Personally we
love CSR but have never liked Pepper Market and the choices over the last few years have gone down substantially.
It is like anywhere else - depends what you like. To give you an idea of what my family would generally go for with counter service and how PM compares:-
DH loves seafood and salad - not a sweet tooth in sight. Would usually have a salad, pizza or burger at CS. PM does serve a really lovely cooked to order pizza but it is quite small - we usually share that and their ceasar salad for two cs credits.
Me - salad and pudding preferably at CS. Will make do with sharing as above but it is just if I need to eat - generally I'm a love to eat but not at PM. Puddings last year on
DDP we were only allowed pastries, donuts or cookies. All were fine but not my idea of a good night out at WDW.
DS - pretty much eats anything. He struggles here though as the food is 'boring' and the previous mexican selection has just about disappeared. He got a 'steak' last year but sadly it turned out to be made out of Grumpy's boot leather.
DD - my fruit and meat girl. A plate of fruit is a child's cs credit which doesn't make her full. A chicken strip meal comes with a slice of apple and child-sized cookie. then Mum goes and [pays for another meal an hour later.
We like the pool bar - mainly because they don't do child meals (or didn't last year) so the kids can share a chicken strips and fries meal at lunch plus lays chips to take to the parks plus drink for a child cs credit.
We used to love MG breakfast but as the buffet has gone we have yet to see how we feel this trip.
Room service - highly recommend the KFC style chicken bucket with potato salad. Yummy.