Best buffet opinions please

[Goofey Drool]

We only plan on doing one table service meal and would like to try a buffet. Our trip is in mid April and not sure which meal we will choose either (breakfast,lunch, or dinner). Thanks for your suggestions...oh we will be traveling with two teen boys with good appetites.

 

[LuvinDisney83]

Would you consider an awesome all you care to eat family style? Our favorite all you can eat meal was definitely The Garden Grill In Epcot. Great character interations and lots of family style all you care to eat food with a large variety. We have been to many Dis restaurants including several signatures and Garden Grill is one of our favorites. Also, you can't go wrong with Ohana dinner as well. Once again family style.

 

[Goofey Drool]

Family style...do you mean buffet?

 

[Goofey Drool]

We would like buffet style, where you can try a little of everything I guess.

 

[VillainFavs]

Not sure how adventurous the eaters are and whether or not you're looking for character dining.

BOMA dinner at AKL is great. Lots of very interesting foods, but standards for picky eaters too.

Trail's End at the campground is more traditional, southern home cooking kind of food. But we've found it very tasty both times we've been and it's kind of a nice break from a MK day. Take the boat over and back.

1900 Park Fare has buffet with Cinderella and the Stepmother/sisters for dinner. It's HYSTERICAL. And the food is quite good too. They'll really play up to your teenage boys. So that could be a lot of fun if they're into it.

'Ohana is served family style and the food was wonderful when we went in August for our first time. Can't wait to go back.

As PP mentioned Garden Grill is also served family style (means they bring plates to the table, not buffet, but all you can eat). Unlike PP, we did not at all enjoy the food and will never eat there again. Bland, bland, bland. And very few choices for food. Also, depends on if your teens are into meeting Mickey and Chip and Dale.

 

[LuvinDisney83]

I guess if it must be buffet, our favorite is Crystal Palace, any of the meals there have been really good!

 

[goofy4prez]

Here are my thoughts on buffets:

Breakfast:

• Boma - problem is it can be difficult to get to for a morning and then to a park afterwards. But the food is very good.
• Crystal Palace - Decent food. The breakfast lasagna is awesome. Fun characters with Pooh,Tigger, Eeyore, and Piglet. And what else can be said about an early entrée into the MK before the park opens.
• Tusker House- Decent food. Nice theming. Safari Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse and Goofy are nice. Early entrée into AK is nice as well.
• Wave - A very nice, under the radar buffet. Very good food and not loud.

Lunch/Dinner:

• Boma - This is a real standout when it comes to buffets at WDW. Rarely does a buffet offer quality and quantity, Boma does. I would not call the food great, after all it is still a buffet; but the food I good and well worth trying out.
• Biergarten - Average German food with a fun atmosphere and excellent theme and décor.

After these two there is not another buffet in Disney that I would recommend; they are all your typical quantity over quality made for the masses of people and placed at serving stations. If you put on a blind fold you wouldn't know the difference between Golden Corral or a Disney Buffet. Of course this is only my opinion and I'll admit I am not a big fan of buffets for lunch or dinner. Give me a good quality sit down meal any day of the week.

 

[Nebraska_Disney]

My favorite buffet is Cap May, all you can eat crab legs as well as many other options.

 

[hiroMYhero]

We enjoy The Wave's breakfast buffet. Lots of local produce and the sweet potato pancakes, lox, and bagels are always very good.

Captain's Grille also has a breakfast buffet. We may try it the next time we stop Yacht Club.

 

[lustergirl]

We enjoy Boma for breakfast.

 

[MrPTato]

Crystal Palace for sure!

 

[mkla2015]

Tusker House for breakfast is a must do for us on every trip.

 

[nilla]

Cape May Cafe or Biergarten. Never ate at Tusker House, but that looks good as well.

 

[L&Lfan]

Boma is the only buffet we'll go to. We think Cape May Café sucks. We like Biergarten but hate the communal seating. We don't do character meals.

 

[smiths02]

Crystal Palace for breakfast was really good.

My 9 year old son gorged himself at 1900 Park Fare dinner. We had heard mixed reviews, but the food was really good for a buffet.

Boma is good, and while it does have "kid" options, it is a little more exotic.

 

[Dis703]

Cape May Café has a great breakfast. Lots of selections and food was good. Price for a breakfast character buffet was also more reasonable than some of the in park ones.

1900 PF also had good food and fun characters, but was a little on the pricey side.

Biergarten has always had consistently good food and fun atmosphere and entertainment with average prices.

 

[joannamet]

We usually plan dining around parks rather than the other way around so you might want to consider which park you're going to be in for the meal you're planning. We love Crystal Palace and Tusker House but Boma is the best. Love the variety of flavors there.

 

[Goofey Drool]

I think it will be down to Tusker or Cape May...thanks a bunch

 

[VillainFavs]

My absolute seafood loving, can't get enough, could eat their weight in seafood DH and DS walked out of Cape May completely disappointed. They're used to fresh New England seafood and thought the food there was terrible.

DS and I who don't like seafood found very little we cared for.

We did all did like TH breakfast though.

 

[MickeyHereWeCome!]

We love the Crystal Palace buffet. We took my Aunt and Uncle at Christmas (they never go to table service restaurants when on their own), and they agreed that it was the best meal at Disney they had ever had.