NelleBelle
Well-Known Member
I’ve never seen family style where you share with others outside your party...that would be just gross (even before covid)!
Fair. When I was thinking family style I was thinking how Liberty Tree Tavern does it; huge bowls of food brought out to your party with as many refills as you want. I would assume sharing food between yourself and your own group wouldn't be too risky considering how close you'll be the rest of the time. But if it was a system where you were sharing the bowls with your own group plus several others than yeah, that's likely to be worse.
I’ve never seen family style where you share with others outside your party...that would be just gross (even before covid)!
Whenever we've done it for our family of 4 (and when we were a family of 2), they accommodated the portions accordingly. And as for sitting with others, I hate to say it, no thanks! I've done it once on DCL and that was enough for me. It may have been different if the family they seated us with spoke English, but it was so incredibly awkward that we've always requested a table for just our family (plus, at the time, as a type 1 diabetic I didn't have an insulin pump yet and was still doing insulin injections, and while I can do it discreetly, I have no desire to sit with strangers and do that)!
When I went to Liberty it was just me and my mom. They brought out all the usual stuff, but I think just in smaller bowls. We were able to eat enough that we requested a refill on a couple things. Family style can work with small parties, the waiter would just have to know to adjust the amount being brought out.I've never done family style at Disney, but the couple of times I have been to a family style restaurant it was big long tables with multiple parties and gigantic platters of food (not something I have any interest in ever doing again). How else does it work if you don't have a big party? Like, if you only have two people at Liberty Tree Tavern, they still bring you huge bowls overflowing with food? That seems like it would end up being really wasteful with a ton of food going into the garbage.
I definitely don't see how it would work for breakfast though (aka the only kind of buffet that interests me) -- it would probably just end up being eggs, bacon, sausage, and maybe toast or something like that? In which case you'd be better off just eating regular breakfast somewhere and getting the exact same items for much cheaper.
When I went to Liberty it was just me and my mom. They brought out all the usual stuff, but I think just in smaller bowls. We were able to eat enough that we requested a refill on a couple things. Family style can work with small parties, the waiter would just have to know to adjust the amount being brought out.
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