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- Jan 19, 2006
After a day of Epcot and snacking more than what normal society not at WDW would consider snacking...
...we went out for an evening at Port Orleans Riverside for entertainment with Yehaa Bob Jackson and to grab some food at their famous food court.
(I will write more about Bob in the TR but know it is like a PG version of the dueling piano bar at Starring Rolls! Highly recommend it and it is free!)
Options were much more vast at Riverside Mill than at Sassagoula. I needed to walk around a few moments to really gather all it had to offer. From build your own pasta bar to roast beef and turkey freshly carved, this has probably one of the biggest array of selections I had ever seen and well worth a CS food credit compared to some of the meals we had eaten.
In the end, Baylor and I were both wanting a burger. They looked glorious and sometimes a juicy beef patty combined with a soft bun is the thing that will hit the spot. The major plus factor was they did not look like they had been sitting in a steamer for 3 hours and now a nice shade of gray.
The fries were crisp and fresh as well and the condiment bar was full of fresh veggies and sauces to ensure your burger bliss was achieved.
Dan also did not feel like a heavy pasta meal and so chose a sandwich resembling very close...like a second cousin born from your mama back in the holler close...
...to the sandwich love of his life at Starring Rolls at DHS.
Classic Turkey Sandwich $8.99
(His had ham on it as well.)
The bread was not rock hard but likely made that morning vs. in the afternoon. Foccacia had plenty of flavor baked into the outer top crust and hints of rosemary could be smelled from across the table. He was thrilled with his choice and again we discussed how the resorts for people with cars at WDW, offer so many more options for different meal choices than one would think. Plus you get to explore the unique decor of each resort and find out what sets them apart from another. He said the chips tasted like they were homemade and not the typical open up a bag of ruffles and slap em next to a sammy!
Dessert was an easy choice for myself.
"Give me Chocolate or Give me Death," will be written on my tombstone someday. The funny thing is I did not like chocolate at all until my twenties. I mean a Snickers here and there was okay but I was never one for all chocolate. I still do not like chocolate ice cream, chocolate milk and keep all the traditional or peanut M&M's for yourself please. I also am not a fan of chocolate sauce on ice cream. Fudge maybe but I love me some caramel.
But if it is a choice of chocolate cake or carrot cake and it does not look like the chocolate cake has freezer burn too bad, I will choose chocolate as long as it is cake and frosting. If it is chocolate cake with white butter cream...no thanks. I am good though with yellow cake and chocolate fudge frosting.
Now that you know my life story on chocolate, have had children and grandchildren born while waiting for me to move on...here is the cake I chose at long last.
This was really good for a CS cake.
Really good.
Moist cake that crumbled in your mouth but not on the plate as the fork sliced through. Rich consistency of fudge icing that was not over layered but definitely made you wish your Mamma had brought a glass of milk with it. The frosting danced on your tongue. Daring you to chew slowly because one bite in the gut was a guaranteed ten dimples on the butt.
Excuse me...
"Does this frosting make my cake look fat?"
No joke, Dan, Baylor and I could not finish it all. It was that rich. Yet alas, I say again, great food and good food is separated by the pace and satiation you feel when eating it.
I would rather have three bites of something great that makes you tune out the outside world and focus on what is percolating your palette than a mound of blah that leaves you wanting something more so you continue to plow through it mindlessly, hoping somehow the last bite will miraculously be better than the first.
Looking at my life and others and knowing we spend most of it blindly plowing through quantities of crap because it has been indoctrinated in our souls since the clean plate club you were forced to endure at age 5, I wonder who would not be currently facing weight issues if we had been raised to indulge in the great and not wallow through the good?
That cake, was great.
Dan had the carrot cake and although rich as well and also not finished, not as great as my cake IMO. I want a carrot cake to be nutty, bursting with flavors of the fall.
This was bursting with decent cream cheese frosting but a cake that lacked any aroma. Very safe and very ordinary and if I can say I make better from scratch at home, then it is not a win in my book. I want the carrot cake to be dense, moist and yet effortlessly airy, so when sliced, I can see texture. This was more Duncan Hines than a bakery highlight.
Baylor ordered a milk shake for his dessert and went back and picked it up after he finished his burger. He said it was good but nothing special. He could not finish it and he is an ice cream fiend. He ordered chocolate so that is the end of my review on it!
Milk Shakes - $3.99
Overall I say the meal deserves an:
One of the very best CS meals I have ordered at any resort or for that matter at any park. The CM's working the lines really had a great attitude and were proud of their delivery and food which at times is lacking at the parks. I think they tend to feel more of a sense of pride working at a place they have a good probability of seeing guests repeat times and it just oozes a sense of community versus at a burger stand at MK, it feels like they are there to collect a paycheck and say, "Have a Magical Day, thank you and move out da way!"
The food was really good overall and I cannot recommend it enough if you are at POFQ to come for the entertainment, grab a meal and relax. The only downside was hauling the meal from the food court to the lounge where he played. You had to meander through a ton of people and I am not the most graceful. The other piece of that was the plates were just the right size for the food so it did not allow you to move around anything without spilling or if you had dared to put ketchup on your plate, have it run into other pieces of your food that you might not care for ketchup on.
Ohh...and one more nugget:
Dan ordered a special drink at the bar:
Sort of like a "strawberry stripper" but with raspberry flavoring instead! So if you go, eat for cheap and drink like you were paying for a 2TS meal!
Up next:
BEST BREAKFAST EVER!!!!
...we went out for an evening at Port Orleans Riverside for entertainment with Yehaa Bob Jackson and to grab some food at their famous food court.(I will write more about Bob in the TR but know it is like a PG version of the dueling piano bar at Starring Rolls! Highly recommend it and it is free!)
Options were much more vast at Riverside Mill than at Sassagoula. I needed to walk around a few moments to really gather all it had to offer. From build your own pasta bar to roast beef and turkey freshly carved, this has probably one of the biggest array of selections I had ever seen and well worth a CS food credit compared to some of the meals we had eaten.
In the end, Baylor and I were both wanting a burger. They looked glorious and sometimes a juicy beef patty combined with a soft bun is the thing that will hit the spot. The major plus factor was they did not look like they had been sitting in a steamer for 3 hours and now a nice shade of gray.
The fries were crisp and fresh as well and the condiment bar was full of fresh veggies and sauces to ensure your burger bliss was achieved.
Dan also did not feel like a heavy pasta meal and so chose a sandwich resembling very close...like a second cousin born from your mama back in the holler close...
...to the sandwich love of his life at Starring Rolls at DHS.
Classic Turkey Sandwich $8.99
(His had ham on it as well.)
The bread was not rock hard but likely made that morning vs. in the afternoon. Foccacia had plenty of flavor baked into the outer top crust and hints of rosemary could be smelled from across the table. He was thrilled with his choice and again we discussed how the resorts for people with cars at WDW, offer so many more options for different meal choices than one would think. Plus you get to explore the unique decor of each resort and find out what sets them apart from another. He said the chips tasted like they were homemade and not the typical open up a bag of ruffles and slap em next to a sammy!
Dessert was an easy choice for myself.
"Give me Chocolate or Give me Death," will be written on my tombstone someday. The funny thing is I did not like chocolate at all until my twenties. I mean a Snickers here and there was okay but I was never one for all chocolate. I still do not like chocolate ice cream, chocolate milk and keep all the traditional or peanut M&M's for yourself please. I also am not a fan of chocolate sauce on ice cream. Fudge maybe but I love me some caramel.
But if it is a choice of chocolate cake or carrot cake and it does not look like the chocolate cake has freezer burn too bad, I will choose chocolate as long as it is cake and frosting. If it is chocolate cake with white butter cream...no thanks. I am good though with yellow cake and chocolate fudge frosting.
Now that you know my life story on chocolate, have had children and grandchildren born while waiting for me to move on...here is the cake I chose at long last.
This was really good for a CS cake.
Really good.
Moist cake that crumbled in your mouth but not on the plate as the fork sliced through. Rich consistency of fudge icing that was not over layered but definitely made you wish your Mamma had brought a glass of milk with it. The frosting danced on your tongue. Daring you to chew slowly because one bite in the gut was a guaranteed ten dimples on the butt.
Excuse me...
"Does this frosting make my cake look fat?"
No joke, Dan, Baylor and I could not finish it all. It was that rich. Yet alas, I say again, great food and good food is separated by the pace and satiation you feel when eating it.
I would rather have three bites of something great that makes you tune out the outside world and focus on what is percolating your palette than a mound of blah that leaves you wanting something more so you continue to plow through it mindlessly, hoping somehow the last bite will miraculously be better than the first.
Looking at my life and others and knowing we spend most of it blindly plowing through quantities of crap because it has been indoctrinated in our souls since the clean plate club you were forced to endure at age 5, I wonder who would not be currently facing weight issues if we had been raised to indulge in the great and not wallow through the good?
That cake, was great.
Dan had the carrot cake and although rich as well and also not finished, not as great as my cake IMO. I want a carrot cake to be nutty, bursting with flavors of the fall.
This was bursting with decent cream cheese frosting but a cake that lacked any aroma. Very safe and very ordinary and if I can say I make better from scratch at home, then it is not a win in my book. I want the carrot cake to be dense, moist and yet effortlessly airy, so when sliced, I can see texture. This was more Duncan Hines than a bakery highlight.
Baylor ordered a milk shake for his dessert and went back and picked it up after he finished his burger. He said it was good but nothing special. He could not finish it and he is an ice cream fiend. He ordered chocolate so that is the end of my review on it!
Milk Shakes - $3.99
Overall I say the meal deserves an:
One of the very best CS meals I have ordered at any resort or for that matter at any park. The CM's working the lines really had a great attitude and were proud of their delivery and food which at times is lacking at the parks. I think they tend to feel more of a sense of pride working at a place they have a good probability of seeing guests repeat times and it just oozes a sense of community versus at a burger stand at MK, it feels like they are there to collect a paycheck and say, "Have a Magical Day, thank you and move out da way!"
The food was really good overall and I cannot recommend it enough if you are at POFQ to come for the entertainment, grab a meal and relax. The only downside was hauling the meal from the food court to the lounge where he played. You had to meander through a ton of people and I am not the most graceful. The other piece of that was the plates were just the right size for the food so it did not allow you to move around anything without spilling or if you had dared to put ketchup on your plate, have it run into other pieces of your food that you might not care for ketchup on.
Ohh...and one more nugget:
Dan ordered a special drink at the bar:
Sort of like a "strawberry stripper" but with raspberry flavoring instead! So if you go, eat for cheap and drink like you were paying for a 2TS meal!
Up next:
BEST BREAKFAST EVER!!!!
I really need to move on! LOL!!!
Hopefully they will make it up to you, or at least try to 
to you all, Cindy
