We had the winter version of the Dreams menu in January 2013. It is much more hearty than the lighter summer version, and indeed I felt it was a little too much food (not something I say lightly!)

We both had smoked duck breast and a filo parcel of quinoa for a starter. This was delicate and delicious.

My main course was lamb cooked two ways. This was a shank of lamb which was beautifully tender, served with gnocchi in a cream sauce, vegetables and lamb jus. A good dish but lamb shank is often a bit fatty, and there was a lot of it!

Peter had sirloin steak with sauted potatoes and veg, and bearnaise sauce. The steak was cooked perfectly, and the dish was excellent.

The 20th anniversary dessert is the only option on the Dreams menu, and the winter version is a light chocolate bombe with crunchy gold-coloured meringue and a chocolate straw.

As before, the Dreams menu entitles you to a wristband which gives you access to the 'preferred viewing area' for Dreams. This is slightly off to the left but you can still have an excellent view, and it means you don't have to jostle for a place or stake out your spot an hour in advance.

20th Anniversary Dreams Menu

We had this in May; it cost 40 Euros for three courses, and included a wristband which gives you admission into the preferred viewing area for the night-time Dreams show. We found this very useful, as the area is much less crowded and you don't need to stake out your spot ages in advance. The view is slightly to the side, but you are slightly raised, and the CMs ensure the path in front of you is clear, so if you are at the front of the preferred area, there is no-one directly in front of you.

The service was a little confused - we had to ask several times for our wine, and the CMs seemed not to know much about the Dreams menu.

If you are veggie, don't eat seafood, don't eat red meat, have allergies ... don't despair. The servers are happy to offer alternatives to the set menu if needed.

I began with the carpaccio of scallops, which was light, delicate and fresh. The scallops were sliced incredibly thinly and served with sesame oil. The accompanying vegetables included asparagus spears, cooked and served cold, and the veg were wrapped into a pretty circle by a thin strip of raw carrot.

DH's starter of parma ham and melon with spinach salad was beautifully presented and a lovely start to the meal - simple and unfussy (well, compared to mine!) but delicious.

My main course was the sea bream with red rice, and DH's was the rack of lamb with ratatouille, salad and a lamb jus. Both the excellent quality we have come to expect from Walt's.

The only dessert offered on the Dreams menu is the '20th anniversary dessert'. DH is allergic to banana, and we asked the server whether it contained any. A few minutes later he returned and said they weren't absolutely sure, so DH could choose any other dessert instead. (We discovered later that the dessert has no banana in it, but we were grateful to Walt's for erring on the side of caution.)

DH has the bourbon vanilla cheesecake instead, which he thoroughly enjoyed. My 20th anniversary dessert was layers of light mousse and sponge, and a small chocolate plaque. A sweet and light end to the meal.

Walt?s restaurant on Main Street at Disneyland Paris is in my opinion, one of the best places to eat at any of the Disney destinations worldwide. What with the Eurostar on our doorstop in the UK, it is only a 2 hour-ish ride away, so ?The magic is closer than you think? as the poster read in Ashford?s International Train Station. So it is easier than ever to escape across to the Disney goodness?

Walt?s ? An American Restaurant opened, like the rest of the main Disneyland Park in 1992. The restaurant is located quite unassumingly half way down Main Street on the left hand side, if you are walking from the gate to the castle. As you enter the restaurant you arrive in a small lobby with a maître?d desk. The CM takes your name, rings for a waiter and you are whisked up a grand staircase to first floor eating area; at which point you then start to realise how special this treat will be. It is also as though you are escaping from the hustle and the bustle to a refined and private area.

When I booked the table with the concierge in our hotel, I requested a window table, as we had read that these tables go quite quickly. Accordingly, the CMs always put guests at the window tables, as if there is a delay in the kitchen the guests can entertain themselves people watching or watching the seemingly endless number of parades that DLP seems to enjoy. The table was set out well and the cutlery and table finishes were immaculate. You could see that the CMs had taken some time preparing each and every table. After we sat down, we order our drinks and started to survey the menu.

The menu is not huge for lunch and the items don?t appear to be seasonal but whatever sells is obviously a good thing. For starters I opted for the Cesar Salad with grilled chicken. The reason we had booked Walt?s was due to the fact that it was our last day and we wanted to eat somewhere special, that being said we opted for the three courses as we had nowhere else to go and the settings here are pretty peaceful. Any UK Eurostar travellers know that the one and only return train to the UK is not until late in the evening, so we decided to make the most of this highly recommended restaurant.

While waiting for the food I decided to have a look around. From pictures I had seen, the restaurant looks very reminiscent of the exclusive Club 33 at Disneyland in California or even Albert and Victoria?s at the Grand Floridian; Mock American gothic décor meets French Art Deco. For example, take the loos ? uber posh. They remind me of the old cliché toilets you?d have seen at Kings Cross some years ago where there would be an attendant present. Walls, floors and ceilings tiled, porcelain sanitryware and wooden seat, brass taps and old fashioned ?engaged? door locks. Well these toilets were like that, just mix in bespoke wallpaper some hideous green dado tiling and overly ulnate and decorative gold coloured lever taps. Yep that?s right, no expense spared! After all that was the DLP mission, an American park for the Europeans and it is safe to say they have delivered that in bucket loads. Another aspect that adds to the apartment feel is the fact that every room seems to be subtly themed to a particular attraction. It feels like Uncle Walt has put the best concept drawings and sketches from his e-ticket centrepieces throughout his apartment for his guests to view.

Struck colour blind by the loos I walked back to our table. Normally the tradition for most Disney restaurants is for the seating to be open plan and to fit as many tables in as possible; you don?t get that feeling in Walt?s. I felt as though I was a guest in an apartment. The layout with room to room design, hard work corridors, decorative thick pile carpets in the rooms and sort of random and non-uniform light fixtures gives the impression that you are visiting old Uncle Walt?s French apartment high above the park. The one thing that doesn?t quite work is the size of the windows ? they?re so small! Everyone and his dog knows about the forced perspective concept that Disney Imagineers employ throughout the parks. So the idea of this leaves the non-forced perspective rooms with very small windows. Some people argue that this more romantic, which of an evening I can see this theory. Sitting back at the table and as if by magic our starters arrived.

The chicken was very tasty and succulent. The greens were all fresh and mostly were raw spinach (which I love ? just call me Popeye). There was one strange thing though, the dressing was served separately in a small bowl. I assume this was so you could adjust the quantity on the plate and thus stops the leaves from getting mulchy as the dish waits for the other starters. The dressing was very salty and had a sort of anchovies quality to it. I put it on sparingly. Surprising the dressing did enhance the dish and was especially well balanced from the creaminess of the parmesan cheese gratings. I was also surprised to find some boiled egg in my salad too, can?t say I have ever had a Caesar salad with boiled egg before. As we finished the starters a parade was starting, we watched this as we waited for the mains and in no time at all they arrived.

I had ordered the Gourmet Burger which came with fries, coleslaw and a small salad (more salad!), boy the French must be a healthy bunch! The burger was cooked well and was definitely from a pricier cut of beef. The bun was toasted and appeared to be hand baked. The coleslaw looked very rustic and contained pieces of beetroot which I thought was quite interesting as it had in select locations turned the adjoining mayo a nice pink-like colour which added to little bursts of flavour throughout the coleslaw. Again, the salad was high in quality and very tasty, despite the fact that it came pre-dressed in the ?fishy? dressing. A nice little detail was a perfectly fried egg had been tentatively placed inside the burger and when cutting into it the yolk ran out and made the bun very moist, which was extremely tasty.

Watching the exterior light fade the random lamps and lighting started to increase which created a nice relaxed mood throughout the restaurant. Finishing our mains, as we did, the CMs cleared away the plates and we watched the people going by. The service here is very attentive. CMs seem to bring your food mob handed, one ensures you have the correct cutlery, one plates your food and the other checks your drinks. Unlike any other restaurant in DLP I always get the impression that staff are eager to please and quality of service is high on their agenda.

The desserts arrived and I was quite interested to see how mine turned out as I had ordered the Walt?s favourite Strawberry Milkshake dessert. This is exactly what the French do best. Milkshake for dessert I hear you ask. Well yes and it was quite nouveau as the French would say. It was the fruitiest and creamiest shake you had ever cared to try, with a editable flaky straw, a strawberry sugar dressing around the rim of the glass, cliché whipped cream on top, a recently baked white chocolate and raisin biscuit placed at the foot of the plate, a marshmallow and fruit ?kebab? placed on top and a drizzle of strawberry coulee and chocolate syrup artistically layered around the plated items. Best pudding I have had at DLP and nearly worth the cost of a Eurostar ticket to see it (ok maybe not, but still!). Knowing that our time was up, we settled the bill, sipped the last of our drinks and headed to the train station and we were as full-up as full-up can be!

Good points: Great food, great setting, excellent service and the best viewing area for parades.

Bad points: The menu is not so big and the items are quite pricey. Kids will probably find the setting too formal and a big quiet for their liking. The apartment layout theme may mean that some tables can be too close to each other.

Fact file:
Opened: 12th April 1992.
Cuisine: American enthused French dinning.
Price: Over 25 Euros a head, depends what you order.
Reservations: Always recommended for dinner/character dinning. The best rooms for viewing the parade are on the second floor. Tel (UK): 08448 008 898.
Other: Healthier and vegetarian options are available.