Kouzzina - how long will a dinner take?

[JollieMom]

For those of you who have eaten at Kouzzina - how long does a dinner take if you are going to be eating app, entree, and dessert? Also, if you arrive on time or a little early for your ADR, do they tend to get you in fairly quickly or is it one of those restaurants where you'll be waiting 30+ min after your scheduled ADR before you get seated?

Thanks!

 

[Pakey]

We were seated 40 minutes after our ADR. We were there forever (and we are used to slower paced dining). Had appetizers and entrees but got fed up and left without dessert. Service ranged from slow to nonexistent.

 

[DisneyFamily123]

We were seated 40 minutes after our ADR. We were there forever (and we are used to slower paced dining). Had appetizers and entrees but got fed up and left without dessert. Service ranged from slow to nonexistent.

When was your ADR. I have a 5:00pm ADR (when the restaurant opens) and I plan to check in before 5pm if possible and be seated right away because we are going to the Mickey Halloween Party in Magic Kingdom. Hoping to take dessert to go and be out of Kouzzina by 6pm.

We don't mind early dinners so making ADRs when the restaurant opens helps. Our other option is just to book an early dinner in Magic Kingdom but there's no place around there we want to eat other than Crystal Palace and that's already on our plan twice for lunch.

 

[JollieMom]

My ADR is for 5:25pm right now - a little earlier than I would like. However, if I'm going to be waiting around awhile before I get seated and will be actually eating closer to 6pm, I'll keep it. I'd rather eat around 6 - 6:30pm. I can get an ADR for 6:25pm but if that actually means eating at 7pm - no thank you. That is why I'm trying to figure out time until you get seated and whether it is one of those restaurants where they push you through your meal or if you can be a bit more liesurely in eating.

Thanks!

 

[DisneyFamily123]

My ADR is for 5:25pm right now - a little earlier than I would like. However, if I'm going to be waiting around awhile before I get seated and will be actually eating closer to 6pm, I'll keep it. I'd rather eat around 6 - 6:30pm. I can get an ADR for 6:25pm but if that actually means eating at 7pm - no thank you. That is why I'm trying to figure out time until you get seated and whether it is one of those restaurants where they push you through your meal or if you can be a bit more liesurely in eating. Thanks!

By the way..... we had a blast at the boardwalk in Dec. 2010. We had a 7pm ADR at Flying Fish Cafe and we arrived early... But... the boardwalk entertainers were performing right outside the restaurant and DS5 was pulled into the act. I checked in with Flying Fish and they said not to worry, just come in whenever we were ready. We saw 2 different boardwalk entertainers and they were hilarious for the children and the adults. We watched them after dinner too and ended up not going back into Epcot for illuminations.

 

[rlahansler]

We ate there last week March 23rd with a 630pm reservation and were seated immediately. I would say it was no longer than one and half hours, we were in no rush !!! One of the best restaurants we ate at last week!!!

 

[JennyDrake]

It seems to vary highly (and unacceptably so.) I was there in August when they opened for dinner. There were NO diners seated, yet we and another family waited over 20 minutes to be seated. ????? Server was Maryann and she was quite good. Once we were seated we were there probably 1 1/2 hours, but we were in no hurry.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) We were seated 25-minutes after our ADR.
2) It took us another 19-minutes to see a server.
3) From there, service and speed went downhill.

 

[chocolateMinnie]

We loved Kouzzinas - went twice - first time just after it re-opened and then again last October. First trip we ate at our adr time but last year we were wandering the boardwalk about an hour before our adr time and a cm was out front - asked if we could have our seaating brought forward and they had a table for us right away.

Our server was amazing - we had the same server both trips. However,this is not the place to go if you want a quick meal and have plans for the rest of the evening. Took over two hours both times.

We will return again because the meal was fantastic but it does really rule out much else that night so won't be going this trip.