Okay, so here's the much anticipated CRT dinner. Little Green man grandma and I took Jesse to BBB to "princessfy" her. She wore her snow white dress and chose pink hair! Oh great...my Jesse chooses to have a cotton candy head!
Out of all the hairstyles she chooses that??? Oh well, her hair, not mine!
After the BBB we tried checking in for our 5:50 ressie at 5:25 and were told to come back later at our appointed time. Really? You couldn't just check us in and let us sit and wait for 25 minutes? You physically are making us leave and come back 25 minutes later? um....okay. We went to Castle couture and got a photo shoot and headed back at 5:50 when they allowed us to check in. Then we were escorted into the waiting line for Cinderella....only there wasn't a line at all. We walked through the que and got our pic taken and then was escorted to sit on the side of the room while awaiting our "royal invitation" to show up. Why make us wait to check in unless you were backed up? There was absolutely NOONE waiting! I was confused. 10 minutes later we got called. They escorted us up the magical elevator and into the restraunt. The atmosphere was great. For those of you who are worried about construction there was nothing going on. Windows to fantasyland were opened and you could see out. The dining room was a bit cramped but it is a pretty small space. Our royal waiter, Christian, played the part well. He talked as if he were back in medeival times and called us your highness, etc.
Here's how the princesses worked: They would come over the intercom with a story of a princess and ask you to guess who it was and then they would make a grand entrance and everyone would clap. That princess would then start making the rounds to tables. 5 minutes later the intercom came on, a new story, new introduction, new princess. she starts making the rounds... keep doing it over until all 4 princesses are making the same rotation. The princesses we saw were Snow white, Aurora, Belle in her blue outfit, and Ariel in her dress. Why does Belle come out in her common clothes? Seems to informal for Cinderella's Royal castle! why not the yellow dress?
After ordering our waiter brought our kids a wishing star, magic wand, sword.
We heard a lot of this wishing ceremony and were looking forward to it. All they did was have them close their eyes and announced to make a wish. Kinda a let down if you ask me. I don't know what I was expecting. Its just that everyone always talked about how great it was. Didn't seem that cool to me.
Okay, so to the food.
We had rolls to eat while we looked at the menu. They were hard. They were cold. They probably had been sitting in the kitchen since the actual medeival days.
Jesse ordered cheese and grapes for appetizer, cheese pizza and potatoes for dinner, and decorate your own cupcake for dessert. I know, you're shocked she chose pizza.
Woody, Wheezy and I all ordered the exact same thing. Soup for appetizer, roasted beef tenerloin with potatoes and asparagus for dinner, and sugar free sorbet with fruit for dessert.
Looks pretty good, huh? Well there were a few slight problems with the meal that may not be obvious upon first investigation. First of all, the meat was so overdone that it was literally almost impossible to cut. This was the hardest meat I've ever seen! It was almost like beef jerky! Seriously, we could hardly chew this stuff! All 3 of us didn't finish the meat. We barely ate any of it. Plus they gave us nothing but our butter knives so that made it that much harder. Wheezy joked throught the whole meal that he was glad he got the sword and that it would finally come in handy!
Now on to the potatoes. Nice and fancy looking, huh? They do look nice but that is the end of its "positives". These things were so overcooked and dry that you couldn't take a bite of them withouth the whole dang pile sticking to the rest. you literally couldn't use your fork and pull off a piece of this thing! it is too funny. Look in the pic below...we are acually levitating a whole pile of potatoes by sticking our fork into it and pulling straight up. that pile of potatoes is literally hanging from my fork in the air! It is not on the plate! That is how dry and crunchy these things were:
None of us ate any of the potatoes. Now the asparagus wasn't bad. Not something we loved, but edible. That seems to be good for CRT...just edible!
The soup was okay. Honestly looked and tasted like canned soup. You know how canned soup has that gelatinous consistency to it until it is watered down? Same consistency to this soup. Must have not added enough water.
The sorbet with fruit was actually good. not too sweet since it was sugar free and the berries were fresh. But come on, you need to eat more than sorbet to be full!
Now we knew from previous review not to expect the best meal here so we went with the attitude of "it is the experience, not the food" but we left hungry! Come on, a $200 meal left us hungry since we couldn't chew the meat, the potatoes were like asteroids from another planet, the soup was canned, and the rolls harder than rocks? Come on! We now jokingly have renamed Cinderellas royal table to "Cinderella's royal STABLE" since the food was obviously intended for the livestock!
So on the U.F.O. scale we rated Cinderella's royal stable as an "O". It was terrible! We loved the atmosphere, we loved the princesses, we loved the castle. Believe it or not I'm glad we went. After BBB our princess deserved to eat in the castle and we had never been. It was definitely for the experience! Thank goodness we were on
free dining! I would have been really upset if I had paid $200 for that mess of food. I can laugh about it since it was "free".
So should you try CRT? sure! Maybe we had an off night or they were training new stablekeepers, I mean chefs.
At least we enjoyed our $200 sorbets! If you don't need to have the experience for a young one run...run fast...run far...run AWAY from this establishment and get some good food elsewhere.
I wish everyone would go into as much detail as you do. Thank you for taking the time to write reviews this awesome!
My only concern is the heat! We haven't been back to Disney in the summer since 2001. Just wondering how you all survived and if you have any suggestions? 
Thanks for your awesome reviews!!!!!!!! Loving it!!!!!!!!!!
