Our child could have ordered normal child meals, which were a touch more expensive here, but we opted to get him instead a three-cheese flatbread ($10) for just a couple dollars more than the less-complex cheese pizza would have been. Since we ate much of it for him, this was worthwhile. The cheeses were rich and intermingled well, but it was the heavy drizzle of pesto and the liberal sprinkling of sundried tomatoes across the top which made this peice work. Us adults began with sushi. The rainbow roll ($19) offered twelve large pieces of sashimi in a roll, made 'crunchy' by the use of fish eggs across the top. The spicy tuna ($18) combes with a 'fireball' mayonnaise sauce that defies all description. It's spicy, all right, but its excellence can only be appreciated by taste buds, not words on a page. 

We skipped the 'first course' of such things as wedge salads, since there was already enough food with the flatbread and sushi, and there was naturally bread on the table, in the form of hot, fresh sourdough. Oddly, this part of the experience was disappointing. It came with olive oil quite alone on a plate, which made for pedestrian flavors quite beneath the other offerings here. But we were almost full before the main courses even arrived. In the case of gnocchi ($23), that was a good thing, since this wasn't a lot of food. Served with grape tomatoes and a wonderfully rich olive tapenade, the gnocchi tasted great when all flavors were combined.

It was the salmon ($32) which took my breath away. The crispy exterior of this large cut of fish gave way to a tender and moist inside, with flavors perfectly balanced even before you considered the fingerling potatoes, bacon, cooked baby spinach, and egg vinaigratte which came outside of it. I can attest that no matter how full you were before the dish arrived, you become ravenous once again if you but sample the flavors. This is true fine dining in all its glory.

Which raises the issue of cost and value. It's true that the meal is pricey. Yet, with a DDE discount, it costs almost exactly what we'd paid for Garden Grove (which has no discounts) the night before, and this meal was a million times more tasty and more worthwhile. Besides, the high cost does not translate automatically to a low value. Sometimes food that costs a lot can STILL deliver good value if the food is 'worth' all that extra money, and here, it certainly is. 

Service was, as always, impeccable, with nothing to complain about (though oddly, nothing remarkable to praise on this trip, either). The environment is always top-notch, courtesy of the remarkable view. On our view, a lightning storm raged outside, despite it still being daylight hours, and there's nothing quite like watching Tomorrowland get struck by lightning while some of the best fish on earth melts in your mouth.