1900 park fare dinner???????? please help

[lilys.mom]

First timer and I have been given advice to do 1900 park fare for dinner first evening. What is the food like?? any pictures?? also how is the charecter interaction?? any tips please!!!!!

 

[KatMark]

First timer and I have been given advice to do 1900 park fare for dinner first evening. What is the food like?? any pictures?? also how is the charecter interaction?? any tips please!!!!!

Here is a review that MickeyNicki did (she goes on average three or more times a year) of 1900 Park Fare when she took her nieces in January (you'll have to scroll through until you find that restaurant):


http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2064099

 

[lilys.mom]

Thanks! Doesnt look like we will be doing 1900 park fare.

 

[KatMark]

Thanks! Doesnt look like we will be doing 1900 park fare.

Others have liked it. But I can tell you that everytime I've eaten at a place at Nic reviewed and raved about, we loved it. We've done a few she didn't like and in most cases we agreed with her.

 

[dato63]

We had a great experience there. It is on our "have to" redo list for this year. We thought the food was good and the characters were incredible. The Tremaines really make the evening. The resort was pretty to visit as well.

If you search the board you'll find good and bad reviews for every place, including this one. Every one has different tastes & resteraunts can have off nights as well.

I do have pictures - but just of the characters interacting with my DDs, none of the food.

Good luck deciding.

 

[cmesq61]

We went twice on our last trip. The atmosphere is nice. The food was OK. Standard WDW buffet fare--strawberry soup to die for. Service was very good. What made it outstanding were the characters. My DD was 14 and I'm telling you her eyes lit up like she was a toddler when Cinderella and Prince Charming danced. And the wicked step mother and step sisters were a freakin hoot! It was well worth the show.

 

[whogirl'smom]

Good characters, bad food. Now, breafast is a different story, the food was outstanding then and characters were great!

 

[CampbellScot]

honestly, you can't let another person's bad experience keep you from trying a place if you really want to.

My family had a fabulous time at 1900 Park Fair! My husband is VERY picky...he's a bit of a food snob... We had done quite a few character meals during our vacation. My husband had not been impressed with the food at any of them. This was not the case at 1900 PF. He loved the food. It was different than all the other buffet food we'd had. We all enjoyed it. Really though, what made the experience was the stepsisters! They were absolutely hilarious! It was the most fun we'd had at a dinner for the entire vacation.

I hope that you give this place a try. See for yourself. One person's yuck is another person's YES!

 

[lilys.mom]

We had a great experience there. It is on our "have to" redo list for this year. We thought the food was good and the characters were incredible. The Tremaines really make the evening. The resort was pretty to visit as well.

If you search the board you'll find good and bad reviews for every place, including this one. Every one has different tastes & resteraunts can have off nights as well.

I do have pictures - but just of the characters interacting with my DDs, none of the food.

Good luck deciding.

I guess that is true. Everyone probably isnt going to like everything the same. I guess the rule is to try and then next time you know!!!

Thanks

 

[squirrel]

We enjoyed both the breakfast and dinner that we had at 1900 Park Fare in September.

 

[Don Disney]

Our family really enjoyed 1900 PF the night we had dinner there. The food,service,and "characters" were all very good! Lots of restaurants have "off nights",so one should not really count on someone else's reviews,good or bad. If you want to try a particular place,go for it;if you like it go back,if not ,don't. We will be going back to 1900 PF in Sept. again,and are hoping to enjoy it just as much!

 

[MickeyNicki]

I have a ton of pics and buffet close ups in my Jan link....the character interaction was great, the food was horrible and the four of us barely ate anything other than desserts.

If you are going to go make sure you do the the first hour of reservations...we had 7:10 ressies and had to wait an hour past our ADR time because alot of the tables were not leaving, they wanted to see the characters a second time and the CMs there do not push you to leave.

 

[JuneBugFL]

The last time I went for dinner was in Sept '99, so quite a long time ago! From what I remember the food was standard Disney buffet, with a few extras...mmm strawberry soup! I do remember that we were seated by some absolutely unruley children.

Here's a link to a disboards post that has a list of all of the food pictures that have been collected.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1601839 Just scroll down until you frind 1900 PF on the list!

 

[ugadog99]

Breakfast at 1900 PF is one of our absolute favorites! The food and character interaction is fabulous. Dinner...uhhh....not so much on the food. The characters, however, are awesome. I wish they would go back to the old food (pre rehab) but keep the Cinderella characters. We won't be doing dinner there again, but breakfast remains a must do for us.

 

[jemlover]

DH and I really enjoyed the dinner at 1900 Park Fare. The characters were wonderful and we thought the food was good. One of the chefs came out to talk to DH who is diabetic then made him a special dessert. We were impressed. The only downside is that the restaurant is very loud. If you are looking for a good time with decent food, give this a try.

 

[ubermama]

We loved 1900 Park Fare the first time we went. The food was wonderful. The second time we went we thought we were in the wrong place. It felt very cheapo buffet. The quality and selection of the food felt like it had gone way down. We are not planning on going back on our next trip. I was sad because we had so enjoyed it the first time. [/I][/I]

 

[Shleedogg]

The character interaction is great, we spent a lot of the meal laughing at the antics.

The food imo was sub-par. I would have preferred a cs burger. There is a wide variety of food at the buffet, unfortunately none of it was very good. The prime rib was the star, but I don't eat prime rib. Everyone in our party who does though thought it was excellent. The two of us who didn't, didn't care for the meal. Mashed potatoes were like glue and had no flavor, the mac and cheese sauce was runny and grainy. The only thing I liked was the French bread and the broccoli. The cheesecake also was not good. Not smooth and was kind of tart. Maybe it had been sitting out too long not refrigerated.

Imo, not worth the price. It's a meal we won't be doing again until DD gets older and only if Cinderella is her favorite and we can't get into CRT or Akershus. It was our worst meal of the trip.

 

[lilys.mom]

DH and I really enjoyed the dinner at 1900 Park Fare. The characters were wonderful and we thought the food was good. One of the chefs came out to talk to DH who is diabetic then made him a special dessert. We were impressed. The only downside is that the restaurant is very loud. If you are looking for a good time with decent food, give this a try.

Thank you. I guess everything is worth trying once! The loudness wont bother us plus that way I wont feel bad if my DD 2 decides to be loud! Ha my Best friends little boy who is just 2 months older than mine came home from going out to eat with us one night and said to his Nana "lily is loud" ha

Thanks again!

 

[lilys.mom]

The character interaction is great, we spent a lot of the meal laughing at the antics.

The food imo was sub-par. I would have preferred a cs burger. There is a wide variety of food at the buffet, unfortunately none of it was very good. The prime rib was the star, but I don't eat prime rib. Everyone in our party who does though thought it was excellent. The two of us who didn't, didn't care for the meal. Mashed potatoes were like glue and had no flavor, the mac and cheese sauce was runny and grainy. The only thing I liked was the French bread and the broccoli. The cheesecake also was not good. Not smooth and was kind of tart. Maybe it had been sitting out too long not refrigerated.

Imo, not worth the price. It's a meal we won't be doing again until DD gets older and only if Cinderella is her favorite and we can't get into CRT or Akershus. It was our worst meal of the trip.

Gosh I am now hearing a lot of storys like that about dinner there and the food being bad that I am starting to think it isnt isolated.

Dont want to do bfast there because No cinderella and already have bfasts planned at Crystal Palace and Chef Mickeys.

Thanks!

 

[Dreamfinder2]

To further muddy the waters, we had dinner there last spring, and it was the best of any of the character buffets we'd tried.

Some folks are buffet adverse, and that's OK. Unless a buffet is constantly restocked, it's not going to be as good as a fresh, individually prepared meal. So, going with "apples to apples," I'd say that 1900's character buffet is on par with the rest of WDW buffets, with the exception of Boma, which is a different bird altogether. I'd say 1900 PF dinner is better than Chef Mickey's, about the same as the Crystal Palace, and way beyond Hollywood and Vine. Boma and Cape May Cafe are our favorite buffets, but they're non-character.

If there's one thing that is blatantly obvious here in DISworld, it's that tastes do indeed vary, and that any review is going to reflect the personal likes and dislikes of the reviewer. Even for restaurants that are routinely trashed - Maya Grill comes to mind, as does Big River at Boardwalk - once in a while you'll run across a glowing review. That doesn't mean that one party has a more "sophisticated palate" - it just means that what's good to you may not be good to me.

Of course, a filthy restaurant is not subjective, and I'd pay attention if some dining spot kept being called out for that.

Bottom line - you can't form an opinion unless you've tried it for yourself, and you can miss a real treat sometimes because an awful review spooked ya.

I just hate sinking a chunk of Disney change into a meal that might turn out to be awful, y'know? I guess that just has to be an assumed risk.