Our family ate at Crystal Palace at the end of December with the new "partial family style" menu. We ordered 3 different entrees for ourselves; the fried chicken, pork chop and catfish for our individual entrees. All were satisfactory...I can't say anything bad and I can't say anything good about them, nothing stands out as special.
Of the shared family items the biscuits were very good. The tomato and watermelon salad was meh (and I typically am one to enjoy exotic blend salads) and the deserts chosen to be on the family plate were nothing to write home about. You would think if Disney were offering 4 different deserts on one plate that they could do better. The best of four was the banana cream pie, the rest were really not that good.
Overall in my opinion the meal offering and the menu options seemed lacking and frankly not well thought through; as if they wanted to get Crystal Palace into the MK restaurant offering as rapidly as possible.
The fact that we were in the Crystal Palace after being away so long gave the experience bonus points, just not enough to overlook the food. If I had to be honest I wouldn't go back if the same menu was offered.
One more thing if dining atmosphere is of any concern to you the restaurant at current limited capacity is still as loud as a concert.
