Opinions on my dining choices

[mastermind307]

My 180 days is coming up in a few weeks and I'm slowly getting my plans together for where we want to eat. It will just be me and Dd11 so thinking about trying some new places that have simple menus since she's a picky eater and I'm not an adventurous eater. Looking to have 1 TS a day and we're paying oop. 7 nights/8 days

So far I have
Garden Grill - it's our first meal tradition
The Plaza
BOG - can't decide between lunch or dinner
Sci-fi- DD choice, we have eaten here once
Beaches & Cream - staying at BWV so easy walk over to BC
Via Napoli

Thinking about choosing 1 or 2 of these

Tusker House - late breakfast
Hollywood and Vine - lunch/dinner
Cape May - breakfast
1900 Park Fare - breakfast

 

[holden]

With GG don’t forget she will be charged the adult price.

I try to avoid buffet/family style now that my DD is 10. I don’t feel it’s worh it since she doesn’t eat that much.

 

[Dis703]

My 180 days is coming up in a few weeks and I'm slowly getting my plans together for where we want to eat. It will just be me and Dd11 so thinking about trying some new places that have simple menus since she's a picky eater and I'm not an adventurous eater. Looking to have 1 TS a day and we're paying oop. 7 nights/8 days

So far I have
Garden Grill - it's our first meal tradition
The Plaza
BOG - can't decide between lunch or dinner
Sci-fi- DD choice, we have eaten here once
Beaches & Cream - staying at BWV so easy walk over to BC
Via Napoli

Thinking about choosing 1 or 2 of these

Tusker House - late breakfast
Hollywood and Vine - lunch/dinner
Cape May - breakfast
1900 Park Fare - breakfast

The Plaza was okay. A more affordable TS meal option but nothing particularly special (average sandwiches and salads). My understanding is that they are still mostly walk up only and reservations are only from 11-12 for lunch so keep that in mind.

Via Napoli we did once and didn't care for food or service. But so many of the Disney restaurants can be hit or miss from one day to the next so it could have been a fluke.

Cape May Breakfast we absolutely LOVE. Good food, good service, lots of variety and fun characters.
Hollywood and Vine we've dined at several times and it's an average buffet with okay food, but fun characters.
Tusker House is one of the better buffet meals on property.
1900 Park Fare I have only done dinner but it was very good.

 

[foodiddiedoo]

The Plaza was okay. A more affordable TS meal option but nothing particularly special (average sandwiches and salads). My understanding is that they are still mostly walk up only and reservations are only from 11-12 for lunch so keep that in mind.

Via Napoli we did once and didn't care for food or service. But so many of the Disney restaurants can be hit or miss from one day to the next so it could have been a fluke.

Cape May Breakfast we absolutely LOVE. Good food, good service, lots of variety and fun characters.
Hollywood and Vine we've dined at several times and it's an average buffet with okay food, but fun characters.
Tusker House is one of the better buffet meals on property.
1900 Park Fare I have only done dinner but it was very good.

Doesn't H&V have Playhouse Disney characters? I'd think an 11 year old wouldn't care about Doc McStuffins or Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

1900 Park Fair could be really fun if your daughter is into Cinderella.
Try BOG for lunch if you don't get a reservation, it's just a fun place to go.

 

[mrswillson]

All of those choices sound fantastic.

My husband and I have had BOG for lunch and while we were impressed with the food selection, I believe dinner would be more immersive in the dining experience and much less hectic, if you can get the reservation. Those are just my two cents.

I've heard Tusker House to be fantastic, same for Cape May. I was mildly unimpressed with The Plaza and Hollywood and Vine as nothing stood out food-wise nor with atmosphere for either.

Also, if you both have a big sweet tooth, love desserts and haven't tried it yet, the Kitchen Sink is a must at Beaches and Cream.

 

[Dis703]

Doesn't H&V have Playhouse Disney characters? I'd think an 11 year old wouldn't care about Doc McStuffins or Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

1900 Park Fair could be really fun if your daughter is into Cinderella.
Try BOG for lunch if you don't get a reservation, it's just a fun place to go.

I imagine it depends on the kid. My 9 year old still enjoys them and has been watching the shows since he was a toddler along with his little brothers.

 

[Shellyb84]

My 180 days is coming up in a few weeks and I'm slowly getting my plans together for where we want to eat. It will just be me and Dd11 so thinking about trying some new places that have simple menus since she's a picky eater and I'm not an adventurous eater. Looking to have 1 TS a day and we're paying oop. 7 nights/8 days

So far I have
Garden Grill - it's our first meal tradition
The Plaza
BOG - can't decide between lunch or dinner
Sci-fi- DD choice, we have eaten here once
Beaches & Cream - staying at BWV so easy walk over to BC
Via Napoli

Thinking about choosing 1 or 2 of these

Tusker House - late breakfast
Hollywood and Vine - lunch/dinner
Cape May - breakfast
1900 Park Fare - breakfast

I really like CM breakfast, TH was good too but I'm not big on in park breakfasts - I like to eat bf at/close to our resort. We had the worst meal we've ever had at Disney at H&V lunch. I've not been but heard good things about 1900 PF and I'm thinking of trying it next September when we stay at Poly.

 

[gingerfeathers]

I love Tusker House breakfast! The line can be a bit long to get in, even with a reservation, but it's so fun.

 

[Destinyz12]

@foodiddiedoo she mentioned lunch or dinner at H & Vine, not breakfast- Disney jr is only during breakfast, and they have classic Minnie/Mickey characters at lunch and dinner, and Cinderella is only during dinner at 1900 park, they have different characters during breakfast, which she listed above (Alice, Mad Hatter, Mary Poppins, Pooh & tigger usually). I just made dinner reservations at 1900 park and had to contemplate which meal I'd rather do, lol

 

[foodiddiedoo]

@foodiddiedoo she mentioned lunch or dinner at H & Vine, not breakfast- Disney jr is only during breakfast, and they have classic Minnie/Mickey characters at lunch and dinner, and Cinderella is only during dinner at 1900 park, they have different characters during breakfast, which she listed above (Alice, Mad Hatter, Mary Poppins, Pooh & tigger usually). I just made dinner reservations at 1900 park and had to contemplate which meal I'd rather do, lol

Ooops, I have that completely backwards. Sorry! IGNORE ME!

 

[sanapp]

Tusker House is a must do every trip for us. We either do a before park open breakfast or later when we have finished all of our important rope drop attractions.

 

[DisneyWishes14]

My 180 days is coming up in a few weeks and I'm slowly getting my plans together for where we want to eat. It will just be me and Dd11 so thinking about trying some new places that have simple menus since she's a picky eater and I'm not an adventurous eater. Looking to have 1 TS a day and we're paying oop. 7 nights/8 days

So far I have
Garden Grill - it's our first meal tradition
The Plaza
BOG - can't decide between lunch or dinner
Sci-fi- DD choice, we have eaten here once
Beaches & Cream - staying at BWV so easy walk over to BC
Via Napoli

Thinking about choosing 1 or 2 of these

Tusker House - late breakfast
Hollywood and Vine - lunch/dinner
Cape May - breakfast
1900 Park Fare - breakfast

I like your choices! For the ones you are choosing from, I would choose Tusker House (our favorite character meal) and 1900 Park Fare breakfast (great food and great variety of characters). Cape May is fine, but there are only 3 characters there. H&V was the most chaotic, mediocre, expensive character meal we've ever done. It was pretty terrible.

 

[Metz172]

Garden Grill is one of our must do meals with every visit. We have always had great food and character interaction.

Last visit we did a Tusker House breakfast and found the food to be very good but our table was in a corner and the character interaction was not the greatest because of that. We are going to try dinner this next trip.

We did BOG dinner and thought it was very nice. The food and service were good. It was loud in the main area we were seated in, but meeting the Beast made up for that. BOG dinner was my DD16's one request for must do for our upcoming Mother/Daughter trip. (First time that it will be just the two of us )

 

[Micca]

We have only tried BOG for lunch, we tried it twice and we're done with it. The dinner at BOG gets some really good reviews here. We've done TH for lunch twice and feel that it's the best character buffet on property. Some folks try for a late breakfast such that they get to catch the transition from breakfast to lunch buffet items.

 

[ajwolfe]

Via Napoli we did once and didn't care for food or service. But so many of the Disney restaurants can be hit or miss from one day to the next so it could have been a fluke.

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And here I thought we were the only family that did not like Via Napoli. After all the hype we just had to try it last trip. Easily one of the worst meals/service we've had in WDW.

 

[KenHutch]

I like all of your choices except 1, Hollywood & Vine is the only restaurant in WDW where I refused to pay the tip and the manager actually offered to take the whole bill off. Of course I have friends who think the place is terrible as well but they love the character interaction and as someone who has to make a LOT of character meal reservations I understand this,

 

[BriLovesDisney]

I would choose Tusker House and Cape May Cafe. Both are consistently good. Regarding BOG, I would do dinner hands down.

 

[Pygoplites]

I'll jump on the anti-H&V bandwagon, too. All your other choices sound pretty good, especially for a somewhat picky 11 YO. But Hollywood & Vine is expensive, not good, and has characters that she may have outgrown. Last time I ate there, the restaurant was also dirty and I decided that it was the "last time." Since you're paying OOP, you might want to consider Garden Grove @ The Swan--a character buffet that is vastly superior to H&V. Or how about Trattoria al Forno @ Boardwalk or The Fountain @ The Dolphin?

 

[mastermind307]

With GG don’t forget she will be charged the adult price.

I try to avoid buffet/family style now that my DD is 10. I don’t feel it’s worh it since she doesn’t eat that much.

With GG don’t forget she will be charged the adult price.

I try to avoid buffet/family style now that my DD is 10. I don’t feel it’s worh it since she doesn’t eat that much.

I've thought long and hard about whether or not to eat at Garden Grill because she's a Disney adult and will be charged the adult price. I know she won't eat that much food, and I don't eat a lot either, but we both want to eat there and since it's kind of our tradition I decided it will be worth it.

 

[mastermind307]

Doesn't H&V have Playhouse Disney characters? I'd think an 11 year old wouldn't care about Doc McStuffins or Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

1900 Park Fair could be really fun if your daughter is into Cinderella.
Try BOG for lunch if you don't get a reservation, it's just a fun place to go.

Hollywood and Vine now has Minnie's Seasonal Dine with Minnie, Mickey, Donald, Daisy, and Goofy (I think). Minnie is my favorite character, so it would be more for the characters than the food. It's a buffet so I'm sure we'd find something to eat. Of course I will probably meet Minnie in the parks too along with the other characters, so it's not a must do. I just thought it might be fun since we've never eaten there.

We've had dinner at 1900 Park Fare two times, but never breakfast. She's outgrown the princesses