
Flame Tree BBQ - Post 105
POP Food Court - Post 105
Hollywood and Vine - Post 106
Typhoon Lagoon CS - Post 111
Crystal Palace - Post 111
POP Food Court - Post 119
Cheesecake Factory in DQ - Post 119
Cap N' Jacks - Post 119
Le Cellier - Post 130
French Bakery - Post 130
Electric Umbrella - Post 148
RainForest Cafe - Post 148
POP Foodcourt - Post 168
Pinnochios - Post 168
POP Foodcourt - Post 168
Pecos Bills
Cosmic Ray's
POP Foodcourt (where we tried to use up the last of our credits)

Phew! I gotta lotta reviewing to do. As you can see, there's gonna be a lot of the POP Food court. If you don't want to read the repetitive-ness of it, you can just skip over those parts.

(Even if you just like to lurk, I'd really enjoy it if you'd post a little comment! It helps to know someones actually reading. I'll respond to everyone.)

So let's get this show on the road!!!

 

[BabyPiglet]

Okay, recovering from a little resort room mishap from the night before and a super late flight into MCO, we woke up late. Pretty late. I think it was actually 9:30 or so before we all got going. Once we were all showered and ready to go, we realized how hungry we were. We had barely eat anything the day before what with the weird flight schedule and such. Thank goodness we had scheduled an off day, we all needed it!

We walked down to the food court to see what we could get to fill our tummies up. We were on the DDP but hadn't checked in yet for our package (blah blah blah) so we just paid for this OOP.

After much debating about what me and my mom would share (you'll see this as something we did a lot. Not to save money, just before we don't like to eat huge meals) we finally decided on a steak wrap (came with fries) 1 salad to share and some cheese fries. No dessert. Well this was way too much food. We also bought our mugs and filled them up. (Sorry about the quality of some of the pictures. I hadn't figured out how to work the flash yet.)

This was pretty good actually. The salad was fresh, cold and crisp. The cheesy fries and regular fries were cholesterol filled, heart clogging goodness. And the steak wrap has quite a bit of yummy flavorful beef inside of it. As you'll see later, we ate this quite a few times during the trip.

My dad had ventured off to find breakfast and to avoid me and my mom's food choice dramatic-ness. We picked an omelet, potatoes and 2 extra sausage patties.

He devoured the omelet and proclaimed "Good." Took one bite of the potatoes and discovered they were completely raw inside. And said the sausage was "Okay" (I tried a bite and thought it was a bit mushy. My mom liked it though). He's not really an opinionated man, as you'll come to see.


Overall, I s'pose we enjoyed it because ate everything really fast and came back multiple times during the trip for more! The decore is really cute and was very fun to stare at (I'm easily entertained). Everything was very kid-friendly and adorable.

Chef Mickeys review next. Good? Bad? Incredibly uncomfortable and off-putting? We'll just have to wait and seeeeee.

 

[Minniespal]

Excellent

 

[arieljasmine]

Thanks for sharing your review. I love the Pop Century Looking forward to reading more.

Laur's

 

[familyS]

Great start, I agree better late than never

I'm looking forward to reading more, too

 

[TigerKat]

I'm in......

 

[lajones81]

Thanks for the reviews! I can't wait to read more!

 

[Verity Chambers]

Looking forward to all your reviews!

 

[mpmluvstigger]

You are right! It is better late than never. I luv reading reviews and looking forward to more from you

 

[theycallmered]

More Please!​

 

[mom2fivecs]

Looking forward to more

 

[Leslieann1024]

Okay, yes. I know I know. It's really really late to be finally doing this report. But what the heck! I've got the Dining review bug I guess, because I'm fired up and ready to do this report!
We stayed at POP, September 21st to October 6th. 2 full weeks!

You should know by now that we're not picky - we will take a review any time we can get it, lol !

You're off to a great start, eagerly awaiting the next update !

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I was at Disney the same time as you, and I still haven't finished my reviews yet either.

 

[mindyd]

Im in

 

[BabyPiglet]

You should know by now that we're not picky - we will take a review any time we can get it, lol !

You're off to a great start, eagerly awaiting the next update !

Haha, I know. We're all just addicted to food porn.

Next update coming today sometime.

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Thanks all you guys for joining in!

 

[luckytobeme88]

more please..

 

[BabyPiglet]

Excellent

Thanks.

Thanks for sharing your review. I love the Pop Century Looking forward to reading more.

Laur's

Me too! I don't know what it is about that place...it just draws me in.

Great start, I agree better late than never

I'm looking forward to reading more, too

Thanks.

I'm in......

Popcorn! That better be Disney popcorn.

Thanks for the reviews! I can't wait to read more!

Thanks!

Looking forward to all your reviews!

Thank you.

You are right! It is better late than never. I luv reading reviews and looking forward to more from you

More Please!​

I'll update a lot probably. I really have nothing else to do right now!

Looking forward to more

Thanks.

I was at Disney the same time as you, and I still haven't finished my reviews yet either.

I had planned on starting them right after I came home, but sadly, I was feeling the Disney blues. Then I booked another trip, and poof! No more blues!

Im in

Woohoo!

 

[Melisa1]

Great!!!! Waiting for more.....

 

[plutosgirl]

Count me in!!!

 

[BabyPiglet]

So, after we got our room fiasco straightened out we decided to roam around a little bit. We went over to Port Orleans to browse (I had been wanting to stay here) and then took the boat over to DTD.

When we arrived, I just wasn't feeling the Disney magic. Maybe it's because of the room mix-up, or maybe I was just cranky. Never the less, I had to get some Disney in me. I immediately thought about creme brulee (I can't find the stuff anywhere in my town). Thankfully, my mom had remembered about the brulee at WPExpress and the reviews about how good it was. So I went in, snack credit in hand, and bought just one of them. You may think I was trying to save credits, but nope. It was really really hot outside and if you mix in too much dairy product... Nahhhh, I think I'll pass on that joy. So I bought just one for us to share.

Oh my gosh. This stuff is amazing! You break into the crunchy, carmelized sugar on top, and it goozes this wonderous delight. Warm, creamy..mmmm. I loved the texture. But be warned, this thing is very sweet. So you don't need too much of it!

Will I return for more? Absolutely.

Okay, after that we just wondered around DTD (didn't buy anything as it was to early in the trip) for a few hours. We planned to take the bus over to Contemporary for our ADR at Chef Mickey's. Wellll....that didn't quite work out. As most of you now know, the bus system was down at this time. So instead, we took the boat over to Saratoga Springs. Then we walked all the way through to their bus stop (boy that's a big resort!) and got on the one headed for Magic Kingdom.

Do you know how hard it is to pass Magic Kingdom without running through the turnstiles like a crazy woman?! Well, I tried to hold back as we walked to the monorails. By the time we got on the monorail, we still had about 30 minutes to kill...do you know where I'm going with this? Yep, like a bunch of children we just road the monorail over and over and over and over again until it was around 8 o'clock and we had to finally get off and go to dinner.

Now let me back track a little bit. A week before we left was my dad's birthday and so dinner at Chef Mickey's was supposed to be his birthday dinner (he didn't know that of course). When we checked in, I shooed my Dad off somewhere to take pictures while we confirmed the cake was there.

We didn't wait long here at all. Immediately after getting our picture taken we were led to a table. Our server was named Thea, and she was very friendly and attentive. We placed our drink orders and made our way to the buffet.

My cold plate. There's salad, potato salad, artichoke medley and some cheese. The salad was fine, nothing to write home about (although I am...) The potato salad and cheese both had a very strong, funny taste to them. To this day I can't pinpoint what the flavor was, but it was just nasty. The artichokes were very bland.

Mom's cold plate. Salad, potato salad, and shrimp salad. The said the same thing about the potato salad as I did. I tried a bite of the shrimp and they seemed very mushy.

My dad's "cold" plate. I don't know if I've mentioned already but he happens to adore shrimp. As do all of us. I didn't try one of these but he devoured them so I s'pose they were "good".

My hot plate. As you can see, I'm one of those "can't have my food touching each other" types. From the top going clockwise...Parmesan Mashed Potatoes, Mickey Ravioli, Broccoli, Penne with cheese and mushroom sauce, Salmon with Pesto Coulis. I know people rave about those potatoes, but I thought they were just alright. I didn't know the pasta had mushrooms in it, because I despise those little funky things. The ravioli was cold and sort of tasted like spaghetti-o's. The salmon was yummy, the flavor was subtle but it was cooked perfectly. I think I went back for seconds of this.

Mom's plate. Top going down clockwise...Mickey Ravioli, some sort of beef, Parmesan Mashed Potatoes, Mickeyroni and cheese, Chicken leg?. She didn't like any of this really. She ate some, but just didn't care for it.

Dad's manly plate. I'm not sure what all this is. I see beef, mashed potatoes, ribs, and maybe chicken? He said it was "alright" but thought the 'BBQ' was very fatty as well as that beef.

If you haven't noticed, this is a character restaurant. They all seemed very rushed and I felt uncomfortable taking pictures with them. The only one who seemed really 'in character' was Pluto. The whole thing was extremely off-putting.

They brought out my Dad's cake while I was at the buffet, so I didn't get to see his initial reaction. We was red when I got back though.

We were stuffed at this point so couldn't really eat any of it. They boxed it up with a plastic cake spatula for us to take back to the room. (Note: Next time you bring food home, bring something to eat it on.) We only realized this after we got back and when we wanted to eat some we had to eat it with our fingers! I told ya we were hicks.

Will we eat here again? Definitely not. The food was less than mediocre and nobody enjoyed the uncomfortable atmosphere.

That night we had a DIS meet but couldn't stay long as we were about to collapse on the ground from exhaustion. It was fun meeting everyone though. Finally we got back to our room, threw on some PJ's and melted into the beds.

Coming up next - Main Street Bakery, POP Food court, and Nine Dragons. How will it turn out? Will they be a success or a disaster? You'll just have to wait and seeeee.