How do you say it? - Akreshus
Can someone help me?
It is pronounced as Ah-ker-shoes.
DH & I ate here on January 8th for dinner with no kids and we enjoyed it. Our ADR was for 4:50, but we happen to get there quite early...about 4:25 and we were seated well before the 4:50 time.
The appetizers were plentiful and included a Jaarlsburg cheese, muenster cheese, thinly sliced ham and turkey, smoked salmon, peppered mackrel, some kind of herring, basic lettuce salad, shrimp salad, pasta salad, beet salad, red cabbage salad, and some other items. Everyone gets this included in the meal.
You will receive a basket of rolls with butter that has cinnamon and sugar whipped into it. That butter was addictive! It reminded me of my granny baking.
Each person chooses an entree from the menu. There were about 6 options. DH had the venison with red cabbage and a bed of buttered egg noodles. I think it had mushrooms in the sauce. It was very tasty. I tried the traditional dish...can't spell it correctly so I'm not going to try, but it's a croquette of beef and pork with a brown gravy type sauce and a side of red cabbage and buttered potatoes. It reminded me of a salisbury steak. Although tasty it was on the dry side. The item that I was most impressed with the red cabbage. I don't like cooked cabbage, but this was great! It had a sweet and sour flavor and I actually ate most of it.
For dessert, it's served family style on one platter that has 3 different items; the rice pudding with strawberries, a "Disney-fied" cake as our server described it that was a light layered cake with mousse like thin layers between the cake and white chocolate shavings, and I can't recall the type of cheesecake because it was my least favorite.
We were on the dining plan so we also had a non-alcoholic beverage.
If you are interested in checking out the menu, just go to allearsnet.com. They have breakfast, lunch and dinner there including the children's menu.
As for character interaction, we thought it was good. When we arrived Ariel was in the lobby with a Disney photographer. DH had his photo taken since he is my Prince Eric it only made sense. lol We were able to purchase the photos later for $31 and change. We got 1 8X10 in a photo book...not the paper ones like we used to get at Chef Mickey's, and 3 or 4 4X6 prints. The night we were there, Jasmine, Alice, Pochantas, and she who is most difficult to find at Akershus...Cinderella. (The princesses do change depending on the time.) Each princess was gracious and wonderful to my big kid, who had the greatest time. We did notice another CM (kinda stalking the princesses) with a clipboard that had the dining room layout. As a princess visited a certain table the CM noted it on her clipboard and once each of them had visited us that CM came over and asked if we had been visited by each princess. So at least they were making sure that each table received a visit from each princess, which we thought was great.
Would we go again? Yes.
Do I think our DS, who is 15 enjoy eating here? Probably not.
Do I think younger kids would? Yes, even boys.
Do I think the kids would be happy eating from a kid's menu here? Yes, because they have the same standard kid's menu as the other dining locations and the appetizers had cheese, ham, turkey and salad, which most kids would be happy with.
I hope this helps!
DD5, dh and me
Had to get one for each of the 3 kids 
