Tell me your top favorite TS rest. for young kids

[wrldpossibility]

Hi,

I'm starting to think about ADRs for our first family trip (have plenty of time), and will have a 7-year-old, 5-year-old, and 2-year-old. What TS resturants do I want to make ADRs for? My kids will eat nearly any type of food (and all the resturants seem to have kiddie-type foods, too), so that's not a problem. What I'm hoping to find out is: what are the most entertaining resturants so my 2-year-old will sit through dinner?!

The ones I'm planning on just by reading about them:

Whispering Canyon
Sci-fi
Chef Mickey's
Crystal Palace
Garden Grill
Boma's

What else? We'll be there 10 days and have the dining plan.

 

[holden]

Really any restaurant at WDW is used to kids, even when they get ancy. Chef Mickey's is great for kids, though the food is just okay and the characters were too scary for DD when the got close. She liked them from a distance. We took her to Jiko, Artist Point, Chef Mickey's Ohana's, and Flying Fish. She was fine at all of them, with crayons, coloring books, and Cinderella figures that we bought at a gift shop. We ate early enough that they were mostly empty (except for Chef mickey's) - either 5:45 or 6:00 reservations.

Have a great trip!

 

[wekhogan]

Chef Mickey's and Crystal Palace are both character meals with both having characters that a 2 year old would recognize and appreciate. Crystal Palace, IMHO, is the best breakfast in the parks - the french toast: YUMMY! Chef Mickey's is a little louder and the kids would like taking the monorail to the center of the hotel, but CP is just a really pretty setting. If you do breakfast, get an early seating b4 the park opens - there is no one there and you can get a family picture in front of the castle with out anyone around.

 

[WDWorBUST]

We have ate at all the restaurants you listed except Boma with DD when she was either 23 or 25 months old. She did great at all of the. The only thing that I didn't think of ahead of time that I wish I would have was to not expect her to eat at character meals. She was much too distracted by everything going on to even think about eating. So you'll possibly either need to have snacks with you or plan on the child wanting to eat shortly after the rest of the family has just ate. Fortunately at the buffets 2 year olds eat free. But where it is a menu I would just plan on sharing unless you have a non-distractable big eater

 

[staci]

We loved chef mickeys with ds 23mo. This was our favorite meal by far (dinner). The characters were great, and they sang the song, and he was waiving his napkin around and laughing - it was worth the whole trip for that experience. I liked the buffets too because i never knew what he was going to want to eat, so at the buffet we could really just get him a little of everything and he could eat what he wanted.

Crystal Palace was really fun for him too. He did have a harder time concentrating here, as we were sitting in the middle of the room and there was a lot going on. At chef mickeys he was more facing the wall until the characters came to him.

Character meals were by far our best experience, but almost all wdw restaurants are full of kids so you really cant go wrong.