Let's be frank: I love Disney. I love the movies...the characters...the collectibles...the souvenirs...the hotels...the parks. If it's Disney, I most likely love it...and perhaps there is nothing I love more about Disney than eating at one of the ridiculously awesome restaurants the parks and hotels have to offer.
Liberty Tree Tavern...ridiculous.
Boma at Animal Kingdom Lodge...ridiculous.
Cape May Cafe...ridiculous.
Tusker House...ridiculous.
Chefs de France...Biergarten...Via Di Napoli...The Brown Derby...there are no words for how good these places are.
As a matter of fact, there are very few fails as far as restaurants go at Disney, at least in my opinion. Even the mediocre meals are spectacular at being mediocre.
This being said, there is NOTHING worse to me than having a bad meal at Disney, because I don't expect it. We literally almost NEVER eat at the Sci-Fi Dine in Theater at Hollywood Studios. The atmosphere of the place is super fun, so I never can figure out why it's always at the bottom of our place to eat list when we are deciding on dinner at Disney.
And each of the very few and far between times I have eaten there, I walk out remembering why I DON'T. Because it sucks.
First of all, the menu is limited. There were like 5 sandwiches, a pasta, and a steak. Big fat deal. And since I am a decidedly picky eater, this didn't sit well with me, especially when I was going to be paying $25 for a plate of pasta. We decided to share spinach dip and a side salad and each ordered a bowl of BLT soup.
Now, I know it's supposed to be like a drive-in at night, but damn, it's dark in there, and I am too picky to enjoy my food without being able to see what I was eating. I'm holding my cell phone over the food, trying to shine the light on it so I could try to make sure I wasn't accidentally eating an artichoke in the spinach dip. Other than that, the dip was alright.
The salad, for $7, was ordered with the dressing on the side, but came drenched in ranch, with a scant few onions and a pile of finely diced tomatoes on top. Nothing special. At all.
The soup was alright...basically tomato soup with a pile of shredded lettuce and bacon bits on top. I ordered mine sans lettuce, because, well...lettuce on top of soup is gross.
I wasn't giving up hope yet though, because there was lava cake for dessert...and not just any lava cake, but chocolate cake with peanut butter lava. Have you ever heard of anything that sounded better than that? OMG.
EPIC FAIL.
The cake was hard and dry...and the peanut butter lava center? There was NO peanut butter lava center. There MIGHT have been a melted Reese's Pieces in the middle, or at least some peanut butter in an amount the approximate size of a Reese's Pieces. It was the world's biggest disappointment.
And this sucky dinner set us back $51.47. I'm not kidding. For 2 bowls of soup, a side salad, an app and a dessert.
I spent the whole walk to the car relating what we COULD have eaten for the same amout of money. I could rattle that list off to you, too, but you get the picture.
If you want to experience the atmosphere...walk in...and then walk right back out and around the corner to Mama Melrose's...the Brown Derby...50's Prime Time...anywhere but there.
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