It's a toss up for us.
We have had breakfast at both.
Both are quite different experiences to us.
Chef Mickey's is easy to get to, loud, long, colorful, busy, and hard to get into lately! The food is ok and has a lot to chose from. The characters stop for a picture and not much else but it is the fab five, so cannot beat that!
Cape May's, on the other hand, is a little more difficult to get to (especially depending on the time of day), has never been crowded when we have been there, in fact they have always been taking walk-ups. We have never has more than a 3 or 4 minute wait. It is open and airy feeling. We have seen Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Chip and/or Dale (it was only one of them the last time we were there) dressed in their beach finest. There seems somehow to be more selections or else they were just set up better and things were always hot and fresh looking and tasting. They had a wonderful yogurt bar. And the kids love that they are given crayons and a table cloth to write on...in fact, usually the characters would sit down and color with them for a few minutes or play tic-tac-toe...they loved that!
Wow, reading this back it seems clear to me which we should say is our favorite but somehow, we don't. We usually want both becasue they are such different feeling experiences...
if we could only pick one and time was not an issue it would be Cape May for us...but we'd miss Chef Mickey's too...