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Well then it's a MUST for DH!!!! He'll be in heaven
with Guinness on tap, especially after not having a beer for 12 months!!!
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Well then it's a MUST for DH!!!! He'll be in heaven
with Guinness on tap, especially after not having a beer for 12 months!!!
woodleygrrl
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I take it from your name, you are in the Woodley Park area? It is good to see a neighbor! I live in Cathedral Heights.[/QUOTE]
Yep! I live on 29th and calvert, right down the street from you!
Yep! I live on 29th and calvert, right down the street from you!
KristinAnne
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Too bad you didn't enjoy Raglan Road this time. DH and I were there in June and loved it! I had the shepard's pie and he had the sod the stew.
So sorry to hear about the bad Raglan Road experience. I'm an Irish girl also (complete with red hair, blue eyes and day-glo skin that freckles in a ray of sunshine) so I've really been wanting to try here. We don't have room for a full meal but I was thinking of an evening of Irish music and dance while splitting a meal. I'm hoping you just hit it on an off night.
coconutsunshine
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Sorry your didn't have a very good meal 
your update was good though
I'm so glad one of your brother's is starting to warm up to the disney magic!!
I honestly don't know how anyone couldn't!!
your update was good though I'm so glad one of your brother's is starting to warm up to the disney magic!!
I honestly don't know how anyone couldn't!!
rochek1999
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Pardon my ignorance, but WHERE is Raglan Road????ChelleinNC
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DTD
DC_Tink
We're too excited to sleep!
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Sorry for not posting in awhile. Work has been really busy. But tonight I am home and I am in a Disney reminiscing kind of mood (Tweedle Dee leaves for college tomorrow). Anyways, on with the food review.
Friday afternoon we went to Cosmic Ray's for lunch. Again, it was a rainy day and it was difficult to find a table. Times like these, I wish I could get ADRs everywhere! Oh, and unfortunately I don't have pictures of this meal. I know...first I disappear and then when I finally come back, I don't even give you guys food porn. Trust me, I will make up for this in my next post about 'Ohana.
Cosmic Ray's has tons of choices. Most of them are incredibly safe for picky eaters. This means the Tweedles were in food heaven. Tweedle Dee went to one station to order his food, while Tweedle Dum went to another. This worked well for the Tweedles. Though, I can imagine if one is traveling with multiple mini-Tweedles that doing multiple lines might be more difficult (then again multiple lines might be the least of your issues if you have mini-Tweedles).
David and I both got burgers. It seemed like the perfect excuse to get warm sautéed onions and liquid cheese. I believe these two things make a meal perfect. If only they had a ranch dispenser so I could have turned my burger into a ranch burger. David, strangely enough, is vehemently opposed to liquid cheese. I didn't realize this until Cosmic Ray's. He finds it "unnatural," which I think is what makes it so darn good.
Tweedle Dee got a hot dog while Tweedle Dum got Chicken Nuggets. These two items are the exact same things that they got at Liberty Inn at Epcot. Obviously this means that the Tweedles highly approved. Overall, the Tweedles gave this place the two beanie salute.
I know this post is somewhat like broccoli. It isn't that exciting, it lacks the pizazz of other choices, but it has to be done so we can move on to the good stuff (like 'Ohana). So tomorrow evening I will move on to the review that contains an obscene amount of food pictures.
Friday afternoon we went to Cosmic Ray's for lunch. Again, it was a rainy day and it was difficult to find a table. Times like these, I wish I could get ADRs everywhere! Oh, and unfortunately I don't have pictures of this meal. I know...first I disappear and then when I finally come back, I don't even give you guys food porn. Trust me, I will make up for this in my next post about 'Ohana.
Cosmic Ray's has tons of choices. Most of them are incredibly safe for picky eaters. This means the Tweedles were in food heaven. Tweedle Dee went to one station to order his food, while Tweedle Dum went to another. This worked well for the Tweedles. Though, I can imagine if one is traveling with multiple mini-Tweedles that doing multiple lines might be more difficult (then again multiple lines might be the least of your issues if you have mini-Tweedles).
David and I both got burgers. It seemed like the perfect excuse to get warm sautéed onions and liquid cheese. I believe these two things make a meal perfect. If only they had a ranch dispenser so I could have turned my burger into a ranch burger. David, strangely enough, is vehemently opposed to liquid cheese. I didn't realize this until Cosmic Ray's. He finds it "unnatural," which I think is what makes it so darn good.
Tweedle Dee got a hot dog while Tweedle Dum got Chicken Nuggets. These two items are the exact same things that they got at Liberty Inn at Epcot. Obviously this means that the Tweedles highly approved. Overall, the Tweedles gave this place the two beanie salute.
I know this post is somewhat like broccoli. It isn't that exciting, it lacks the pizazz of other choices, but it has to be done so we can move on to the good stuff (like 'Ohana). So tomorrow evening I will move on to the review that contains an obscene amount of food pictures.
coconutsunshine
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YAY O'Hanas!! Looking forward to it. As well I think your review tonight was amazing as usual! It's your writing that makes the reviews so good, the pictures are just the icing on the cake
BellesMom72
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Great Reviews!!! Can't wait to go to some of these same places next month!!!!!!
Golf4food
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I thought it was like broccoli because of being covered in cheese sauce... it is the only thing that makes broccoli palatable (i.e. if it doesn't taste like broccoli because of being smothered in cheese!).
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Glad you're back - looking forward to hearing about 'Ohana 
irongirlof12
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fab reviews - I agree with your thoughts on tiramisu, i always think of sleepless in seattle as well and it's my fav dessert
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Why are kids/teens so picky with food???
looking forward to more....
. Why are kids/teens so picky with food???
looking forward to more....
DC_Tink
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'Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left hungry.
Part I: Drinks & Appetizers
After being up for EMH at DHS and hopping over to MK later in the day, we made our way over to the Polynesian for dinner reservations at 'Ohana. I was worried about this dinner. The Tweedles had been proving difficult to please lately and I wasn't sure how they would react to potstickers, etc.
But, I did not need to worry. First, the Tweedles were ok with most of the food. Second, 'Ohana has a large selection of frou frou drinks to select from. One of these for me, and the Tweedles begin to look like Prince Charming's in Training.
With a selection of drinks like this, I was beginning to feel like Bacchus in Fantasia. Moving left to right, the choices were lapu lapu, then wine, then a blue glow-tini, pina colada, more wine, and an Island Sunset (I think).
So what did I get? Well a lapu lapu of course. I had never consumed alcohol out of a pineapple, so I thought now would be a good time to try.
How was it? Ummm...rummy. Very very rummy. It brought back bad college memories. I don't think it had any fruit juice in it at all. Unless you count the walls of the pineapple as "juice." David took the lid off the pineapple, took one smell and said...that it looked like we would be riding the monorail for awhile after dinner to sober me up. But I did manage to drink it all, once the ice melted a bit. Next time, I think I will go for something with a little less rum.
The atmosphere at 'Ohana is....festive, for lack of a better word. There is a woman who goes around singing. She scared me. Mainly because she reminded me of Charo. A couple was having their wedding rehearsal dinner there. Which, would have not been my personal choice. Then again, I didn't even have a bachelorette party. So anything where someone kept announcing to the whole room that I was the bride and going on and on about it would have been far too embarrassing for me. But all the kids I saw seemed to be having fun. And hey, we all got lei'd. Who can hate a place where everybody gets lei'd? The Tweedles found this particularly amusing. And in the world of Tweedles, jokes about getting lei'd quickly morphed into jokes about Uranus, etc. (who am I kidding, David and I made a lot of jokes too).
Now, onto the food. First we were brought welcome bread. Which Tweedle Dum described as a mouthful of yum.
The bread had a hint of pineapple without being over powering. It was excellent. But be careful....eat too much of this yummy bread and you won't have room for all the rest of the food they bring you!
Next up was the salad
It was ok. I took 1 bite. No one else at the table had any. Why? Well we knew that the real goodies were on the way and we did not want to take up precious stomach real estate with salad. See you have to think of dinner at 'Ohana like a marathon. If you waste all of your energy at the beginning, you will have nothing left for the end. Instead you have got to pace yourself because after the bread, and the salad, comes the other appetizers.
There are the potstickers:
They were alright. Not phenomenal. But not awful either. Tweedles do not like potstickers. They are filled with weird things and besides, why would a Tweedle eat potstickers, when a Tweedle can have.....
Yep. Sticky wings. The Tweedles approved of the sticky wings. David, well he stuck to the potstickers. He has this weird thing about not eating chicken on the bone. It cracks all of us up. Tweedle Dee frequently asks David where he buys his genetically modified boneless chickens.
Finally, it was the noodles and the broccoli.
Yes noodles. Not potatoes. I know everyone keeps debating...will they or won't they. But when we were there August 1st, it was noodles. But don't be alarmed. They weren't bad. They were typical lo mein noodles. And as a bonus, the Tweedles REALLY liked them. So they can't be that bad!
As for the broccoli, I stuck to the sponge-worthy rules (as handed down by Elaine) and decided that broccoli was not worthy of the precious space in my tummy. Tweedle Dum though....well he ate them. He ate a lot of them. What kind of freak is this kid?! He hates almost everything but then he willingly eats broccoli? I think he was replaced by the pod people during the monorail ride over. He rode up front in the train while the rest of us rode in the back....so it is possible!
So far, 'Ohana was proving to be good. Filling, but good. Tomorrow is Part II: The benefits of being a meatatarian and I heart dessert.
Part I: Drinks & Appetizers
After being up for EMH at DHS and hopping over to MK later in the day, we made our way over to the Polynesian for dinner reservations at 'Ohana. I was worried about this dinner. The Tweedles had been proving difficult to please lately and I wasn't sure how they would react to potstickers, etc.
But, I did not need to worry. First, the Tweedles were ok with most of the food. Second, 'Ohana has a large selection of frou frou drinks to select from. One of these for me, and the Tweedles begin to look like Prince Charming's in Training.
With a selection of drinks like this, I was beginning to feel like Bacchus in Fantasia. Moving left to right, the choices were lapu lapu, then wine, then a blue glow-tini, pina colada, more wine, and an Island Sunset (I think).
So what did I get? Well a lapu lapu of course. I had never consumed alcohol out of a pineapple, so I thought now would be a good time to try.
How was it? Ummm...rummy. Very very rummy. It brought back bad college memories. I don't think it had any fruit juice in it at all. Unless you count the walls of the pineapple as "juice." David took the lid off the pineapple, took one smell and said...that it looked like we would be riding the monorail for awhile after dinner to sober me up. But I did manage to drink it all, once the ice melted a bit. Next time, I think I will go for something with a little less rum.
The atmosphere at 'Ohana is....festive, for lack of a better word. There is a woman who goes around singing. She scared me. Mainly because she reminded me of Charo. A couple was having their wedding rehearsal dinner there. Which, would have not been my personal choice. Then again, I didn't even have a bachelorette party. So anything where someone kept announcing to the whole room that I was the bride and going on and on about it would have been far too embarrassing for me. But all the kids I saw seemed to be having fun. And hey, we all got lei'd. Who can hate a place where everybody gets lei'd? The Tweedles found this particularly amusing. And in the world of Tweedles, jokes about getting lei'd quickly morphed into jokes about Uranus, etc. (who am I kidding, David and I made a lot of jokes too).
Now, onto the food. First we were brought welcome bread. Which Tweedle Dum described as a mouthful of yum.
The bread had a hint of pineapple without being over powering. It was excellent. But be careful....eat too much of this yummy bread and you won't have room for all the rest of the food they bring you!
Next up was the salad
It was ok. I took 1 bite. No one else at the table had any. Why? Well we knew that the real goodies were on the way and we did not want to take up precious stomach real estate with salad. See you have to think of dinner at 'Ohana like a marathon. If you waste all of your energy at the beginning, you will have nothing left for the end. Instead you have got to pace yourself because after the bread, and the salad, comes the other appetizers.
There are the potstickers:
They were alright. Not phenomenal. But not awful either. Tweedles do not like potstickers. They are filled with weird things and besides, why would a Tweedle eat potstickers, when a Tweedle can have.....
Yep. Sticky wings. The Tweedles approved of the sticky wings. David, well he stuck to the potstickers. He has this weird thing about not eating chicken on the bone. It cracks all of us up. Tweedle Dee frequently asks David where he buys his genetically modified boneless chickens.
Finally, it was the noodles and the broccoli.
Yes noodles. Not potatoes. I know everyone keeps debating...will they or won't they. But when we were there August 1st, it was noodles. But don't be alarmed. They weren't bad. They were typical lo mein noodles. And as a bonus, the Tweedles REALLY liked them. So they can't be that bad!
As for the broccoli, I stuck to the sponge-worthy rules (as handed down by Elaine) and decided that broccoli was not worthy of the precious space in my tummy. Tweedle Dum though....well he ate them. He ate a lot of them. What kind of freak is this kid?!
He hates almost everything but then he willingly eats broccoli? I think he was replaced by the pod people during the monorail ride over. He rode up front in the train while the rest of us rode in the back....so it is possible!So far, 'Ohana was proving to be good. Filling, but good. Tomorrow is Part II: The benefits of being a meatatarian and I heart dessert.
oybolshoi
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- Aug 16, 2004
Fru fru drink in a pineapple is so on my list for this October!
And, I see in your signature that you want WDW next October, which would be a great thing for you two because of the food & wine festival! Also I'm celebrating my 40th at WDW next October and I know some other folks who will also be down there around the same time ... you could meet up with all of us for an as yet unplanned meet and drink full of alcoholic good cheer!
And, I see in your signature that you want WDW next October, which would be a great thing for you two because of the food & wine festival! Also I'm celebrating my 40th at WDW next October and I know some other folks who will also be down there around the same time ... you could meet up with all of us for an as yet unplanned meet and drink full of alcoholic good cheer!
I am so enjoying your dining reviews!!!! Thanks for keeping me entertained. As for the drink............it sure looks good. We enjoyed the Island Sunset last year it was really good. This year we tried the backscratcher. And yes it does come with a backscratcher. It was good enough that the husband had to have two of them. So yes, we came home with two backscratchers. A drink sounds pretty good right now. Keep the reviews coming. Thanks.
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