Our Walt Disney Epcot adventure continues. Unfortunately, it continued right into the first bad (and it would turn out, only bad) food experience on the trip. The Mexican restaurant inside the pyramid is not, as Charlie Sheen would say, winning. In fact, it is the opposite of winning. It is losing. It is losing badly. It was an unexpected disappointment because I was really looking forward to a good chimichanga or enchilada. Instead, we were served dashed hopes and lost dreams (okay, now I’m serving hyperbole) …
The Mexican restaurant was located inside of the pyramid ...
The interior of the restaurant featured a night scene, a ride, shops, and market place.
I didn’t even bother to take pictures of the appetizers. They weren’t good. I got some pictures of the food. It still wasn’t great. Not to mention, I spent the entire meal waiting for drink refills due to the spice of the food. Waiters dropped glasses near the kitchen, nearly dropped a huge stack of plates, and the salsa dip wasn’t very enjoyable. The only high point was the sweet tea was flawless. It was probably the best sweet tea Aaron or I have ever had to the point we talked about it after leaving for quite some time.
I ordered the Enchiladas Verdes de Pollo which is corn tortillas filled with pulled chicken, covered with green tomatillo sauce, topped with sour cream, queso fresco and onions, served with black refried beans.
The Sirloin con Chilaquiles is grilled sirloin with chilaquiles (layers of fried corn tortilla, green tomatillo sauce, topped with queso fresco, onions, and sour cream) served with black refried beans.
Aaron ordered the Pollo a Las Rajas, which is grilled chicken breast served with red peppers and onion cream sauce, poblano rice, and queso fresco.
Oh, and here is one of their desserts, which was good.
The Isla Flotante was caramelized lime meringue served over vanilla sauce and mixed berries. Everyone else had caramel ice cream, or Helado de Dulce de Leche.
The total ticket was probably around $150 to $200 or so. I’d never come here again. There’s no point in giving them another try, it just isn’t my style and it’s not worth the money to me. This may help you understand how dissatisfied I am: I would have been happier paying the same amount for a round of Big Macs, fries, and Coca-Cola products from McDonald’s. I mean that literally. Everything else has been so great we were bound to hit a snag eventually.
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crabhooves
September 4, 2011
Shame about the Mexican restaurant - but what's the deal with the blog post order? The first posts I got were the ones where you said you were leaving Disney and then after that there was a flood of them in who knows what kind of order. This one says it was published on August 29th but it only showed up in my RSS reader today.
Joshua Kennon
September 4, 2011
Replying to crabhooves
The same as the New York trip a couple of months ago. I never post about my travel plans until after I am out of the area because I have a flood of messages from readers who want to meet and ask questions, etc., meaning I wouldn't be able to actually vacation or do business. I have the blogs written in the backend, then I look over them and publish them chronologically as if they had been up from the original day they occurred. There are a few days left in the cycle then the regular blog updates kick back in ... I think there is one today that publishes about one of the coolest environmental programs I've ever seen: The Disney experimental greenhouse, where they are able to grow 9 pound lemons and get tomato plants to produce 35,000 tomatoes from a single plant in only 16 months, all without using soil. I took a lot of pictures because it was awesome ...
This setup also buys me time. I have a ton of work to do in my real world life and at the company, plus I have a lot of messages from readers that I'd like respond to before they become too overwhelming. The retroactively published travel posts buy me a few days of time without anyone realizing I'm not around ... I just happened to check the this morning over coffee and saw this comment.