Minnie’s seasonal or Mama Melrose lunch?

[desl10]

Advice on which restaurant location for our December Fantasmic Dinner package .
I am traveling with our 9,5,2,2 year olds (oldest a boy rest girls) and a group of 5 adults (mom, grandma,hubby,aunt)
We are on the dinning plan. None of our group has seen fantasmic so we decided to do a dinning plan to get the reserved seats. We have 2 character ADR's already: Cinderellas Royal table & Akershus dinners.
We have previously dinned at Hollywood & Vine (5 years ago) at just the regular Disney Jr character lunch and the experience was not pleasant (food, atmosphere etc) While booking this trip my hubby's request was that we not return to this buffet. However, I started reading better things about the Minnie Seasonal aspect of it. While I know the food will be better at Mama Melrose's we do not have any characters meals that include the classic Disney characters like Mickey and Minnie (just face characters dinners). I read better reviews with it being the seasonal dinning. Any one have thoughts or input on each? My hubby said he would go back if I really want to. Whichever we pick we will not be able to fit the other dinner location in. I have also read some yummy things about Mama Melrose (and have never been) I think the classic characters is what is making this choice harder for me.

Or other ADR's include
Ohana's dinner
Rainforest Dinner
BOG Lunch

 

[Finerfam]

I haven't been to H&V yet, but also have a lunch ADR booked for December. I've read positive reviews about the holiday food and liked that it had all 5 characters as well. Although, let's be honest, Santa Goofy was really the selling point for me!

Only thing that seems like a bummer is that I read the characters don't sign autographs, and you just receive a pre-"signed" card from the characters instead. My 3yo loved getting his autograph book signed on our last trip and I'm afraid he may be upset when he finds out the characters won't sign it.