One and done?

[txcorey]

Tasker House! My son and I both hated the food. He ended up eating cheese for his meal-that's how bad the selection for kids was. The adult selection wasn't much better and we both left hungry. The service was bad and one of the characters skipped our table. I tried talking with a handler and they told us to sit down and wait for him to come by. We'd already been sitting and waiting. We finally just left. Never again!

 

[MomtothreeEs]

Chef Mickey- Food was terrible, and the restaurant was loud and chaotic. Loved the character interactions, but we won't be going back.

 

[LisaDKG]

Oooh jeez - I'd say that it is harder to find Disney restaurants that I WANT TO RETURN TO! Here's my list of definitely done:

1900 Park Fare Breakfast
'Ohana Breakfast
Chef Mickey Breakfast (times a million)
CRT Breakfast
Akershus Breakfast
Cape May Breakfast
Tony's for any meal
Rainforest Cafe
TRex Cafe
Morimoto (from drinks to desserts disappointing)
Grand Floridian Cafe Dinner
Grand Floridian Afternoon Tea
Narcoosees

Amazingly, unlike most people here, my family does 'Ohana dinner every trip. It HAS disappointed occasionally so maybe we are running more on nostalgia. I think for a lot of people, nostalgia counts for a lot!

Good thing Disney keeps coming up with new restaurants to try!

 

[Parker Clan]

IDK if it's considered a must do, probably not, but regardless... a one and done for us was Le Cellier

 

[Babsy]

Sci Fi Dine in

Spirit of Aloha

Coral Reef

Food was mediocre/over priced at best.

 

[got15]

Cinderella Royal Table, H&V, Tony's, and I really wish Chef Mickey's but kids LOVE IT!

 

[2hapykdz]

Oooh jeez - I'd say that it is harder to find Disney restaurants that I WANT TO RETURN TO! Here's my list of definitely done:

1900 Park Fare Breakfast
'Ohana Breakfast
Chef Mickey Breakfast (times a million)
CRT Breakfast
Akershus Breakfast
Cape May Breakfast
Tony's for any meal
Rainforest Cafe
TRex Cafe
Morimoto (from drinks to desserts disappointing)
Grand Floridian Cafe Dinner
Grand Floridian Afternoon Tea
Narcoosees

Amazingly, unlike most people here, my family does 'Ohana dinner every trip. It HAS disappointed occasionally so maybe we are running more on nostalgia. I think for a lot of people, nostalgia counts for a lot!

Good thing Disney keeps coming up with new restaurants to try!

Wow....Lisa...tell us how YA really feel!!lol

 

[Haygar2]

Okay..so my first choice is going to get me kicked off. Homecoming. It was the first ADR I booked and the only one I didn't touch. (I'm a rescheduler/restaurant changer up until our trip. LOL) The hush puppies are delicious. And we really liked the pimento cheese spread and jalapeño jelly that comes with them. But we didn't enjoy the chicken. Sorry Homecoming lovers. The breasts were dry. And the breading was too thick. I like thin breading that stays on the chicken and doesn't fall off after one bite. Very heavy food.

Two and done is 'Ohana. It was my daughter's choice for our second trip. Her MUST DO. After dinner, she said "I think I'm done now". I would go for the bread pudding. That is the bomb!!

 

[xlsm]

Soggy pizza?! That's just wrong.
Waiting for our table peeved me massively at Via Napoli (their excuse for our wait was soooo lame and unprofessional) , the ineptness of our server didn't help but the pizza was on target and the meatball and spaghetti one of us ate inspired another to request this restaurant again. Having torn the staff to fine pieces during 2 after visit surveys I feel my job was done and hope our next visit will allow us to have a full dining experience that allows us to concentrate on the good food.

I'm hoping your Rose and Crown experience was an anomaly because I'm "jonesing" for a true fish and chips meal.
What did you have for dessert?

Yes, it was soggy and we were so sad I will say, we didn't have to wait at all for a table though. We actually showed up quite a bit earlier than our reservation time and were seated immediately. It's been a few years, and every so often I toy with the idea of booking it again just to see, but I just can't get past the first visit!

As for Rose and Crown, I had the fish and chips for my meal and they were just ok. I love the fish and chips at the QS in the UK though, Yorkshire County Fish Shop.
The dessert I had at R&C was the sticky toffee pudding. Between the four of us, for apps we had a scotch egg, two English pastys, and a crock of leek and potato soup. All of those were good, the scotch egg being the winner. For entrees, two of us had the fish and chips, one had the strip steak with fried fish, and one had the strip steak on its own. The loaded Yorkshire pudding that came with the steak was really, really good. Three of us had the sticky toffee pudding and one had the English trifle. Dessert was my favorite course by far!!

Annnd you only asked about dessert, but I tend to over-explain everything, LOL!!

 

[Colleen27]

Two and done is 'Ohana. It was my daughter's choice for our second trip. Her MUST DO. After dinner, she said "I think I'm done now". I would go for the bread pudding. That is the bomb!!

You can get the bread pudding without the meat feast and the crazy race for ADRs. Just pop over to Tambu Lounge instead of Ohana.

I'd go back to Ohana - it didn't wow me, as someone who isn't super big on meat in general, but I found enough to eat there. But I'd much rather just have the pulled pork nachos and bread pudding (and an adult beverage or two) at Tambu.

 

[Disney Khi]

Sanaa and T Rex. I almost added '50's Prime Time Cafe, but I think I might just give it one more shot and try ordering something else. I will not go back to Morimoto, but we ate there three times. The first time was outstanding, so we went back and had bad food and bad service for our second time. We tried again and ate at the outside QS. The food was so bad DH and a woman at another table both returned their soup and asked to order something else. Never again will we eat there.

 

[ofcabbagesandkings]

Chef Mickeys. Not a bad experience but way overpriced for what it is, food nothing special and characters can be found elsewhere.

Norway pavillion snacks. Tried the famous schoolbread and something else, blech. So bad. Like a stale bagel mated with a day-old cream donut and then sat around in fridge to get even more unchewable.

 

[FelisLachesis]

I'm surprised Rainforest Cafe isn't getting more attention on here.

I posted it in the "More than once" thread, but I'll give more details here.

As I said there, the decor is fun. It's not a Disney restaurant, so no Mickey or anything like that here, but for a rainforest / jungle theme, it works. It fits at AK.

The food, though, is so bland. I got some spicy jambalaya pasta dish, and there was no flavor in it. The chicken was dry. The pasta was cooked well, but I felt like I was eating a bowlful of nothing. No one else in my family was really enthusiastic about their food, either.

My girlfriend and I have a joke about places her sister likes to eat. If she recommends it, STAY AWAY! She thinks the dining hall where her husband works as a professor is the best food anywhere. She also thinks Panda Express is the preeminent name in Chinese food. She told us this was her favorite restaurant in all of WDW. That should've been our clue to avoid this place at all costs.

 

[paradesintherain]

I've never had any meals that were so awful I wouldn't return, but some places it's been almost around a decade since I visited.

Akershus - character meals, especially princesses just aren't my thing. And when we are there in 08 I wasn't as adventurous of an eater so I think ordered from the kid's menu. The traditional meatballs sound very interesting to me now but if I can get it from the QS I don't see much reason to return here.

Sci-Fi - the one splurge meal from my 2005 high school graduation trip and I remember being very underwhelmed. The food doesn't look too horrible nowadays so it's possible I'd give it another go but it doesn't really call out to me

Tony's - another meal from 2008. I remember liking it but it just isn't necessary when there's so many great restaurants at the monorail resorts

 

[Kelly loves Food]

I agree with Hoop-De-Doo. Glad I did it, with no need to return. The food was just okay and the sangria wasn't worth the refill that I never got. The show is cute, but I think once is enough.

Also, Cinderella's Royal Table. This is the one we were most excited for, but my daughter was served rotten meat for lunch...they were very apologetic and provided a replacement meal, but honestly the experience wasn't as magical as I had built up in my head and none of us are in a rush to go back!!!

 

[mombrontrent]

Skippers canteen- I was actually underwhelmed by the theming, I just heard great things about it and didn't find it all that special. Other then the falafel which was delicious, none of the other food we ordered was very good at all. It was edible but we didn't enjoy it. I told my Dh to order the pork because I heard great things about it here on the DIS but it was very fatty and he couldn't even half of it. Oh and we also had to wait at least a half hour past our ADR which was annoying. My Dh actually fell asleep on one of those rocking chairs while we waited, lol!

 

[starousse]

Chef Mickeys. Not a bad experience but way overpriced for what it is, food nothing special and characters can be found elsewhere.

Norway pavillion snacks. Tried the famous schoolbread and something else, blech. So bad. Like a stale bagel mated with a day-old cream donut and then sat around in fridge to get even more unchewable.

You are 100% spot on with your description of the schoolbread. Was looking foward to trying it and spit it out immediately. Just gross.

As far as the one and done.....Hollywood Brown Derby

 

[izzylovesmickey]

Ours are Mama Melrose and WCC. MM was one I had read reviews that said it was Olive Garden level. I've never had that bad of a meal at OG. My sauce had raw onions in it. It took 45 min to be seated, sevice continued to be slow through the meal. Not one of the four of us enjoyed what we had. Dessert was about thrown on the table and was soggy and then we had to about chase down the server for the check. And it wasn't even full in the restaurant. I've worked restaurant service so usually give a little leeway but this was truly horrible. WCC we didn't want the antics and as soon as we said that, service went downhill. DD & I split our entrees (we each got one but wanted to try the other's) and we both were ill a couple of hours later.

 

[mom3sonstt]

Question... we have Spirit of aloha booked tonight at 5:15. What time should we be there? Is that check in time or start time?

 

[mom3sonstt]

To stay on topic, my one and done was the Brown Derby. Had the Cobb salad, it was fine but over all not my thing