I ate at both on the same trip last October.
First off, you get 20% off at GG with
AAA. Next, the Seafood Sensation buffet was only on Friday and Saturday night. I've seen it mentioned on-line since we were there that they do it on Thursday too. IDK if that's new, or it depends on the time of year.
I thought the quality of GG's food--and the crab legs especially--was far above Cape May, but Cape May did have many more items.
The crab legs at GG were bigger, meatier and easier to clean. Each person receives half a stuffed lobster at the table, and mine was excellent. They also bring a basket of fried seafood for the table. Fried shrimp, calamari and hush puppies. There is a chef's station where they have a big prime rib roasted very rare. The chef cooks yours to order on a hot stone. Mashed potatoes were delicious--and if I say that, they were great. I take my mash very seriously. Fresh green beans were tasty, and they had parmesan cheese baked with rosemary into chips as a salad topping. The kid's buffet had mini corn dogs.
Cape May Cafe was always a favorite of ours, but I was disappointed with it this trip. The food seemed to be lower quality than in the past. The ribs were not very good, and the steamed clams and mussels that we went ga-ga for back-in-the-day didn't seem fresh or special like they used to be. Ditto the salads. They were nothing to write home about last fall, but in the past, they offered a wide variety of choices with upscale ingredients. I used to go crazy over their clam chowder. It's seafood chowder now and no where as good as the clam recipe I loved. I did go mad for their roasted brussel sprouts. They had a red sriracha sauce on them and were awesome.
For dessert, I would say both restaurants were similar. Both feature tiny fancy pastries.
Overall, you get more variety at CMC, but quality had a big edge at GG.
One more note about GG--we had a pitcher of craft beer made locally exclusively for the Swan and Dolphin resort named, "Phins and Feathers." It was super! We probably would have ordered two more (6 of us), but they ran out due to the hurricane. We got a pitcher of sangria next instead, but it wasn't anything special.
Hope you have a great experience whichever you choose.
