Disney Dining Reviews - Studios

Brown Derby - Disney Hollywood Studios

Submitted by a Disney Food Lover-(thank you! :-)

Before our trip, a lot of the reviews did not favor Brown Derby as much as the other signature restaurants and/or said it just isn't worth 2 credits. I disagree. We scheduled a fantasmic dinner package here and came back later in the week for lunch. We were not planning on going here twice but ended up shuffling our park plans around a little bit -- this shuffle gave us another half day at HS and an extra dining plan credit (canceled one of our ADRs on last day). So, we decided to use it up at Brown Derby for lunch instead of going to a 1 credit place in HS. Glad we did.

Now back to Brown Derby. We enjoyed both lunch and dinner but there was a difference. Our fantasmic dinner ADR was 3:50pm and no wait to be seated. Service was just fine but our waiter was clearly hurrying to manage a lot of tables and get everyone out on time for the 6:30pm Fantasmic show. He was very attentive to us so I'll give him a lot of credit for still giving great service even though he was under pressure. Lunch was more relaxed and the waiter had more time to chit chat with us. Some things were not on the online menus, they do change their menu items. The decor was nice too. Dinner was $135 and Lunch was $140 (or 2 DDP credits per person) not including tip for 2 adults and 1 child.

Appetizers - At our dinner, I had an oyster and brie cheese soup (finished with champagne, chives and lemon aioli). Tasted excellent and I liked that it was different. My wife had the crab cake and we both agree it met our high expectations for crab cakes (being from Maryland). I'll have to ask her which crab cake she liked best... I'm glad we came back a 2nd time because we shared the cobb salade appetizer (plenty for 2 or even more people). For our lunch, the sashimi tuna appetizer was very delicious. Very good quality tuna and the presentation was interesting. Everything was edible, even the blue ice in the glass. Think of it as a blueberry snowball underneath (I tasted it!). I didn't really get what could be so exciting about a cobb salad... I mean it's just chopped lunch meat and cheese and stuff, right? Well, I'm wrong. That salad was soooo..... good.

Sashami Tuna shown above

Crabcake shown below

Entrees - I had the Black Grouper (description with picture below). I love it when places get it right. I've had grouper many times before and this was darn good (that's a little better than very good). Great quality fish, tasted wonderful.

I was looking forward to the Whiskey Salmon that was on the online menus but my disappointment quickly went away when I started eating the grouper. My wife had the Sterling Silver pork chop. I looked this up on line and it's from a high quality meat company. My wife enjoyed it immensely.

For lunch, we both had the filet (above). It was very good and seemed much larger than other filet steaks at Disney. I thought it was delicious, tasty, and tender. My wife enjoyed hers but said California Grill's is better.

Kids Hot Dog Meal

Desserts - My wife is more into dessert than me. For dinner, we shared the Chocolate 3 Ways and took a slice of grapefruit cake to go.

For lunch, my wife had the grapefruit cake and I had cheesecake (shown above). It was all good but dessert just doesnt' excite me. I was surprised that DW liked the grapefruit cake because she doesn't like grapefruit.

Overall, I would DEFINITELY return here if we are spending enough time at Hollywood Studios.

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