Colleen27
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
I've taken my kids at all different ages to many of those restaurants. From an early age they loved Teppan Edo. The grill is far enough away that I can't imagine she would be able to reach out and touch it. There is enough activity and other guests that I doubt she would get bored and your seven year old would love it.
I second this. My youngest was 16 months the first time we went there and she loved it. The seating is far enough from the grill that a young child would have to be standing on the high chair to touch it, and the food is relatively simple and kid-friendly - grilled meat, veggies, and rice. Via Napoli is a good choice too, especially if you're already familiar with wood-fired pizza. The food is good, the tables aren't right on top of one another the way they are at San Angel, and the atmosphere is lively without being crazy-loud.
I HATE buffets with young children, so I would rule Biergarten right out. The last thing I want, especially during a WDW vacation, is a meal of fetching my own plates as well as my toddlers, not to mention herding the kid along side me at the buffet line to give her a choice in what she wants, worrying the whole time that she's going to trip another diner. And the dance floor? Oh heck no, that's something my kid would have starting fidgeting and wiggling away towards as soon as she saw it, which guarantees a rushed meal for me and chants of "I'm hungry" from her long before the next meal. I grudgingly tolerated character buffets at Disney for the sake of the characters but a non-character buffet never got a second look.
Also, without knowing how much you eat out at home... I found with my kids, especially my oldest and youngest who are, shall we say, higher-energy than the middle child, that they tended to take their cues from the restaurant's atmosphere when they were younger. So louder restaurants didn't necessarily help matters any - the kids just tended to be louder and less settled into their meal at loud or particularly busy restaurants than at more "normal" dining experiences. I'm not talking about fine-dining quite, but just more like the kind of casual family restaurants they encountered at home as opposed to the roaring of T-Rex or the live music at Raglan Road.