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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I don't believe you. They’re pretty decent. They have a lot of decently renowned chefs in charge of everything now
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I don't believe you. Well, at the very top end, their flagship "fine dining" experience, Victoria and Albert's, isn't just the best restaurant on the property, or even greater Orlando; it's considered one of the best fine-dining restaurants in the state and could credibly defend being on the shortlist nationwide. e: I believe a goon works (or worked) in their kitchen; I vaguely remember some really cool pictures out of that thread derail.
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Nov 24, 2019 20:48
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Again, this is one of the best places in Florida where the poor eat waffle House and the rich are too old and hate filled to taste anything whatsoever. We're comparing between failed states and places that encourage human survival.
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Nov 24, 2019 20:54
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T-man posted:Again, this is one of the best places in Florida where the poor eat waffle House and the rich are too old and hate filled to taste anything whatsoever. We're comparing between failed states and places that encourage human survival. "Victoria & Albert's is also ranked as the number 2 fine dining restaurant in the United States by TripAdvisor, behind only Daniel in New York City. In February 2018, it received the prestigious Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Award and is currently the only restaurant in the state of Florida to receive both the AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star awards." I loving hate this sort of award in general but as a long-time restaurant worker I also hate people dunking on the folks busting rear end there to make amazing food, because they can't possibly make good food, because it is Disney World. Complain about the company and I'm with you, but the kitchen staffs are genuinely great and it isn't just vomit-inducing overpriced theme park food. They do loving work. (also the idea of Florida as some unique hellhole is false but whatever)
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Nov 24, 2019 20:56
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Alright touche, the chefs are great and Florida is just patient zero.
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Nov 24, 2019 21:04
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Disney World has been improving food quality in general over the last decade. I think Hollywood Studios is the only park left without a 3-dollar-sign restaurant serving legitimately good food and some of the resorts have them too. Disney Springs also has a bunch of restaurants now. There’s restaurants by Morimoto, Art Smith, Jose Andres, and that just covers the famous guys. They also have bars where you can finally get properly made and measured cocktails!
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Nov 24, 2019 21:09
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T-man posted:Alright touche, the chefs are great and Florida is just patient zero. Or it's just that Florida has open, regressive freedom of information laws that make every person that does a dumb thing there a nationally-known Florida Person, free-to-be-doxxed, while millions of other americans do the same dumb poo poo but don't get called out or turned into a meme because their drunk shenanigans don't get by law turned into public knowledge. Florida is really not some crazy unique place. e: to put it lightly: if Texas Man or NY Man or Ontario Man or Québec Man got the same treatment as Florida Man then I'd be the meme king of the internet Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 21:16 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Nov 24, 2019 21:13
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chitoryu12 posted:Disney World has been improving food quality in general over the last decade. I think Hollywood Studios is the only park left without a 3-dollar-sign restaurant serving legitimately good food and some of the resorts have them too. Does the Hollywood Brown Derby count? I thought it was pretty good, but then I'm no gourmand. Anyway we made a point of not eating anything in the park you'd have to stand in line for, and to an unrefined palate it was all pretty good.
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Like I know your making GBS threads all over Florida because it's the edgelord thing to do, but Orlando really does have some fantastic restaurants in it. Like, even if you dont include Disney Springs, which actually does put a lot of effort into making good food, theres a ton of good local places to eat there. Theres more to the city than just Disney.
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Right next to some huge rear end tourist shops there's a legit caravan of food trucks. I went to Orlando recently on a guy's trip, and we went to the Magic Kingdom. No we weren't a bunch of dudes guffawing at children in front of us in line, but it was a great time, nostalgic for me since I grew up in Anaheim and went to Disneyland like every weekend. I know I missed out on the good food there, but the Dole Whip is legit. Anyways my all-white friends just poo poo on this food truck place that I wanted to go to. They were scared cause it was mostly Latinos there, our grown-rear end-man friend who only eats fried chicken strips complained that food trucks aren't any good. Well last day I finally convinced them and they loving loved it, except fried chicken strip dude, who got fried chicken strips that he said tasted like friend chicken strips you could get anywhere else. I hate that dude.
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Nov 24, 2019 21:35
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Grem posted:Right next to some huge rear end tourist shops there's a legit caravan of food trucks. Wow I hate him
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We ate at that Winnie the Pooh buffet and the dude got stuff off the kid's table, only. I literally passed him on the way to the food and said "Hey man, that's the kid's table!" but he was not deterred. He got chicken fingers.
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Grem posted:We ate at that Winnie the Pooh buffet and the dude got stuff off the kid's table, only. I literally passed him on the way to the food and said "Hey man, that's the kid's table!" but he was not deterred. He got chicken fingers. Life is too short to spend it eating out with chicken strips dude.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"Victoria & Albert's is also ranked as the number 2 fine dining restaurant in the United States by TripAdvisor, behind only Daniel in New York City. In February 2018, it received the prestigious Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Award and is currently the only restaurant in the state of Florida to receive both the AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star awards." Yeah, I have a friend who's a chef, and when he got a position at a Disney World restaurant it was A Big Deal. Those spots are competitive as hell.
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Nov 24, 2019 21:56
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You got out for 'chick strips' with the boys and not 'chicken strips'.
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hyperhazard posted:Yeah, I have a friend who's a chef, and when he got a position at a Disney World restaurant it was A Big Deal. Those spots are competitive as hell. My dad spent ages trying to get hired as a chef there, even two decades of experience at the Four Seasons wasn't enough to make him stand out compared to the other people that applied.
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Inceltown posted:You got out for 'chick strips' with the boys and not 'chicken strips'. Before our trip to Vegas last year he was a virgin. We paid to change that.
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T-man posted:Again, this is one of the best places in Florida where the poor eat waffle House and the rich are too old and hate filled to taste anything whatsoever. We're comparing between failed states and places that encourage human survival. This is extravagant fine-dining by midwest standards. Edgar Allen Ho posted:Or it's just that Florida has open, regressive freedom of information laws that make every person that does a dumb thing there a nationally-known Florida Person, free-to-be-doxxed, while millions of other americans do the same dumb poo poo but don't get called out or turned into a meme because their drunk shenanigans don't get by law turned into public knowledge. Florida also has alligators, so in most other states "Man throws baby alligator through drive-through window" would involve a much more boring animal.
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Nov 24, 2019 22:07
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Grem posted:Before our trip to Vegas last year he was a virgin. wtf
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Nov 24, 2019 22:08
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Grem posted:Before our trip to Vegas last year he was a virgin. Ewwww.
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Prostitution is legal and regulated in Nevada
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Skwirl posted:Ewwww.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Sir, this is a churro stand.
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Nov 24, 2019 22:20
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Huh I didn’t think that happened outside lame 80s comedies
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Vib Rib posted:You ever have a bit you think is so funny you gotta do four separate posts in a row about it? Nope. Two is my limit and I've never deluded myself into thinking my bits are funny.
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T-man posted:Again, this is one of the best places in Florida where the poor eat waffle House and the rich are too old and hate filled to taste anything whatsoever. We're comparing between failed states and places that encourage human survival. T-man I love you sis, but I will not have you slander the good name of the Waffle House.
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Grem posted:Before our trip to Vegas last year he was a virgin. Captain Chicken Fingers diet stopped advancing at 9 years old and apparently his social skills as well.
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Nov 24, 2019 22:43
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"Victoria & Albert's is also ranked as the number 2 fine dining restaurant in the United States by TripAdvisor, behind only Daniel in New York City. In February 2018, it received the prestigious Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Award and is currently the only restaurant in the state of Florida to receive both the AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star awards." I absolutely think that the chefs and staff working at Victoria & Albert's bust their asses to do great work. That said, the tasting menu is like, ehhhhhh. https://www.victoria-alberts.com/pdf/Chefs-Degustation-Nov-19.pdf Nothing on there is particularly adventurous. Lots of adjectives and I'm sure it's well-made but it's also still Disney World and the menu must be designed to not offend fat old white rich people. Take away the flowery language and you've got shrimp, fish with lemon, pork chops, quail, steak, gelato. The tasting menu is $270 a person (if you add the turbot) with $150 wine pairings. That's about what you'd pay at a place like Alinea or The French Laundry, and those are places that are Michelin-rranked The Best In The Entire World instead of just #2 in a specific category as ranked by TripAdvisor. basically my thesis is disney world is highly polished but ultimately very conservative and also exceptionally expensive
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Does the Hollywood Brown Derby count? I thought it was pretty good, but then I'm no gourmand. Anyway we made a point of not eating anything in the park you'd have to stand in line for, and to an unrefined palate it was all pretty good. Brown Derby is good but it's not on the same level as Tiffins at Animal Kingdom or the entire smorgasbord that is Epcot (especially during a festival). That said, they have massively improved the food there since I was a kid. Sagebrush posted:I absolutely think that the chefs and staff working at Victoria & Albert's bust their asses to do great work. I've had the tasting menu before and yes, it is actually on par with other restaurants that charge that much for a tasting menu. The descriptions don't describe the taste. I would agree that Disney doesn't have good food if you're basing it off that time you went 10 or 20 years ago. Over the past decade they've been putting a ton of work into redoing their food and drink because they realized that bars and restaurants in Orlando outside the parks were now on par with other major cities and they were losing dollars to them. The remake from Downtown Disney to Disney Springs has been specifically cited by Disney executives as because of competition from downtown Orlando and Winter Park. That said, they still have lots of places with lovely food that appeals to small town Midwestern folk who don't like seasoning on their chicken.
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Sagebrush posted:Nothing on there is particularly adventurous. Lots of adjectives and I'm sure it's well-made but it's also still Disney World and the menu must be designed to not offend fat old white rich people. Take away the flowery language and you've got shrimp, fish with lemon, pork chops, quail, steak, gelato. Food doesn't have to be adventurous to be good, though. The best food is often some variant on "brownish goop with chunks poured over carbs" and generally the more "adventurous" food is the more it branches into inedibility just to try and be boundary-breaking.
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This page made me call my dad and thank him for never taking me to Disney world so I wouldn’t feel compelled to contribute
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Yeah I'm not a fan of fat old rich white people but if you don't have to ever cater to them in your life then congratu-loving-lations you've made it Also the vast majority of the said white people aren't from Florida, hell few of them are from the US south. Rich white people at Disney World tend to be from NY, Cali, or Germany. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 23:14 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:This page made me call my dad and thank him for never taking me to Disney world so I wouldn’t feel compelled to contribute gently caress that, I've been to Disney World once, nearly 20 years ago, and the hibachi place in Epcot was fantastic.
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I went to Disney World as a kid in the early `90s. I barely even remember the rides, much less the food.
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:This page made me call my dad and thank him for never taking me to Disney world so I wouldn’t feel compelled to contribute And yet, you did anyway.
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Tenebrais posted:And yet, you did anyway. extremely generous of you to say I am contributing, thank you, you are also contributing.
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PurpleXVI posted:generally the more "adventurous" food is the more it branches into inedibility just to try and be boundary-breaking. i once ate an ice cream cone made of fish cake and caviar and yuzu and it was one of the most delicious things i've ever tried
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FFT posted:gently caress that, I've been to Disney World once, nearly 20 years ago, and the hibachi place in Epcot was fantastic. It's still there if you ever want to go! There's also, like, normal hibachi places like Benihana and Kobe that serve basically the same food. But the Japan pavilion did just open Takumi-Tei, which is probably the best Japanese food in the entire state. It's not cheap but it's phenomenal. I also did a Kaiyo whiskey blending seminar and lunch there and made some of the best whiskey I've ever had in my life.
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