You may have been wondering where I went for such a long time without posting; let alone telling you that I was going to be away. The answer is that I was partying it up in Disney World Florida! People who see Disney in plain sight just think it to be a big theme park/resort that millions of people attend per year. However, it's much more than the general thought makes it out to be. To start, Disney is definitely not just for children, the attractions over most of the parks are actually designed to draw people over 18. I saw more groups of [over 21, though young] adults walking around without kids than children alone which made me feel really comfortable a I always am when I go there. The next thing that people don't realize is the quality of food in Disney and how much variety there is with great food. I took advantage of that as much as I humanly could in the 5 days that I was there. Lastly, the reason I know that Disney is adult friendly is the amount of alcoholic beverages that can be found around there and apparently, they are damn good (so I've heard).
Regardless, I'm not missing out on all of the dining festivities in Disney with the restriction of no alcohol, of all of the restaurants and food stands, one could get a range of food from the level of a Michelin Starred restaurant in Manhattan to the delicious fried food that you would expect from the South. Never the less, all of them are and will be delicious. I stayed in the Yacht Club Hotel on the resort property which is in walking distance of Epcot's World Showcase where most of the eating takes place. I wound up walking all the way down and going into the theme park just to get a bite to eat for lunch or a small snack and then immediately going back to the hotel without going on any rides (I was equipped with a Park Hopper ticket which allowed me to go in and out of all of the parks at my leisure which made everything in terms of my eating adventure very easy and of course I made sure I got on all of the rides more than once!).
Let's begin:
DAY ONE
Upon my arrival at Disney, my parents and I set down our bags and after our flight without eating any breakfast, we were hungry, so we went over to France for lunch. The small bakery on the France pavilion is one of our favorite places in all of Disney to grab a bite to eat, and that we did. I settled on a simple tartine (pronounced: tart-anne) sandwich, with ham, cheese, and tomato and for dessert a nice big piece of the cake of the day, a thick, all chocolate cake that has been serving as the cake of the day, every day for as long as I can remember and I have been heading down to Disney annually and sometimes bi-annually since I was 18 months old, I have a severe attraction to that place and a photographic memory so I know that it has never changed.
Later on, my father went to Winterhaven for the night to visit his cousin and my mother and I continued our eating quest after going on a few rides of course. After getting a light snack of a plate of guacamole from the Mexico Pavilion, we took a boat over to Disney's Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM Studios) for dinner at one of the the premier restaurants in the resort: The Hollywood Brown Derby, which is a replica of the original Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, California. For an appetizer there I had a creamy onion soup with pecorino cheese and basil oil shown below.
For the next course, my mother and I both enjoyed a filet mingon with a tomatillo relish and red chili sauce on the side. We happened to enjoy it so much that I forgot to take a picture of it before devouring it. For desert, I had the Disney Brown Derby signature dessert, the grapefruit cake! The mix of bitter and sweet, layers of cake with a grapefruit-cream cheese icing and with a sweet grapefruit sauce.
That was it for the first night. As well, there is no way I can fit my whole trip into one post. Look up for part 2.
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