Best Off-Site Restaurant's Thread

[TN Traveler]

Mine too......UNFORTUNATELY!!

 

[KFISCHER]

The best off-site restaurants are over at Universal:

Emeril's Tchoup Chop and Emeril's CityWalk.

Chili's????? Olive Garden????

Please.

 

[Cindy B]

Le Peep is a wonderful breakfast/lunch place off of Conroy Road near Universal Studios.

I have posted a review on this board. There is a restaurant.com certificate available for this property. With the certificate, it was a fabulous meal at a great price.

 

[Acklander]

My favorite breakfast restaurant is the Golden Corral for the breakfast buffet. Not only do they have the yummy breads and baked goods but it's the only buffet that I could find that included unlimited OJ with the price. For Seafood I love Crabby Bills on 192

 

[goofymom/pop]

I am heading back to Orlando in March and I am taking lots of notes on places to dine. Sweet Tomatoes, Seasons 52 and Magic Mining Co sound like great choices. Yum!

Here are our favorites

A must on every trip, usually twice is Chevys in the Crossroads. I love Mexican food and this place is awesome. Service has always been wonderful as well as the food.

Bahama Breezes is another one of my favorites but not my sons. He is not a picky eater but finds the menu here a little to different for his tastes.

Worst by far Jungle Jims......dirty, dirty ....did I say dirty...ewwww! Bad service and so so food. Although I did not eat much do to the cleanliness of the place.

Oh gosh I am sure there are many more favorite meals as I love to eat. But Chevys take the prize in our book!

 

[MartDM]

I have to agree with the vote for Emeril's. It's the only consistently good and quality dining experience we've had in Orlando.

We do usually stop at Perkin's because we don't have them in our neck of the woods anymore and DH loves their pancakes but we find the rest of the chain restaurants to be very mediocre and expensive for the quality of service & food. We've tried Rainforest, Joe's Crab Shack, Olive Garden, etc. either at home or in our travels and found none worth raving about.

Anyone have any good tips on local places that aren't ho-hum chain food fare?

 

[kpossible]

Has anyone eaten at Peebles or Landry's seafood in the Lake Buena Vista area?

 

[Doodlebug939]

Can anyone tell me where the closest Bonanza is to Disney because that breakfast buffet sounds perfect for us on one of those days that we plan to go ventue offsite.

 

[Figment22]

This from the Ponderosa/Bonanza website should help. Only Ponderosa is in FL though, not Bonanza. (In fact, I didn't know that there still were Bonanzas anywhere in the US!)

http://www.ponderosasteakhouses.com/scripts/database.asp?state=FLRestaurants Located in Florida
Ponderosa
4024 W. Irlo Bronson Highway
Kissimmee
34741
407-846-3339

Ponderosa
5771 W Irlo Bronson Dr.
Kissimmee
34746
407-397-2100

Ponderosa
7598 W Irlo Bronson Dr.
Kissimmee
34747
407-396-7721

Ponderosa
6362 International Drive
Orlando
32809
407-352-9343

Ponderosa
5535 Kirkman Road
Orlando
32819
407-345-0200

Ponderosa
8510 International Dr.
Orlando
32819
407-354-1477

Ponderosa
8200 World Center Drive
Orlando
32821
407-238-2526

If you go directly to the website, you can link to a map for each location.

Enjoy your trip.

 

[Pigsty333]

Bucca DiBeppo at the Florida Mall is great. Served Family style, large portions.

Ming Court on I-Drive. Best Chinese food experience we have had since we moved to Florida - howerver, very expensive.

CiCi's is okay - my son loves it, I particularly don't care for it.

Charley's steak house is great and your dinner is free on your birthday.

Macaroni Grill is very nice, we love the make your own pasta dish.

Don Pablo's is another one we like for Mexican food.

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

We are just back from a long budget trip. 16 days in fact to celebrate our anniversary.

We ate off site a bunch of times, usually before or after leaving the parks. Here are my opinions.

Orlando Ale House- ate there 3 times. Excellent food, atmosphere and service. The best low carb menu I have ever seen. My hubby loved the huge steak for only $13. If you order the onion rings be aware that you will not have room for anything else. Beer battered and a huge portion! WE will return here often. You can get a bucket of 4 beers for about $5 or so also if you are so inclined.

TGIF- tasty but small servings. They did give us a free dessert for our anniversary and the service and atmosphere was awesome.

Golden Corral Breakfast Buffet, if they did not have it on there it does not exist. I think there were 3-4 versions of every possible breakfast food. $6 with coupon and it included milk, coffee, orange juice etc. WOW!!

Perkins, not as good as it has been in the past but not bad. Love those muffins. Guess calling them muffins instead of cupcakes takes some of the calories out of them? LOL

Chili's, we always love it there and no exception this time either.

We have eaten at Pebbles in the past and the quality is fantastic but the quantity does not please my hungry hubby.

I did sort of write down a list and where they were if anyone is interested.

SG/Linda

 

[Doodlebug939]

Originally posted by SlightlyGoofy
We are just back from a long budget trip. 16 days in fact to celebrate our anniversary.

We ate off site a bunch of times, usually before or after leaving the parks. Here are my opinions.

Orlando Ale House- ate there 3 times. Excellent food, atmosphere and service. The best low carb menu I have ever seen. My hubby loved the huge steak for only $13. If you order the onion rings be aware that you will not have room for anything else. Beer battered and a huge portion! WE will return here often. You can get a bucket of 4 beers for about $5 or so also if you are so inclined.

Golden Corral Breakfast Buffet, if they did not have it on there it does not exist. I think there were 3-4 versions of every possible breakfast food. $6 with coupon and it included milk, coffee, orange juice etc. WOW!!

I did sort of write down a list and where they were if anyone is interested.

SG/Linda

Linda, I am interested in the Orlando Ale House location because it sounds awesome as well as the Golden Corral Buffet. I would like know more about the Ale house if possible like what is on the menue and did you do lunch or dinner?

For the Golden Corral Breafast Buffet-Where is it in respect to Disney and where did you get a coupon?


Thanks for the info!!!!

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

Doodlebug939, I will gladly attempt to answer your questions.

The Orlando Ale House is a sports bar type place but I saw many children there and I would feel comfortable in taking mine there and I am an overprotective type person. The bar area is open, but somewhat seperated from the booth area. A bit dark and televisions are everywhere. The menu is very varied and reasonably priced. My hubby's 20 oz porterhouse was only $13 and came with sides.

The Golden Corral is better than any other I have ever been to. I believe it is a prototype and they are using it for an example and a test site. I got the coupons from one of the many coupon books you find everywhere in the area. You only save about fifty cents with the coupon so it is not a biggie if you do not want to hunt one up. I think the coupon books are in the front area of the restaurant itself.

As far as how to find either restaurant - you take Hotel Blvd (where all the tall hotels near Marketplace are) toward Crossroads Shopping Center. Golden Corral is to the right at the main road and is just past on the left. The Orlando Ale House is to the right of Crossroads and behind the 7-11 on the left side of the road. Just stay in the left lane, a turn only lane, and look to the right. It is a white oddly shaped building with the name on the top.

There are loads and loads of restaurants in this area. We drove down both sides of the road on our first day and picked up several menus so we could decide where we wanted to eat. All sorts of choices in food and prices. I am not an interstate type person so I was willing to drive the ten miles from the All Stars to this area but if you are braver it might be closer for you to try another spot. It is an easy ten miles from the All Stars though, you just stay in the right lane as you leave and stay left to go back. LOL

I see your trip is coming up soon. Have a safe and fun filled one.

SG/Linda

 

[OLT2004]

I hope to hit a Checkers on our November trip!

We had one here in NE PA but it closed.

 

[OLT2004]

Can someone give me turn by turn directions to the Ale House that is closest to Disney Pop Century?

I tried mapquest but it does not recognize Pop Century's starting address!

Oh, Oh, can this be a Disney Plot to keep you on property! LOL!

 

[2ofUs]

Has anyone done the Arabian Nights dinner package? If so, any comments?

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

OLT2004, I had sent a reply to your question before but it must have gotten lost in cyberspace. I am so sorry. Here goes again.

You come out on Buena Vista (the main road that runs through the middle of the property) from Pop Century. Turn right and stay in the middle lane until you get up near DTD/West Side where the far right lane is a turn only into the Casting Center. Stay in your lane and it will wind around by all those high rise hotels that are on property but not owned by Disney. When you get to the end you need to make a left at the light when you reach the main light at Crossroads Shopping Center (it will be directly in front of you. Stay in the far left lane which is a turn only and you will see a light and a 7-11. The Ale House is directly behind it, a sort of white oddly shaped building with a cupola on top and the words Ale House.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

SG/Linda

 

[OLT2004]

Thank You Very Much!!!

I have copied and pasted your directions into OLT Day #4 - Thanksgiving Day - I hope to watch Chicago Vs. Dallas @ 4:15 PM - While my Wife & 2 Disney Daughters restore the retail economic health of hurricane ravaged Central Florida!!!

(Shopping!)

Thank You Again!!

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

OLT2004, check out the beer battered onion rings and bucket of beer. BTW, you can do a search on Orlando Ale House and see the menu for yourself. My hubby had the 20 oz Porterhouse for $13. Just try to do that at DW.

You will have a great view of whatever sporting event you choose to watch as the place is loaded with tv's. Only thing missing is your own remote but I guess they could not stand having a whole bar full of men switching the channels every six seconds. LOL

Hope you have a wager that will allow you to keep up with the shopping your wife will be doing. (grin)

SG/Linda

 

[MadisonMom]

We ate at Pebbles in LBV on our recent rip and it was fantastic. Definately our best offsite meal. Ming Court was a disaster this time. We've eaten there before and we were really looking forward to eating at MC again., but they were extremely busy, poor service and the food was sub-par.