Reviews and Pictures from our recent trip in Dec...

I would like to point out that almost every restaurant we went to was turning away walk-ins. Make Advance Dining reservations!!!

Goofy's Liberate Your Appetite Character Meal at Liberty Tree Tavern - Magic Kingdom

For our last meal on this trip, we decided to dine with the characters. We have done this meal once before on a whim and enjoyed it. The food is good, and since it is served family style, it makes the waiter's job much easier. It's just a little tough on the young kids, because when they see that first character, they all want to rush him/her. The meal includes Tossed Mixed Greens salad, a generous serving of roasted turkey breast, marinated Flank Steak and Honey Mustard Ham, accompanied by home made Mashed Potatoes, Garden Vegetables, Herb Bread Stuffing, and Stouffer's Macaroni and Cheese. Dessert is Apple Cobbler with ice cream. All all-you-can-eat.

Mama Melrose - Disney MGM Studios

We had a dining reservation for Mama Melrose. Overall, we thought the food was fine, but we had extremely slow service. We thought that they needed a bus boy and someone to refill drinks, that would have helped the wait staff. We had the Brick Oven Baked Caprino Cheese in a tomato basil sauce with rosemary garlic crostini for an appetizer. It was yummy. For entrees, we tried the Spicy Italian Sausage with rigatoni pasta and Charred Butcher Tender Steak. Both meals were good, just not great. We probably won't eat here again until we've tried some other restaurants at MGM.

Le Cellier, Canada - Epcot

We LOVED Le Cellier! We went for lunch time, because I couldn't get a dinner reservation when I called. Our waitress was very friendly and the atmosphere was great. We didn't get a salad since it was lunch time and we didn't want a huge meal. We both ordered the filet with mashed potatoes. I also had a Torontopolitan drink. We shared the trio dessert platter, which had the chocolate whiskey cake, maple creme brulee, and raspberry sorbet. I can't say enough good things; this is definitely a favorite for us.

Private Dining - Special Order Cake

So I've read where other people had custom small cakes ordered for their special occasions and wanted to do the same for our anniversary dinner at Narcoosee's. I was fortunate that we were already choosing to eat at a Grand Floridian restaurant, because there would be no delivery fee since the Grand has a bakery onsite.

So I called the Grand Floridian and asked to be connected to the bakery. Instead I was connected to Private Dining. The lady I spoke to very nice, be didn't have enough information (as I found out later). We spoke about the three options for cakes. I believed all cake options were 6" round cakes. I won't go into all the details discussed here, if you are really interested, you can search for my post on the Echo. In the end I chose the Mini Castle Cake. I was so excited to surprise my hubby with this.

When the waitress brought it out that night, my jaw hit the floor. I was staring at a very "cute" castle....CUPCAKE. Seriously. It was the size of a cupcake. For $25. I was stunned, but kept quiet until the waitress left.

On the upside, the little cake was very good, and we enjoyed it.

If you want to do this, I would suggest calling the Wedding Planning office to find out about cake options, or insisting Private Dining confirm the size of the cakes. Since I thought I knew what she was saying, I wasn't adament about finding a second resource.

Since the lighting was not kind to my camera, I'm posting both pictures I took, combine them with your imagination and you'll have an accurate representation of the cake :-)