On the morning of day three I had a breakfast reservation for Cape May Cafe.
When I originally planned out my intinerary and ADRs I hadn't included Cape May Cafe on my list, and instead had planned on Beaches and Cream for an early lunch. But, after reading some positive reviews here, and figuring out that Cape May Cafe was the only character meal I wouldn't have ever been to by the end of the trip, I decided to book it instead.
That was a mistake.
I had an 10:55 breakfast ADR, so it was really more of a brunch / lunch for me, as by the time I got to the Beach Club I had already been up for hours, getting to MGM and rope drop, and having a couple rides on Toy Story Mania, which is an awesome ride.
I arrived at the restaurant at 10:35 for my 10:55 ADR, and was given a pager. At 11:00, I still had not been seated. A family who had checked in before me, was also still waiting, and it turns out that the lady who was checking people in, had not been activating some of the pagers correctly, so some of us who were waiting, were not being seated when we should have.
Okay, mistakes happen. It was only five minutes after my ADR time, and I wasn't even that hungry, so it was no big deal. I was given a working pager, which went off a few minutes later.
I was led to my table, which the table next to, had dumped all of their stuff on. They told the CM who was trying to seat me, that they needed the space. The CM said she'd find me a different table, so I had to go back to the lobby, and wait. Again.
Now this was starting to annoy me. Those people had no right to take up an extra table for their purses and bags, while there were people waiting to be seated and have their breakfast. I was also annoyed at the CM for letting them do it, since she kind of blew me off with just a, "sorry, you're going to have to wait a little longer."
I considered walking out, and going to Beaches and Cream like I had originally planned, since it was open by then, but I decided to stay, since the buffet did look good, and I wanted to see the characters. Granted, I was seated a few minutes later, but with all the confusion it took to get seated, it had left me moody.
Anyway, once I did get seated, I was greeted by my server, Sui Chun. She was nice enough, but not very attentive, didn't clear my first plate for awhile, and it took awhile to get a soda refill. She wasn't the worst server I've ever had in my life, but probably was the worst this trip, that combined with the seating issues, was probably the most negative experience my whole trip.
I then went up to the buffet;
I had some omelet, breakfast potatoes, breakfast pizza, bacon, and bread pudding. The omelet was good, it was full of filler, which I liked, since I don't really like eggs all that much, and I like a lot of stuff added in. This had, ham, cheese, peppers, onions, peas, and there may have been some other stuff. I thought the peas were sort of odd in an omelet, but they weren't bad. The breakfast potatoes were good as well, and nicely seasoned. Both the potatoes and the omelet were a little on the greasy side though, I didn't mind much, but they were both a little greasy. The breakfast pizza I did not like, I thought it was very dry and unflavorful. The bread pudding was my favorite of everything I tried, it was not overly sweet, and tasted more like a warm cinnamon bun then bread pudding. The bacon was good, but not as crispy as I like, but it was decent.
I then went up to the buffet again;
I had some more of the omelet, potatoes, and bread pudding, as well as a chocolate crossiant, and my first ever Mickey waffle.
I found the crossiant to be all right, but nothing special, and the Mickey waffle was dried out and cold on the inside.
The character interaction here was weak as well. First of all there were only three characters, which is the lowest number of characters I've ever seen at a character meal. The characters were; Minnie, Goofy, and Dale. I found it extremely odd that Dale would be there, but Chip wasn't. The characters were nice and all, but I guess they just were tired since I was one of the last tables, and they wanted a break, because they didn't interact much. Not only that, but they took forever to come around, and I didn't see any of them until after I had finished eating.
Would I return to Cape May Cafe? Probably not. I think there are a lot of other better breakfast buffets, but maybe mine was an isolated negative experience, as I have read a lot of good reviews of it on the DIS.
