We at here on Tuesday 6th October 2015 at 7.15pm
I had booked using the dining reservations line a few weeks before. When we arrived we waited outside in the reservations queue for about 10 minutes before being seated in the downstairs section.
It took a while for our waiter to serve us but he was very nice and took our orders. We used half board plus vouchers, which include a drink with a set 3 course meal.
Bread basket was brought out with our drinks.
DH and I had the chicken caesar salad which was nice. The garlic bread however was rock hard so I didn't have it in case I lost a tooth!
Abbey had marinated vegetables with conchiglie pasta and herbs. She didn't each much and thought that the ham was really strong tasting.
Lewis didn't want a starter but took the vegetable soup which I forgot to take a photo of. DH tried it and said it wasn't very nice at all, luke warm and tasted awful.
For mains, DH, Abbey and I all had pizza with various toppings
Lewis had the kids pizza
DH and Abbey both had the profiterole and ice cream. The ice cream was nice but they both said that the profiterole itself wasn't too good.
I had the Dolce Vita ice cream which included cherries - delicious
Lewis had the vanilla ice cream
We met characters within minutes of sitting down and we were in there so long, about 2 hours, that they came around several times. The character interaction was fantastic, with Goofy in particular being really funny. We met Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto and Eeyore.
We really enjoyed the atmosphere of Cafe Mickey this time, with Goofy getting everyone clapping whenever there was a birthday. Honestly, the food isn't the best and I think it's way overpriced for what you actually eat. The set menu is a bad idea but they obviously caught on to people just going in to share a pizza or so. If we didn't use half board vouchers we wouldn't have eaten there as we don't tend to eat starters and I think it's such a waste. I also don't think the kids choices are great for starters, but that's throughout the park, not just here.
Without doubt you are paying for characters here, not the food. I like that the traditional characters are always here which means it's a fantastic way for little ones to meet their heroes without spending hours queueing in the parks. For us however we've seen them so many times before that I'd have liked to have seen a change at some point.