After a magic night at Magic Kingdom, we of course had to go back
This morning we had an 8.15 reservation for crystal palace.
We arrived at MK at about 7.55 went though bag check and up to the cast member at the entrance explaining we had a reservation, two minutes later we were in.........it was bizarre being in MK when it is so empty. I loved it. My idea was that we would get some early morning castle shots with the photopass photographer which we did and they were some of the best of the whole trip, he spent a nice amount of time getting us to pose etc.
After this we headed over to crystal palace to check in and there was already a line forming! We checked in and were seating withing 5 mins. Overall amazing service right the way though the trip I have to say.
As with every TS restaurant, you are seated and then your server comes over to your table, explains how things work and then gets your drinks order.
The crystal palace is a buffet so you go up grab a plate of what you fancy and wait for the characters to pop over to you table.
Before I start out I just want to say I really loved this place, it is on our ADR list for this year and its the only character dining we are choosing to do.
My first plate,
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Bacon and a large portion of scrambled eggs with a cheesy potato casserole. All were really tasty but again pretty standard breakfast fare.
My second plate:
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Ah yes the sweet treats!!! I was trying to be somewhat adult and have the scrambled egg and bacon first when in reality it was this plate I wanted all along
Ok so in the top left hand corner you have Pooh's stuffed french toast, then a strawberry compote, pound cake, shortbread square/triangle and then
Pooh's breakfast lasagna
This was so so so good. To be honest I only tired it because it sounded so off the wall but had gotten so many good reviews. I was very glad I did because initially all my instincts were saying it wouldn't be good. How wrong was I?
Its layers of waffles, pancakes, pound cake, custard and fruit and it is to die for!!!
People also rave about the stuffed french toast, which was also very good but I think my favorite stuffed toast had to be tonga toast at Kona cafe.....DROOL.....anyway back to crystal palace.
(Here is the recipe for Pooh's breakfast lasagna if you are brave enough to try it lol
http://www.foxnews.com/recipe/pooh’s-breakfast-lasagna)
Myself and mum basically had matching plates for this restaurant and we for some reason decided to get a final plate of pancakes to share, adding in maybe a little too much syrup hehe major sugar kick happening after this.
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The pancakes were light and fluffy and piping hot.....YUM
The interactions with the characters here was amazing, they didnt once rush as we were just two adults. They stayed and took lots of pictures and I think at one point Tiger was up to some sort of mischief!!
The CM's that were with the characters were so helpful and friendly and took some amazing pics of both of us together with no problems at all.
We would both rate crystal palace as 9/10. Fantastic service and fantastic food.
From here we wandered the world and did any rides we wanted to get back to as we were coming close to our last day.
At one point the heavens opened and we dashed to Pinocchio Village Haus to get out of the downpour.
I ordered an iced mocha and mum, I cant remember exactly what it was but I think it was a lemonade with a wild berry foam. Each was a snack credit which was so great.
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The lemonade was a little bitter for my liking but mum loved it. I cant say the berry foam added too much of a flavor to the over all drink though, if you tasted the foam on its own you got the berry flavor but it just didnt come though when it was put with the strong lemon flavor. It did however look quite pretty!!!
The iced mocha was sweet and hit the spot!
So later in the day we got peckish and stopped into Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe. I have to admit it was me who wanted to go here as I had seen that it has half a rotisserie chicken as a CS option and it also has the audioanimatronic Sonny Eclipse for entertainment.
In here there are several "bays"/counters. Each bay has a different menu option almost to the point of, bay one is chicken, bay two is beef etc. Not quite that rigid but close to it.
The place was jammed so we decided that I would get both our meals from one bay and then we would get a seat.
We did this and then tried to get a seat in the room where Sonny plays.
There was no chance of this happening so we went outside to a table and sat down. I will admit I was a little disappointed being the big 27 year old child that I am
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Mums is the one with the salad on it. There is a large salad bar where you can fill up on lettuce, tomatoes, onion and mushrooms etc.
This meal was "MEH" to quote myself at the time. It looks really good for a counter service but the mashed potato was minging!!! It tasted like it had been creamed with some sort of margarine and not butter. Not for me....
The chicken itself was ok. Neither of us ate all the chicken but picked at it. It seemed a little bit of a waste of food but it just wasn't that nice.
For dessert we both had the standard carrot cake, at this point I was really starting to like these!!
I was totally excited to get a double carrot lol
I dont know why but at the time I thought it was just brilliant.......easily amused!
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As we didnt eat that much during lunch, we were had the nibbles later on and stopped at sleepy hollow refreshments at about 3pm just in time for the parade. Service here was slow, but the CM's were working so hard, It was just so busy. I didnt mind but some people were getting irritated.
We shared an ice cream cookie sandwich.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream sandwiched between two fresh chocolate chip cookies..........
what more could you want?
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We disassembled this and ate the ice cream. This thing was massive!! I think we nibbled at a cookie but admitted defeat, wrapped them up and took them back to the room for later on.
*Note, I just checked my pictures and tomorrow, is my last day of Disney dining...cant believe it. So I will do the last day, and then one last post with a few odds and ends like snacks and details on the garden grocer order that I did. *