Reviews of Crystal Palace Lunch/Dinner
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Reviewed by Mirner77 Review Date: 01/09/2014
Rating: (7) Recommended
This was our least favorite buffet. We ate here on January 7th, 2014. The wait area was outside and it was freezing! I asked the check in girl how long the wait was and she answered me it was our reservation time. Our reservation was for 6, but we never got inside until past 6:20 despite the fact that there were several tables inside with no one sitting there and they were clean, so no idea why the delay. Our waiter seemed really lost. Not sure if this was his first day, but we waited a long time for our bill and service was not fantastic. Had to ask three times for coffee. The food wasn't great. The roast was really smoky which is great if you're into that flavor. Salads were good, especially the beef and the garlic butter rolls were really good too. My 7 year old enjoyed the corn dogs, chicken nuggets and mac n' cheese as well as the fruit. The paella was good and the salmon was very good also. The mashed potatoes were delicious. The apple cobbler, bread pudding, and all of the desserts were very good! My 7 year old missed Eeyore, but the hander was so nice and intercepted Eeyore so that we could meet him. He was so nice and gave us lots of good suggestions and was very funny! The food was acceptable, but just not as good as the rest of the food we'd had on this trip including other buffets. It was nice to have Pooh and everyone else together though. Perhaps next time, I'd try breakfast instead of dinner.
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ServiceReviewed by sarhend Review Date: 11/26/2013
Rating: (8) Recommended
We enjoyed our lunch at the Crystal Palace. There was a wide selection of food. Lots of salads and different meats. The service was very good. The kids enjoyed the characters.
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NoisyReviewed by Imjustababyduck Review Date: 11/25/2013
Rating: (9) Recommended
We ate here on 11/9/13 for dinner. I love the food on this buffet. To give a fair review, I probably liked the food better than anyone else in my party of 4. I love salads and this place has a great salad bar. I also love the fire roasted spoon bread (and several other menu items). Since I can only find these items here, I always want to eat here when we come. My kids are really too old to care about Pooh, but I just love the buffet. Service was fine and characters were great.
So take what you will from this review. 1 AWESOME, EXCELLENT, WISH I COULD EAT HERE EVERYDAY review and 3 it's fine reviews. However, since I do all the planning and reservations, we will be eating here again!
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NoneReviewed by Brandon Review Date: 09/26/2013
Rating: (8) Recommended
This was the best of the character dining experiences for us on our trip. We had a character meal everyday and this was by far and away the one I would recommend. The food selection is the most diverse and tastes the best of all of them.
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N/AReviewed by eeyore74 Review Date: 08/25/2013
Rating: (10) Recommended
I love this place. The Pooh characters are my favorites. We eat here at least once every time we go to Disney. The only thing I didn't like this time was the waitress. I was figuring out what else I wanted to eat and she came over with a cupcake for my daughter's birthday. We told her we were still eating dinner and she seemed a little upset, but in the end she did the cupcake at a better time. The manager and a chef came out to help me figure out what I wanted. In the end one of the chefs made me a stir fry that could feed my whole family. The chefs here are great when it comes to food allergies they will make you anything you want that they have on hand.
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WaitressReviewed by missy Review Date: 08/03/2013
Rating: (7) Recommended
I noticed that service has gone down hill fast at Disney overall. Besides that, the food was good for lunch. Went to get cookies and there were flies under the covered area for the cookies.
No dessert for me. Probably a good thing because it was our last meal before our flight to leave for home. Had enough dessert during the week!
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Flies in the cookies! Yuck! Slow werviceReviewed by onejasper Review Date: 07/28/2013
Rating: (10) Recommended
Definitely top 5 of our dining experiences this year. We were seated promptly and our waitress was very attentive.
The food is really very good and there's plenty of choices, especially for those health conscious (salads were very fresh) and vegetarians. we all loved the Yukon Gold mashed potatoes and had second helpings. DD loved the chicken nuggets, the carvery and the rice noodles with particular rave on the chipotle pasta. The carvery is very well organized.
The desserts were limited but delicious.
The characters are very attentive. I got a kiss from Pooh (I think he loves me), Tigger was the life and soul of the party but everybody loved Eey-ore. The congo was absolutely hilarious. It is moments like that that make you really feel you are in Disney.
The waitress found out it was DD and her friend's birthdays that week and brought over delicious cupcakes and birthday cards signed by the characters.
We would definitely return to the restaurant.
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—Reviewed by megeveland Review Date: 07/16/2013
Rating: (9) Recommended
Buffet options were good and well stocked. The Salmon was as good as I have had even in a sit down restaurant. Had lost of interesting pasta and noodle salads to try.
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Selection, the salmon!Cons:
noneReviewed by ninjat Review Date: 06/19/2013
Rating: (8) Recommended
The food here is good, not as good as Chef Mickey's but good. The service was excellent, and we were seated before our ADR time. The only draw back was the people at the table before us, they would not let the characters go, and would not allow my daughter to have her time with the characters. They would chase after the characters when they left their table and the dad would encourage them to do things like"pull tiggers tail". They would not move or get out of the way for us to take photos. It was so bad I really thought the character handlers should have intervined.
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other dinersReviewed by dvcmember1983 Review Date: 06/12/2013
Rating: (4) Recommended
Another signature Disney character meal that is starting to go downhill. We had 2 characters completely skip over our table. We had to flag down our server to get them to come back and even then it took forever. The food was not appetizing. My husband refused to eat the meat after he saw that it wasn't completely cooked through. Our service was horrendous. We saw our waitress 2-3 times tops to get drink refills. I should have disputed paying the automatic gratuity for 6 or more people. Disney needs to fix this place fast!
