Garden Grill breakfast. I kept reading how great it was and how fun the characters were, so I was thrilled when I got an ADR right when the restaurant opened for breakfast for a party of six last December.
Oh, boy, but I was disappointed. First, the seating...the rotating part was fun, and I loved seeing the back of the farm house from our table. But being a large party, we were in one of the long (looooong) booths. It was extremely hard for six people (adults, not kids) to get out of that booth to actually interact with the characters when they came around. What made it harder was the fact that people were walking past getting seated and servers were walking past with huge pans of food. The aisle was narrow and busy, and the characters didn't really do that much other than pose to take pics. I know we're not kids, but every character meal I've been to other than this one, the characters had fun 'playing' with us (Mickey sat down at the table with us at 'Ohana and Piglet was hysterical acting afraid of my 6'6 nephew in CP, for example). They came around a lot, but after a few attempts at pics that didn't work well, we just stayed seating when they came past. It was underwhelming.
That part I would have just brushed off if the food had been good. But the coffee was weak, the eggs dry and rubbery, our first round of tater tots were cold, the bacon was way too dry and the sausage greasy and weird tasting. The only thing I really liked were the cinnamon rolls, but not so much that they were worth the price of breakfast.
All of that said, people with young kids might have a blast. Maybe it was just an off day for food. But with the party size we usually travel with, it's not on our list to go back to.
We were also underwhelmed with Tusker House (just found it chaotic), but are willing to go back there. But seeing as we like Y&Y so much, I don't know when that will be!
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