Garden Grill Restaurant

Was there with a 1 year old. The characters really paid a lot of time with my 1 year granddaughter. Wonderful place for kids.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Whenever I'm in Epcot, I always try to book this spot! Usually a ten minute wait and the food is amazing! Only downside is price.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

WOW! Amazing. The food & service is beyond compare. Seriously. I’ve eaten at Michelin rated restaurants that do not have as good of service as I received here. The food is served family style; which honestly made me think it would be mediocre. However, it was amazingly well seasoned and the best turkey I’ve had in years. TY!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent service from Luis! Multiple visits from the 4 characters. Great quality food. Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, salad, cornbread and mac and cheese with strawberry shortcake for dessert. Buffet style in the sense you can eat as much as you want. We made on full rotation during our dinner. Ended up back at the entrance.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

A great food and Character Experience in EPCOT.
The Garden Grill is located inside The Land pavilion at EPCOT. It opened in 1984 and has been rotating above the Living with the Land boat ride ever since. The restaurant serves family-style meals featuring cast-iron skillets of creamy mashed potatoes, rich turkey gravy, herb-roasted turkey breast, tender grilled steak, mac & cheese, and an endless parade of fresh garden vegetables and salad. It seems all you can eat and cost about $60/person. During our lunch Mickey, Pluto, Chip, and Dale visited every table multiple times. The characters were absolutely wonderful, staying playful, patient, and generous with hugs and photos throughout the entire meal. We were lucky enough to snag an outer-ring booth, which gave us a great, ever-changing view through the glass wall as the rainforest, desert, and farmhouse scenes drifted slowly past below. The food was genuinely excellent—fresh, flavorful, and far above typical theme-park quality—though our friendly server was occasionally a little slow with skillet refills and drinks when the restaurant was busy. Those minor issues aside, Garden Grill is from my perspective one of Walt Disney World’s best character-dining experiences. I would recommend this for any visiting group that wants a great dining experience like ours.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

2nd time we've there. Food was delicious. Service very good. Price isn't everything. It's what you get for the money. Good food, service, and atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Beware of this place!!!! I can’t believe this terrible establishment is part of Disney. I took my little girl to celebrate her birthday and literally after we received the bread for the table she got really sick and needed to throw up mind you we hadn’t eaten yet. The server brought out a garbage bag for her to puke in and told us we had to wait for the managers The manager took like 20 minutes to come to the table obviously waiting to make sure atleast one temu looking character came by. Once the character left the manager came out saying we were getting charged full price since my daughter saw the character and had the experience despite the fact the we didn’t eat. We had the dining plan so she automatically took it out which came out to about $200. My hotel even tried talking to them an all they did was give us a pass for a quick service meal. It was the worst dining experience of my life and unfortunately on my daughter’s birthday. Disney is a very rich company and to do this to single parent trying to do something special for-their child is disgraceful .

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The breakfast food was horrible, would not recommend unless you absolutely positively love the characters you are dining with. The food is abysmal.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 5

Made reservation with high chair- the app specifically asked since we had a infant on our reservation. Once we were getting seated they said they did away with high chairs earlier this year (early 2025) so my 1.5 year old had nowhere to sit and stood the entire meal in a booth. Worst character meal we did by far. If you have children that need a booster or high chair pass on this. We will not be back.
Character interactions also felt VERY rushed ( especially with Mickey) . This last trip we also did crystal place with Pooh, cinderellas royal castle, Ohana and chef Mickey every other character meal took more time with each guest.

In order would rate character experiences Crystal Palace, Cinderella’s Royal Table, O’hana, Chef Mickey and last Garden Grille.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

I liked this place more than I thought. I have a Gluten allergy so I was happy that I could eat all the food on menu but Mac and cheese! They have gluten free dessert. Mickey and other characters are there walking to each table. It’s eat as much as you like style, I would go back again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Great spot to meet mickey, Pluto, chip and Dale. Breakfast is served family style with eggs, bacon, cheesy potatoes, mickey waffles and steak. As appetizer they serve watermelon and cinnamon rolls. The cinnamon rolls were amazing! For the main breakfast mickey waffles are amazing as always and the steak with some type of peppers and onion sauce had a really good flavor.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My husband and I went here for the character breakfast! All the food was good, especially that sweet bread! My server Zulaini was awesome as well! It was a breakfast to remember. Loved seeing Chip and Dip as well!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I gave the service a single star because of the way I was treated when checking in for our reservation. Yes, we were on time, we were a party of 8 (4 adults and 4 children) and I wanted to be seated together and the hostess refused. We tried 3 separate times explaining to her that I wanted to sit with all 4 of my grandchildren. After getting a manager involved I was able to sit with my entire family a d our waiter was very accommodating but it took over a half hour for this to happen. This is the only restaurant in Disney that I had a problem sitting with my entire family all of our other reservations were no problem, but I was so upset by how rude the hostess was I wasn’t able to enjoy my breakfast or the experience of the characters which was unfortunate for me and my grandkids.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

The food was GREAT and fresh veggies form the garden, and we met some Disney characters including ofc Mickey!

60$ per person
Reservations needed

Was worth it!
Moves slowly [very], becoming the world first moving restaurant.

Andy was very funny and nice!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Mac and Cheese, Steak, Our Table, Creamy Mashed Potatoes

Rude employees all the way around. Would never recommend