Looking at trying a few different restaurants on our next trip. We are looking at Mama Melrose. Looking for some reviews.
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Mama Melrose Review
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Love a little Disney every day!! ;)
Since a kitchen rehaul they did late 2013 we absolutely love it!! We have to eat there every single trip which is usually once a year. Love several of the pasta dishes and I'm part Italian so I'm very picky. lol Great appetizers and deserts too. 
For pizza fix we go to Via Napoli.
For pizza fix we go to Via Napoli.
Captain Barbossa
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Never been there, but I've heard it's very good. Would like to try it one day.
Clarissa McDaniel
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The food has been delicious every time I've been to Mama Melrose. Service can be hit or miss. Definitely one of my favorite places to eat in DHS.
daisyduckie
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Ate there last week, and the food was very good. I had the chicken campanelle. The portion was huge, I was stuffed and it looked like I hardly ate a thing!
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MegRuss626
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That was our theme on our last trip too - try new places! (I HIGHLY recommend Boma and Les Chefs de France) We ate at Mama's about a week and a half ago. It was a fine meal...nothing spectacular. I had the chicken parm which was ok. The rest of our party (5 people) had the steak with mac n cheese. Steak was so-so but the mac n cheese is DELICIOUS!!! If you're on dining plan, try to get the fantasmic package whether you plan on seeing the show or not. It includes an appetizer for each person which usually doesn't come with the standard DDP. All in all, we won't be rushing back but it wasn't bad.
Eddie Garrison
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We eat there all the time and have never had a bad meal or experience.
The food has always been good & the portions are very generous. We have never had a bad experience here and look forward to eating there again soon.
The food has always been good & the portions are very generous. We have never had a bad experience here and look forward to eating there again soon.
carriebeth
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We ate there for the first time a few weeks ago. We had the fantasmic package which my husband loved doing because he got an appetizer and loves calamari. Their appetizers didn't appeal to me at all outside of the regular old salad or caprese salad. I was surprised children do NOT get an appetizer on the fantasmic package. I figured they did and told them they would and when the waitress came to get our order she said only adults got appetizers. They were pretty disappointed and stared at me like I was a liar or something! Oops. Its sort of odd because then the adults get appetizers and the children get to stare at you while you eat them I guess. They did eat bread while appetizers were served and they raided my salad for all the good stuff.
My husband is super super picky about his food. He goes to some of the top famous well known type restaurants all around the US on a regular basis so he is generally disappointed in most "common" sort places. This is especially true about steak. He is used to paying a couple hundred dollars or more per person for steak so if he goes to order steak anywhere else I always tell him it will be a mistake as it will not live up to his expectations. Well he ordered the steak here. He said that for a strip steak this was "really pretty good" now that is really high praise from him. And, even more so, he said Mama Melrose would be one place he would like to go back to next year. I was shocked. I got the pork dish and it was good. I wouldn't say I had to, hands down, order it again, but it was good enough I would consider getting it again if I decided not to try something else, if you know what I mean. My daughter got the chicken campanelle and liked it but it had too many sun dried tomatoes in it for her taste. She likes them but doesn't love them and it really did have a lot of them in it. Another of my children..actually a couple of them..had the chicken parm but I didn't get around to trying it. There weren't any complaints on it. The rest had things like spaghetti and again I didn't try it but they ate it fine.
Now the reason I didn't like the fantasmic package was you don't get to choose dessert. You automatically get the sampler. I love dessert and don't allow myself to eat it very often at all so I look forward to my vacation desserts! This was definately one place I would have loved to pick my dessert. Many great sounding choices and Italian desserts are my top favorites. The sampler desserts were very small and ok but I really regretted not being able to pick!
So our service was no so good. We had an early lunch. It was either 11, 11:15, 11:30 at the latest I don't totally recall right now....but it was early and the restaurant itself was not busy when we arrived, lots of empty tables but we had to wait quite a while to be seated. Once seated we waited a long time till our waitress showed up. She was quite scarce after her first appearance too. It took a long long time to get our food and when it arrived they had forgotton to make one of my children's plates. So they said they would get it right away...but it was like 15 minutes later when it arrived. We were all done and waiting for our waitress to get our dessert ordered up and it was forever until she appeared. I was about to get up and see if someone else could help us. By this time we were needing to leave because the children had Jedi training to be at. We had allowed over 2 hours from our reservation time until when they needed to arrive at Jedi thinking that would be plenty of time...that's how slow the whole experience was and how much we waited and waited for every step of the meal. I left with the children to get them to Jedi. My husband was going to ask if we could get dessert to go since time was up. Well I understood that the children could get either a cupcake or ice cream for dessert on the fantasmic package. When my husband arrived at Jedi with our desserts he said they never asked what the children wanted and just gave them ice cream in a little cup. Well they were in Jedi training, its 95 degrees out, that melted immediately and they didn't get dessert. It ended up being another disappointment for them after the appetizer disappointment.
I imagine we just hit a bad day where service was all around bad. SInce my husband enjoyed it and that was the only restaurant he said he would like to go back to, I plan to try again next year.
Oh one other thing we ran into was when we were there the pizza ovens were done for repair. THey were not making the flatbreads. One person from our party had been planning on getting one so they were pretty disappointed in this.
My husband is super super picky about his food. He goes to some of the top famous well known type restaurants all around the US on a regular basis so he is generally disappointed in most "common" sort places. This is especially true about steak. He is used to paying a couple hundred dollars or more per person for steak so if he goes to order steak anywhere else I always tell him it will be a mistake as it will not live up to his expectations. Well he ordered the steak here. He said that for a strip steak this was "really pretty good" now that is really high praise from him. And, even more so, he said Mama Melrose would be one place he would like to go back to next year. I was shocked. I got the pork dish and it was good. I wouldn't say I had to, hands down, order it again, but it was good enough I would consider getting it again if I decided not to try something else, if you know what I mean. My daughter got the chicken campanelle and liked it but it had too many sun dried tomatoes in it for her taste. She likes them but doesn't love them and it really did have a lot of them in it. Another of my children..actually a couple of them..had the chicken parm but I didn't get around to trying it. There weren't any complaints on it. The rest had things like spaghetti and again I didn't try it but they ate it fine.
Now the reason I didn't like the fantasmic package was you don't get to choose dessert. You automatically get the sampler. I love dessert and don't allow myself to eat it very often at all so I look forward to my vacation desserts! This was definately one place I would have loved to pick my dessert. Many great sounding choices and Italian desserts are my top favorites. The sampler desserts were very small and ok but I really regretted not being able to pick!
So our service was no so good. We had an early lunch. It was either 11, 11:15, 11:30 at the latest I don't totally recall right now....but it was early and the restaurant itself was not busy when we arrived, lots of empty tables but we had to wait quite a while to be seated. Once seated we waited a long time till our waitress showed up. She was quite scarce after her first appearance too. It took a long long time to get our food and when it arrived they had forgotton to make one of my children's plates. So they said they would get it right away...but it was like 15 minutes later when it arrived. We were all done and waiting for our waitress to get our dessert ordered up and it was forever until she appeared. I was about to get up and see if someone else could help us. By this time we were needing to leave because the children had Jedi training to be at. We had allowed over 2 hours from our reservation time until when they needed to arrive at Jedi thinking that would be plenty of time...that's how slow the whole experience was and how much we waited and waited for every step of the meal. I left with the children to get them to Jedi. My husband was going to ask if we could get dessert to go since time was up. Well I understood that the children could get either a cupcake or ice cream for dessert on the fantasmic package. When my husband arrived at Jedi with our desserts he said they never asked what the children wanted and just gave them ice cream in a little cup. Well they were in Jedi training, its 95 degrees out, that melted immediately and they didn't get dessert. It ended up being another disappointment for them after the appetizer disappointment.
I imagine we just hit a bad day where service was all around bad. SInce my husband enjoyed it and that was the only restaurant he said he would like to go back to, I plan to try again next year.
Oh one other thing we ran into was when we were there the pizza ovens were done for repair. THey were not making the flatbreads. One person from our party had been planning on getting one so they were pretty disappointed in this.
danyoung56
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Of course, you know that you could always pay for the children's appetizers out of pocket, right?
carriebeth
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Sure we could. We have 5 children that are not yet Disney adults, 3 that are. An easier policy for our family is "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit". If we added appetizers for everyone this meal then they would ask for adult desserts at every other meal because my children are just not really happy with the ice cream sundae choice that is available at almost every sit down. Or they would want the lighted drinks they see other children getting. Figure gratuity alone on a party of 10 with 5 adults adn 5 children. Then figure the 11 days we are there. Adding extras for us ends up dropping some major cash fast.
So "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit" just works. Thats why I didn't get one of those desserts I wanted either...wasn't included...you get what you get!
danyoung56
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Understood. Not a bad policy if you apply it to the adults as well as the kids!
carriebeth
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Sometimes large families have to operate differently than families of one or two kids might! If you don't run a tight ship it would be massive chaos!
Minnesota disney fan
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WE have eaten there twice, and we were apprehensive about it at first because there were a lot of negative reviews here on the dis about mama rosa's. We ate there with the fantasmic package a few years ago, and we were pleasantly surprised. The wait staff was great. The food was very good, and I loved the Italian atmosphere and ambience. So, we ate there again 2 years ago without the fantasmic package, and again, we had a very good experience. I would not hesitate to eat there at all. One of our favorites.
We love Boma. Les Chefs de France was ok.
patch553
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weve eaten there a couple of times, its theming is really nice and we don't have bad thing to say about the food either. my wife likes their flat breads and I enjoy their meatballs,the only low point for us was the last time we ate there the waitress took quite a long time from clearing our mains and bringing the desserts but I give her a pass for this as it was really busy in there that day. I hope you enjoy yourself