WDW table services

[MyLittlePiglet]

I know that there is a restruant forum but I wanted to ask my "buds" where the go and why. We have seemed to fall into a dining rut. The same places over and over that I made the rule out of 5 TS in November 2 of the resturants had to be new. So where does everyone go and why? Friendly for 2 year old and 11 year old? And which resturants besides character have the best "photo ops"? (afterall we all know I am going to scrap them

TIA

 

[vanyel]

I love LTT for the character dinner. Other favorites (when I had kids with me) were the Biergarten (they liked the interaction better than the food though), Sci-Fi Drive-in (fun but not great food), Prime-time, Ohanas, Crystal Palace.

Now we're all older and we still go to the favorites but have added others on like Cali Grill and Brown Derby.

 

[patchchild]

1900 Park Fair is great for characters and has some to appeal to both your kids. I really enjoyed the food last time I was there.

 

[piratesmate]

We really like 1900 Park Fare for breakfast. We do that on an EE day with close to the last seating...that way we leave the park as it's getting full & get our Monorail ride in too. We love the food & the character interaction there.

At Epcot we always like the Garden Grill. Again, food & characters are the draw there.

For the other 2 parks we tend to do counter service unless we're doing Fantasmic! and then we do Hollywood & Vine for dinner. We enjoyed the food there, although I know many don't.

For a non-character meal with fun photo ops we like Whispering Canyon at Wilderness Lodge. The smoked meats are really good!

But our favorite restaurant on the planet is Boma at AKL...and there are many wonderul photo ops there with the animals, artwork & storytelling firepit.

 

[Mickster]

We have eaten at the Crystal Palace (great food, Pooh and Friends, good atmosphere), the Garden Grill (food served family style, Mickey and Friends as farmers, good atmosphere), Cape May Cafe (Buffet, Mickey and friends in bathsuits, good atmosphere) and Sci-Fi Cafe (table service with good food, movies, great atmoshere, but not so good for taking pictures) - all of these we ate with kids and without kids. I would recommend them all. I've also eaten at the Brown Derby, and the Trail's End buffet...

There are a lot of restaurants I'd like to check out the next time (or times) I go. Let us know where you decide to try so I can live through you!

 

[New England Eeyore]

I'm a WDW foodie, but I can't help you out too much with your question because when I go with my immediate family (husband and stepdaughters) they are not crazy about TS restaurants. They'd eat cheeseburgers all week if I'd let them.

Here are my personal favorites for the food: Boma (#1!!!), Spoodles, and Le Cellier.

Ones my family has actually enjoyed (and I have scrapbook pages for!): Whispering Canyon Cafe (very fun!), 50s Primetime Cafe (ditto), Sci-Fi (I second the bad for taking pictures comment), Beaches and Cream (family-friendly food, to die for ice cream), and Crystal Palace (buffets have something for everyone and you gotta love Pooh).

For our April vacation I've cajoled my DH into spreading his wings a bit. Now that the girls are all teenagers, it's really him that's putting a cramp in my dining style. I just need to make sure there's a cheeseburger or chicken sandwich somewhere on the menu for my fusspot.

 

[MyLittlePiglet]

We currently have ADR for dinner at 1900 Park Fair. We may try to change if our room wait list comes through and we change to Wilderness Loge in which case Whispering Canyon Cafe.

My husband's all time favorite is the Garden grill, so have been there many times, could not get ADR;s for it this time.

What is LLT?

Lexie did love dancing to the music in Germany, it was cool but a bit embrassing that I had to go out with her cause she she was 18 months old. I danced with her cause was too little to dance with the other kids. Now I would follow her to the dance floor but hand out at the edge.

We have been to Ohanas, Rose and the Crown, Le Cellier (my food was okay, but I conveted my husband's meal), Crystal palace, oh we been to a lot, but we seem to always fall into a rut.

Please keep the suggestions coming!!

 

[rlovew]

Mama Melrose's was fun, although the menu is more Californian than American Iltalian- It is beautiful but you definately need to take flash photos and set them up carefully. The Coral Reef is a restraunt kids seem to love although many of them rarely actually eat because they are busy weatching the fish. Although Coral Reef has a lot of adult dinners and tends to be quiet on the times I have been in there so you might prefer lunch becuase it is less formal.