wattage
Registered: January 2010
Location: Richmond Virginia
Posts: 56
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Review Date: Thu April 11, 2013
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Would you recommend the product? Yes
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Friendly Staff, service
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Cons:
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Limited Selection
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The three of us (me, wife, 13yo daughter) ate dinner here on 4/1/13. This is the quick service restaurant in the main building of Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort. The restaurant itself is half restaurant and half gift shop/grocery store. They offer primarily sandwiches and flatbread pizzas. I had the roast beef sandwich and my wife had the mushroom flatbread. My sandwich was OK, and my wife liked her flatbread quite a lot. My daughter got a hamburger that she likes well enough. This restaurant is very convenient to resort guest so it sees a lot of people come through its doors. While not a dining destination, it’s fine for convenience sake.
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wattage
Registered: January 2010
Location: Richmond Virginia
Posts: 56
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Review Date: Wed October 10, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? No
| Rating: 6
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Pros:
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Location - at the resort
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Cons:
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Selection and taste of food
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My wife and I got dinner her on 10/7/12. I had the roast beef sandwich and she had one of the flat bread pizzas. She liked her pizza well enough, but my sandwich was dry and bland tasting. The service was excellent as all the staff are friendly and helpful. If you cannot get anywhere else in WDW – it’s OK.
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hello12345
Registered: June 2010
Posts: 42
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Review Date: Wed June 13, 2012
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Would you recommend the product? Yes
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Food was good
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Cons:
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Small seating area
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We had dinner and lunch here several times during the week of 06/04/12 - 06/10/12. Sandwiches were fresh. Dinner specials were very good for a quick service option. This is an above-average option for a quick service meal.
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Kaits Inside Dish
Registered: December 2011
Posts: 24
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Review Date: Sat December 3, 2011
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Would you recommend the product? Yes
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Reasonable Prices
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Cons:
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none
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Today we decided to take some time off from the parks and have a leisurely girl’s day. In honor of our relaxing girl’s day we pampered ourselves by getting manicures at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa. We got to Saratoga Springs about two hours before our appointment time in hopes of grabbing a quick bite to eat and taking some time to stroll around the resort.
The Saratoga Spring resort is quite a beautiful and charming resort themed around the horse races in upstate New York. The pale yellow buildings meant to resemble a small town give off a warm and welcoming vibe to visitors.
We decided to stop at the Artists Palette, an upscale quick serve restaurant for a quick lunch before our appointment.
I was immediately impressed by the large open kitchen located in the center of the restaurant (an open kitchen is a great sign; it means the restaurant has nothing to hide, plus it’s entertaining to watch as the chef prepares the many dishes).
For a quick service restaurant there were quite a few menu options such as a selection of flatbreads, pressed sandwiches served on thick bread accompanied by house made kettle chips, and a plethora of salad and soup options. There were a few vegetarian options such as vegetable flatbreads and salads but no completely vegan offerings.
Confident that this quick serve restaurant would be able to accommodate me I decided to tell the cashier I was a vegan, she immediately summoned the chef, who appeared within minutes and quickly began throwing out ideas , I decided to put my trust in his abilities and let him decided what to make me ( I always feel it’s better to let the chefs use their creativity to concoct a dish, do be sure to tell them what you don’t like but otherwise leave the creating to the experts it’s always nice to see their personal flare in the dish, plus its always fun to be surprised when you get your meal).
A Vegetable platter was placed in front of me including a mix of deliciously seasoned vegetables. There was spinach and artichoke hearts sautéed in olive oil and mixed with herbs. A crispy romaine salad with cucumbers and cherry tomatoes paired with a sweet poppy seed dressing. The plate also included a warm green bean salad mixed together with red and yellow peppers, and balsamic marinated onions. Long stemmed broccolini in a light olive oil vinaigrette also appeared on my phenomenal vegetable plate and finally there was thinly sliced and sautéed zucchini. Each of the vegetable groupings had a unique flavor and taste.
This was the ideal light lunch I was looking for. I was so impressed by this simple but flavorful vegetable plate. I was also extremely satisfied with the excellent service I received from this quick service restaurant (it’s not often that a quick service restaurant is willing to made changes to one of the menu items let alone completely customize a dish). It never ceases to amaze me just how much of an effort the Disney employees are willing to put in to simply accommodate one guest.
My Mom ordered the amazing looking grilled vegetable flatbread, which included thinly sliced zucchini, portabella mushrooms and balsamic marinated onions topped with mozzarella cheese. She said it was absolutely delicious and hit the spot!
This is a great place to stop for a quick bite to eat at an affordable price. Items here are reasonable priced under $14.99. In fact our entire meal was only $15.00, talk about a bargain lunch.
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Buckeye Chuck
Registered: February 2011
Location: Ohio
Posts: 13
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Review Date: Fri February 4, 2011
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Would you recommend the product? No
| Rating: 4
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Pros:
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nice decor
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Cons:
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freshness of food, layout
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Based on our meals several nights before at the Turf Club, we decided one rainy mid-January evening to skip Wolfgang's and try this new venue. We should have taken our chances swimming to Wolfgang's as to try here! The layout of ordering/pickup/paying is ridiculous. People trying to enter and exit and jumbled up at the doors and cashiers was a huge step backward for traffic flow laid out by WDW designers.
The menu was more limited than we expected but but we were intrigued by some of their offerings. Three of us got their flatbreads (pepperoni, cheeseburger, chicken artichoke)while our DD got a chicken cordon bleu panini. The panini was by far and away the best of the entrees but even it was in the "just OK" category. The flatbread itself was dry and tasteless and so chewy! The toppings covered the top of the flatbread nicely but each tasted extremely institutional; like they had been dumped out of a can and applied.
The tea dispenser wasn't working properly and each of the teas came out tasting horrid. By this time in our trip, we were tired of Coke products and so had nowhere else to turn. The entire drink area was messy with discarded sugar packets, straws, etc., and really left a bad impression.
The entire meal -- and frankly the restaurant itself -- was nowhere near the quality of product one would expect from a WDW restaurant and we are so sorry that we wasted time visiting this location. I agree with one reviewer who urged visitors to walk the added distance and pay the extra few bucks to get a decent meal from the Turf Club...or no matter the weather, go to the excellent options at Downtown.
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Mich97
Registered: January 2011
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 19
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Review Date: Tue January 18, 2011
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Would you recommend the product? Yes
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Food was good
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Cons:
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Would like to see more of a selection
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The food here is good, but it would be nice to see more of a selection - for example burgers, pasta, subs, chicken sandwiches.
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