Need Expert Advice on restaurants

[LMC]

We are usually counter service type of people. Like to get our food quick, eat quick, and be on our way quick. This trip, however, we want to eat at CRT, Chef Mickey's, and Trails End (at least once) so I am getting the DDE. I know we will get our $$ worth out of the DDE as we have 3 remaining trips this year!

My dilema is this: How long do I need to plan on spending in these restaurants to eat?

California Grill (hopefully 9pm to view wishes at 10pm!)
50s prime time (dinner)
Le Cellier (dinner)
CRT either lunch or dinner
Ohana's (dinner)
Sci-fi (dinner)

Of course, I will have ps's for all these meals to get us IN quickly but we are not familiar with how quickly they serve the food.
THANKS!

 

[disney queen]

california grill is a leisurely meal, not to be rushed. i would allow at least 2 hours for this. you might not be seated right at your PS time here. we have had to wait more than once. same w/ohana. we waited about 20 minutes past our time. having a PS does not mean you will be seated immedidately upon arrival. i would plan in a wait time at the restaurants. at CRT, we have had to wait for our breakfast seating. and then there have been times we were seated almost immedidately. on most of the restaurants you have mentioned the food comes quickly after being ordered. the others can be rushed through if you need to, but not california grill.

 

[marriedmarylander]

When are you going? I have tried to call for CRT in May when I"ll be there and they were booked

 

[LMC]

I just made our PS for the Castle today. I didn't want the character meal so it was easy to get a ps. I was very flexible on what time of day we would eat so that made it even easier.

This is what I got -- we are not going to California Grill due to the "business casual" dress code and we will be coming right out of the park so that won't work.

Castle (CRT ?) dinner at 4:35pm
Whispering Canyon 6:50pm
Ohana's 6:50 pm
Chef Mickeys Breakfast 7:10 am
Sci-fi (car) 1:35pm
Concourse Steakhouse 8:30pm --hopefully we will be out in time to see wishes

I still have about three more days to take care of but those may be at Trails End which is probably easy to get. We walked in last trip with no problem.

 

[disney queen]

isn't cindy's scheduled to be a character lunch/dinner?

 

[marriedmarylander]

isn't cindy's scheduled to be a character lunch/dinner?

I was told in June or July. I called to try to get a lunch PS for May and the lady told me there was no lunch. I called back and they said she might have been thinking of the character lunch.

 

[LMC]

When I called today and requested a ps for either lunch or dinner the cm automatically said "there isn't a lunch". I prodded a little bit because I knew there was lunch served minus the characters. She just assumed that I wanted a character meal. Anyway, they do still serve non-character lunches and dinner. Character lunches start in June I think she said June 9th.

I was told in June or July. I called to try to get a lunch PS for May and the lady told me there was no lunch. I called back and they said she might have been thinking of the character lunch.

 

[marriedmarylander]

When I called today and requested a ps for either lunch or dinner the cm automatically said "there isn't a lunch". I prodded a little bit because I knew there was lunch served minus the characters. She just assumed that I wanted a character meal. Anyway, they do still serve non-character lunches and dinner. Character lunches start in June I think she said June 9th.

Yeah the next rep had the right info. There is lunch& dinner... just all booked up on the date I will go to MK!

 

[wscato]

I would plan on a minimum of an hour for the Prime Time or the Sci Fi and maybe even up to an hour and half depending on the time of visit.

 

[rsbuxt]

Hi

You don't need PS for Trails End, so can just turn up. O'Hana's also dims the lights & pipes in the music for Wishes...at least they did a fortnight ago.

Rich