Chef's de France lately?

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Has anyone here eaten at Chef's de France in the last few months? If so, how was it? I loved my rattatoui (sorry, I can't spell it) there a few years ago, and I'd love to go back. But 1-2 years ago, there were some really poor reviews. I was wondering if they've gotten better again? Any recent reviews?
 
I just enjoyed the Ratatouille Crepe at the Creperie in France yesterday .
They use buckwheat flour but the dessert crepe has the white flour.
We ordered one caramel apple crepe
It was like eating a caramel apple with silverware. I could have licked the plate clean ! The banana dessert crepe was also really good.
My friend ordered the egg and ham cheese buckwheat crepe and it also was excellent.
Sorry I’m not sure about the Chef de France but it always looks busy .
Must be good !
 
I had a very good meal there in September. Steak was a surprisingly good cut, and cooked perfectly. Appetizers, side dishes, and dessert were all excellent. I was pleasantly surprised, as I wasn't as impressed with the place when we went a few years ago.
 
I wrote it off after my last visit there last December as the food quality was at chain buffet level - just didn't impress me at all. Had eaten there many times previous and it was usually reliably good. I'm hopeful some of the more recent comments I've seen over the past few months are that maybe they course-corrected and improved.

I've had so many Disney restaurants that were great, then mediocre to poor, then pretty good again - as chefs change menus and overall food mission changes, things can fluctuate.
Maya Grill was a regular go to for my family for a decade when it had really creative European/Mexican spiced foods with cuts of meat and great flavors - then at one point, it was down to almost Taco Bell level, with bland stereotypical American Mexican food for a few years. It recovered since, and while not as good as the original, is back to decent grilled meats blended in with more typical American Mexican dishes - at least those are better prepared and cooked too.
Turf Club at Saratoga is another - it started out as a great hidden steakhouse with good cuts of meat and preparation. Then it tried to go 'Friday's' with burgers and chicken fingers with more families and kiddies, and was bland as dirt. It had a few attempts to improve back towards steakhouse during a few chef changes, but it was never more than mediocre. About a year and a half ago, a new chef came in and overhauled again - and I found the food quality and preparation had notably improved - it's now back on my list as a good secret spot to book (unless it changes again).

There are the restaurants that have generally always been fairly poor to mediocre that for a brief flash had something really great, restaurants i had never booked for years and suddenly tried it and thought 'WOW! This new version is so great it's on my permanent list!' Then when I went back the next time, it was back to terrible, and I never went again.
Tony's Town Square I always considered pretty bad and never went there, then one time after I heard of some changes, I decided to try it and found it surprisingly good - it was some kind of deep bowl with pasta, meat, and cheeses baked together and was very good. So much so I went back a year later, and even saw 'baked rigatoni' on the menu - figuring that was it, I ordered it and NOPE! Back to out-of-the-can tomato sauce, overcooked pasta, and just not very good. I think they had a chef there that tried something new and really improved things but then they moved somewhere else, and it went right back down hill again.
 

I hate to write this as we were really looking forward to this one.

We did not enjoy our dinner there a couple weeks ago. The service was great, bread was good.
The french onion soup had barely a tiny crouton in it.
I got the salad that normally has lardon, but for Disney it was pieces of bacon. It looked like they dumped the last remaining dust of the crumbles of bacon bits from the bottles on the salad. I was coughing from the dust. 😄

Then we both got the chicken cordon bleu - honestly, the chicken was so dry I couldn't swallow. My husband (who is easy to please) also said it was soooo dry. No taste.

I'm betting we just had a bad night, it was very crowded. But it was bad enough we probably won't ever go back, just because other places that are better.
 
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