Best Resort Character Meal

[DisKYFan01]

What is the best resort character meal? We aren't doing Disney this trip so I want to take my son to a character meal. I know Chef Mickeys doesn't get rave reviews but I am considering doing the brunch since it has all the main characters. My son will have just turned 5 on our trip.

 

[Barbydoll8]

You can also do breakfast at Cape May in the board walk area. Great food and it has Mickey, Minnie & Goofy (not sure about others). The food is much better than CM IMO. Make a late ressie like 10am if you want more of a brunch.
If he wants the classic characters, this is the other choice to go with. 1900 Park Fare breakfast is Alice & Wonderland and Poly is Lilo & Stitch.

 

[MrsDuck]

We love Chef Mickey for the atmosphere... breakfast with the characters and an amazing view of MK? We're sold.

We also really like Cape May as a close second.

 

[Fantabulously Cherry]

I'm a believer that you should try all restaurants at least once. I had a wonderful experience at Chef Mickey's breakfast. We are trying the Lilo & Stitch breakfast at the Poly in September.

 

[jacksgirl]

We love the Lilo & Stitch breakfast at Ohana!

 

[sullyfam]

We've done 1900 Park Fare, Cape May, Ohana and Chef Mickey's for character breakfasts outside the parks. I would probably do either Chef Mickey's or Ohana. 1900 Park Fare we enjoyed more at dinner time and Cape May was OK, but not really worth the extra trip for us.

 

[lizard1]

My favorites were 1900 Park Fare for either breakfast or dinner (dinner was better) or Ohana breakfast. If you need the fab 5, then Chef Mickey I'd okay too.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I've eaten at Cape May Cafe several times. Once we had a very slow server-so slow DH and I laughed about it. However, every other time has been fantastic, and great character interaction.

 

[jenjersnap]

Do the one with the characters you want to see. CM breakfast is fine. Our personal favorite is 1900PF breakfast of the resort options. I would rank them:

1900PF breakfast
Chef Mickey's breakfast
Cape May breakfast
'Ohana breakfast
1900PF dinner
Chef Mickey's dinner

Only seen a couple reviews of CM brunch so far. Looks fine. We are likely doing it.

 

[JimmyBean42]

We've had great meals at all of them and the character interaction couldn't be beat. I know Chef Mickey's gets so-so reviews a lot, but we found it excellent. Here is how I rank the resort character meals (that I've attended). Rank based on character interaction, atmosphere, food quality & choices and overall experience.

1. Ohana Breakfast 2. Cape May Cafe Breakfast 3. Chef Mickey breakfast 4. 1900 PF dinner

We are doing Chef Mickey dinner this year. All 4 we attended previously were great though.

 

[SamIAm8]

1900 Park Fair is my family's favorite. Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Alice, The Mad Hatter, and Mary Poppins

 

[quakechicago]

My kiddo INSISTED we go to Chef Mickeys (she adores Minnie) and I REALLY didn't want to go because of the reviews. It was our best breakfast the entire trip (and we do all character meals deluxe dining so we have been to them all). Everything was hot and fresh, the servers were hilarious and fun, and the characters spent a ton of time with everyone. I was totally wrong to read the reviews. It was awesome.

 

[PlutosBone17]

For our upcoming trip we have booked:

Saturday - CRT breakfast
Monday - Garden Grill dinner
Tuesday - 1900 PF breakfast
Wednesday - H&V lunch
Thursday - Chef Mickey 2:30 brunch
Friday - 'OHana breakfast

Everything will be new to us until Thursday. Kids are 2 and 4 and would prefer we just go and see Mary Poppins everyday!

Our past favorites have been 1900 PF dinner with the stepsisters, Akerhaus dinner with the princesses and 'OHana with Lilo and Stitch. Character interaction was fantastic at all 3 and I think the food/service was better than the other buffets.

 

[AtlantaDisneyDreamer]

I agree that you should go with the characters your son cares most about. The restaurant experience depends so much on factors beyond your control (how crowded is the restaurant? what is the behavior of other guests in the restaurant?).

We loved Ohana breakfast because we could sit and the food was served to us. It was more relaxing than a buffet with kids because we didn't have to worry about missing characters when we were up getting our food. The juice they serve there is divine. However, there is not a lot of variety in food, and our family loves variety. Also, we aren't huge fans of Lilo and Stitch (though they are cute and worth seeing). Mickey and Pluto are also there, I think.

Cape May breakfast was our best non-park character meal. The food was varied, fresh, and delicious, and the characters were awesome. I also recommend a late breakfast. The later you go, the more likely you will have more time with the characters since there are fewer guests. At Cape May, we met all of the characters twice because by the time we were halfway through our meal, half the restaurant was empty (we had the latest reservation possible).

 

[DizDaD7]

1900 PF was/is our absolute favorite CM by far....At least for Breakfast that is....Great Breakfast fare, and non stop character interactiona plenty. We did the dinner this past November, but were definitely underwhelmed for sure....
I enjoyed Ohanas too, but the family didn't.

 

[Newsies]

1900 Park Fare is my favorite. Very unique with great food and characters!

 

[DisKYFan01]

Thank you all for your feedback...I think we will try Chef Mickeys for brunch. They still have openings as well for our dates. He loves Mickey so that will be great! He is really in to all characters right now.

 

[MickeyLovestheU]

We just did the brunch last week at Chef Mickey's, We actually like Chef Mickey's but brunch was a disaster. Running 20 minutes behind on reservations, staff and food looked tired from breakfast and the bill of $42 almost did me in. Brunch was the same breakfast food with the addition of BBQ ribs, mac and cheese and chicken tenders.

Best Character interaction with great food is still Ohana (Mickey, Pluto, Lilo and Stitch). I also like 1900 Park Fare for great food and characters (Alice/Mad Hatter, Pooh and Tiger, and Mary Poppins).

 

[mgentry210]

Our niece is 5 and last week we did, count them 11 character meals! For the record this was way overkill. Most of them were breakfast. She ate eggs with ketchup, bacon and watermelon every meal. Once she spotted a character it was a chore to force her to eat anything. (if you don't eat a piece of bacon Goofy won't come over here bribery) Don't worry about the food and go with whatever characters you think will appeal best to him. He's going to eat/not eat the same thing anyway.

 

[kimber11]

Chef Mickey's is a must do for us every trip. We love the breakfast there! I think you should give it a try. Don't trust the reviews. We would have missed out on a lot of awesome restaurants if we picked based on reviews. We were pleasantly surprised by a lot of restaurants with poor reviews and disappointed in some with great ones.