Restaurants that surprised you.

[MissMaryPoppins]

Have you ever gone to any Disney restaurant and felt hesitant about it for any reason but were pleasantly surprised?

This has happened to me twice. My father's family is German and my parents and my brother enjoy most German foods like bratwurst and things like that. I do not. So my parents went to the Biergarten alone and met my brother and I later in the evening. They raved about it so much that my brother wanted to go. My mom made reservations for a couple nights later and we went back. I was worried I wouldn't like anything and wasn't excited to go. Well, I was totally surprised! There was so much food to choose from, I discovered I like German wines, and the entertainment was so much fun. We also found out when we checked in that becuase we have a very German last name the cast members working that evening wanted to meet us. There was a steady flow of
German cast members coming by to talk to us. One of them said "your name is more
German than mine and i live in Germany!" I couldn't wait to go back.

Where Chef Mickey's is now there was a buffet but it wasn't a character meal. We had been there before and had nice times. When my brother and I were on Christmas break from our schools my father was in the hospital over Christmas. He told my mom, while
he was still in the hospital, that he felt like he ruined Christmas for all of us and
wanted to see if we could do a last minute trip to Disney. When he was home our
parents told us we were leaving in 2 days for a week at Disney World. We were so
excited. The day we arrived my mom made reservations at what was now Chef Mickey's
and we headed over. She went to check in while my brother, my dad, and I looked in
the shop. She found us and said to my brother and me "I don't think you guys are going
to like this. It's a character meal now." my dad said not to worry, if we didn't like it
we'd just leave and go someplace else. We all ended up loving it! We had so much fun
meeting the characters, even though I was a big shot college freshman, we all got in on the napkin twirling, and my brother and I went a little overboard making sundaes and cupcakes. We went back very often and still do.