Dining Review - 1900 Park Fare

Good morning and a Happy Sunday to you! You might be saying "Hey! Where's Sunday with Friends?!" I promise, that feature will be back soon. But in the meantime, I wanted to share my recent experience at 1900 Park Fare.

On my most recent jaunt to Walt Disney World, my friend Ellen and I headed over to the Grand Floridian for breakfast at 1900 Park Fare. Ellen had never been, and my last trip there was YEARS ago, so on Thursday morning we took the short walk from the Polynesian to the Grand Floridian.

(In a future post, I'll share with you about staying at the Polynesian. Thank you, Ellen, for letting me bunk with you!)

Our reservation was at 9:15AM and when we arrived, the restaurant was about 1/2 full. You check in, and then cast member photographers take your pictures against a pretty backdrop / feature wall at the entrance area. They scanned the picture onto Ellen's Magic Band and we were on our way.

They seated us and then our waitress took our drink orders, and said to go enjoy the buffet. There were quite a few choices, and varied! There was an omelet station, with omelets made to order. There was also lots of fruit and cereals, breads and rolls, and of course breakfast staples like eggs, bacon, sausage and the like. They also had a kid's buffet (at their height!) with Mickey waffles, eggs and bacon. A entree option I hadn't seen before was the Lobster Eggs Benedict, which I chose. It was quite good! Not as good as the Eggs Benedict on Disney Cruise Line, but it was still delicious.

1900 Park Fare is a character meal, and at this breakfast we had Tigger, Pooh, the Mad Hatter, Mary Poppins and Alice. (At dinner, you have Cinderella, Lady Tremaine, the Prince and the Step Sisters.) I like character meals because if you like character pictures and autographs, it's a great way to get them without having to stand in lines. We still ended up waiting quite a bit for the characters (we must have caught them just before they went on a break) and so we were done with our meal by the time they were making their way around to us. This was a slight disappointment but ended up working out just fine. The characters came around in quick succession, and we took pictures and video. If you follow me on Periscope, you saw some of those videos a few weeks ago!

(In the picture below, the flower lei is from the Polynesian, not the breakfast at Park Fare. Just so you're not confused!)

The price was $26.99 each, but Ellen had the Tables in Wonderland dining card (more on that later!) so it saved us 20%.

I would give the breakfast food at 1900 Park Fare a grade of B to a B+. It was good, but nothing spectacular. However, I feel that at these character meals, you're paying more for the experience vs the food. That being said, the food was good, and the service from the cast members was good, as well. 

It was a very good breakfast, and a nice way to start our day. Other than the blip with the timing of the characters, we had a nice meal and a good time together.

I hope you all have a great Sunday! Have a magical day!