You must have never had even average Italian food before.
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Mama Melrose's ... Honest Opinons Please
- Thread starter Mrs. Hinsley
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Ex-Floridian
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Ahh don't assume - I'm a native NYer! However, maybe we just had a great experience.
We started with the Antipasto for 2...maybe thats what started it!
lebeau
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Did you also get the pre-plated dessert or did you get to order your own. I ask because we have the Fantasmic Package booked and I have heard that includes a pre-plated dessert to share.
The Incredible Schmulk
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I consider it to be one step better than Tony's, and I think the food at Tony's is heated in a can over a hobo's barrel fire.
TaraWdopeyfan
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We did the Fantasmic Package last year and we were able to pick our own....hope it's the same this year
jlevis
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I long ago realized that when yhou ask for opinions about places to eat you will get opinions ranging from it is the best place on earth to the food will kill you. I like Mama Melrose as does my wife - that's all that matters.
Rose&Crowner
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Came in to say that once in 2002 I believe I got food poisoning from the fried calamari. In hindsight I believe it could have been all of the blue drinks that I had at the sci-fi diner. We have always had fantastic service at Mama Melrose.
sgtmgd
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no I believe we ordered our own..not pre plated
lebeau
Well-Known Member
Excellent!
ShookieJones
We need time for things to happen.
Anytime anyone asks about places to eat Italian I will always ask:
1. Are you from the Northeast?
2. Are you Italian?
3. Do you think the Olive Garden is Italian food?
The answers to these questions will determine my suggestion.
In all seriousness, I've never eaten at MM, but if @DisneyDebNJ won't go back then
I would stay away.
1. Are you from the Northeast?
2. Are you Italian?
3. Do you think the Olive Garden is Italian food?
The answers to these questions will determine my suggestion.
In all seriousness, I've never eaten at MM, but if @DisneyDebNJ won't go back then
I would stay away.
DisneyDebNJ
Well-Known Member
My brotha from another motha .... I so agree..... however, our standards here on the East Coast are high when it comes to Italian food LOL even at this writing, I'm afraid to eat at Via Napoli (however, DS has vowed to try the *pizza window* at Via Napoli) For the record, Olive Garden is NOT Italian food LOL. (when a waitress says she suggests the pasta fa geeoli for the soup?!?!?!?) Its pasta y fagioli!!! LOLOL Good call Shookie, good call!!!!Anytime anyone asks about places to eat Italian I will always ask:
1. Are you from the Northeast?
2. Are you Italian?
3. Do you think the Olive Garden is Italian food?
The answers to these questions will determine my suggestion.
In all seriousness, I've never eaten at MM, but if @DisneyDebNJ won't go back then
I would stay away.
richard francis
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Sweet Melissa
Well-Known Member
Anytime anyone asks about places to eat Italian I will always ask:
1. Are you from the Northeast?
2. Are you Italian?
3. Do you think the Olive Garden is Italian food?
The answers to these questions will determine my suggestion.
In all seriousness, I've never eaten at MM, but if @DisneyDebNJ won't go back then
I would stay away.
Okay, I'm not Italian. I'm American. My great-grandparents were Italian, but they wanted to be American, so they came here. I lived in the Northeast for a good chunk of my adult life, but I never thought that their Italian food was anything special as compared with the rest of the USA. It seems like the Italian-American food that can be found in the Northeast all focuses on just a couple of Italy's regional cuisines, and not my favorites. My favorite Italian cuisine still comes out of my own kitchen, not any restaurant. I don't think any of that disqualifies me from saying that Mama Melrose's was terrible the one time that I deigned to grace it with my presence.
As for Olive Garden not being Italian food, of course it's not, but neither is the vast majority of good stuff we serve here.
ratherbeinwdw
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You really don't need the Fantasmic package to see Fantasmic. The seats aren't really that good IMO.
We ate at MM in Dec. We waited forever to be seated-- with a reservation. The food was only okay. It wasn't bad, just not good.
We have no desire to go back again.
We ate at MM in Dec. We waited forever to be seated-- with a reservation. The food was only okay. It wasn't bad, just not good.
We have no desire to go back again.
okw2006
Active Member
I think you should try it. We have eaten there several times and it is always good. Let us know how you liked it!
ShookieJones
We need time for things to happen.
Hmm..I hope I didn't come off as snobish....
You could live in farthest corner of Alaska , be of Asian descent and never have ever tasted Italian food and I would never begrudge you, deny you your opinion or Mama Melrose's or any other Italian restaurant.
However -sight unseen not knowing you're background? If you asked me what I thought of an Italian restaurant I would certainly want to know what your "gold standard" was, some reference point when it came to Italian food.
Also I mention the Northeast not because there are no Italians or no other great Italian restaurants rest of country, but I would venture to guess that the Northeast part of the country still has the largest concentration of Italians and some of the most well known authentic Italian restaurants the country has to offer.
Also although there are plenty of Spaghetti and Meatballs type places and others that concentrate on only Northern Italian cooking. I would also disagree that there still aren't authentic off the boat Italian meals being served and Southern Italian peasant food still represented.
For example:
This past Thursday I had a plate of arincini that rivals my "off the boat" mom's best dishes. That establishment is 3 miles from my house.
I would think before you answered my question about if I should spend my value vacation time eating at Mama Melrose's you'd probably want to know those pieces of information.
Just like I'd hope you would tell me you weren't Italian, never ate Italian food other than Mama Melrose's before you went on to tell me it was delicious and the best Italian food you ever ate.
Not snobish - just a point of reference
Ex-Floridian
Active Member
It does and its fabulous!
Ex-Floridian
Active Member
Ours in March 2012 was preplated
