Reviews of Crystal Palace Lunch/Dinner
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Reviewed 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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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!
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food, service, charactersReviewed by jennschultz Review Date: 05/10/2013
Rating: (9) Recommended
We always eat here on our family vacations, and my husband and I decided to have a late dinner here when it was just the two of us as well.
It was busy as usual, but we didn't have to wait long for a table. The wait staff was excellent and brought drinks out very quickly.
I wasn't sure how it would be with characters for just me and hubby, but the friends were very helpful with making sure they visited us as well. We even got them to take some pictures of the two of us together with the characters. It was so much fun. We did miss one of the characters who didn't get around to us, but it was just a little wait and we did end up getting to see them all.
I really like the food here and there is so much of it! I left feeling very full, so I must have gotten my moneys worth.
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fun character interaction, ambienceCons:
can sometimes be a wait for charactersReviewed by kmurray6783 Review Date: 04/25/2013
Rating: (9) Recommended
LOVED this place! It was adorable! The cast members here were so pleasant. I ate here by myself and the cast members made sure Winnie the Pooh and friends came to my table! The buffet was great - i had a little bit of everything! I was stuffed but it was well worth it!
