Reviews of Minnie’s Seasonal Dining at Hollywood and Vine

Reviews

42

Rating

6.57 / 10

Recommended By

62%



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Hollywood and Vine

Services: Buffet/All You Care to Eat

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Reviewed by Fitzboyzmom Review Date: 10/07/2016

Rating: (8)
Recommended

We attended when the characters were dressed for Halloween. They were all really great and clearly having a good time entertaining everyone. Donald ad Mickey ended up being right next to each other and did some high fives and then waltzed together. So funny.

Food was really good. They made my son his own plate because he has Celiac, which was just great. Really made him feel special as opposed to having nothing fun to eat.

The only drawback is that the place is NOISY!! I spent a lot of time with our neighbors rear end in my face because she was so intent on taking pictures that she was oblivious to everyone around her. That happens sometimes, but kind of takes away from the experience. If you are OK with the noise, the characters are worth it and the food is good.

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Reviewed by stnick622 Review Date: 03/22/2016

Rating: (9)
Recommended

On 3/21 Mom and I attended the first Minnie's Springtime Dinner. Our server, Joan, kept our drinks full and our plates cleared. She even provided a few laughs.

For the spring dinner Daisy was up front greeting everyone. Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy roamed around and greeted everyone at their tables in their spring time best. Of the four that wondered around Goofy was the most memorable when he started to fly his kite when the song "let's go fly a kite" played on the soundtrack.

The food was pretty good. I enjoyed the pretzel rolls and the basil lime fruit the best. My favorite dessert was the passion fruit cakes. While the food was good I will tell you the characters make the meal.

Overall, this was a great experience. I have been to all three seasonal dinner dining experience so far at Hollywood & Vine (Minnie's Holiday Dine, Minnie's Silver Screen Dine, Minnie's Springtime Dine) and have reservations to return for Minnie's Summertime Dine as well as Minnie's Halloween Dine.

As an annual passholder, it is fun to attend these seasonal dinners to not only see the characters in their new outfits made just for this dinning experience but also to see the different food offerings for each seasonal dining experience.

Pros:

Characters, Server

Cons:

Busy
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Reviewed by mamandragon Review Date: 01/03/2016

Rating: (8)
Recommended

Ate here week of Dec 13 to 18. We changed one of our other reservations so that we could eat here for the Holiday Dinner with Minnie. Food was fine and must say a huge thank you to Chef Angel for his help with our 2 1/2 year old granddaughters food allergy. The gluten free mac and cheese was a big hit. This meal was ok and glad we did it once - we were to eat here again but decided to eat elsewhere.

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Characters

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Reviewed by saraht Review Date: 12/18/2015

Rating: (9)
Recommended

I attended Minnie's Holiday Dine on 12/11. I had never been to Hollywood and Vine before because the Disney Junior characters aren't of interest to me.

We received great service from Joan our server! She kept our table cleared and drinks filled and even acted as a photographer a couple of times.

The food was really good and there was a great selection. I especially enjoyed the vegetable soup and asiago chicken breasts. And I may have made a trip to the kids buffet for tater tots! The desserts (my favorite part) were amazing! I enjoyed that they were all minature, so I didn't feel bad sampling almost everything.

The characters in their holiday outfits were so cute! It would have been nice to have had more decorations around the restaurant- but I guess they serve two other meals a day, so that is probably hard.

Overall- we LOVED it and would go back for a different season.

Pros:

characters, good selection of food, great service

Cons:

wait to be seated, lack of decorations
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Reviewed by NJDzneMom Review Date: 12/12/2015

Rating: (9)
Recommended

We attended Minnie's Holiday Dine the week of Dec 6, 2015. We loved the experience!

The dinner didn't start off great. The check-in was confusing because there were multiple servers directing you to line up in different places. It was a little frustrating.

However, once we got past that, the rest of the experience was terrific. The characters were adorable in their special holiday outfits. We had ample time to take pictures with them.

The food on the buffet was delicious. Boy did we overeat! The salads and appetizers were great! I particularly enjoyed the salad with pears and pomegranates. We also loved the flank steak, meatballs and carved meats. Everything was very tasty and hot and there were plenty of different choices for each of my family members.

The dessert section was wonderful. They had so many choices and I tasted many of them. Yum! And the special dessert decorations were very cute and festive for the season.

I would have expected the restaurant to be decorated a little more for the holiday dinner. It was a little lacking. Given how cute the characters were dressed, I think they could've done a little better job making the atmosphere a little more festive.

Our waitress was terrific and very attentive with drink refills, coffee, etc.

I would definitely recommend this event to those visiting HS during the holidays.

Pros:

Characters and Food Quality

Cons:

Entry to Restaurant
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Reviewed by disneyhardin Review Date: 11/13/2015

Rating: (10)
Recommended

We dined here on the opening night and it was fantastic. We only waited about 5 minutes after checking in and were taken to a photo opp with Santa Goofy. There was a Photopass Photographer taking these pictures. We were told as we were being taken to our table that the characters would not be signing autographs and were given a little postcard with their signatures.

Once we were seated, Donald and Minnie came by right away. Their new Holiday Costumes are gorgeous. After our pictures with them, we were able to hit the buffet and it did not disappoint. There are lots of choices. There were at least 7 or so meat choices and lots of sides. The "kids" area of the buffet also had a good variety of foods. My favorites were the pretzel bread (the same rolls they have at Biergarten), the flank steak and the seafood mac and cheese.

There is a nice desert buffet also. I was a little disappointed that several of the deserts had peppermint on them and I don't like mint, so I only tried a couple of the deserts.

The characters rotated quickly, but didn't rush you at all. In the time it took us to eat, the characters came around twice.

This dinner was a great way to start the holiday season.

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Reviewed by BrianR Review Date: 10/23/2023

Rating: (7)
Not Recommended

This one is just "okay". We waited about 20 minutes beyond our reservation time. Table was soaking wet when we sat down (they had just wiped it from the previous diners). LOTS of kids running around....I mean, it "is" a character dinner and we knew that going in. Food was pretty good and our server was great.

Pros:

Service was great, seeing the characters was fun

Cons:

Lots of kids...probably not your place if you want a quiet, romantic dinner for two. Food was just okay. A little pricey for what you get.
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Reviewed by Slq2k Review Date: 08/28/2022

Rating: (1)
Not Recommended

First rate crap!!! The food was awful!!! Disgusting!! I didn’t expect it to be great or even good but I thought it would be okay. Not a high bar to set. Prison food is probably better!! I would give it a negative number if I could!!

Pros:

You meet characters BUT you can meet the same characters in much better restaurants in Disney.

Cons:

The FOOD!!!! The food looked horrible and the food I did try was horrible!!!
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Reviewed by Darren Review Date: 06/09/2022

Rating: (2)
Not Recommended

We had high expectations at over $50 per person and were very disappointed. Our server was great but the food was horrible. The prime rib was so chewy and had the taste of a hot dog. They were out of turkey and the replacement chicken dish had a weird taste. The only appetizer was choice of two salads and there are much better deserts at quick service locations. Can not recommend and would not go back.

Pros:

Characters

Cons:

High Price, Bad food
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Reviewed by Anonymous Review Date: 01/21/2022

Rating: (3)
Not Recommended

Don't waste your money. My understanding was that the former buffets had become all you care to eat served family style. Our waitress told us that this restaurant is not that way. Based on the cost, food choices, amount and quality, there is no way that this place is worth the price tag. The characters barely interacted and were mostly on the other side of plexiglass(exception:Pluto played peekaboo behind a pillar with my toddler. That felt like the old days). The salad dressing tasted like nothing. It said ranch but it had zero flavor even though you could see it on the lettuce. They do have a vinagrette option so if you go ask for that. They were also using cornbread for croutons which was...weird. The croutons came out more chewy than crunchy. Really felt out of place in the salad. My husband got the pork loin. It was very good. We especially liked the spicy peach salsa. I got the tenderloin( really prime rib). It was fine. They put course ground pepper all over it which really overpowers the beef flavor. My son got the kid's roast beef. This was NOT roast beef, it was pot roast. Let that sink in for a minute. $35 for a kid's meal that consists of a small chunk of pot roast, the Mac and cheese you can get anywhere and a fruit cup. Compare that to the meal at Liberty Tree Tavern where you can have that plus turkey, pork, mashed potatoes, green beans and stuffing and it is all you can eat and very tasty. My daughter got the turkey. It was dry. She also got green beans. They put black pepper ALL OVER them. Needless to say, my six year old couldn't even be coerced to eat them and my kid's love veggies. My two year old was offered macaroni and cheese and a fruit cup. While it is a nice gesture and for by the course meals I typically just share with my little one, remember that this used to be all you can eat and little kids were welcome to have the full menu just like the older kids. The value of this meal has gone way down.The kid's dessert is very cheap too, just ice cream. We asked our server to bring us one of each of the adult desserts to share instead and she was kind enough to oblige. The desserts were good except the spice cake which again, was weird. The s'mores dessert was tasty but the marshmallow was cold so it was a bit hard to cut it in order to get a bite with everything else. It was be much better if they used marshmallow creme or warmed the marshmallow right before serving. We also were never just brought refills, even of water. We had to ask at the end of the meal for more to drink. Basically, this is not fine dining. It is the old buffet pretending to be a three course meal. It was, to us, one of the most glaring examples of Disney repackaging so that you get far less but pay more. This seems to be the new standard under Chapek, sadly.

Pros:

Adult meals were pretty good. Dessert was really good. You get to see characters.

Cons:

Pretty much everything else. Cost, value, character interaction, have to ask for refills.
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