We took the monorail from BLT to the GF and checked in right on time for our 8:35am ADR. We had a short wait before we were paged. While we were waiting we toured the lobby of the hotel and gawked while taking a few photos.
We posed for the photo with the fake castle in the background and were then escorted to our table for two that happened to be close to the food!
This was one of my favorite buffets food-wise last trip. I anticipated a few favorites to repeat this time as well. The selections included chilled strawberry soup, smoked salmon tomatoes, red onion, chopped boiled eggs and other fixings, fresh fruit, bakery items such as breads, muffins, croissants, and bagels. The hot selections included a carving station with ham, made to order omelets, maple French toast, pancakes, maple syrup and bananas foster syrup, cheesy hash browns, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, breakfast meats (sausage and bacon), biscuits, sticky buns, and my favorite bread pudding with vanilla sauce. The best dish was in the kids section Mickey waffles!! They also had a breakfast pizza (scrambled eggs, sausage, sausage gravy on whole grain crust) and scrambled eggs for the kids.
Food selections:
My 1st plate was a ham and mushroom omelet, cheesy hash browns, and a small slice of ham. I also had a bowl of oatmeal (with Splenda which is in the little packets on all tables with the other sugars/fake sugars for coffee and tea.) My 2nd plate was pure carbs which consisted of Mickey waffles, bread pudding, and a pecan sticky bun.
1st go-round:
Seconds:
I do believe that I finished everything on my plate! I sure wish that I would learn to eat smaller portions so that I could try more items
Ill need to plan a return visit and practice that!
The omelet was cooked perfectly - no rubbery overcooked parts. Really, everything was excellent and there were plenty of selections that were hot and fresh. Although I have to say that the ham was being carved down to its little ham hock I didnt see them swap the boney stump for a meaty portion the entire time.
Em had the strawberry soup among other things:
Our server brought a flaming cupcake to the table with a birthday themed laminated placemat. The poor server attempted to sing happy birthday to me alone. How awkward was that? I joined in just because I didnt feel he was ready for a solo! It was very nice of him and although I couldnt have possibly eaten the cupcake, I thanked him. (He gave me a to-go container for the cupcake.)
As for the characters, soon after we were seated Alice and Mary Poppins came around. We held off getting our food until after we had said our good days to these lovely ladies. We offered the camera our daintiest poses and chatted very briefly before they moved on. Pooh and Tigger were great to hug! Tigger is so animated
all of our Tigger interactions were excellent!
Tigger came around twice:
So we saw Mary, Alice, Pooh, Tigger and who is missing here??? Uh
the Mad Hatter skipped us! Whats up with that? This is Em's favorite character so we didn't want to miss him. We thought that maybe they would make a second go-around the place but they are on a track and cant go off the track or I suppose the train will crash?? The cast member that accompanies the characters did tell us that he would take us to Mad Hatter but that he couldnt come to our table. Ok
no problem. I have to say that we probably should have just skipped this guy altogether since he really didnt have anything to say to us other than so where do you live? Totally not in character might I add! Boo!
Em and Mad Hatter:
The total bill for this meal was $43.33 with TIW and an 18% gratuity. Our savings with the TIW card was $8.40 for two adults.
I still like 1900 Park Fare, it has become somewhat of a tradition but I think that I'm getting a bit tired of the character buffets since I have to time getting my food to when they come around! [insert grinning face here!] I would much rather be able to dig right in without considering if we would miss a character interaction should I leave my seat. Regardless, since this is the only place that you can get up front and personal with the Mad Hatter, we'll keep this on our list. Oh, and the food is pretty good as well!
Up next: Sci Fi Dine In. Wait and see how this one ended!!!
My daughter is only 5, but your review has me sooo very excited for the first time just the two of us can do the World together!!! Keep the great reviews and pics coming!
I've had it happen to me before but never by a handsome french man 
Its nice that you received such great service at Chefs de France. I've heard some negative things about service there but was hoping it wasnt true in all cases as we have a ADR there in a couple weeks.
It is still a very popular place despite not serving the best of the best among WDW restaurants.
with the carrot cake cookie. 
