Mr.K
10-08-2012, 11:12 AM
We arrived on time for a later reservation (8:05 PM) with a large group (12). We waited a very long time, with tired children (a big day at Animal Kingdom). The staff was good at communicating and explained the tables they had planned for us to use were being hogged by slow-departing diners, seated right in the center of three tables they were planning to push together for us. They were done with their meal but wanted to linger. We've run into this before with large groups at WDW so I wasn't too stressed.
The manager was very apologetic and after being seated 40 minutes later when space opened up so we could all be seated together, gave us a full round of complimentary sampler appetizers for our group. This type of service typified our experience. Everyone we interacted with was great, knowledgable and attentive.
The food was incredible! The comped appetizers were out of this world good. Perfect calamari, spicy meatballs, grilled shrimp, olive assortment, hummus and other spreads with pita bread.
The entrees were incredible too. Between the adults we had the whole fish (red snapper), pork tenderloin, grilled ribeye, lamb shank and fisherman's stew. We also tried the greek style lasanga, which some thought excellent, and some found it a bit too much cinnamon. Truly great Greek inspired food.
We tried the dessert sampler, the chocolate budino cake, and the baklava. The kids dessert was really fun here, a build-your-own cupcake, with lots of separate toppings the kids could pile on to decorate their cakes.
Being an iron chef fan, it was truly a thrill just to eat here, then to our surprise, Cat Cora walks out of the kitchen to greet each table personally! She seemed genuinely interested in how our day went, what the kids did and saw that day at Animal Kingdom, what characters they'd met so far, etc. We got our picture with her and it was the perfect ending to the best meal of the week.
I would highly recommend Kouzzina!
The manager was very apologetic and after being seated 40 minutes later when space opened up so we could all be seated together, gave us a full round of complimentary sampler appetizers for our group. This type of service typified our experience. Everyone we interacted with was great, knowledgable and attentive.
The food was incredible! The comped appetizers were out of this world good. Perfect calamari, spicy meatballs, grilled shrimp, olive assortment, hummus and other spreads with pita bread.
The entrees were incredible too. Between the adults we had the whole fish (red snapper), pork tenderloin, grilled ribeye, lamb shank and fisherman's stew. We also tried the greek style lasanga, which some thought excellent, and some found it a bit too much cinnamon. Truly great Greek inspired food.
We tried the dessert sampler, the chocolate budino cake, and the baklava. The kids dessert was really fun here, a build-your-own cupcake, with lots of separate toppings the kids could pile on to decorate their cakes.
Being an iron chef fan, it was truly a thrill just to eat here, then to our surprise, Cat Cora walks out of the kitchen to greet each table personally! She seemed genuinely interested in how our day went, what the kids did and saw that day at Animal Kingdom, what characters they'd met so far, etc. We got our picture with her and it was the perfect ending to the best meal of the week.
I would highly recommend Kouzzina!