We ate at Cafe Mickey on a Wednesday Lunchtime in July.
We weren't actually planning on eating here, but we got held up in the Studios, so missed our Silver Spur reservation, so headed to Cafe Mickey on the off chance that we could get a table. As it happens, we were seated straight away, without problems.
As it was a lunch, we skipped past the starters and went straight for the mains.
Unfortunately, the only main I can remember was mine, which was the pluto steak (rump steak in a shallot sauce with french fries). The steak was cooked exactly how I asked it to be (well done) and the sauce was very nice (I don't usually like sauces on my steak, but being a shallot sauce, it was ok and actually quite nice). I also had an alcoholic cocktail to wash it down with, which was also very enjoyable.
They other 2 mains were also enjoyed, but my memory fails me as to what they were.
I was the only to have a pudding. I had the snow white apple pie, which is a thin apple pie with puff pastry and butterscotch ice cream, which was fantastic. I'm going to borrow the picture from another DIS poster for this, so thanks kevg1889. I'll gladly remove it from here if asked:
Cafe Mickey has a reasonable number of characters who come and visit all the tables in turn. They seemed to be working in 2 teams, with 1 team out in the restaurant at a time. We were there for about an hour or so and saw the first team twice, although they only visited us once each. Overall, we felt we had some pretty good character interaction and we quite impressed by the fact that chip and dale obviously listened to us, in order to decide to sign our autograph book as Chip & Dale, rather than Tic & Tac. The characters we saw are shown below:
Overall, we enjoyed our meal here and would certainly consider returning at some point. The food was enjoyable and reasonable value for money as well, which is always a good plus. There's also a pretty good choice available, including menu sections for pizzas and salads, as well as traditional mains.
Personally, I think I preferred the previous menu, as it had some slightly more unusually items (including a delicious duck cottage pie), plus the desserts were an all you can eat dessert buffet. I do like the current menu as well though.
The character interaction was good, without being disrupting and it proves a good way to meet the characters as you get some "private time" with them. If my memory serves me rightly, this is the only table service character meal available, although I may have forgotten one...
That is much more like it - they must have been having an off day when we went.
