coopersmom
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2010
We ate at Victoria and Alberts in the main dining room, first seating, about a week ago and it was amazing. Truly one of the best meals of our lives. We did an all-red wine pairing (thanks to the sommelier) and all the wine, and the food, was spectacular.
I was particularly impressed with the fish course. I had the most perfectly cooked halibut, creamy, milky white inside and oh-so-moist with clams and corn chowder. I wanted to lick the bowl it was so good. My husband had the salmon (we ordered different items for each course to taste more) and, even though Im not usually a huge fan, it was so perfectly cooked and seasoned I could have eaten three pieces.
The only thing I didnt love was the smoked buffalo appetizer. It was really smoked, as in tasting like bacon, which wasnt very appealing to me, but my husband gobbled it down. Everything else though, including the amazing amuse bouche with a tiny thimble of perhaps the best lobster bisque I ever tasted, was out-of-this-world. (Alas, though I begged, they wouldnt give me any more.)
The service too, was impeccable. The only really weird thing was there is kind of a whisper dome in the main dining area. If youre sitting in the right place, you can hear the conversation (just one person) of the diner across the room. And not just hear it, its like theyre in your ear. And its only that one person at the table. Its actually a little creepy and, I imagine, what being schizophrenic might feel like (voices in your head). Theres also no warning or talk of it from the staff, and my husband couldnt hear it from where he was seated, so for about three courses I thought I was losing my mind. (Goodness knows what the other diner thought when I started repeating everything they said to my husband and ever more agitatedly asking, Now you must have heard that, right?!)
If I can drag my husband back to Disney, well definitely return to Victoria and Alberts!
PS: We never got a pre-meal phone call from Victoria and Albert's, which worried me a bit, but didn't effect our meal quality at all.
I was particularly impressed with the fish course. I had the most perfectly cooked halibut, creamy, milky white inside and oh-so-moist with clams and corn chowder. I wanted to lick the bowl it was so good. My husband had the salmon (we ordered different items for each course to taste more) and, even though Im not usually a huge fan, it was so perfectly cooked and seasoned I could have eaten three pieces.
The only thing I didnt love was the smoked buffalo appetizer. It was really smoked, as in tasting like bacon, which wasnt very appealing to me, but my husband gobbled it down. Everything else though, including the amazing amuse bouche with a tiny thimble of perhaps the best lobster bisque I ever tasted, was out-of-this-world. (Alas, though I begged, they wouldnt give me any more.)
The service too, was impeccable. The only really weird thing was there is kind of a whisper dome in the main dining area. If youre sitting in the right place, you can hear the conversation (just one person) of the diner across the room. And not just hear it, its like theyre in your ear. And its only that one person at the table. Its actually a little creepy and, I imagine, what being schizophrenic might feel like (voices in your head). Theres also no warning or talk of it from the staff, and my husband couldnt hear it from where he was seated, so for about three courses I thought I was losing my mind. (Goodness knows what the other diner thought when I started repeating everything they said to my husband and ever more agitatedly asking, Now you must have heard that, right?!)
If I can drag my husband back to Disney, well definitely return to Victoria and Alberts!
PS: We never got a pre-meal phone call from Victoria and Albert's, which worried me a bit, but didn't effect our meal quality at all.
Can't wait to read this entire thread. This will be our first experience at V&As.
so if anyone can give me an idea of what I should wear I'd be grateful. I wanted to wear a a burgandy satin evening gown with a deep neckline. Too much right?
