Our 1st Dining Report - August 11-18th, 2009

[dina7]

Hey, look at this, I actually took a photo of somebody else's dinner plate besides my own! Here is DH's plate: Yes, this is EVERYTHING he ate: Pizza, Pretzel Roll, & some type of Focaccia Bread.

My DH was not happy with the buffet selection. He does not eat a lot of different foods, but he thought it was limited in the choices available.
Compared with the other buffets we did this trip, Crystal Palace & Boma (no comparison at all), CM's had a lot less to offer. In our opinion, it is a much better choice for Breakfast. We will not be doing Dinner here again. There are just so many other TS restaurants that are better.

Also, as other people have stated, that photo they make you pose for before you are seated is the most ridiculous thing going. As we were waiting on a short line for our photo to be taken our pager went off...our table was ready, so we got off the line to be seated. Well the CM in charge of the photo line came running & TOLD us to come back to get our photo taken & then we would be seated. My DH & I looked at him & politely said No, thank you.

 

[dina7]

Forgot to mention, in my previous photo of DH's plate, you can see DS(8)'s plate in background...all he ate was the Mickey Macaroni & Cheese. I was annoyed because I know there were other items on the buffet he would have normally eaten. He was in vacation mode though, I guess & I know he was looking forward to the desserts.

 

[dina7]

My Dessert plate: Starting at top right is Cheesecake-very good, Choc. Chip Cookie-fine, Mickey Dome (I forge the exact name)better than I expected-good combination w/ the mousse type main part & the oreo bottom. The little ears were chocolate candy...I took those out. Last is Raspberry Bread Pudding-not too good, weird tasting.

Not a great dessert selection IMO. There were also Brownies, Rice Krispie Treats, & Soft Serve Ice Cream with various toppings which you did yourself. Some of the toppings were oreos, gummy bears, m&m's. Can't remember anything else.

 

[dina7]

This is cupcake my DS(14) was given for his birthday treat. The pile of candles was for us to use. Each time a character came to our table, we lit one of the candles, sang Happy Birthday & DS blew out the candle. It was fun. Our server explained this to us beforehand. (This was different than one of our last b-day visits to CM's where the whole restaurant sings Happy B-Day at the same time to the b-day guests.)

The characters came by very quickly, which was good because you didn't have to worry that you were going to miss one if you got up to get food.

A couple of Character Photos:

BTW, our server was fine, nothing special.
Total for Chef Mickey's for 3 Adults & 1 Child if not on DP=$111.96 w/out tax
$119.24 tax included
Child Dinner=$15.99 Adult Dinner=$31.99 (So Not Worth It!!)

 

[Pooh&OurHunny]

thanks for the update and enjoying your food review. My husband and I were not happy with the food selection at dinner...we like CP and Boma better. My son did have a great time and wants to go again in our December trip so we will be trying to go for breakfast so he can go to CM again. Can't wait to read more

 

[dina7]

thanks for the update and enjoying your food review. My husband and I were not happy with the food selection at dinner...we like CP and Boma better. My son did have a great time and wants to go again in our December trip so we will be trying to go for breakfast so he can go to CM again. Can't wait to read more

You sound just like us...we just said the same thing about our trip for next August...we are going to do Chef Mickey's for breakfast instead.

 

[onelilspark]

I skip the picture now at Chef Mickey's. I don't even go into the line! I know I'm not going to buy it, why bother?

 

[dina7]

I skip the picture now at Chef Mickey's. I don't even go into the line! I know I'm not going to buy it, why bother?

That's an even better idea...I think we will just skip the line altogether too next summer.