If we (and by this I mean me included) don't start supporting the local businesses, our grandkids will assume all food comes from a total of 20 chains. The problem with chains of mass quantity, there is nothing personal about it.
This reminds me of the movie Demolition Man - where all the restaurants were named Taco Bell! I certainly don't want to see that day! We often go to local restaurants. Need to keep the town going!
No...a version of a strawberry stripper. strawberry schnapps, oj, grenadine and a bit of 7 up usually...and I am glad I will have a camera ready for your bonding!!!Is that a pina colava?? I cannot WAIT to get my hands on one of those babies! I'm glad to see that Dan, Brent and I can bond over our love of frozen, fruity drinks!
You must do Raglan! If I wirte it will probably be a online book forum...now the question is how many here will pay $1 to read my writing!!!I know that this was many months ago but I just came across your review tonight and have been reading it for well over an hour. I'm so sorry for the loss of your dear friend. Obviously I do not know you but I was still in tears reading this.
Thnak you so much for your comment. She is front and center each time I log onto photobucket and is the push behind my passion for travel.
I'm thoroughly enjoying your reviews and definitely think you should write a book! You are a wonderful writer. I had Raglan Road on my "maybe" list for our upcoming trip and now it's a must do! Thanks! I look forward to reading the rest of this thread tonight
I want to hear when you have it enjoyed!!!Let me understand this right. Are you saying you liked this?
Yes...yes I was!
Well, luckily I work only 15 minutes away, so I will be sure to test this out ASAP!!!!
I am rolling with ya!!!Roll on October
WPE French Toast here I come
I cannot wait to hear all of your reviews of it!Holy moly!! I think I may have to fit this breakfast in on our trip in November!!! Thanks for enlightening me once again
We may just have to compare notes!!I am so going there for breakfast now! YUM!
I am glad I held my rage in...the way things are transpiring...I am much better off and so is Carsyn.Oh man! There must be some way I can work WPE in for December!
Yes you need to!
I am so sorry for what your daughter went through. Being a mom I'm totally with you. The guy would be unrecognizable to his mama when I was done with him!
I have been making the French toast for Baylor the past 2 weeks and he loves them!OMG that looks and sounds AMAZING!!!! I will definitely be trying this. Thanks so much. The only problem is that I want it NOW!!
I also am not a person who likes to mix my foods. Pizza is pizza and breakfast is not pizza but this...changed my attitude on mixing food groups and meal times!Now about the food reviews. Let me just say that I'm not a breakfast food lover (really don't like eggs at all) but reading your description of the breakfast pizza almost made me want to try it out. I read DH your description and we'll be adding it to our next itinerary. Heck, I'll bet it becomes a best seller from your description alone.
Awaiting your next entry...
Hi Dawn,
I just HAD TO come over here and read your WPE review! I am SOOOOOOOOO glad you liked it!
You are the food goddess that inspires me!!
I do not have the recipie but now will look for it for you!AND that not only SOUNDS fabulous but looks wonderful! Hmmm...anyone have the recipe?????
Thanks for helping!!!Wolfgang Puck Express is in Downtown Disney- both the West Side and Marketplace have locations. I checked on allears to be sure and the pizza is currently listed on both menus.
On it's way tom!!Ummm and YES I want to see your ADRs so I know where you are going to be and we can make the plans for hanging out
If I must help those out who count on me..I am willing to sacrifice!!YES I want to hear about your ADRs!!!! It will be at least a year before I'm back in WDW and need to live vicariously through you!!
I will do my best to satisfy your needs!!!I'll take all the Disney info you're willing to share... We won't be going to Disney again until next year in October and I need my daily Disney fixes!!!
I think it will be ok. Got an e-mail back from her on Sat! BTW - yes chinks of meat are in that sauce...hence the fact I said their were chunks of meat in the sauce so you are way past Spaghettio meals!I hope you're other "thing" is resolving itself properly. If not, when we're down there next month we can go all Des Moines on their tushies.
what else is there to say about the Creme Brulee? Like you, I think it IS the best on property! Yummy!!!!
You are a true scholar!!!
Agreed!!!Great review of WPE! I thinks it's one of the best in all of WDW!
Like I said - taking a bit more time to eat is good for the metabolism and good for your taste buds!This reminds me of the movie Demolition Man - where all the restaurants were named Taco Bell! I certainly don't want to see that day! We often go to local restaurants. Need to keep the town going!
i AM NOT WORTHY FOR THAT COMPLIMENT COMING FROM YOU!!!I will stand behind you with a picket sign and burn my bra.
Really...what size bra so I can get a burn permit from the fire marshall!
I write restaurant reviews for a newspaper... I love to go to small mom and pop places... unfortunately, they are hard to find. My readership is usually up on the days I review a chain restaurant versus a day I write about "Grandpa's Pancake Palace."
HOW DID YOU GET THAT JOB!!!
Great reviews so far!
just a quiet reminder that, while ragging on food chains (and i'm with you on that), you may have forgotten that WPE is also a chain....just sayin'. it appears that quality can be obtainable from mass-market boxes. just takes a little "tinker-ing".
Glad you like them!Love the posts, thanks for sharing the tips!
My web interview didn't match their personality. I'm sorry, but since when is a computer a judge of character? It doesn't understand how much this meant to me, how much of a Disney freak I am. I am the epitome of a Disney employee, but because I was honest in my answers, the program said no. I cried. Twice.
Which brings me to a tangent I would like to share. I am going to try, really try, to boycott all chain restaurants/FF places. We have lost a piece of America IMO, with the countless locations found in each city, that resemble the next. What makes a Subway unique in Seattle vs. one in Dallas?
My new company has me interacting with clients in the restaurant industry on a daily basis and when the amount of chains, outnumber Mom and Pop cafe's in any given town across this great country, it is something that alarms and appalls me. If we (and by this I mean me included) don't start supporting the local businesses, our grandkids will assume all food comes from a total of 20 chains. The problem with chains of mass quantity, there is nothing personal about it.
I can get a burger at over 6 different chains in my hometown. I also can get burgers here at a handful of independent locations and every single time I eat at one of those, I enjoy the experience. I enjoy the interaction with the wait staff, I enjoy the variety of cheeses and depth of cooking I can order my burger done at. It is unique to me and every single time I pull through a drive through at a FF chain, it may taste ok, but 5 minutes later I feel grease overloaded and would never sit and tell a friend the experience I had. Yet here, we relive our dining because of the experience.
In the good and the bad, it was not exactly like any other and those of us who love dining at WDW, appreciate all the nuances that make it each location unique and dining not like what we get at home.
Yet we can get it at home. Maybe not the beer cheese soup at Le Cellier, or the banana bread pudding at Ohana, but we absolutely can have the excitement and delight of service and unique offerings if we take the time to look.
So why is it as a whole, most of us don't spend 5 minutes at home looking for new places to try, new meals to encounter and yet for the week we spend at WDW, we pour over menu's, peruse other's experiences and reviews?
It just hit me yesterday how idiotic I felt when I do choose the mundane because it is easy or convenient when the meals, food and people who have made meals memorable are always at locations not duplicated 1000 times across the U.S. I am not talking about a place that may have 5-10 locations, I am speaking of those that multiply like the Duggers.
So my challenge for myself and any of you who wish, is to find those gems in your community, yor neighborhood and patronage them when the mood strikes to eat out. We have used restraunt.com lately and 99% of the time, we are really impressed with the offerings and eat at places we would never have tried without being prompted and the fact we have a discount is even better.
Sorry for the blabbering about this but looking at lists of businesses all day and the sheer number of chains is daunting. Coupled with the numbers of independent locations that are no longer operational, made me really look at my choices, what I value in a meal and why if what I want is flavor, unique memories and a meal that is memorable in WDW, why do I settle out of sheer laziness, what I know, what is routine and what is easy.
Ok...now back to WPE....
Which brings me to a tangent I would like to share. I am going to try, really try, to boycott all chain restaurants/FF places. We have lost a piece of America IMO, with the countless locations found in each city, that resemble the next. What makes a Subway unique in Seattle vs. one in Dallas?
Ok - if you are good with small semi-local chains then next time you come through Knoxville or are in North Carolina (since that is where they started and have most of them) you need to try Cook-Out. They are mostly drive-thru only (1 of the 2 locations in Knoxville actually has dine-in and a coworker from NC said she'd never seen that at one of them before.) They have good burgers and onion rings and such for cheap BUT they have amazing fresh milkshakes. I'm talking the peanut butter fudge milkshake actually has JIF in it, the banana pudding milkshake has bananas and nilla wafers and they are $2.49 each, hello, cheap AND good!
My daughter moved to Knoxville after getting married in August. We are going to see her over the Thanksgiving holiday. Where is the dine-in Cook-Out? We may have to try it.