I posted this on another forum. It touches on our views of the food and dining.
Animator's Palette-
Incredible live interactive colorful technology for a show, flavorful dining (menus are available online) and we loved everything except the pineapple cake. They brought out a small mouse anniversary cake and sang to Mom & Dad. It was our favorite restaurant and our server made it seriously magical. (He did puzzles with us every night.)
Enchanted Garden-
This was Pirate night and we came in full pirate wench regalia. We noticed many tables weren't as full for late seating so we had our back of the room totally to ourselves. i was crazy about the Asparagus soup (ate two!) and Twinkie loved the tomato soup (ate two!) and I got scallops (you don't see that often on cruises) and she got sea bass and they brought us a cake and sang to us and I STILL LOVE my DCL Happy Anniversary buttons. You will get a honeymoon button! I think it's got Ariel on it! We were pretty stuffed but we still finished in time to watch the pirate stunt show with Jack Sparrow and the fireworks. I guess there was a pirate buffet but I was stuffed from dinner and my pirate corset had no more eating room. I will have to change my pirate plan this time to include something stretchy without boning! haha because our family raved about the pirate buffet crepes. We went to the adult lounge for Krazy karaoke after. (it was ok but we LOVED the family karaoke. that was funny!)
Royal Palace-
This was the 'finer' dining establishment that included french onion soup (my honey's favorite, he got 2), lamb, duck, goat cheese salad (yay!) and escargot and a favorite desert Grand Marnier Soufflee.
We never have gone to Palo (maybe next time on Magic, but likely to save for the WDW tix instead) but we enjoyed most of what we got. I think a few things were over done for my honey's liking. He was not a fan of the square breakfast premade hashbrown, I think that was his biggest complaint. For him Disney food was good. For my sisters and I, it was GREAT. Cabana's breakfast buffet was way better to us than the MDR breakfast (usually its the other way around) and also has hand fried yummy potatos (instead of square hash) and we thought the scrambled eggs were so good, we went up and brought them down INTO the MDR on the last day! (Boy did we get some funny looks.) Food is subjective of course. (I eat ketchup on my scrambled eggs. Oh yeah. Its a requirement.) The pineapple cake that we weren't wild about, when we made a comment to the waiter, we had a huge platter of chocolate covered strawberries and tasty pastrie morsels delivered to our table 'from the chef with apologies.' So definitely let them know if you don't like anything.