Chef Mickeys has been divine. From food to service. I avoided them thinking they were so bad from the reviews. I was wrong. It was amazing! The servers were great, the characters awesome, and best? The food! It was so fresh! We went on a late breakfast and a late dinner and everything was clean, replenished, and the whole thing was terrific. I now take all reviews with a big grain of salt.
1900 characters are awesome, and we do go just for them, but the food is a nightmare. Not dirty as people complain about CM (kids are there, it happens although our recent trips it was not at all), but the quality there really is junk. The decor is tired, the staff is over it, and the food shows all this. It makes the Crystal Palace look like shangrala! We're foodies and know what to expect at Disney, but wow was it the worst food we'd had. My kid has an MSG and soy allergy and I have a mustard one. It's not only the one place we could barely find anything for us to eat (my husband is a bear and will eat anything all while saying it is terrible lol), but it was the ONLY place in recent trips with deluxe dining that the chef never offered to make us any other food. He looked at me crazy when I finally begged for something simple like a couple of plain scrambled eggs because we were starving.
Now maybe we just got lucky but all 3 times (Alice got ill and never came out our first breakfast so for kiddo, we had to go back, ugh!) this happened, AND we had one terrible waitress. The same one. Every time. It was my birthday and she seemed to think slapping a cupcake on the pile of dirty dishes after we were done was as good as service. But other people around us were complaining as well.
Also, people will probably get ridiculously angry at you for "holding" extra reservations. Just so you know in advance. I recently had someone yell at me until I explained we are on deluxe and do 3 meals a day, I was not "hoarding."