Episode #625 - Is Rosa Mexicano the BEST Mexican Food at Walt Disney World?

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Episode number 625, recorded from the Defant La Roy Studios and Kent County Road Island in sunny Southwest Florida.

I'm your host Gary.

It is always by my co-host and my cousin Mike Downham Florida. How are you doing today, Michael?

I am so good right now.

Yeah. Yeah.

That's good. Why are you so good?

I don't know.

What's new?

Not too much. We just had our cold front coming. I cut the grassy other day parts.

How was it?

It was nice.

When's the last time you had to cut it?

When was the last time I had to cut it? A one was the last time it was cut.

I guess both.

It's so weird down here, one side of the yard.

It doesn't get a ton of sunlight, but it was like over ankle deep.

So I had to like lift so the lawnmower didn't flood. I had to lift the lawnmower up.

Yeah.

And pass it that way. And then once I shaved it, I brought it down to where it's normally supposed to be and went through it.

It was like the rest of the yard. It was, it was ugly, but it wasn't deep.

But for some reason, it just grows and grows and grows on one side of my yard.

Must get more sun, soil temperatures warm or something like that or cooler.

Yeah. It's where a lot of the water drains when we have storms.

That's good too. Yeah.

That side always grows the thick, like it's the healthiest part.

Yeah.

It's perfect.

I have no weeds on that side. It's ridiculous. I don't understand it.

Well, I have to have France a senior come on and do a what's the name of what's our, what's our ground on me?

Yeah.

Yes.

Is that corrects?

Yeah.

The ground on me.

Yeah.

I don't know.

You said you, uh, you had something about Rick Patino. You wanted to talk about as we do.

I got this mess. I got this message, uh, a TikTok message.

Yeah. You don't like those.

Richard Jussie saw it.

Nah, hey, TikTok.

Richard Jussie saw it.

Patino.

Yeah.

And, uh, what do we call him?

We usually use the word for Richard. Richard's nickname is Dick.

Yeah. Dick Patino.

Dick Patino.

So we usually give him a middle name revolving meat. Right.

I mean,

you know, Richard, uh,

Ville Salton Ville Salton Boca Patino.

Right.

And you'll hear us from time to time. Talk about that.

I definitely talk about it in a golf game, Alex Depp Weiler.

Two minutes and 42 seconds into the show.

If you're still listening, you know, we have these conversations.

Rick Humphrey.

Oh, he likes it.

Richard Ville.

Bolognese.

He gets it too.

Right.

Yeah.

Even though he's a Frederick.

Yeah.

He gets the middle name, which goes around meat.

So basically our entire.

Remember we had this conversation on the way back from the St.

John's Yukon game.

I think we were having a lot of it during the game as a matter of fact.

During the game, too.

But I remember being on 95 and New Haven.

Yeah.

And we were getting even getting into some Chinese food.

Because we read out a chili recipes.

We were getting into the whole Chinese food.

Yeah.

We had like Richard Eggful Young Patino and things like that.

Richard Chop.

How long does it take you to get back to normal after after.

Either I leave Cranston or you leave Sarasota.

It's usually about you know how they say like when you break up with someone long term,

you need to wait like.

The amount of years in months to get back on the horse.

So if you were someone for one year, you got to wait like one month to date again.

If you were.

Oh, is that what is that one?

It's like a rule of thumb or something.

So it's the same thing.

It's like.

The amount of days you come.

It takes me that many weeks to recover.

So if I'm if I'm with you for just a reverse.

Yeah.

If I'm with you for three days, it's about three weeks for me to detox.

So if you're here for the if you're here for the member guests,

you got to kind of shield yourself from your family for about a few weeks.

Yeah.

About a month.

Okay.

I have to go into the recovery program.

Yeah.

So anyways, what was our what was our name for our go to name for Rick Patino?

I think the biggest one was Villalasa Bucco Patino.

Villalasa Bucco Patino.

So I get this video, this TikTok video.

And he's being interviewed.

And they're asking him what his favorite food is.

Go to food.

And he said that he loves pasta.

Yeah.

But he doesn't eat a ton of it because he wants to fit into his gorgeous white mafia suit.

Mm-hmm.

So his two favorites are one Villalasa Bucco.

And the second one was chicken Parmesan.

Now we can't use chicken because it's not a it's not the same.

It's not the same.

So Villalasa Bucco.

Yeah.

That's his favorite dish.

That's stupid.

How did you even how does that happen?

How did you even how does that find you?

I might algorithms all messed up.

You don't want to know what I see on that platform.

Is it really bad?

It's just all stupid stuff.

Yeah.

But yeah, just popped up.

This is too perfect talking about Villalasa Bucco.

Villalasa Bucco.

Have you ever had that?

No, I don't think so actually.

It's so good.

I've had Villalpacata or Villalparmjan.

But I don't think I've had Villalasa Bucco.

That's what the bone in it, right?

Yes, I've got it.

Usually.

It can be.

Yeah.

Just braise beef.

But we either I are Christen gut.

Actually, Christen got it because I got the swordfish at, um,

what the heck is the name of the place?

The place.

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All right, they have your.

So good.

It was so good.

It was so good.

So dumb though.

Like, how does that stuff happen to us?

It's like when we saw Larry and we saw the real Larry at Epcot like we.

person in Epcot it would would you agree because we did it was a nerdy and um he was

wider than white and he had the uh suntan the the white what do you call that

something you put on your nose yeah the zinc and he put the zinc on his nose we we created

this guy and we ran into him at Epcot and he was more genuine than the one that we created

yeah it was his voice was more annoying yeah he was nerdy and then we thought he had the knee

high socks if we said that was part of it he had the backpack on the too big backpack he had the

yep yep he was with his mom mom I'm going to Hawaii first I'm going to Hawaii no never to get

some sliders yeah like we both we didn't even see him and we both hurt we heard that noise

and we both looked at him at each other and said that and we said that's Larry yeah and then we

you knew as soon as you as soon as you turn around you knew who it was who it was yeah yeah

that might be the most messed up thing that's ever happened in my life to this day

that we created this guy yeah he appeared out of thin air yeah yeah

yeah because there's probably not another person on earth that would have fit who Larry was

you're exactly right at this place we were at at the time we were there the day we invented him

do you think anybody's following this right now no but I don't really give a crap if they are not

you and you and I are the only two who understood can tell if you're that was seven years ago right

because I was like 2019 yeah it was the first jammin's trip yeah or second whatever it was

or second that's right because we didn't do it on on on the COVID yeah and then um but it's still

like the craziest thing that's ever happened and I'm sure we're talking about yeah I think we took

some pictures of them yeah I followed them to the booth and then I got some pictures and then I

turned them into a cartoon and posted them on our social media it was the craziest thing like if

people were with us for the conversations we had leading up to it I don't think they'd believe what

happened anyway I digress but we also will the Rick Patino Villasabucco into existence

apparently apparently we have the world's worst superpower that we could do these things

I was just gonna say like I don't want to be sacrilege but do you think we have connections

hey they're not they're not very useful because anointed ones I've never like conjured up the

powerball ticket numbers or anything like that we get frickin Villasabucco and Larry that's

the only thing we get maybe maybe be and wealthy isn't what what are calling us what is it just

being stupid yeah being stupid and creating Larry all right well hey if that's if that's my legacy

that so be it I'm happy to go out I'm gonna go to why mom and get some sliders like that stuff he

knows the double take we both had and we didn't even have to say anything we both were floored

instantly it's like that there wasn't a word we both like looked like like that's not it was the

same voice that we created exactly the same if anything more cartoonish than the voice we came up with

because we were doing it the whole time on the golf course right like I'll just hit a little five

iron here whatever oh yeah go good ball because I use that a lot on the golf course and Kurt

gets so irritated with me right because that they call him Curtis and that's not even like his

like his real name is Kurt it's not Curtis yeah right nickname okay I'm good boy Curtis he didn't

like that did he do all of these like off with you or just some most of them because like Rick

Humphrey fired you the captain fired you Kurt doesn't like you that much I mean he deals with you

because your family but you get on his nerves sometimes you know what I think likes me is Alex

yeah because I think he's a lot like you yeah he can he can he can bring it down just a bit but he

won't stoop to my level but he enjoys like watching me well I'll argue on to yeah sure like I feed

into it and then I could separate myself very quickly from it as your spiral yeah because you

get me going then you just walk away like yeah on the podcast you do it all the time yeah that's

my favorite thing yeah because like you if I don't just start going into the topic you'll just talk

about Larry for the next 23 minutes and then we'll be done but yeah I mean what you want to just

we could just do that right now we should probably talk Rosa mexicana I need to bring him back he was

people didn't like him did they um no really no I didn't think so

because I think I would even do it like just to be a real dick like if Kurt missed a pot like rules

violations you better put a mark on that oh I did that that's right I did that during the captain's

trip at Disney oh you're just like Larry voice I did the Larry and Bill Bill with I'm in the cart

with Bill in his guy what's this guy was what's what's that thing called brilliant the the

Mets a club or Mets a club oh Mensa yeah so this guy was in that he had like the IQ of 190

he smoked uh unfiltered cigarettes okay he changed smoked unfiltered cigarettes

so he's moving he's moving his ball that's not what playing this is a money game we all have

$100 invested into this I mean it's not huge but you playing a little money game and this guy's

rolling it in the rough so I'm in the cart right and I just got you gotta play it down pod just

gotta be down it feels like looking at me like hurly what do you been taught what are you saying

and then I think I continue with the Larry voice bit captain he's really taking

preferred lines in the rough those against the rules yeah Larry's a stickler for the rules for sure

he's big-time stickler for the rules I take you grounded your club in the bunker there

that's a two-stroke penalty like Patrick that was not a loose impediment that's not a loose impediment you

can't move that he and he knows he's like a 29-handy cap but he knows every rule and he knows every

fricking rule and he's giving himself 10 footers and he's making you put out the two footers

that's that's Larry isn't it oh yeah I got a four there what do you mean you got a four it took

you six to do it down the highway but I got a four there Gary he doesn't he doesn't say

Gary I ain't got a four Gary yeah yeah it's like two extra syllables to my day

he's gonna appear again you were probably gonna find him you he's probably gonna come in for

like a job interview yes or he'll be or he'll be what are you guys higher rig

all right let's talk Rosa Mexicana because you just uploaded a video to our YouTube channel YouTube

that is cram slash at WDWBTG such a good segue such a good segue I'm a professional parts

and you want you guys you got your money's worth from that Yukon oh yeah you better believe it um

so you uploaded the video Rosa Mexicana and you said you wanted to talk about it a little bit of

your experience there and go through the menu because it's a really underrated restaurant on

the Disney scene that's so good I know our body of angry new Phil junior loves it he's talked about

that's one of his favorites I want to take your sister because she loves Mexican food yes yep

and she'll eat that crap and it's not crap it's good stuff I think the quick service in

Mexico is really good but she would love this spot yeah so tell me about do you want to talk about

the specific meal you had or you just want to go through the restaurant itself I mean we can go

through the restaurant itself we can start with the breakfast and I'll tell you exactly what we had

and then you can turn over to our YouTube channel and check out the review checking out the menus

right now from Disney's website which is going a little slow look at that look at that breakfast

now it says it's a breakfast buffet is that accurate is that what it was it's I didn't have

breakfast there we had lunch but it is very similar to somewhat similar to the one that we had

over at the yeah so they have the continental but then they have a buffet and then they also have

just a regular menu right yeah so it sounds like you can get the buffet which is the continental

breakfast plus an entree which is for 29.99 you can get just the continental breakfast for 21.99

or you can order all a cart anywhere from like 21 to 23 dollars so it's depending on what

you're getting it makes a lot more sense to do the full buffet because it's only a few bucks more

right then order enough the menu oh it's a little different though the buffet is not an entree I'm

sorry I read that wrong so there's the continental breakfast buffet which comes with fruit yogurt

danishes oats croissants muffins cereals hard boiled eggs and then if you get the full buffet it has

all that stuff plus scramble that guacamole and toast which is avocado toast you can get bacon

sausage chorizo sausage potatoes pancakes and Mickey waffles with cinnamon whipped cream

Mexican chocolate ganache and made to order omelet so that's 30 bucks that's a pretty good deal

it's a great deal considering how much you pay at other places for the breakfast

this is exactly what they had at the wave the wave had ala cart and they had a buffet that had

you know just a few items but it was at a low price point and it was fantastic I thought one of

the best buffets at the time on property but this is very similar yeah my only concern with this

part is that the actual entree sounds so good I'd be really tempted to get that over the buffet

and that's totally fine yeah the entree is do so good I mean they have the chile quiles divorce

adios which is 23 dollars two fried eggs with corn tortilla strips salsa verde

wahios sauce black beans Mexican cheese crema and avocado that's okay that sounds good that's

good they have churro waffles which cinnamon crusted waffles with Mexican chocolate sauce and

whipped cream 23 dollars huevos rancheros one of my favorites two eggs cooked your way crispy

corn tortillas black beans salsa avocado and ranch potatoes tell me about this because I'm

I'm unfamiliar with this so basically it's like you get like a corn tortilla the flat one

that's so it's a crispy one and then you put like the black beans in between two of them

and then you usually it's poached eggs which is what I'll get are fried eggs like sunny side up

that goes on top of the corn tortillas with a bunch of like salsa and other stuff on top so

then you like crack through the egg you get the crispy shell with the beans in there and the cheese

and the egg altogether so it's almost like a taco but it's like yeah where have you gotten this

actually I think they had it at what was the name of the restaurant at Coronado not

back in the day before ricks maybe it's so maybe it is ricks i think yeah ricks has been there forever

that's across from the quick service it's like their sports bar what there was a sit down that was

like at the end of the building when we went on our honeymoon i don't remember what that one was

does that ricks no no no because ricks is the uh ricks is the one that's on the other side like

more towards the lobby right yeah yeah and actually it's uh with a convention center entrance

sure yeah i don't remember do you remember what that one was called i mean that's a long time ago now

Coronado Springs it's not still there right that one's been closed for a while

uh no it is i i believe it still is there

because i think Dan matherin actually went there a couple years ago oh really

oh Maya grill is what it was my grill my grill i went there for breakfast one time yeah so we had

breakfast there and that's what i had oh on your honeymoon yeah i had wavels for in charos they're

very good i've had them at other places too usually locally in Rhode Island yeah usually you'll go to

like a breakfast joint and they'll have it as a special and i'll usually i'll order to

would i like it i think so yeah you like black beans i love black beans yeah you would like it

it's really good yep um i mean they have a breakfast burrito that sounds pretty pretty darn good

has shidees in it cheese scrambled eggs pico de gallo guacamole and potatoes in the burrito

really good options for breakfast that buffet though that's tempting because that's tons like

made to order omelettes can't go wrong with that yep meatlover omelette bacon sausage and shidees omelette

be fresh

you know that's just going to be light on the outer and just heavy and beefy and the

just grease you're just you're just gonna cut open with a fork and it's a

that's when you scoop it right at the end yeah yeah like a little egg flake and then there's

still some shidees no did you have breakfast there we did not know what do you have lunch or dinner

we had lunch but it's very similar yeah i think there's a lot of the same so we'll look at the

lunch menu here i mean this this is a place where if you're staying at the crescent like

resorts it's a must do whether be cash or a dvc it's a must do so they do the table side guacamole

right you had that done didn't you order that i know we just no we hit we just had chips and salsa

okay i thought i thought for some reason you said you got it there so you can get the um

um table side guacamole made to order they give you chips and salsa you said right you don't

you have to pay for it that's nice not too many places you that Dave and like she was so good she

she gave us um a big bag of chips when we were done oh it's a girl like to take with the leftovers

yeah yep to take with us so i mean i threw her okay that's you know ten dollars extra yeah no

that's i mean that's why these people these people could make some bank if they just think

outside the box yeah you want a coffee to go you want a soda to go yeah there's another five dollars

doesn't cost them anything even if you don't tip all my chips doesn't cost them anything to do it

it really doesn't but the chips and salsa oh my god it was so fresh like there's nothing better

than fresh salsa where you can actually taste the cilantro and the onions and the tomato oh

remember what sheafer made fresh salsa at your house on the gentleman's truck yes that was really

good yes that was really good yes um a lot of good starters i mean they got ahi tuna taquitos lobster

taquitos nachos chicken tortilla soup case of deal that's what i got you got the soup

it was insane insane it's on the video go look at it it's ridiculous

yes and then they have all these tacos you get three tacos per order there's all different

types there's shrimp tempura tacos red chili chicken barria grilled stuff that i can imagine

yeah grilled steak tacos and barria tacos you have both yeah you guys split them yeah we split

them up yep jackfruit tacos so if you want vegetarian you can do that crispy cauliflower tacos

again vegetarian chopped cheeseburger tacos so if you have a picky eater and they want

you know a more American style they got a cheeseburger taco baja style fish tacos

can't go wrong fish tacos love fish tacos me too poor carnitas

they have some sandwiches a cheeseburger again like if you have a picky eater you get cheeseburger

now let me ask you a question you can keep going but when when we're talking fish tacos

i like grilled better fried you like grilled i was going to ask you yep i like grilled too i think

you just you get more of the flavor you get more fish the the breading doesn't take up all the space

in the taco i don't mind a breaded like a fried fish taco but if you i have the choice i'm always

going to go for the grilled the black if i'm going to get a my if i'm going to get a mahi taco i

want to just blackened yeah that's how i like it

so the lunch has basically the tacos and the uh and the sandwiches as options

which is plenty i mean there's some good starters you get either tacos or a couple different

sandwiches there's some sides nothing too crazy really good stuff a lot of great options for

the tacos but when you go to the dinner menu there are parts they have a fajita and steak menu

so you can get chicken fajitas steak fajitas shrimp fajitas

an eight ounce center cut filet a ten ounce new york strip a 12 ounce chimichurri skirt steak

which you love you love the chimichurri from a good next-gen restaurant getting the chimichurri

it's probably out of this world you know yep it's fresh

same starters a few extras in there like a ceviche which is really good market fresh fish

cured in lime juice tomato red onions chili cilantro and crispy tortillas a chorizo and chicken

empanada sounds good again that soup then they have some signature dishes a roasted half chicken

with mole poblano sauteed spinach crema sweet plantains white rice and corn tortillas

that sounds phenomenal and that's probably like the thirteenth thing that we get at that restaurant

you know what i mean yeah they have a tapikina i don't know if i'm saying that right a 12 ounce

skirt strip steak cheese enchilada mexican rice refried beans queso fresco guacamole and corn tortillas

42 dollars sounds pretty good chili riano that's like a stuffed chili

they have mexican fried rice this is like a side dish it's only 13 dollars comes with shitties

fried eggs bacon corn black beans scallion cilantro tomatoes chilies and then you can add a protein

to us you're gonna add chicken for seven shrimp for 12 new york strip for 15 and that all sounds

good and lobster for 19 mexican fried rice that sounds really good

and then they have a platter recommended for four people for a hundred fifty two dollars parts

which is not bad if you could feed four people for a hundred fifty two dollars that's pretty good

because that's only about thirty eight bucks a person thirty three thirty change yeah yep

so this is roses own mexican style mixed grill served on a sizzling platter of red chili chicken

grilled shitties a 20 ounce new york strip jumbo shrimp a company with freshly made corn tortillas

roasted onions frijoles cheese stuffed jalapenos char tomato salsa pico de gallo and guacamole

how you messed up right now that's a lot of food for a hundred fifty two bucks 20 ounce

with all that i mean like five ounces of steak is a good amount if you're getting all that other

stuff too oh right oh yeah i mean it's a good amount it's kind of like what's recommended is yeah

you know a fistful of meat that you and i certainly don't abide by those rules not often yeah

parts you can get an ala cart grilled chorizo for 12 bucks so just at throw a piece of

shitties on any order for an extra 12 bucks what's wrong with that oh good is that it's like a

lobster tail at a restaurant yeah we get just a grilled chorizo oh my god oh she's on there for me

you know if you and i went like on a golf trip we'd have to do that right throw the chorizo on

there yeah yeah of course no matter what you are they cap you go have yeah like just have a

flame in your own and chorizo sounds good they have enchiladas these come two per order

roast chicken enchilada a del mar which is seafood comes a lobster shrimp

blue crab beef brisket enchilada roasted mushroom enchilada a chihuahua cheese enchilada

pork carnitas again the tacos the same options they had before

and then some sides so a lot more on the dinner menu you can go a little little little fancier

with the dinner but i don't know that place just sounds fantastic and you had a really good experience

oh my god it was so good like we're talking to our waitress and she's just i said why is this

place so good she's like it's just fresh everything's made in house yeah like you don't have to

be crazy just make a few good things and you said that like i think that soup was just stupid right

you said it was insane like if i love soup i don't know if you're big you're not as big of a soup

but i would like to yeah for sure but i think i recall years ago

after covid when you guys did the verbo in orlando i think you said you went to a mexican place that

had a homemade salsa yeah and it was really good and you said yeah i mean it's just

how how difficult is it to make a salsa there's nothing better when the chips come out warm

and they're warm and the salsa's warm like i like to heat it salsa sometimes you get the cold

one it's good but like i'm with you i like heated to room temperature yep the warm salsa

i gotta go here when i go with saran may we're gonna have to take a special

nice trip over there and go to roza mexican it's easy reservation so if i can't get a room i'll

just we'll drive up and meet you guys yeah sure and that's this is like a special romantic well i

mean we're you know that you're gonna have not this one won't be the romantic one so don't worry about

which okay all right but uh i do even if even if you are having a romantic dinner you know

i have no shame yeah you just show up and inviting myself along right exactly hey parts

what are you doing hey how are you doing that parts at the anniversary you guys are treating me

but i did uh i did end up weightlifting boardwalks so i'll see if that comes through

yeah we we agree that that's the spot don't you think so if it goes through it does if not we're

happy with saratoga so either way were you able to did you have to have a a business meeting with

your wife because you said she's not really keen i just said would you be okay with that and she

said yes so then i just said all right we'll see if it goes through it was meant to be if not we'll

stay at saratoga yep there's worse places to be than saratoga springs trust me there there's

certainly yeah that's a really good really good fallback any final thoughts should we talk about

maybe the desserts i never i never even look at desserts i never do either but

there were some pretty good desserts on that menu yeah i'm trying to find a here i'm going through

the drink obviously margaritas there's some great margaritas and cocktails do they have sangrier

is that more Spanish no uh i'm i'm sure they have it i think it's more Spanish but it they

i'm looking to see what they have here while you're going through that i'll yeah i don't see it

particularly you'll see you you will see our sangria university oh video from coronado

springs that'll be a most recent video on the wdwb on the gates you to channel

actually don't see desserts on here i think uh

uh

disney didn't grab that part of the menu to put on their website so i'm not looking at

their official one through swan and dolphin i'm looking through the disney world

gotcha

so we'll just we'll punt on the desserts i'm not going to have room for it if you're giving me

unlimited chips and salsa to begin with i'm definitely not saving room for dessert

oh no doubt i'm doing everything with the uh with the chips and salsa

but anything else you want to add here about roza or otherwise

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podcast for my co-host mic my name is gary thanks so much for listening and we'll talk to you

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