Character dining for 6 yr old

[Kt75]

DD is a princess in heart, where would your recommend based on the below.

1. Meet the main princesses - Belle, Ariel, Cinderella etc
2. Meet fab 5 - Mickey, Minnie, etc
3. Buffet style eating (picky and vegan eaters)
4. Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner

 

[_auroraborealis_]

1. Akershus breakfast.

2. The ful five are only really at Chef Mickey and Hollywood & Vine. Neither is great. Arguably better option is to drop to four and do Cape May breakfast or Tusker House.

3. Almost every character meal is buffet or family style, with only 2-3 exceptions. Worth noting is that at character meals, you pay the list price regardless of how much anyone eats, so be strategic.

4. The pickier your eaters, skew breakfast.

 

[Tattylou]

We've done Chef Mickey's, Tusker House, Crystal Palace, and Chip N' Dale' s @ Epcot (I'm spacing on the restaurant name). The Chip n' Dale one was not a buffet. The others are buffet. I have boys who don't want princesses so I can't speak to the princess meals. I'd say we liked Tusker House the best and Crystal Palace 2nd best....but the Crystal Palace puffed French toast is soooo delicious. It's technically in the kid section, but I'm obsessed. Yum.

 

[CrazyHare]

The Chip and Dale at Epcot is the Garden Grill. It is family style. So they bring it to the table, but you can get more of anything you want by asking your waiter. It was nice because I wasn’t having to rush around to get to a buffet between the characters.

 

[mickeymom22]

My family's all-time favorite character meal was supper at the Garden Grill. The food was all-you-can-eat but they brought it to your table, and it was all yummy! No fighting through other families to get your food! The kids loved decorating their own desserts! The character interaction was amazing. The way the tables are set up on the bottom level makes you feel like you have the characters all to yourself! Each character spent quite a bit of time with us. Loved it!

 

[_auroraborealis_]

The one thing to check, with Garden Grill, is that when a meal is Family-Style, it has less variety than a buffet. Depending on pickiness level (from "not" to "defcon where are the chicken tenders"), family-style can be a disaster.

GG is Chip, Dale, Farmer Mickey and Pluto. So if Minnie or the full Fab 5 is really high priority, this won't hit that.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

For best overall character meal my vote would be Garden Grill. The food is really good and the character interaction is so fun. But if Fab 5 is important to you my choice would be Tusker House. You only get 4 of the 5, but IMHO it's light years above CM.

 

[Haley R]

We like Cinderella's Royal Table at MK and it was just DH and I. We are going again next year with our niece (9) and her mom. Both times were/are for dinner.

 

[Colleen27]

I'd do Akershus (4 or 5 princesses) and Tusker House (4 of the Fab Five - no Minnie). Food-wise I think they're both among the best character meals, far better than Cinderella's Royal Table and Chef Mickey for hitting the same bunch of characters. Tusker House is buffet style with a really interesting range of choices from food for the very picky to unusual African inspired dishes for the more adventurous. Akershus is table service with an appetizer buffet of meats, smoked fish, cheese, and salads, and there is a vegan entree on the menu that sounds good enough that I've considered ordering it.

Or, for a different approach to the Fab Five, try the buffet at Cape May (Minnie, Donald, and Goofy) and then catch talking Mickey in the MK. We're trying this one for the first time in March so I can't speak to the meal quality, but my daughter loved talking Mickey so much on our last two trips that he's become something of a must-do whether or not we see Mickey at a meal elsewhere.

 

[DrunkJam]

We are doing

Tusker House breakfast
CRT Dinner
Akershus Breakfast
Cape May Breakfast
1900 PF breakfast
1900 PF Dinner
Crystal Palace breakfast

As our character meals over ten days. I have a 11yo Boy, with ASD, whose favourite thing is eating with the characters, and a princess loving 4 yo girl, who has never been to WDW before.

From memory, my favourite is Tusker House, but you don't get Minnie

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Cape May Breakfast really is the best option for Minnie at a meal, IMO.

Minnie can be found at MK, Character Spot in Epcot, and at Outpost in AK, so if you pick up Tusker House, it's easy enough to meet Safari Minnie that same day to another in another park. For picture purposes, the Minnie at Epcot is the most traditional and has a fun backdrop - she's in the red dress.

 

[DizMomAndWife]

We're doing 1900 PF Dinner, Akershus Dinner, and Chef Mickey's Brunch with our princess and fab 5 loving DD. From what I've seen, all except Askershus have pretty picky-friendly options. My DH is the super picky one in our family, so I had to be careful. With Akershus I've convinced him to eat a pork chop- sacrificing for the princess!

 

[aristocatz]

DD is a princess in heart, where would your recommend based on the below.

1. Meet the main princesses - Belle, Ariel, Cinderella etc
2. Meet fab 5 - Mickey, Minnie, etc
3. Buffet style eating (picky and vegan eaters)
4. Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner

Not sure what your definition of picky is (only eats chicken nuggets or only eats healthy foods or other?), but this is what I would pick based on your other criteria....
1. Akershus
2.Chef Mickeys
3. Tusker House

Be Our Guest (any meal) is great for a Belle fan.

 

[JessicaW1234]

I would recommend Cinderella's royal table for princesses and Chef Mickeys for the Fab 5. We have done both at dinner; you may want to look at the menu at CRT to decide which meal before you book. Chef Mickeys has a wide selection including standard kids food for picky eaters.

 

[ChasingLeslie]

Akershus and Tusker House for breakfast; 1900 PF for dinner

 

[Lisa F]

I will go against the grain and recommend Hollywood & Vine if you are there during any holidays... The food was ok but not bad at all, not great. But the character interaction was our best of the trip, the seasonal costumes are amazing, the restaurant was not as chaotic as most and the fantasmic seating is amazing.

For food I love tusker house as others have said but I really enjoyed our meal a lot at H&V.

 

[Marthasor]

For the princesses, I would do Akershus. I find the food and character interaction to be very good there.

If you want to meet the entire Fab Five, I would go to Chef Mickey's breakfast. It's cheaper than lunch and dinner and it's a typical breakfast buffet with plenty for picky and vegan eaters. If you would like more variety, go to Tusker House lunch or dinner.

 

[cgattis]

Minnie was at our Tusker House dinner last November, and IIRC, our dinner the previous year as well. We took a "just girls" pic because the guys were at the buffet and I didn't want her to have to come back.

 

[Wink7]

My daughter was 5 when we took her to Disney. Her favorite was CRT at MK. We set her up to get a complete princess makeover at the Bibbiddi Bobbiddi Boutique before hand so she felt like a princess for the whole thing. She sang and danced the whole time with the characters. The two experiences together were fantastic!

 

[Sandiz08]

Cinderellas royal table was the best meal we had on our last trip. My daughter really enjoyed it.