PCH buffet doesn't have characters, however, Goofy's Kitchen at Disneyland Hotel is going to be refurbished, and during that time PCH dinner buffet will be a character meal - Jan 19 - Feb 9 (something like that).
We made dinner reservations at the PCH buffet on New Year's Day. There were no characters there, is there supposed to be? Not sure if we would have went there if there are characters, we find that it is hard to enjoy our food when we are always on the look out for characters to come by. We just wanted a quieter place to have dinner outside the parks. We liked the selections better than at Storyteller's.
No there isn't characters, both places are buffets Goofy's changed their characters to a certain few as before it was random so I think we might be done with the character meals, we don't do breakfast ones because we usually have a hotel with free breakfast so the dinner at Goofy's was a must so now we will def be trying the buffet at PCH