Our meals last week About This Page:

[HiddenMickey]

DD and I wanted to let you know that we had great meals at Disney last week.
TS
Mama Melrose dinner
Coral Reef dinner
Yak snd Yeti lunch
Biergarten dinner
Tokyo Dining dinner
All these meals were very good. Outstanding were the steak at MM, the Mahi Mahi at CR, and a seafood curry at Y&Y.

Our CS were
Backlot express. Pretty good salad and veggie sandwiches.
Pizza Planet. The usual ok pizza and salad
Pecos Bill. Terrible taco salads, they've changed the meat. Ugh.
Be Our Guest. Yum! Pork.
Hacienda. Tried the chicken sandwich. Surprisingly good.
Sunshine season. Breakfast platter still hits the spot.

[chezp]

Glad to hear you had such good experiences.

[Mom24Girls]

Making me hungry!! Glad to hear you had a good experience with your meals! We will be trying Mama Melrose & Biergarten for the 1st time on our May trip (along with several others)... can't wait!

[Luv2laff]

I absolutely love Sunshine Seasons and we always do Pizza Planet, mostly for the cupcakes. The cappuccino cupcake I had there last trip was the best dessert I had all week!

[lovewdw2]

I was curious about the Coral Reef and Tokyo Dining. I had thought I may eat there for my last trip...but I never made it.

Tell me about these 2 places.... and tell me why you liked them so much. Please? I need some new choices...lol

[HiddenMickey]

Coral Reef is just wonderful for atmosphere. I love the blue colors they use and the aquarium wall. The dishes we had there were quite good. Our server was just attentive enough and helpful in making our decisions. We took our dessert to go, but ended up never eating one of them that week. In retrospect, we should have declined a dessert (like we did at Mama Melrose).

Tokyo Dining is an experience. Those Japanese waitresses are so polite and so helpful. Love them. On the dining plan we got two dishes that involved both sushi and fried dishes and they were very tasty. We thought the place would be too loud while we were waiting, but turned out we could hear each other fine. We got there 15 before our ADR time and were seated almost on schedule. They have it down to a science there, it seemed. We would have liked to be near the windows, but we could see out to the lake from a few tables away and we could watch the TV that was showing scenes from Japan on the other side of the restaurant as well.

Eating at Tokyo Dining was a last minute decision. We'd cancelled our ADR for Cape May for that evening the day before and were looking for some place else to eat that night (we weren't sure what our plans would be until that evening). There were quite a few choices available in Epcot, but we chose this place as we hadnt' been there in a while and it sounded good to us right then.

[Luvsun]

Sounds very yummy!
I have never been to the Biergarten. Every time I go back into that area, the smell bothers me. I am thinking it is the sauerkraut.
Does the smell continue on in the restaurant? Can you tell me about the food at the Biergarten?

[HiddenMickey]

Biergarten was high on my DDs list of places to go back. Luckily we got a table just after the band started playing so we got to have the entertainment. And you do share a table with other people if you have a group smaller than 8. We joined a family from Indiana with four youngish kids. We really enjoyed talking with them. (The last time we ate there our table partners didn't talk to us at all... ).

The buffet has a wide variety of foods that include some that do give off the vinegar smell, but there is so much that doesn't have that odor that I don't remember noticing it in the restaurant itself. There are cold choices with salad, potato salad, meats, and fruits in one area. There are warm meats, potatoes, mac/cheese and other items in another area, a carving station (dinner only?) with a couple choices of meat (my least favorite...too dry), and a variety of desserts.

There is a very rich beer and cheese soup that was VERY tasty. I really liked the bologna, the hot and cold potato salads, the saurkraut with sausages. I had plenty to eat with just one and half plates.

[yalibrarian]

If you are smelling kraut outside the restaurant, then you are actually smelling it from Sommerfest, the CS place in Germany. The restaurant smells like a restaurant, but unless you are hanging over one of the dishes that is in vinegar or fermented like kraut, you won't be bothered by it. My husband lived in Germany for several years as a child, so this is what he remembers as home-style rather than restaurant style foods. Comforting, tasty, filling. We especially enjoyed the spaetzle (noodles), the best we've ever eaten (and we've eaten lots of them), the pretzel rolls, and the wonderful apple struedel. If you eat meat, try the wurst salad; it's made up of different sausages and quite fun for a "salad." I don't eat meat usually, but had no trouble filling up on the hot dishes and the salad selections, plus a bit of the good salmon. Our selective eater son managed with roasted chicken, potatoes, rolls, and a pudding dessert. With the musical entertainment, its a great place for relaxing fun. The beer is good too!