Dining at Chef Mickey's for breakfast was the perfect end to our vacation. This fun and festive character buffet meal is our kids favorite, and they request it each time we visit WDW. Standouts on the buffet include Mickey waffles, breakfast pizza, ready-made omelettes, and vegetable lasagna, in addition to all the usual breakfast fare such as pancakes, bacon, sausage, pastries, fruit, and much more.

In addition to a great all-you-care-to-eat buffet, the characters will come around to your table to take pictures and sign autographs. Beware!!! Celebrations break out during the course of your meal, complete with hand clapping and napkin swinging songs!

My son's birthday was made special with a special birthday song that got the whole restaurant involved and was topped off with a cupcake, complete with candle.

If you want a fun and festive way to start your day when at Walt Disney World, then Chef Mickey's is the way to go.

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Insider Tips:

* Book Chef Mickey's in advance because this is a very popular dining location. You are able to book up to 180 days in advance.

* Inform the reservation agent of any special occasions you are celebrating, and remind them again when you check-in at the podium.

* After eating at Chef Mickey's, hop on the monorail to visit the other two hotels on the line, or ride on over to the Magic Kingdom for some theme park fun!

My children and I dined at Chef Mickey's for the Character Breakfast. I can tell you, that although my kids are 9 and 10-years-old, they enjoyed every moment at this restaurant. Every 30 minutes or so Mickey and his friends do a little dance and song routine and encourages all patrons to join in. This is a great spot to get those important character pics. Mickey, Minnie, Chip, Dale, and Pluto all make their rounds to every table for pics. While Goofy is in attendance he does not take photos.

If you have kids (even if you don't and love Disney), this is an opportunity in character dining you don't want to miss. They take a family pic upon entering, which they package and bring to your table, but you are not entitled to buy it if you don't want. The kids are seated at the outside of the table so that while you are dining, the characters have easy access to the little ones for pics and autographs. The breakfast buffet was fantastic, even though my son wouldn't leave the table or calm down enough to even eat. All of the food was fresh, your normal breakfast foods Disney style, even lox for your bagels, fresh pastries, breakfast pizza, and peanut butter-and-jelly pizza. The list goes on... Pluto comes out every 20 minutes or so to party. He has the kids swing their napkins in the air as he dances around to music. The experience was priceless. We enjoyed it and will make time for more character dining next time.

As we searched through the different Character Dining Experiences making the decision to visit Chef Mickey’s was easy, as Mickey is our son’s favorite Disney character. To ensure that we got an advance reservation for the day we wanted to go to the Magic Kingdom I called 90-Days in prior to our scheduled arrival. To my surprise there was not a lot of availability open for the breakfast experience and our choice were limited to 7:50 am or 7:00 am. Knowing that the Magic Kingdom opened at 9:00 am, we thought that the later table would be in our best interest. This would allow us the opportunity to spend a hour with the characters during breakfast and still enter the park when it opened.

On the morning of October 17, 2005, we got the kids up a little early so we could have breakfast with Mickey. The restaurant is located inside the Contemporary Resort on the fourth floor. When we arrived there was only one other family in front of us, but the restaurant was already packed with people. While we waited for our table a Disney photographer took a family photo of us and directed us to the line in which we could meet Goofy. Goofy was the only character who was not visiting the tables, instead he stayed in the center of the restaurant so you could visit him.

We knew this was going to be a great experience when we walked past a handful of characters and saw that our table was right next to a window that overlooked the Magic Kingdom. Chip was the first character to join us at the table and he was more than happy to spend a couple minutes with the kids before posing for a couple photos and signing their autograph books. No sooner did Chip leave the table and Minnie surprised us with a visit. This was our daughter’s first trip to Disney and she has never met Minnie before and seeing her face light up as Minnie approached the table was priceless.

We dined on a bountiful breakfast buffet ($17.99 for Adults, $9.99 for Children ages 3-9) of three different omelets, bacon, sausage, hash, pancakes and waffles in the shape of Mickey himself. While we ate our breakfast Pluto, Mickey and Dale visited our table and what made their visits memorable, was the attention that they showed the kids rather than just signing their books and walking away.

We left Chef Mickey’s at 8:58 am with our belly’s full and having seen each character at least twice. Other than a great meal and a superb character experience, the one thing that convinced me this was the place to have breakfast, was the line to get in: that now had more than thirty people waiting in it.

 

This is the best way to have a great breakfast and meet Mickey, Minnie, and the rest of the gang. The food is really good and everyone gets to visit with the characters. They will take pictures with you and play with the kids (big and small kids). It is far better than standing in line in the park to get an autograph or a picture.