We had booked a table here for our first day - Thursday 20th December 2007. We wanted an early lunch as we had been up since before 4am.
The restaurant was decorated beautifully for Christmas.
When we went in the houseband were playing - all toe-tapping stuff. They sung Jingle Bells in English and French, so of course I joined in. We were seated not at a table but at a long counter that overlooked the lower floor where the food was laid out.
The waitress took our drink order then we went to get our food. There was planty of choice. Cold meats and salad, pasta in bolognaise style sauce, chips, rice, chilli, chunks of beef in a sauce, chicken nuggets and ...ooh..lots more it seemed. My daughter chose a right-old mish-mash of stuff, but I just let her get on with it.
A few moments after the band finished there was a figure appear on the stage - Pluto had come out to play. He was followed by Mickey, Goofy, Robin Hood and Wendell. Their path around the place appeared to be random, but each one did come up to us, so there must have been some method there. There were a few children approaching them, encouraged by their parents, but most people waited at their tables/bar.
Dtr now realised they had soup and rolls and so we both had some. I don't know what the waitress thought of the weird people who had main course and THEN soup, but that's the joy of a buffet. The soup was really tasty and just what we needed on a cold December day.
There were plenty of desserts to choose from and the ones we had were very nice indeed. All this time the characters were still doing the rounds as well. Pluto was being very naughty - he had stolen a bauble off the tree and was balancing it on his nose and then chasing it around the floor. His CM was trying to get him to go in, as all the others had gone backstage, but he refused to go. He was playing with my dtr and trying to persuade her to go and get a tree bauble as well. She was in fits of laughter.
Eventually he was led off, with the CM 'scolding' him all the way. Then the band came back on.
This was a great lunch, with plenty to choose from and lots of entertainment. All the food we chose was delicious. The bill, after discount, was 40.37 Euros.
We will definitely eat here again.