Katie
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Thursday 1 January
On sea days, the fancy restaurant that you pay for, Palo, is open for Brunch. This is quite popular with Disney Cruise fans, as the Brunch is table service "all you care to eat". On our first Disney cruise, we had Palo Brunch with a group of other cruisers in the private dining room; a lottery organised by the admins of the Facebook group for the cruise. This time, it was just the three of us. We had a relatively late booking, something like 12 or 12:30. We didn't adjust to add the Grandma squad; at USD 70-85 per person it seemed just too much for what they'd eat and enjoy. In hindsight, just Mr Katie and I should have gone, though it was nice having a bit of a fancy time with the Teen.
Due to the brunch, we didn't eat breakfast. What could be better than a sleep-in on a sea day after staying up late to welcome in the new year?
I popped in to Cove Cafe for a coffee mid-morning though ... kissing baby Minnie!
Palo requires fancy dress, though some standards were relaxed for the AU/NZ season ... Birkenstock sandals were allowed - normally footwear needs to be more formal than that!
Palo is Venetian themed (Palo is the word for the gondola poles), and Italian food. It's the only part of the ship where you'll find no Disney theming at all. We did a tour one day and learned about the buyers/decorators for the first two ships finding some gorgeous Venetian masks in a store and buying them out of masks entirely.
Bunch menu
We were greeted with a complimentary/included Mimosa or Bubbles, non-alcoholic also available.
A surprise, warm, sweet scroll muffin to start with, which we kept for later as we didn't want to go from sweet to savoury to sweet. Don't know why??!!
Antipasti selection. The crab claw reminded me why I don't like a lot of shellfish - I'm bloody lazy and don't like fighting that much for my food.
Bread service, really don't need to waste the calories or carbs on filling bread at an "all you care to eat" meal!
The Mickey waffles, even the GF ones, at Palo are much larger than in the Cabanas brekky buffet!
Zucchini Frittata. I had to force myself to not finish it. But I was a good girl and ate most of it.
Lasagne. To die for. Yummalicious.
Lunch dessert? Oh fine, twist my arm
Limoncello Torte. It was OK. Just OK. :/
Palo wasn't for the Teen. We should have just had a date brunch. Oh well.
On reflection, our first experience at Palo was probably better, because we all ate family style (about 12 people). It was nice to be able to try so many items from the menu without wasting a lot of food. As two people, we couldn't order as much without being wasteful.
On sea days, the fancy restaurant that you pay for, Palo, is open for Brunch. This is quite popular with Disney Cruise fans, as the Brunch is table service "all you care to eat". On our first Disney cruise, we had Palo Brunch with a group of other cruisers in the private dining room; a lottery organised by the admins of the Facebook group for the cruise. This time, it was just the three of us. We had a relatively late booking, something like 12 or 12:30. We didn't adjust to add the Grandma squad; at USD 70-85 per person it seemed just too much for what they'd eat and enjoy. In hindsight, just Mr Katie and I should have gone, though it was nice having a bit of a fancy time with the Teen.
Due to the brunch, we didn't eat breakfast. What could be better than a sleep-in on a sea day after staying up late to welcome in the new year?
I popped in to Cove Cafe for a coffee mid-morning though ... kissing baby Minnie!
Palo requires fancy dress, though some standards were relaxed for the AU/NZ season ... Birkenstock sandals were allowed - normally footwear needs to be more formal than that!
Palo is Venetian themed (Palo is the word for the gondola poles), and Italian food. It's the only part of the ship where you'll find no Disney theming at all. We did a tour one day and learned about the buyers/decorators for the first two ships finding some gorgeous Venetian masks in a store and buying them out of masks entirely.
Bunch menu
We were greeted with a complimentary/included Mimosa or Bubbles, non-alcoholic also available.
A surprise, warm, sweet scroll muffin to start with, which we kept for later as we didn't want to go from sweet to savoury to sweet. Don't know why??!!
Antipasti selection. The crab claw reminded me why I don't like a lot of shellfish - I'm bloody lazy and don't like fighting that much for my food.
Bread service, really don't need to waste the calories or carbs on filling bread at an "all you care to eat" meal!
The Mickey waffles, even the GF ones, at Palo are much larger than in the Cabanas brekky buffet!
Zucchini Frittata. I had to force myself to not finish it. But I was a good girl and ate most of it.
Lasagne. To die for. Yummalicious.
Lunch dessert? Oh fine, twist my arm
Limoncello Torte. It was OK. Just OK. :/
Palo wasn't for the Teen. We should have just had a date brunch. Oh well.
On reflection, our first experience at Palo was probably better, because we all ate family style (about 12 people). It was nice to be able to try so many items from the menu without wasting a lot of food. As two people, we couldn't order as much without being wasteful.
