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Old 27 Jul 18, 04:36 PM  
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I love Akershus too. It was our first ADR back in 2016, we had dinner. As you say it's miles better than CRT (although everyone MUST eat inside the castle at least once). We are opting for breakfast this time around for a bit of variety, but mainly to meet the Princesses, we will have an autograph book.
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Originally Posted by collybird View Post
You can rightfully check Norway off now

I agree that Akershus is actually really good value on the DDP considering the Premium you pay for CRT. We've done breakfast and lunch and actually thought lunch was even better! The buffet spread is a little more authentic than it is at breakfast.
We had this booked last time but cancelled and had low expectations this time. I think it might just be our best Disney buffet experience and with EPCOT EMH an ADR @08:20 allows a rope drop of the Tier 1 Frozen than Test Track or Soarin on a Fastpass. Definitely going to try the lunch in future The photos are also much better this time around, in the CRT set she was for some reason adopting a strange clenched fist pose and all evidence had to be destroyed


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I love Akershus too. It was our first ADR back in 2016, we had dinner. As you say it's miles better than CRT (although everyone MUST eat inside the castle at least once). We are opting for breakfast this time around for a bit of variety, but mainly to meet the Princesses, we will have an autograph book.
I would only go to CRT again if I had another child and that's pretty unlikely DD had an autograph book last time we visited and she collected pretty much all the princesses so no motivation to get them again. Akershus on the list for a future return
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I would have let you off with the Swedish Fish - genius!
Can't really see you as a pot noodle kinda guy though 😂
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We did Akershus on Monday that fishy buffet was fab especially the little bagels which I filled up with salmon and cream cheese. Way better than CRT I’d agree.
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Have to say, I really am loving this report and it’s not just the food!
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Originally Posted by Rafiki22 View Post
I would have let you off with the Swedish Fish - genius!
Can't really see you as a pot noodle kinda guy though 😂
Following along and enjoying the variety of your choices. Just the DDP is enough for me to organise
I thought it was a great idea but I may yet test the rules again You might be surprised about the pot noodles, occasionally one falls into the trolley Planning a Disney holiday is such a lot of work, I can;t wait to get to Universal now and relative freedom!


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We did Akershus on Monday that fishy buffet was fab especially the little bagels which I filled up with salmon and cream cheese. Way better than CRT I’d agree.
Sounds like you're having a great holiday The mini bagels just had to be done


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Have to say, I really am loving this report and it’s not just the food!
Thank you, your DDP guide was a great help in planning both of our recent WDW holidays
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I’m binge reading this on our home from fortnight in Cornwall (no WDW for us this year ☹️). It’s making the miles go by wonderfully!
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I’m binge reading this on our home from fortnight in Cornwall (no WDW for us this year ☹️). It’s making the miles go by wonderfully!
thanks for reading, know the long slog back from Cornwall well! Hope the traffic isn't too bad
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Lunch - Via Napoli (EPCOT Italy)


Lunch on Day 8 is a return to a favourite from our last trip, Via Napoli (at the back of the Italian pavilion). Bear in in mind for this that DW is Italian which makes us all a bit choosy with the food. First of all, we arrive on time for the ADR to be told it’s a 20-30 minute wait. We tell them that’s too long in Italian and 2-3 minutes later we’re seated. That may not be fair but it's very Italian.

A hostess had placed us at a table near the back of the huge restaurant. and learn that the menu changed last week. For drinks DW has a negroni, this was good. DD chose the usual apple juice and I went for a glass of chianti. The red wine was lovely, super-soft.
EPCOT t-shirt Challenge 13/22


As appetisers we re-order two of the items from our last meal 3 years ago, arancini and calamari and we add a caprese salad. Here’s the arancini which according to the online menu are fried risotto balls, mozzarella, meat ragù. The ones we had did not seem to have meat ragu it was non-descript inside, possibly some sort of seafood? Chicken? They were pretty much just the risotto with cheese. Big and a bit bland.


The calamari were ok, DW and DD really liked them. I thought they were a bit meh mainly because I ate most of mine with the marinara sauce in the jug and this sauce was bland as anything. Described as spicy on the menu, it was the same tasteless red sauce that appeared on multiple dishes. Maybe they’ve taken over the marinara order from Tony’s Town Square now Tony's has apparently employed a chef who does more than open packets.


Finally we had the Mozzarella Caprese (fior di latte mozzarella, vine ripened tomato, basil) AND…
What kind of monster puts figs in a caprese salad!


The mozzarella was ok, hardly any tomato and a single basil leaf. But...figs! It also came with this classy looking balsamic vinegar to dress it with:
Is it me or does that label look a little worn?


I kept pouring and pouring this stuff which is in the bottle of a vinegar that retails online for $6 a bottle. Far be it from me to suggest that someone out back is decanting catering standard balsamic vinegar into more expensive looking bottles but the lack of flavour of the vinegar and wear on the label...I really hope this restaurant isn't in the company of those places who squeeze own label ketchup into Heinz bottles etc. Classy!
Here’s a new bottle - look at the straight line on top of the main label sticker vs the earlier photo


So our starters were very hit and miss. Last time we had great arancini and calamari, these have gone downhill and the caprese, figs

Main courses next, DD had a decent chicken parm - Pollo Parmigiana (breaded chicken breast, tomato and mozzarella, spaghetti pomodoro) albeit the pomodoro was from the same unloved red sauce family as the starters. I tried ate some of this and the chicken was good. DW chose Linguine con Vongole Veraci (littleneck clams, garlic, vesuvio tomato) which she liked so this was a score. She enjoyed this main which is one of the more difficult ones to get right so kudos to the kitchen for that one clearly there are some good dishes around!
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My order was the pizza special for the day which was a buffalo mozzarella margherita with basil on it also. The first one came like this:


And went straight back, at first glance it looks obviously underdone. I tasted the crust and the middle to try but the dough was well under and a guaranteed stomachache for anyone daft enough to eat it. When I sent it back the waiter (who was generally great) did say ‘so you want it well done’ and got ‘no I want it cooked correctly’ in return (well he started it ). A different pizza came back all of 2 minutes later, this time without the basil. It was a teeny bit over - actually patchy, overcooked in some areas of the base and undercooked in others (check that oven!) but overall it was fine if a completely underwhelming pizza with the mozzarella nuked on the top - overheated (check that oven )


I felt a bit guilty for the person whose no basil pizza order this obviously was supposed to be and hope that their meal wasn’t ruined because I refused to let mine be

Pizza pedantry behind us we ordered just one dessert, a double portion of the Zeppole di Caterina ricotta cheese fritters served with whipped cream and chocolate sauce. Think of these as gourmet doughnut holes, they’re great even as we took them without the sauces. We scoffed these in the France theatre sheltering from a storm by watching the France movie.


So the bill came to $168 and I’ve now changed my view to agree with the majority that Via Napoli ain’t great and that’s with the advantage we had in using an Italian speaker to get perfect service.

It was also the first time I noticed one of those multi-lingual; passive-aggressive Disney guide to tipping leaflets slipped in alongside the bill

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Oh excellent! I love Le Cellier. Hopefully it’s enjoyable!
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