Auntie Gravity's Galatic Goodies
Magic Kingdom
Lunch
Date of Visit: 11/10/2007
Time of Visit: 14:30
Adults in Party: 2
Children in Party: 1
Total Cost: $11.37
Average Price Per Adult: $3.69
Ten Point Scale
Food: 9.0
Value: 8.3
Service: 9.0
Environment: 7.5
Overall Rating: 8.5
Don't come to Auntie Gravity's expecting a meal - it's just ice cream and related drinks here - but do come expecting quality and good taste, because you'll find both. It's fairly high visiblity and draws traffic from both sides of Tomorrowland, so there is often a wait. That's doubly true in the hot summer sun. But for a few pennies more than you'd pay for hard ice cream out of a food cart (which also usually has a wait), here you get soft serve and delicious drinks.

The simple soft serve cup ($3) is dismayingly small, though the vanilla had either real vanilla flavor or a good artificial approximation. It seems like those folks carrying away the sugar cone option had more ice cream. The sundae ($4) was a better option all around, with almost twice the ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, or swirl) and a choice of toppings like caramel, hot fudge, or strawberry. The strawberry was artificial but tasty, and did include quite a few real strawberries as well. 

Our clear winner, though, was the orange pineapple smoothie, a delight of real fruit flavors served up whipped, frothy, and light. The lip-smacking taste was probably achieved with the help of added sugar, but with results like these, no one watches his weight.

Our service was quite fast. However, there are only two cashiers, and we saw that the other cashier moved at a pace resembling molasses, and it was pure luck we didn't get her. The workers behind the counter were hustling, though, and certainly earned our respect.

Inside there are no tables, so technically, there is no environment to grade. Just outdoors are tables, though they are full and when not full, someone is holding a table for a family in line. We moved away slightly but ended up near the smoking section, so eau de cigarette drifted into our area the whole time, putting a damper on the great flavors.