Reviews of ‘Ohana Dinner
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Reviewed by Derby Review Date: 01/06/2025
Rating: (8) Recommended
I had concerns about dining here after reading some negative reviews, specifically about being rushed and the meats being tough. Our first time dining here was when it first opened in 1996. We had dined numerous times over the years with the last time in 2015 when we decided to explore other dining options. It was then that negative reviews started appearing and increased over the years.
We wanted to give it another try and I am glad that we did. At no time where we ever rushed and the courses were brought out in a timely manner. Food was hot and very very tasty. While talking with our long time waitress, I had told her of our long time patronage but were worried about dining there due to the negative reviews. She admitted that there were problems over the pre Covid and Covid years but that the issues have been sorted out.
To conclude the review, it was very good and I am glad to have revisited an old favourite of mine
Pros:
Wonderful atmosphereCons:
None this timeReviewed by ShawnLopez Review Date: 08/05/2024
Rating: (7) Recommended
I recently had dinner at Ohana on my last trip. This was my first time dining here and I had high expectations. The restaurants atmosphere is Polynesian inspired and fits right at home at this resort. Although the atmosphere is lovely, the restaurant can get rather noisy since there are many families dining here. The meal is broken up into several different courses served family style. The first course is the signature bread service and mixed green salad. The salad was just fine, but the bread and house made butter was SO good. I ate a whole loaf practically! The main course was comprised of pork dumplings, honey coriander chicken wings, Grilled Teriyaki beef, shrimp, grilled chicken, vegetables, and the famous Ohana noodles. Everything was good, but my stand out favorite was the Teriyaki beef; it had so much flavor and was so tender. Then came the desert of the bread pudding; which was just phenomenal! A great way to end a meal. Overall, the meal and service was great, but it is a lot of food and on the expensive side. I'd go back, but only for a special occasion.
Pros:
There's lots of variety. The atmosphere is warm and inviting. The service is excellent.Cons:
It is served family style and that means LOTS of food. It can be fairly noisy. It is expensive.Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 08/01/2024
Rating: (6) Not Recommended
I think that the entertainment in the dinner is lovely and heart warming. The staff is excellent and nothing tops Disney service in my opinion. I am giving this a 6 because it is very overly salted, lacking in high quality flavors in all the items taken to our table and so much food we felt horrible for not being able to take it with us. It’s just so very expensive and way too much for that you were not allowed to take with you. Not a fan. Overall overhyped food. Entertainment was great.
Pros:
Nice drinks. Loved the environmentCons:
Way too expensive. Overly salted under flavored and not a fan of not being allowed to take home what you can’t eat.Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 07/12/2024
Rating: (10) Recommended
We had dinner at Ohana at the end of May and it was amazing! We’ve eaten there many times before, but this time it was our favorite. Everything was hot and the steak was very tender. They had changed the chicken just recently due to previous complaints and it was so tender and delicious! Please keep this version around!! Of course the bread pudding was the highlight. I could eat this everyday.
Pros:
Food was hot and friendly service. New chicken was very good.Cons:
A little pricey and hard to get reservations.Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 04/14/2024
Rating: (3) Not Recommended
Ate there over our spring break trip and was disappointed to say the least. As a party of 2, we were seated at a small table along the wall and were basically forgotten about. The server kept apologizing but never made things right. The salad and bread were good. The skillet of appetizers were fair. But we had finished it,and no meat had been served. Once the waitress realized she forgot us again, she finally brought over two bowls of saucy meat. The chicken skin was rubbery and the steak was burnt. I miss the days of the skewer delivery. I was looking forward to dessert but the poor service really put a damper on the dining experience. Too bad because it used to be a great place to eat.
Pros:
Salad and breadCons:
Service, meat preparationReviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 04/09/2024
Rating: (9) Recommended
My family and I had dinner at Ohana in early March 2024. We made an advance reservation for around 6pm. All of us really enjoyed the food. The rolls and salad were delicious as were the noodles, dumplings, chicken, and steak during the main course. All of the entrees were brought out warm and were cooked well. We asked for seconds of several items and the wait staff was so kind to bring smaller portions for our second round (as we had requested so as to not waste food). The dessert was amazing-best bread pudding we’ve ever had and a huge portion. During our meal, a performer played the ukulele and sang classic Disney songs. He then went around the room to ask if any tables were celebrating and either announced their anniversary or other celebration to the room or sang “happy birthday” as appropriate. While it was busy, we had servers come by multiple times to check on us and ask if we needed anything or to clear away finished dishes. It was an overall wonderful experience, and we will definitely be back!
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Food-quality and quantity Ambience Attentive staffCons:
NoneReviewed by CariB Review Date: 04/02/2024
Rating: (5) Not Recommended
I so wanted to love 'Ohana and relive all the happy memories I had there years ago, but I'm afraid I came away this time quite disappointed in both the experience and the food. We went to celebrate my youngest daughter's 21st birthday. She chose 'Ohana because she always remembered loving the food and atmosphere there as a child, and we were all looking forward to it. It all started well, as the woman at the check-in desk was friendly and kind, but it went downhill quickly. We were seated in the center section of the large room and the noise and light and lack of space were absolutely overwhelming. It looked like there were dimmer and quieter places around the edges of the space, but everything was full so it was not possible to move. In all seriousness, I had a spotlight in my eyes during the entire meal. It was so bright as to be uncomfortable. Our server, while kind and efficient, was entirely reciting a canned script. Everything he said, you could tell he had said the same words with the same inflections a million times before. Then people started unceremoniously dumping plates and pans on the table, almost all at once. The salad and bread were good. The pork dumplings were tasty, but not any tastier than the ones I get in the freezer section of Trader Joes. The vegetables were cooked nicely and flavorful. But everything else was a disaster. The noodles were oily, flavorless, and cold. The shrimp were coated in a brightly colored seasoning, and the only way to eat them was to open them with your fingers. All three of us had yellow nails and cuticles for two days after the meal, which is just gross. The biggest disappointment was the meat. If you remember when the meat used to come around on a skewer, you'll be crushed to know that they just slap some bowls of meat down on the table. It's chicken on the bone that is plain and sticky, and a bowl of steak (?) that has a gross, sweet teriyaki sauce poured over it and is a terrible texture. It's nothing like the delicious skewers of meat that were cooked so well in the past. In addition, the dessert was unpleasant. The ice cream was of poor quality, so much air in it that it was almost foamy as it melted, and the cake was nothing special. The much-vaunted salted caramel sauce tasted like neither of those things. It was more like a bottle of Hershey's caramel syrup from the grocery store. In addition, our server seemed annoyed when we asked for a drink menu. He just started telling us all of the non-alcoholic drinks and seemed flustered when we asked for a bar menu. He did go get it and we received the drinks, but it was odd to have to ask. We could see the fireworks, which was nice, but I would have rather eaten at Kona and then gone down to watch them on the beach. This place was a waste of time and money. Also, we were celebrating two birthdays. The table next to us received a plate of macarons and other treats for the birthday they were celebrating, but we just got a verbal "happy birthday" and that was it. I don't expect birthday treats, but when the group next to you gets one and your kid doesn't, it makes you feel some kind of way. Overall, I'm so sad to see how much this beloved place has gone down hill. I guess as long as we keep paying for it, Disney has no incentive to make it what it once was.
Pros:
Ample amounts of food. Bread and butter with honey tasted good. Fresh salad and the vegetables were good. View of fireworks.Cons:
Intensely bright lights and a loud, chaotic, unpleasant environment. Robotic service. All the food arrived almost at once. Poor quality main dishes. Had to beg for drinks. Overpriced.Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 01/20/2024
Rating: (1) Not Recommended
Awful
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EverythingReviewed by disneymom35 Review Date: 08/29/2023
Rating: (6) Not Recommended
We ate here the third week of August 2023. What a disappointment. I haven't been here in probably 10 years, and I'm so sad about the decline in food/service. We had overcooked chicken, tough steak/beef, the noodles were in a super sweet glaze so that's all they tasted like. The best part of the meal was dessert. After being seated, it was a good 10 minutes just to be acknowledged by our server and were only checked no when they were dumping our various courses on the table. They also sat us at a table near the entrance which was already kind of dark and they proceeded to dim the lights while we ate, which became kind of comical at one point, because we couldn't see what we were eating. Until I hear of a change in the food and read several positive reviews going forward, this is a never again expense for us.
Pros:
Live entertainer/musicianCons:
FoodReviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 08/20/2023
Rating: (2) Not Recommended
Being a Florida Resident and Disney Annual Passholder we like to tell the truth and not be overwhelmed by the 'Magic' at Disney World.
That being said; we had both the Breakfast and Dinner Buffets Prior Pandemic and have to say it was nothing short of being GREAT!.
Been to both since then and couple comments:
1. Should NOT be called a Buffet any longer, Family Style fits realistically
2. LIMITED choices just standard, Beef, Chicken, Shrimp along with Noodles and Potstickers ending with Bread Pudding(Pineapple)
........ Happy Service but Slow and Sprint refills which should have been Club Soda
........ Chicken.... Ehh had better, so-so
........ Shrimp very good but should have a better way, had to rip apart the skin is very messy
........ Noodles, over cooked and salty
........ Potstickers okay but you can buy them frozen same quality
........ Bread.... Mushy DOUGH
........ Pineapple Bread Pudding was very good but if you don't like bread pudding there is no other desert
Breakfast
....... Not much to mention except Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Sausage and biscuits
So for BUFFET and PRICE($60) we had to rate it a 2 STAR Meal.... been there once NEVER GOING BACK
