4/14 1900 Park Fare Breakfast
A little backstory: One of the ADRs we had booked for our May 2020 trip was breakfast at 1900 Park Fare, mostly because I wanted to try the strawberry soup. Well, we all know how that turned out. Ever since then I’ve been waiting for 1900 PF to reopen. As our 60 day ADR date approached, rumors began to circulate that they may open soon. I said to DH, “you watch as soon as I book everything, they’ll open up 1900 Park Fare.” Sure enough the day after I booked all my ADRs news came out that it would open the week we were scheduled to be there. So, I shuffled things around and opened up a spot for dinner on 4/14. Mind you, the full menus were not released prior to the opening of ADRs. The day the ADRs opened up I got on my computer very early in the morning continually refreshing until I was able to book an ADR for dinner on 4/14. A few days later the menus were published and DH and I realized the breakfast menu had more things on it that suited our tastes. So, I set a search on the Stakeout app and eventually scored a breakfast ressie right at 8 am for 4/14 and canceled an ADR for Trattoria Al Forno breakfast as well as my 1900 PF dinner ADR. We were very excited to finally try the strawberry soup.
That morning, we drove to the Grand Floridian and were told by the guard that we had to park in the castmember parking lot across the street. Once we parked it was a bit confusing to even find the restaurant but we arrived in plenty of time. I can’t wait until they allow those with ADRs to park at the resort again.
As soon as the restaurant opened we were seated at a nice four top table. We both appreciated the new decor.
As a side note, before we arrived my DH kept saying “I can’t wait to meet Snow White” and I kept telling him “No. It’s Cinderella, Tiana, Mirabel and Aladdin.” Well, lo and behold, Aladdin wasn’t there that morning and who filled in? Snow White. Looks like DH was right after all, lol.
We headed up to the buffet to fill our plates before the characters stopped by.
On my first plate: Eggs Benedict, sausage, bacon, cheesy eggs, and beef hash.
Sadly even though we were the very first people at the buffet that morning everything was room temperature at best. It was pretty obvious the food had already been sitting out a long time before the restaurant opened. I couldn’t eat the cold eggs benedict but the rest of it was fine. The beef hash was actually delicious as well as the cheesy eggs, if only they were even a little bit warm.
My second plate: tots, bread pudding, cinnamon pull apart bread and breakfast pizza.
This plate fared a little better as the sweet items didn’t really need to be warm. The breakfast pizza was cold though. The cinnamon pull-apart bread was the best thing here.
My DH’s first plate: cheesy eggs, cinnamon pull-apart bread, bread pudding, beef hash and ham.
The ham was his favorite but his plate suffered from the same room temperature problem as mine did.
DH’s second plate: tots and breakfast pizza, his favorite items.
For dessert we each got a bowl of the long-awaited cold Strawberry Soup. This was already pre-proportioned in bowls but there were strawberries and whipped cream to add to the top, which we did.
Unfortunately the cold soup suffered the same fate as the rest of the food. It was room temperature. It tasted like warm strawberry yogurt. Very disappointing.
We also shared some pastries: guava danish, banana bread and vegan triple chocolate muffin (and DH got another slice of ham).
The guava danish was very crunchy but good. The banana bread was okay. The vegan triple chocolate muffin was absolutely delicious. It was fudgy and chocolatey. It was easily the very best thing we had all morning. DH actually went back for a second one and contemplated becoming vegan after that dessert…haha.
The Wish ceremony was cute. We wished for great weather for the remainder of our trip and amazingly our wish came true.
The character interaction was also very good. Mirabel was really fun as DH was wearing similar colored glasses to her so she commented on that. We got so caught up talking with her that we neglected to get a photo but told our server and she made sure to have her stop by again.
Overall the character interaction was great, food selection was great, and service was great. But, unfortunately the food suffered as the hot items weren’t hot and cold items weren’t cold. It boggles my mind that they didn’t have the foods at proper temperatures. Everything was just sitting in trays on counters with no warming or cooling elements. We’ve eaten at Boma countless times and never encountered this issue so Disney knows how to do this right. They just need to work on serving food at the right temperature and it will be a wonderful experience.
After our somewhat disappointing 1900 Park Fare meal, we headed to Disney Springs, walked around for a bit and then took the boat to Old Key West for a pineapple coconut slushy from Goods to Go.
This is our favorite pineapple-coconut slushy on property. I’m not sure why but it is better than the one from the Market at Hollywood Studios. This is so refreshing with lots of pineapple and coconut flavor.
Up next…heading to Magic Kingdom for dinner.
