Liberty Tree Tavern or Chef Mickey

[FanOfPixar]

I am helping my friend plan a last minute trip. One night the options are a very late dinner at Chef Mickey or an ealier dinner at Liberty Tree Tavern.

I have been to Chef Mickey and it was o.k. but I have never been to Liberty Tree Tavern.

Please help me help her, which is better?

 

[BoilerGirl91]

We just went last week and my whole family loved the Liberty Tree Tavern for dinner. The characters are leaving as of the beginning of January, it that matters to you. It is normal, straightforward food-turkey, ham, flank steak, mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc. Everything was good and hot. My husband really enjoyed the marinated flank steak and got seconds. It is nice that it is served family style. They just bring everything to you. My husband definitely wants to go back there next time we go to Disney.

 

[bangzoom6877]

Hi! When is the trip? Early January 2009, they are eliminating the characters at LTT but I am not sure if they are actually changing the menu as well.

We ate at LTT for dinner in July. The character interaction was great (but as I said above, that may not apply to your friend if it is after early January). We loved the food! The roast beef and turkey were delicious, not dry at all. They gave delicious gravy with it. Salad was good, rolls with honey butter were excellent! They also gave mac and cheese (excellent) and green beans, which were very tasty. I think there was also ham, but it doesn't stand out in my mind. The dessert was amazing...warm apple cobbler with vanilla ice cream and very good! They bring everything to you so it is nice not to have to get up to go to a buffet but still have all you can eat and everything included! They offer seconds and the service is excellent. We never needed seconds though, plenty of food for the 4 of us one time around!

Now, a little about us (I think this is important when someone is critiqueing a restaurant, to know their personal preferences)...we love really good food, but we are not extremely picky and we go to WDW expecting good quality, but not 5-star or gourmet. In fact these are our expectations on all our vacations (Disney, cruises, Lancaster PA, Washington DC, New England, etc.). We are from NYC and have some of the finest restaurants here, but we do not eat in the majority of them (too pricy for our budget)! But we do still expect good quality food on vacation. That is what we got at LTT and the kids were also very happy. DH and I are both 31 and our kids are 1 and 3.

Chef Mickey's, we went to for breakfast and it was excellent, but we did not go for dinner. If it is comparable to Crystal Palace's buffet dinner, that was excellent, although I have read here that Crystal Palace has some of the best buffet food in all of WDW. We are going to go to Chef Mickey's for dinner on our next trip.

 

[bangzoom6877]

We just went last week and my whole family loved the Liberty Tree Tavern for dinner. The characters are leaving as of the beginning of January, it that matters to you. It is normal, straightforward food-turkey, ham, flank steak, mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc. Everything was good and hot. My husband really enjoyed the marinated flank steak and got seconds. It is nice that it is served family style. They just bring everything to you. My husband definitely wants to go back there next time we go to Disney.

Oh yes, the stuffing...I can't believe I did not mention that! It was outstanding!!! Mashed potatoes were very good!

 

[ubermama]

We've eaten at both list last year we did not like the food at Liberty Tree Tavern at all. It all comes piled up on a big serving platter. There really wasn't much selection and dessert was one option. For the price we would not go back. Chef Mickey's is brighter with great music. There's lots of selection and although not the best meal I've ever eaten I would go again. TChef Mickey's is quite a bit larger and we found everything to be to just great.

 

[M & M's Mom]

LTT gets my vote We've been the last 2 trips & have gotten really good food, great service & this was the only place that our DD, who was 1 at the time, actually let a character get close to her without screaming. Minnie quickly became her favorite. I'm really disappointed that the characters will no longer be there & that we couldn't get an ADR for our trip in 12 days

I found Chef Mickey's too loud every time we've been. We were actually getting our food from the buffet when Mickey came through our room & he never made it to our table. It was a little disappointing, but not a really big deal for us since we had other character meals planned.

 

[onelilspark]

Just check the dates if you're looking for characters. Other than that, I would choose LTT over Chef Mickey's for dinner.

 

[lazydazy8]

My vote is for LTT!

We've done both multiple times and enjoy both, but LTT is more relaxing, I think... I also like the food better, even though the selection is much more limited.