YES YES YES. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. seriously this thing is a big hit. Disney you KNOW you're going to continue it nightly through the end of the year right? just DO IT ALREADY and let us have peace. It's not like RoL where there may be delays. just do it!
And I actually considered eating at H&V twice (breakfast and dinner)! 
I just had a super sad moment.
My kids were about bringing a ton of glow sticks to hand out hand out during the night parade. They wanted to sprinkle a little pixie dust on kids who's parents had said no to the overpriced Disney glow toys. Now with no dark parade it won't be the same.
the staff dips things in it and then they set them out (like chocolate covered strawberries and marshmallows). There is another good review on the disney food blog. here are a couple of photos:
I am kind of easy to please, lol. I am a foodie too but I save the foodie stuff for appropriate places. Fresh and tasty works for me too, lol. fat and salt goes a long way
I think the food looks very appetising!!!well the review isn't so good but the pictures are. If only 1/4 of that crap is half as good as it looks I won't go away hungry. I could live on the butternut squash soup and carved meats alone. plus some mashed potatoes and i'm good
I haven't had breakfast yet and now i am drooling a little bit, lol. It's a buffet, if i don't like something i won't eat it. There are many appealing proteins, plenty of appealing sides and I am very much looking forward to the argula, pear and pomegranate salad. I also am a fiend for peel and eat shrimp (whenever I go to a chinese buffet I get a big plate of that so I fill up on something lean and healthy before hitting the regular buffet. I won't do that here, lol). I LOVE butternut squash soup (I make it all winter long, cashew milk makes it vegan and healthy. I am not vegan lol) and I assume their version will be more rich than mine is lol. The pumpkin "ravioli" (more like a gnocchi) looks good too and I love anything pumpkin. The asiago chicken, while not groundbreaking, looks good to me. I love brussels sprouts but they have to be nice and soft, if they are crunchy they will be pushed to the side with no shame. the apricot pork looks good, but if it's dry there are always bbq meatballs and fresh carved potatoes. I think the garlic mashed potatoes are a big hit even at chef mickey's (arguably the only character buffet with worse reviews than h&v, have never been there). The seafood mac and cheese looks dubious to me but I may try it. If all else fails there are always tater tots on the kid buffet. who doesn't like tater tots? I may get some anyway lol.
the "bad" reviews I've read have said that there are better versions of most of the dishes elsewhere. but SOMETHING has to be tasty. The reviews make me look forward to the food, I have to keep my expectations in check like I tell everyone else to!
Also something I figured out on my own. The availability for F! package vs. Non F! package is exactly the same. IF you set up a TP reservation finder alert for H&V seasonal dine and you go to the site and go through the F! package, that same availability will be there. DON'T book through the link that TP sends you (which is not working right not at all anyway, I think Disney changed something. boo). Set the alert for regular H&V but then go to the F! package.
I had hopes of doing this with Tiffins for RoL. Now I am laughing at that thought
