Fulton's Crab House, Downtown Disney
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Who: The McBrooms
Where: Fulton's Crab House
When: September 2007
What: dinner - I honestly can't remember now.
Approximate Price of Entrees: $30 per person
Rate the following (1-5, five being the best!)
Food: 3.5
Service: 4
Atmosphere: 3.5
Okay for Children: No, too formal
Okay for Couples: Yes, for a special meal but can think of better places .
Be_Sure_To_Try: None
General tips: I honestly don't feel this is an acceptable eating establishment to represent Disney
TheMouseForLess tips: My advice is to eat somewhere else more relaxed and less crowded especially if you have children with your party.
Extra Comments: Too crowded, too formal, a bit too uppity for my taste. However some may like that type of atmosphere.
Who: The Skamarakas Family (Anna - Mom; and DDaughters Brighid, 15; Eilis,
5; and Granuaile, 1)
Where: Fulton's Crab House
When: June 16th, 2006
What: Dinner - a bowl of crab and lobster bisque; crab cake entree with
vegetables; grilled opah with pineapple glaze and butternut squash; half
order of steamed snow crab legs
Approximate Price of Entrees: An arm and a Leg ($112.00, with no alcoholic
beverages)
Rate the following (1-5, five being the best!)
Food: 4
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Okay for Children: My kids enjoyed it, and the waitstaff was extremely
attentive to them. I could see if they were busy that this might be too
long of a meal for kids to sit through
Okay for Couples: This could absolutely be a romantic meal
Be Sure to Try: the Opah was VERY good
General tips: We made a fairly early ADR, and it worked out great. There
were very few tables filled when we arrived, so we were seated and served
immediately. We left shortly after 6, and it was becoming quite crowded.
TheMouseForLess tips: WHATEVER you can do to save money here, do it. Some of
the prices are really outrageous. You might want to order a couple of
appetizers and share an entree. A lot of the sides are a la carte, so if
you want to skip an appetizer, but add a potato, maybe you can share that.
I also try to avoid the children's menu for Eilis lately so she isn't
limited to fried or greasy food. She wanted the snow crab (which she loves
at home), so I ordered it, and the waitress told me since it was for a
child, they could split the portion AND the price - so she got half the
amount of snow crab for half of the price. Note - she was still hungry
afterwards, as half the portion was 1/2 of a whole crab, and she can easily
eat a whole crab herself.
Extra Comments: My aunt and uncle owned a seafood restaurant for YEARS on
the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and we are huge seafood eaters at our
house. If I walked into a restaurant at home or in the Outer Banks and was
charged $30 for a crabcake platter, I would expect it to come with a salad,
a vegetable, and a potato or rice or another side. If I was paying $30 for
snow crab, I would expect at least two clusters with salad and sides. I
thought my crabcakes were "okay" - definitely NOT worth the amount of money
I spent for them and little else. Brighid's fish was delicious, but for
what it cost, I could have sent her deep sea diving for a day to catch it
herself, then flown her to Hawaii to pick a fresh pineapple for the glaze
(okay, it wasn't that much, but for $30, she could have at least gotten a
salad). They did give us a commemorative souvenir of the dining experience - the recipe for Fulton's Crab Boursin. We may never use it, but for what it cost
us to eat there, I'm having it bronzed :-)
Who: Lisa and Jen
Where: Fulton's Crab House (DTD)
When: Thursday 2/19/04
What: late lunch - New England Clam Chowder, Clam and Lobster bisque, Grilled grouper sandwich, Seafood Cobb salad
Approximate Price of Entrees: $90 for the two of us, including tip
and about 4 of the spiked lemonades (YUM)
Rate the following (1-5, five being the best!)
Food: 4
Service: 3.5
Atmosphere: 3.5
Okay for Children: Not sure - we ate at the bar
Okay for Couples: Yes
Be Sure to Try: Spiked lemonade :) and the New England clam chowder;
The bread is also very good!
General tips: We sat at the bar because of the long wait, but the
outside tables and the tables by the window were very nice. The Cobb salad I had was FILLED with small shrimp, LOTS of crab meat and a lot of small scallops (which I don't really care for but they were quite tasty). The grilled grouper sandwich was also very very good.
Dollarless tips: It would have been reasonable if we'd skipped the
lemonades, but one was just NOT enough! Love that Disney
transportation too! ;)
Extra Comments: We stayed at POR and took the boat to and from
DTD...what a wonderfully enjoyable excursion for lunch! If the boat
isn't too full, or even it if it is, it can be romantic, plus you
get to hear the captain spout off all kinds of trivia as well as
point out various information about different points you pass, which
I really enjoyed...
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