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What a disappointment after the raves we'd heard for AP. Honestly, the all-around worst-managed Disney TS ever in our experience. Appallingly bad for a signature.
Details forthcoming in full review.
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What a disappointment after the raves we'd heard for AP. Honestly, the all-around worst-managed Disney TS ever in our experience. Appallingly bad for a signature.
Details forthcoming in full review.
Thanks for correcting my mental block on Osborne Lights!
Sorry to hear about your experience at AP as I've ate there probably 3-4 times now and has always been good. I would have thought the 3 and 10 reviews would have been reversed. Never have ate at R&C, but plan too eventually. I've heard mixed reviews from that. Quite surprised with your experience at AP! Was it the food, service or a bit of both that made this quite unpleasant dining for the two of you? I'm actually quite shocked to hear about this and looking forward to the details of this in the TR!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Admittedly, SuperD and all, I probably ought to have rated Artist Point slightly higher overall for pretty good, not fabulous, food.
However, the management was simply atrocious. We waited and waited, etc. at several points for things we needed to be noticed, not to mention be done for us. As a result, we were very much at liberty to observe how many staff appeared to have nothing to do or were uninformed about what they ought to be doing. Meanwhile, our water glasses were never topped off much less refilled. Servers were clearing their own tables when they definitely needed to be attending to diners' needs.
For example, there was a receptionist at the podium located at the bottom of the entry ramp who verified our ADR and sent us up the ramp to a station of THREE women standing around busily chatting. One showed us to our table. Did that require three CM's? Hardly. No wonder they were merrily conversing among themselves; they obviously had nothing else to do.
To put our experience in a timeframe, we arrived slightly before 7:00 for our 7:10 ADR, early primetime.
More--sadly, much more--to follow in detailed review.
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Very sorry to hear this. On my last visit we had excellent service and saw none of the staff behavior you saw. In the past, though, I've experienced terrible service there. I agree with you that this should never happen at a signature. I always enjoy the food, though, and think it's a beautifully designed room.
I just got caught up on your trip report. You hit upon my Disney pet peeve-child friendly does not mean let you child run wild. I have raised three kids (well I might add, they are all very sucessful, responsible, kind, caring adults). I love kids and work with kids on a regular basis. BUt kids need to learn how to behave.
When my children were young and they were in a restaurant ( don't care of it's Friendly's or even McDonald's), they were expected to sit nicely and behave well. If they couldn't, then one of us would take him/her out and get a doggy bag.
I love kids, but I also love a nice quiet dinner. I could also go on about over tired children at Disney, but I need to get off my soap box.
Hope you have better dining to come. My food intake is very limited so I need to live vicariously through others
[QUOTE=Her Dotness;4395967]Can't honestly say I've ever thought of myself as such, but I suppose a person qualifies who has 7-8 teapots and half a dozen teaballs, those little paper disk drip catchers for the teapot spout, 3 strainers--two utilitarian, one silverplated. LOL I guess I'd better admit to that status, huh? We won't talk about how many books I have on tea history, lore and recipes.
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I know! That's why I bragged about it
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If you want a very interesting tea experience, try a Lapsang Souchong. It's a quite smoky-tasting tea, a peculiar flavor but one that goes beautifully with pizza or other strongly-flavored foods. Our local tea room run by an Englishwoman does a fabulous blend of black teas called November 5 (Guy Fawkes' Day when lighting bonfires is traditional). It tastes like smoke from a bonfire smells. An acquired taste, but quite exciting for the adventurous sorts like me. Terrific paired with one of their Cornish pasties.
Sounds very interesting! Will be on the lookout for it.
Ahhhhhhhhh...Tutto Italia does NOT disappoint. Oh, how it does not! I may soon count the myriad ways.
I hate olives, truly detest them. Ummmm, maybe not entirely. These fat green olives are fruity-tasting and scarcely salty. Can olives be al dente? I say these are--smooth yielding skin with a delicately toothsome meat. I nearly sucked the pits! [pic to follow. These are glorioso ovals of yumminess]
:::::: Dot blissing out ::::::
And my salmone arrives...
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I just got caught up. Sorry about the rain and the bad experiences at a couple of restaurants. Hope things turn better for you. Look forward to reading the rest of the trip.
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Dot, I love olives (good ones, I am Italian) so plese suck at some for me. I can nolonger eat them and I need to use all the restraint I can muster not to buy them when I pass the olice bar at Whole Foods or the local "gourmet" food shop.
I just got caught up on your trip report. You hit upon my Disney pet peeve-child friendly does not mean let you child run wild.
Then, you will doubtless "enjoy" the full Artist Point review which includes "Booster Seat Bronco Boy" as well as "Kneeling With Feet Propped Upright On Backrest PRE-TEEN Boy." Luckily, I missed the first as the unrestrained little imp was behind me. Not that lucky on the latter who was squirming like a three-year-old off and on during the admittedly much too lengthy wait between courses.
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Hope you have better dining to come. My food intake is very limited so I need to live vicariously through others
We have had and shall have more, I'm sure. Just hilighting the most distinctive, positive or negative, here in real-time.
You'll drool through the Tutto Italia review, I expect. It was just heavenly with spectacular service.
Edit 2 hrs. later to add: Still drooling over the bite of Drew's cannoli and my magnificent chocolate panna cotta with dark cherries. Not your typical American sugary and mushy dark cherries. These were pitted unnoticeably and about the size of a dime. A bit chewy, delightfully so, and intensely flavorful. These danced across the Ponte Vecchio singing operatically, "We are the Ultimate Cherries solely for your delight."
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Never have ate at R&C, but plan too eventually. I've heard mixed reviews from that. Quite surprised with your experience at AP! 
I'm actually quite shocked to hear about this and looking forward to the details of this in the TR!
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We haven't eaten there in some time, but we've always had good meals there in the past.
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