Any suggestion? WDW Restaurants Experience?

Where we've been for lunch & dinner, short & sweet:

Chef Mickey - one of the better buffets. Great character interaction.

Ohana, Disney's Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show - OUTSTANDING show & food. Great polynesian food and entertainment.

Playhouse Disney's Play 'n' Dine - good buffet, also good for the ages of your children

Liberty Tree Tavern - GREAT food, decor, and character interaction.

Crystal Palace - so-so food, older building & decor, so-so character interation, very long wait even with reservations (we had to wait an hour past our reservation time)

Hoop Dee Doo Revue - Great food & dinner show. Much like a wild west saloon, with dancing cast members and a full stage show.

The Hollywood Brown Derby has great food, but is most like a nice restaurant (not much for the kids).

The Sci-Fi Dine In Theatre has good food in a giant indoor 50's-like drive in setting.

First off the Crystal Palace and some of the other restaurants you list do not take 2 table service. They only take one. And using your table service for dinner is going to get you the most out of your dining package.

We did Crystal Palace(Pooh and friends were there for lunch) and Coral Reef (kids loved watching the fish)for lunch. Do the 50's Prime Time diner for lunch or dinner. It is very fun. While we where there the next table had several adults and one 6 year old who had had it. Was fussy didn't want anything on the menu. The waitress look at her and said I am going to make you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The kid was surprised and satisfied. Problem solved by a very good Disney cast member. The s'mores there are plate sized!

You can also use one table service for the Fantasmic package. Eat at Mama Melrose and have reserved seating for the show.

With a 5 year old I'd skip the Aloha show which does take 2 table service.

Check out the buffet in Norway. It is getting good reviews for kids. but I think most of the characters there are Princesses.

Try the food court by Soaring in EPCOT for a counter service. Healthy food choices.

Talk to the kids busing the tables. They have pointed things out to us in the restaurant that we would of never noticed. Harbor House (magic kingdom)was a good counter service.

I do not do breakfast either. We got a bowl of fuirt at the kiosks with our snack service.

Check out the site below for menus, prices, and a list of all restaurants in the dining package. The regular dining package will be more than enough food for your family.

Ohana's is fantastic for dinner. There are no characters, but Cast Members engage children in fun conga lines and drum playing. The food is fantastic and is unique in that it is an all-you-can-eat buffet that is brought right to your table! Everyone at this location calls you cousin!

Liberty Tree Tavern is a lot of fun as well. Dinner is a character meal and is typically swamped with reservations, so be sure to make one early. The food is the best inside the Magic Kingdom Park and includes down-home classics like meatloaf, turkey and gravy, etc...

Coral Reef is best to visit for lunch. The lunch and dinner menu are about the same, but the price difference alone makes an afternoon visit more economical. While it is true that you are there to enjoy great food, it is also true that most guests dine at this location for the fantastic ambiance of the giant aquarium.

One that was not on your list, but we highly recommend it for families, is the Whispering Canyon Cafe inside Disney's Wilderness Lodge. We recommend this location for dinner. There are no characters here.... well... except the servers. :)

You'll have a great time and will enjoy fantastic entertaining service and food. We recommend the prime rib, peel n eat shrimp and cinnamon tortilla dessert with vanilla ice cream!

Feel free to contact me directly for other Disney restaurant locations at disneymickeyvacation@yahoo.com.

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First of all, not all of these restaurants are two table service. The following are two table service credits per person:

Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show

Hoop Dee Doo Revue

Mickey's Backyard BBQ

All the others are one table service credit per person.

If it were my trip with boys that age, I would try to do these:

Chef Mickey

'Ohana

Hoop Dee Doo Revue

Crystal Palace or Playhouse Disney's Play 'n' Dine

As far as the breakfast thing goes, we try to make reservations for the latest breakfast seating and then we have Brunch. We eat breakfast bars in the morning and ride until our Brunch reservation.

A lot of this will depend on a few things.

When are you going? Availability will depend on your dates.

What is your itinerary? Some of the meals depend on where you will be on what day.

If you don't have an itinerary, and it all seems a bit overwhelming, I would recommend using an itinerary and touring plans service. We have used Custom Mouse Plans, and I love them! They planned our itinerary, did park touring plans for each day and evening in the parks, did our dining reservations and even gave all kinds of tips! The plans they made kept us away from the crowds. We never waited more than 10minutes for any ride, even on New Year's Day! I will never do a Disney trip without them again. They already finished plans for my May/June trip this year.

Have fun!

Chef Mickey is great and kid-friendly. The food is decent.

Mickey's Backyard BBQ is great if you love classic Americana food!

Ohana is a great place to eat. I always stay at the Polynesian every year and it is the best restaurant there. The Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show is kind of cheesy, but your kids will love it.

Playhouse Disney's Play 'n' Dine is great for little ones.

The Liberty Tree Tavern has really good food and a great atmosphere.

The Crystal Palace has decent food and really cute characters and a great setting.

The Hoop Dee Doo Revue is semi-annoying but cute. Again, young kids love it.

And the Coral Reef, is one of the best restaurants in WDW. I love it. You will love the food and your kids will love the fish, sharks, and turtles!

I would pick the Coral Reef and Ohana personally. They have great food and Ohana offers spectacular viewing points for the fireworks. The only better place to watch them at is at the California Grill at the Contemporary.

Have fun!

Chef Mickey has about anything you can think of to eat! Great for people who have very picky eaters. Very nice buffet. It is very busy though and is hard to get a reservation there. I would highly recommend it though if you want to have a good time! The characters at that restaurant are very lively and love to play around with you (Even if your an adult!). Great family restaurant with good food. Can't go wrong!

Liberty Tree Tavern has some of the BEST FOOD on Disney property. It is like Thanksgiving all year round there! They have a set menu and they just keep bringing out food until you tell them to stop. Great service! You feel like your in the colonial days with Ben Franklin and George Washington because all the characters are dressed up in the old time clothes. It is a small restaurant though and is hard to move around in, but totally worth it for the food.

The Garden Grill

Chip and Dale's Harvest Feast Character Dining

Full Service - Lunch/Dinner

The Land - Future World - Epcot

THE BEST character meal in my opinion. The place is kind of an unrecognized gem! It is not very crowded which is nice. the restaurant is on a slow moving turn table and you see nature scenery; It's awesome! You never really realize you are moving until you look up and see that you are on the other side of the restaurant! The characters are the best out of all the other restaurants! VERY Playful; visit you multiple times! FOOD AMAZING!! GOOD COMFORT FOOD!! I strongly suggest this restaurant!!

50's Primetime

Full Service Lunch/Dinner

Disney's Hollywood Studios

You feel like your in a classic 50's Tv show- Mama's kitchen! Black and white TVs, classic black/white tile floor, Colorful appliances, ECT... But you literaley feel like your at a family's kitchen from back in the 'Leave it to Beaver' days (lol). Your waiter is playing the role of your Mama/Dad. They tell you to eat your veggies/ Ask did you wash Up/ Yell 'Get your elbows off the table!! It is so fun/The waiter are hilarious. You order good home food Meatloaf, potatoes, Chicken,green beans, Ice cream sundaes, smores... Again Really good food!!

we liked liberty tree tavern out all of those restaurant the best had the best food and had the most time with the charchter's my children are not big on breakfast either sometimes they get sick first thing in the morning i always make reservations for 10 am we get up go to the park right when there opening watch that take are time walking in.ride some rides by the time you arrive get seated vist with the character's get your food your hungry and my kids are even ready to eat but they have been up for a while by this time.when you make reservation's they will tell you how many each take so you can plan it all out we usually only have to pay for one meal for one day when were on the dining plan but we like the dinner shows so it worth it to us last year we went to cinderalla's castle , mickey's backyard barbeque,liberty tree tavern,coral reef,planet hollywood,sci-fi drive in,rainforest cafe but we paid for this one and we were in the park's seven day's the rest were counter service but the dine-in plan is so worth the money you get alot of food for the money with the plan

Great choices, Mickey's Backyard Barbecue is my son's favorite, but it uses two tickets. The Liberty Tree Taven is my favorite. Crystal Palace has great food and Winnie the Pooh and Friends make it special. The Aloha dinner is more adult oriented, but we love that one too, it is also a two ticket meal. As is Hoop De Doo Revue. I was disappointed in Coral Reef, but we live on the Gulf Coast so we have really great seafood resturants around us.

We do character breakfast, but the dinners are great also. You can use your snack at many of the breakfast, cinnamon buns and things make great breakfast.

We love Crystal Palace for lunch or dinner- Winnie the pooh is fun and our kids really enjoy this one. Good FOOD

Chef Mickey Dinner- BEST one of them all!!!

GArden Grill at Epcot- GAG me- gross food- will not return

Ohana- Fun coconut races and GREAT FOOD for dinner

We use one sit down meal a day and one counter a day.

the food at the disney parks and hotels are pretty terrible, since they have to feed alot of guests. you kid wont mind it, but you will.

id suggest Chef Mickeys at the Contemporary hotel

have fun