We ate there on Monday morning, Feb 4th. Our ADR was for 9:30am, but they were running 15-20 minutes behind so we weren't seated until around 9:50am. We were at WDW with DH's high school band (the meal was just the three of us, though) so we couldn't do a really early ADR like we normally do. I'm a big fan of doing the breakfast ADR as early as possible so that you are in the park before others.
They do take your picture before, but we didn't buy the photo.
We enjoyed the food. There is traditional breakfast buffet food (eggs, biscuits, bacon, etc), but there's also breakfast food similar to what you'd find at Boma, Yum!! The juice they give you at the table is GREAT!
The characters were okay. It's Mickey, Goofy, Donald and Daisy. They were really slow and all clumped together. We were finished our meal before we saw the first character. I think an ideal character meal is one where you see the characters throughout your meal, not right after the other at the very end. So we were a bit disappointed with that, but I'm sure that varies each day. They do a cute song with the kids...they dance around with the kids so DS enjoyed that.
OKay...just read someone else's review and they mentioned Pluto. Never saw Pluto our entire meal...never saw him in our room so not sure if he was even there. If he was there, he never made it into our room in the hour or so we were there! We were in the larger room and the same characters were in there our entire meal. I didn't know Pluto was supposed to be there?