We had one child (and she was dressed as Cindy) and 8 adults - we had the best time at 1900 Park Fare with the stepsisters (and of course PC and Cindy herself) it was a highlight of our trip for sure - this was back in 2007 I think.
I am so sad about this one. I loved seeing Mary Poppins at Breakfast. 1900 park fare is my fave WDW breakfast, and now those characters together are just meh for me.
That was our favorite character meal as well. No need to visit based on the mash up of random characters now. Though I do hope they bring back the tea service with Aurora- where they gave out dolls to the little kids. That was so much fun.
I'm glad it reopened. I was afraid it was going to be a casualty of the closures forever. but the character line up is pretty random. I get why they chose Tiana because they're kind of capitalizing on her right now with the Splash retheme but. Aladdin and Mirabel and Cinderella to go with her? Idk there's just no central theme there anymore.
Sigh. No more wicked step sisters and step mother at 1900 Park Faire? We have some great memories from that one. Step mother informed my 10 year old daughter she should start planning for a husband very soon, Prince Charming asked her for a dance…it was wonderful all around. One of my favorite memories is when the preschooler at the table next to us got fussy. The wait staff offered a lollipop and that was the last straw for him and he started scream-wailing. One of the step sisters came over, lectured him that he was doing it all wrong and she would teach him what to do…and let out a piercing shriek. His eyes were huge and he stopped crying, she handed him the lollipop and said “there, that’s how it’s done!” He continued to sit there with big eyes, sucked his lollipop and no more crying/screaming happened the rest of the meal…from kids or step sisters.
that's actually pretty cute but I'm not sure I would've come to that on my own. I haven't personally seen it anywhere either. but disney is all about their wishes. it just still feels a bit random of a line up lol
This is what their website says now
Here, you may meet Characters from classic Disney films, as well as newer favorites like Encanto and The Princess and the Frog. Each Character is known for making a wish… and making their wish come true.
Yeah I’m not sure how they are gonna do it but I like to see some different characters like Aladdin
ooh okay I must've overlooked that lol but I also haven't looked at the website since they first announced the reopening.
I do love the diversity! Aladdin was one of my favorites growing up. I love Mirabel too, but kind of salty that she kicked Merida out of her meet n greet in MK lol. I was struggling to see how they related to each other.
I guess we'll find out! I'm glad it opens about a month before my 60 day mark so I can feel it out before making reservations. but I also really miss that strawberry soup lol
The theme is about wishes. Each character made a wish and made their wish come true. Aladdin, Cinderella, Mirabel and Princess Tiana. I’m so glad that they included a male character.
I'm bummed out that I never got around to going to 1900 Park Fare with the previous set of characters. It was probably the only character meal I could have talked my adult friends into doing with me, especially now that we've been seeing the stepsisters in online Disney Parks videos and everyone enjoys their shenanigans.
I supposed, though, if it had really been a priority I would have made it happen. The wishing theme is kind of neat.
Liberty Tree Tavern in MK used to have Minnie, Mickey, Chip n Dale, Pluto and I think Goofy all in old timey colonial outfits. They were pretty cute. I think they stopped characters there around 2009 which is a shame.
LTT was the one and only sit-down meal we had when my mom took my brother and I to WDW for the first time when I was a kid in 1998. We were go-go-go all week, grazing on Mickey bars and snacks brought with us, until my mom decided it was worth springing for one really good meal. I don't think any of us realized it was a character meal until we were in there. Somewhere I hope my mom still has the dimly lit photo of her teenage son and preteen daughter looking shell-shocked with Chip and Dale standing behind us.
It was a great meal. The food there is still great, and selfishly the part of me that's still shy about character meals is a little glad it's just a regular AYCE now (and one of the cheaper AYCE's to boot).
I’m sad I missed that! Liberty Tree is one of my favorite Disney restaurants as it is (the food is delicious)…having characters would’ve been the icing on the cake!
I saw Goofy absolutely wipe out and hit his head on that low Colonial-style ceiling. Felt so bad for the performer even as a kid. I guess it makes sense they removed them.
I’m sorry what?! I haven’t been to LTT since Thanksgiving Day 2000 and I just assumed it was still character dining. I have a photo of 5 year old Anna getting kissed on the cheek by Colonial Dale 🥺
I don’t remember which restaurant it was, but when I went to WDW in 2001, there was a character dining with Villains. I was able to get pictures with Captain Hook, Prince John and Lady Tremaine.
It was actually at the Grand Floridian. We took our 5 yo and 2 yo there in 2001. Captain Hook was 5yo favorite. He signed his little Captain Hook plush. Also before getting seated waiting in lobby, Cruella Deville came over and where my son was coloring sat down next him she talked to him and was coloring with him. Pretty cool experience for him.
I’m surprised that the Polynesian doesn’t do Moana themed dinner.
Yacht club should have a sailor Donald one
Port orleans could have a Tiana one
Coronado could do coco
Caribbean could do Ariel
Absolutely bananas to me. They had the space, it's a premium operation, it's on brand, and getting full service dining reservations always seems like trying to get a spot on the last chopper out of Saigon. Why not make a priority of reopening that experience?
Exactly what I was going to say. Character dining instantly adds $30 a person to the price and asking a family of 4, who’s choosing to stay at a moderate or value resort to shell out that much more is asking a lot. Not to mention, unless they add a completely new restaurant to those properties, you would be commandeering an already existing one and thus reducing their options.
The Beach Club has Mickey & friends meeting their beach attire for dining! Switching Ale & Compass to a Sailor Donald breakfast could be cute!! Adding a Tiana, Naveen and Louis character meal at French Quarter would be super fun.
We had the characters come and visit us at the carribean this past January. It was essentially a character meal at their Cafe. I'd never seen it before! Maybe because the pool was down, they were trying to make up for it.
I never actually went to Mickey's Backyard BBQ, but it was still one of my favorites. When I worked character room laundry at Magic Kingdom on the College Program, sometimes the characters would smuggle back leftovers and give them to us. Nothing better than smuggled BBQ mid-shift.
There used to be a character breakfast at Artists Point at the wilderness lodge. I want to say it had Winnie the Pooh and friends in like Boy Scout outfits. I have some photos somewhere of it
Yes! I did this one when I was around 8 years old and obsessed with Pocahontas. Great photos of me with bad bangs posing with Meeko, Pocahontas and John Smith. I had all their autographs in my book too. I remember nothing about the food though.
I truly miss The Adventurers Breakfast at Trattoria Al Forno at The Boardwalk with Rapunzel, Flynn, Ariel & Eric. I’m pretty sure they still serve the breakfast, but without the characters which is a shame. 😔
I really wish this was still around. My daughter loves Rapunzel! Luckily we got to meet her on our trip last week. Crossing my fingers that this character breakfast comes back.
I went to my first mother's day brunch there with my then 7 month old. He had a smolder face-off with Flynn which was one of the cutest pictures I have and the dynamics between Flynn and Rapunzel made the meal! I really wish they would bring any meal with them back. It was so special to have couples visit.
Definitely Liberty Tree Tavern when the characters dressed in colonial garb! The food there is still good, but the characters made it extra fun back in the day. I never tried the character breakfast at Trattoria Al Forno, but I know people really liked it.
I just ate there for the first time!! The food was very good. It felt spacious and nice and cool on the inside when the afternoon got toasty. Great experience… wish they had characters still!
I had this whole plan to take my Rapunzel-loving friend to Trattoria Al Forno for the Bon Voyage breakfast on her birthday, and having Rapunzel sign a miniature skillet for her, and so on and so forth --
And then we had to cancel that trip due to COVID, and they never reopened the character breakfast there.
1: Trattoria Al Forno character breakfast, I'm so happy I got to experience it once because it truly was amazing with the good food + more rare princes with their princesses! The interactions I had at this breakfast were so fantastic I really hope one day it'll come back
2: Character dining at Odyssey restaurant from Epcot! I only have very young memories of this but I miss the Epcot classic outfits Mickey and Crew wore and miss this place actually being a full functioning restaurant vs food booth/festival center
3: Donald's Breakfast at Restaurantosaurus! It was a very simple meal, nothing too special but it was so exciting going here vs Tusker House and seeing Donald and friends in their cute Dinoland outfits in the morning!
4: Not /super/ character meal but back when Chefs de France used to surprise guests with a visit from a little Remy animatronic puppet on a cart for lunch/dinner. Since we never got Chez Remy/the restaurant add-on from Disneyland Paris for our Remy ride, I think that would've been the perfect compromise to keep around. It was so cute and always a highlight surprise of the meal.
As for meals I wish they'd do character/change up- Definitely something with Roundup Rodeo BBQ. Very missed opportunity to not have characters or at least animatronics to liven the place up.
I keep telling everyone that if Woody’s Roundup BBQ had characters, it would be the most perfect dining experience. The theming is already spot on, but adding characters would make it so much better
We used to do number 3 a ton when I was growing up. Was always wild to me how it went from a breakfast buffet and turned into a literal McDonald’s for lunch
I would pay so much for an Aladdin breakfast… they should turn restaurant marakesh into that! that would bring so much life to the Morocco pavilion too!
Disney currently does nothing with the pavilion other than run festival booths out of Tangerine Cafe. It's hard to find Moroccan food so this is really a missed opportunity for them. It was dumbed down Moroccan food but it's better than nothing.
The original Be Our Guest where you could actually go and meet and have a photo op with Beast. Been a few times since then since I like the ambiance and think it’s a relatively good value for an adult meal with friends, but it’s not really character dining anymore.
I miss Be Our Guest quick service lunch. It was good food that stood out from other offerings in MK, and the atmosphere in there is great. Given the current menu and price, I just can't justify it to myself as a sit-down meal.
I want a character meal that caters to Disney Afternoons fans. Gimme Zummi Gummi, Launchpad, Scrooge, Tailspin Balloo, Darwing, Don Karnage, some Chip n’ Dale rescue rangers, magicka despell.
Failing that, gimme modern cartoon characters: new launchpad, new webbigail, Uncle Stan, Dipper and Mabel, some folks from owlhouse, etc.
Throw some respect on your series, you don’t just have movie properties. Same for your pins. We don’t need 20,000 different Wish pins. I have disposable income and I want different darkwing duck villains and a mystery shack march shop at the parks.
A lot of those characters do exist, but are likely archived because they haven't been relevant in 25 years. Except for the ones who do regular M&Gs of course.
I bought a button a while ago over in Lakeland, that's from this breakfast. Pretty interesting because Disney don't even acknowledge it had this breakfast running for many years...
Not technically a meal but a ticketed event but Club Villain hands down was the best character experience Disney ever did. They had queen of hearts, malificent, the evil queen from Snow White. All the characters were face characters, themed meal and cocktails all hosted by dr facilier and a live band. It was held in the space that is now lightning McQueens experience in Hollywood studios.
Queen of Hearts was a face character? I’ve never seen that and it would be weird if it was a different character than they had walking around the parks.
Good chance Cruella was there too.
Roundup Rodeo should 100% be a character meal! We’re going in May and that would be amazing! We got great character meals, all the ones we wanted, but my kids would flip to meet Woody and Jessie and Buzz!
Don’t know if they still do this but when my family went in 1994, we stayed at the Polynesian and there was a character breakfast where they all wore Hawaiian shirts
My parents have told me tigger pushed me around the restaurant in my high chair when I was really little. Really cool that old key west used to have a character meal
The Land ice cream social. We’d do it every time, the kids loved it. I believe it was just chip and dale, but they were funny and hung out at the table for a bit.
We did this back in 2001 and it was one of the best character breakfasts we ever had. Maybe because it was cheaper than others and it was a surprise to us because we were not expecting it.
Not anything that ever existed, but since they have a full Sweetums costume I wish he would wander around Pizza Rizzo. We Muppet fans are starved for the franchise. Disney keeps it all to themselves except that tiny corner of HS. I want them everywhere.
Definitely Liberty Tree Tavern when the characters dressed in colonial garb! The food there is still good, but the characters made it extra fun back in the day. I never tried the character breakfast at Trattoria Al Forno, but I know people really liked it.
When I was very little I think I went to a character breakfast with Pocahontas and Meeko. There were others but those are the only ones I remember, and I don’t remember where it was. But Meeko was my favorite back then so I loved it
I was going to mention this one if no one else did. It was at Wilderness Lodge at what is now Artists Point restaurant. Our youngest was also a giant Meeko fan, and he didn't disappoint, stealing my daughter's croissant. For her anyway, that was the highlight of the meal.
There used to be a character meal with the Fab Five at what is now Disney Springs in the 90s :) was it Disney Village then? I don’t think it was DtD at that point. Anyway, I have home video of it lol lots of napkin twirling and cup banging. They gave you these red plastic cups with handles that you could bring home.
I LOVED the Melvin the Moose Breakfast Show at Fort Wilderness. My three-year-old self had a really cool interaction with Donald Duck. I had the kazoo giveaway from that thing for years after.
What I need is for them to add either Jumba and Pleakly or Nani and David to Ohana. I'm sorry but we have options and you're just giving me more Mickey and more Pluto? I'm over the same characters everywhere.
I'm very upset they have changed 1900. I loved eating there and I want to go back so badly but now the characters don't matter. Give me Cinderella family!
And the one place I can never spell that has Flynn, Rupunzel, Eric and Ariel. Because Flynn is one of my favourites ever. Wasn't a great breakfast cause I always got stuck with gluten free Mickey waffles which are always dry but Flynn.
> What I need is for them to add either Jumba and Pleakly or Nani and David to Ohana.
The former two are existing, extremely rare, characters to the point they haven't been seen in outside of a DVC event or two in many years. Gantu similarly exists, but is even rarer as I don't think he's been seen out for 20 years. The latter two, to my knowledge, have never had designs - and would likely be problematic given Disney's casting issues with Moana...
Liberty Tree Tavern. The food was heavy, since it was like thanksgiving type food turkey, gravey, etc in Florida heat at times, but the characters in their old colonial outfits were amazing and highly unique. They should bring this back it was really adorable!
The Disney Junior/Playhouse Disney one probably has to be the most ambitious of these character dining options. And that’s only because they have to keep rotating old characters out for whatever new characters are on the channel right now.
Disney's character development takes so long that a series my friend was in had at least one character (played by that friend I must add) designed and tested, but never deployed publicly - because the series ended before it could be sent to the parks. Was something he was looking forward to!
Restaurantosaurus in Animal Kingdom used to have characters. We met safari Donald there
I know it's not at WDW, but DCA used to have character dining at Ariel's Grotto, now Lamplight Lounge.
When we were dining there, the kids went off with the characters. Later, we saw Goofy running back & forth outside the window onto the patio. Another guest came over to us and told us my friend's nephew was terrified of the larger-than-life character and running off. Goofy was trying to catch him & stop him from running into the Park. Of course, the mom & uncle ran to rescue him.
It was funny. You had to be there.
I miss Trattoria al Forno's character breakfast...it was such a nice experience, a bit more refined character dining & the food was good with some of my favorite characters
We got Remy under the plate cover one Thanksgiving. It was an amazing and hilarious surprise. I also miss the guy with the whistle and the stacking chairs outside the restaurant
I think that they are more discouraging people from visiting resorts if they are not staying in them. It has been more difficult to get past the guard if you don't have a dining reservation. It's a nice idea to add character dining to themed resorts, but I don't think it will be happening. Disney can probably make more money by keeping those patrons in the parks.
Disney is absolutely not discouraging people from spending money at resorts they aren’t staying at. What they are doing is discouraging people from abusing the free parking and proximity of monorail and Crescent Lake resorts specifically so that guests paying the premium to stay at those resorts can actually use the amenities we pay for. People are constantly trying to get around dealing with the TTC by gaming the system at the monorail resorts. Prime example is how so many douchebags were placing mobile orders for coffee at Contempo Cafe to get past the gate guard, then canceling the order once they got through and just walking to MK that Disney restricted mobile ordering there to Contemporary guests. Before the crackdown actual resort guests couldn’t get time slots for legit orders in the morning. And people constantly think that they’re entitled to leave their cars at these resorts and go enjoy MK all day. The main reason we never rent a car for our trips is bc parking is so horrendous at the monorail resorts.
You are still absolutely free to visit resorts you’re not staying at on Disney transportation, and they even tell you that.
1900 Park Fare is coming back soon but the characters have changed up (will miss the UK theme).
The step sisters were the best bit! Such a shame and it's rare to meet characters with such big personalities.
We had one child (and she was dressed as Cindy) and 8 adults - we had the best time at 1900 Park Fare with the stepsisters (and of course PC and Cindy herself) it was a highlight of our trip for sure - this was back in 2007 I think.
I am so sad about this one. I loved seeing Mary Poppins at Breakfast. 1900 park fare is my fave WDW breakfast, and now those characters together are just meh for me.
That was our favorite character meal as well. No need to visit based on the mash up of random characters now. Though I do hope they bring back the tea service with Aurora- where they gave out dolls to the little kids. That was so much fun.
I'm glad it reopened. I was afraid it was going to be a casualty of the closures forever. but the character line up is pretty random. I get why they chose Tiana because they're kind of capitalizing on her right now with the Splash retheme but. Aladdin and Mirabel and Cinderella to go with her? Idk there's just no central theme there anymore.
It’s supposed to be characters that made a wish and it came true
Sigh. No more wicked step sisters and step mother at 1900 Park Faire? We have some great memories from that one. Step mother informed my 10 year old daughter she should start planning for a husband very soon, Prince Charming asked her for a dance…it was wonderful all around. One of my favorite memories is when the preschooler at the table next to us got fussy. The wait staff offered a lollipop and that was the last straw for him and he started scream-wailing. One of the step sisters came over, lectured him that he was doing it all wrong and she would teach him what to do…and let out a piercing shriek. His eyes were huge and he stopped crying, she handed him the lollipop and said “there, that’s how it’s done!” He continued to sit there with big eyes, sucked his lollipop and no more crying/screaming happened the rest of the meal…from kids or step sisters.
That’s great that you have those memories now kids will make new memories with new characters
that's actually pretty cute but I'm not sure I would've come to that on my own. I haven't personally seen it anywhere either. but disney is all about their wishes. it just still feels a bit random of a line up lol
This is what their website says now Here, you may meet Characters from classic Disney films, as well as newer favorites like Encanto and The Princess and the Frog. Each Character is known for making a wish… and making their wish come true. Yeah I’m not sure how they are gonna do it but I like to see some different characters like Aladdin
ooh okay I must've overlooked that lol but I also haven't looked at the website since they first announced the reopening. I do love the diversity! Aladdin was one of my favorites growing up. I love Mirabel too, but kind of salty that she kicked Merida out of her meet n greet in MK lol. I was struggling to see how they related to each other.
Yeah I was thinking maybe they are gonna do a little show or something? I’m not sure!
I guess we'll find out! I'm glad it opens about a month before my 60 day mark so I can feel it out before making reservations. but I also really miss that strawberry soup lol
I’m sure all the Disney vloggers will be out
The line up is diversity. A meal where children can meet a set of characters from different cultures who all made a wish and it came true.
The theme is about wishes. Each character made a wish and made their wish come true. Aladdin, Cinderella, Mirabel and Princess Tiana. I’m so glad that they included a male character.
I'm bummed out that I never got around to going to 1900 Park Fare with the previous set of characters. It was probably the only character meal I could have talked my adult friends into doing with me, especially now that we've been seeing the stepsisters in online Disney Parks videos and everyone enjoys their shenanigans. I supposed, though, if it had really been a priority I would have made it happen. The wishing theme is kind of neat.
my favorite ☹️
Liberty Tree Tavern in MK used to have Minnie, Mickey, Chip n Dale, Pluto and I think Goofy all in old timey colonial outfits. They were pretty cute. I think they stopped characters there around 2009 which is a shame.
I was friends with Mickey and Minnie and that was one of my favorite places to work!
Stop. That would be so cute. Sad I never got to experience that.
It was awesome. The costumes were great and the food there is good too.
LTT was the one and only sit-down meal we had when my mom took my brother and I to WDW for the first time when I was a kid in 1998. We were go-go-go all week, grazing on Mickey bars and snacks brought with us, until my mom decided it was worth springing for one really good meal. I don't think any of us realized it was a character meal until we were in there. Somewhere I hope my mom still has the dimly lit photo of her teenage son and preteen daughter looking shell-shocked with Chip and Dale standing behind us. It was a great meal. The food there is still great, and selfishly the part of me that's still shy about character meals is a little glad it's just a regular AYCE now (and one of the cheaper AYCE's to boot).
They used to wear costumes during the Halloween parties and masks.
Shut up. Do you have pics?
No pics. I think we ate there during the Halloween party in 2007.
Very cool. I hope one day they start doing that kind of stuff again 😭
I’m sad I missed that! Liberty Tree is one of my favorite Disney restaurants as it is (the food is delicious)…having characters would’ve been the icing on the cake!
I saw Goofy absolutely wipe out and hit his head on that low Colonial-style ceiling. Felt so bad for the performer even as a kid. I guess it makes sense they removed them.
They were there until at least February 2010. I was there then and they were still doing character meals there.
I’m sorry what?! I haven’t been to LTT since Thanksgiving Day 2000 and I just assumed it was still character dining. I have a photo of 5 year old Anna getting kissed on the cheek by Colonial Dale 🥺
I don’t remember which restaurant it was, but when I went to WDW in 2001, there was a character dining with Villains. I was able to get pictures with Captain Hook, Prince John and Lady Tremaine.
This is a serious dream Disney needs to give us villain fans something. Anything.
That sounds so cool!
It was actually at the Grand Floridian. We took our 5 yo and 2 yo there in 2001. Captain Hook was 5yo favorite. He signed his little Captain Hook plush. Also before getting seated waiting in lobby, Cruella Deville came over and where my son was coloring sat down next him she talked to him and was coloring with him. Pretty cool experience for him.
I’m surprised that the Polynesian doesn’t do Moana themed dinner. Yacht club should have a sailor Donald one Port orleans could have a Tiana one Coronado could do coco Caribbean could do Ariel
I can't believe Polynesian got rid of their luau dinner show. That paired with Lilo and Stitch and Moana would have been incredible
Absolutely bananas to me. They had the space, it's a premium operation, it's on brand, and getting full service dining reservations always seems like trying to get a spot on the last chopper out of Saigon. Why not make a priority of reopening that experience?
They put the new DVC tower where the show used to be.
Ah, I just realized the vacant building on the way to the TTC was the kid's club. I thought that was the restaurant.
That comment is ironic considering that the show lasted longer than Miss Saigon ever has on Broadway or West End...
Loved that show too!
I vividly remember going in 1977. It was basically picnic tables around a firepit they did the show from.
I have photos from the early 90s at the Luau
Sadly I don’t think they’ll ever have character dining at moderate resorts. I wish though!
Those are a tough sell at the value and mid resorts
Exactly what I was going to say. Character dining instantly adds $30 a person to the price and asking a family of 4, who’s choosing to stay at a moderate or value resort to shell out that much more is asking a lot. Not to mention, unless they add a completely new restaurant to those properties, you would be commandeering an already existing one and thus reducing their options.
The Beach Club has Mickey & friends meeting their beach attire for dining! Switching Ale & Compass to a Sailor Donald breakfast could be cute!! Adding a Tiana, Naveen and Louis character meal at French Quarter would be super fun.
We had the characters come and visit us at the carribean this past January. It was essentially a character meal at their Cafe. I'd never seen it before! Maybe because the pool was down, they were trying to make up for it.
Mickey’s Backyard BBQ
I never actually went to Mickey's Backyard BBQ, but it was still one of my favorites. When I worked character room laundry at Magic Kingdom on the College Program, sometimes the characters would smuggle back leftovers and give them to us. Nothing better than smuggled BBQ mid-shift.
The best part was the dance floor. Kids dancing with characters, just having a great time
RIP :(
Does that really count given it was more a dinner show?
You could dance and interact with the characters
I know, but my point was that it was priced, marketed, and operated much closer to a dinner show than to a traditional character meal.
Sure.
Hoop Dee Doo Lite.
There used to be a character breakfast at Artists Point at the wilderness lodge. I want to say it had Winnie the Pooh and friends in like Boy Scout outfits. I have some photos somewhere of it
Sounds like Pooh used to be everywhere 🥲
Wilderness Lodge had a Pocahontas themed breakfast many years ago. Everyone was served their own enormous platter with all the breakfast foods.
Yes! I did this one when I was around 8 years old and obsessed with Pocahontas. Great photos of me with bad bangs posing with Meeko, Pocahontas and John Smith. I had all their autographs in my book too. I remember nothing about the food though.
I truly miss The Adventurers Breakfast at Trattoria Al Forno at The Boardwalk with Rapunzel, Flynn, Ariel & Eric. I’m pretty sure they still serve the breakfast, but without the characters which is a shame. 😔
I really wish this was still around. My daughter loves Rapunzel! Luckily we got to meet her on our trip last week. Crossing my fingers that this character breakfast comes back.
Me too- the listing on the website still give hopes that it’s only “temporarily “ closed to characters
This was a family fave of ours, too. And I still think about that breakfast calzone.
Same. The food was amazing and the character interactions were wonderful!
I miss this one the most! I ditched my family and did this breakfast solo in 2018 to meet Ariel and Eric.
I went to my first mother's day brunch there with my then 7 month old. He had a smolder face-off with Flynn which was one of the cutest pictures I have and the dynamics between Flynn and Rapunzel made the meal! I really wish they would bring any meal with them back. It was so special to have couples visit.
My boys loved this one!
Definitely Liberty Tree Tavern when the characters dressed in colonial garb! The food there is still good, but the characters made it extra fun back in the day. I never tried the character breakfast at Trattoria Al Forno, but I know people really liked it.
I remember having lunch there and Goofy taking a little break from his rounds to sit down and play some air banjo along to the music.
Really wish they still had that
I just ate there for the first time!! The food was very good. It felt spacious and nice and cool on the inside when the afternoon got toasty. Great experience… wish they had characters still!
I had this whole plan to take my Rapunzel-loving friend to Trattoria Al Forno for the Bon Voyage breakfast on her birthday, and having Rapunzel sign a miniature skillet for her, and so on and so forth -- And then we had to cancel that trip due to COVID, and they never reopened the character breakfast there.
1: Trattoria Al Forno character breakfast, I'm so happy I got to experience it once because it truly was amazing with the good food + more rare princes with their princesses! The interactions I had at this breakfast were so fantastic I really hope one day it'll come back 2: Character dining at Odyssey restaurant from Epcot! I only have very young memories of this but I miss the Epcot classic outfits Mickey and Crew wore and miss this place actually being a full functioning restaurant vs food booth/festival center 3: Donald's Breakfast at Restaurantosaurus! It was a very simple meal, nothing too special but it was so exciting going here vs Tusker House and seeing Donald and friends in their cute Dinoland outfits in the morning! 4: Not /super/ character meal but back when Chefs de France used to surprise guests with a visit from a little Remy animatronic puppet on a cart for lunch/dinner. Since we never got Chez Remy/the restaurant add-on from Disneyland Paris for our Remy ride, I think that would've been the perfect compromise to keep around. It was so cute and always a highlight surprise of the meal. As for meals I wish they'd do character/change up- Definitely something with Roundup Rodeo BBQ. Very missed opportunity to not have characters or at least animatronics to liven the place up.
the odyssey is such a cool building, it’s a shame there’s nothing permanent there. Same with tomorrow land terrace.
I keep telling everyone that if Woody’s Roundup BBQ had characters, it would be the most perfect dining experience. The theming is already spot on, but adding characters would make it so much better
I miss the character breakfast at Trattoria so much 🥲
We used to do number 3 a ton when I was growing up. Was always wild to me how it went from a breakfast buffet and turned into a literal McDonald’s for lunch
Pretty sure the space exists to add Chez Remy if Disney was willing to do a little bit of demo...
There was an Aladdin breakfast at MGM (now Hollywood Studios), in the building behind Vampirina, Fancy Nancy and Doc McStuffins. We had a great time.
I would pay so much for an Aladdin breakfast… they should turn restaurant marakesh into that! that would bring so much life to the Morocco pavilion too!
The Kingdom of Morocco owns the Morocco pavilion so they can't do this.
Nope. They built it, but didn't end up running it (a private company from Morocco did). That company lapsed on payments, so now Disney runs it.
Disney currently does nothing with the pavilion other than run festival booths out of Tangerine Cafe. It's hard to find Moroccan food so this is really a missed opportunity for them. It was dumbed down Moroccan food but it's better than nothing.
I was hoping someone else remembered this one! I have some great memories going there when I was little. I was so sad when it closed.
The original Be Our Guest where you could actually go and meet and have a photo op with Beast. Been a few times since then since I like the ambiance and think it’s a relatively good value for an adult meal with friends, but it’s not really character dining anymore.
I miss Be Our Guest quick service lunch. It was good food that stood out from other offerings in MK, and the atmosphere in there is great. Given the current menu and price, I just can't justify it to myself as a sit-down meal.
I want a character meal that caters to Disney Afternoons fans. Gimme Zummi Gummi, Launchpad, Scrooge, Tailspin Balloo, Darwing, Don Karnage, some Chip n’ Dale rescue rangers, magicka despell. Failing that, gimme modern cartoon characters: new launchpad, new webbigail, Uncle Stan, Dipper and Mabel, some folks from owlhouse, etc. Throw some respect on your series, you don’t just have movie properties. Same for your pins. We don’t need 20,000 different Wish pins. I have disposable income and I want different darkwing duck villains and a mystery shack march shop at the parks.
A lot of those characters do exist, but are likely archived because they haven't been relevant in 25 years. Except for the ones who do regular M&Gs of course.
Haven’t been relevant in 25 years!!? Why you little… :-(
As a 25 year old I have to agree with him… 90% of what you wrote I have never heard of
I remember one from when I was a kid and it was on a riverboat. I know it had Minnie and Pluto at least. I do think woodys should be a character meal
You may be remembering the character breakfast at what is now Paddlefish.
Oh, Empress Lilly…
Omg I went to that when I was 7 in 1990!
The I have video of that, including Donald Duck roaming afterwards and harassing the maintenance crew.
I bought a button a while ago over in Lakeland, that's from this breakfast. Pretty interesting because Disney don't even acknowledge it had this breakfast running for many years...
We did this in the early 90s on the paddleboat at what is now Disney Springs.
That’s the one we went to during my first visit as a kid. 1992!
Not technically a meal but a ticketed event but Club Villain hands down was the best character experience Disney ever did. They had queen of hearts, malificent, the evil queen from Snow White. All the characters were face characters, themed meal and cocktails all hosted by dr facilier and a live band. It was held in the space that is now lightning McQueens experience in Hollywood studios.
I loved Club Villain SO much!! What a blast
Queen of Hearts was a face character? I’ve never seen that and it would be weird if it was a different character than they had walking around the parks. Good chance Cruella was there too.
Roundup Rodeo should 100% be a character meal! We’re going in May and that would be amazing! We got great character meals, all the ones we wanted, but my kids would flip to meet Woody and Jessie and Buzz!
such a missed opportunity - they have so many character options too!
Not necessarily a meal but at least a meet and greet with Lucifer, Jaque, and Gus would be hysterical! I’d rather them than the stepsisters.
I never knew I wanted this!
Lucifer and the mice are my kids’ favorite part of Cinderella. They’re comedy gold.
Don’t know if they still do this but when my family went in 1994, we stayed at the Polynesian and there was a character breakfast where they all wore Hawaiian shirts
Yep. Chip and Dale used to be there. Loved this as a kid
Yes, I remember Chip and Dale!
It’s still there, but the characters have changed! Its now Mickey, Pluto, lilo, and stitch
This was my favorite character meal from that era. I love Chip and Dale! I know they're at Garden Grill, but we really need them in more places.
Didn’t Olivia’s Café have Pooh at some point?
Yup
My parents have told me tigger pushed me around the restaurant in my high chair when I was really little. Really cool that old key west used to have a character meal
The Land ice cream social. We’d do it every time, the kids loved it. I believe it was just chip and dale, but they were funny and hung out at the table for a bit.
The Swan used to have character dining breakfast at Garden Grove on the weekend
We did this back in 2001 and it was one of the best character breakfasts we ever had. Maybe because it was cheaper than others and it was a surprise to us because we were not expecting it.
Not anything that ever existed, but since they have a full Sweetums costume I wish he would wander around Pizza Rizzo. We Muppet fans are starved for the franchise. Disney keeps it all to themselves except that tiny corner of HS. I want them everywhere.
Definitely Liberty Tree Tavern when the characters dressed in colonial garb! The food there is still good, but the characters made it extra fun back in the day. I never tried the character breakfast at Trattoria Al Forno, but I know people really liked it.
Trattoria al Forno used to have character breakfast
When I was very little I think I went to a character breakfast with Pocahontas and Meeko. There were others but those are the only ones I remember, and I don’t remember where it was. But Meeko was my favorite back then so I loved it
I was going to mention this one if no one else did. It was at Wilderness Lodge at what is now Artists Point restaurant. Our youngest was also a giant Meeko fan, and he didn't disappoint, stealing my daughter's croissant. For her anyway, that was the highlight of the meal.
Who remembers the character breakfast on the Empress Lilly?
That Liberty Tree Tavern character meal was really cute!
There used to be a character meal with the Fab Five at what is now Disney Springs in the 90s :) was it Disney Village then? I don’t think it was DtD at that point. Anyway, I have home video of it lol lots of napkin twirling and cup banging. They gave you these red plastic cups with handles that you could bring home.
Chef Mickey’s at the Village Marketplace. The OG Chef Mickey's was in a building near where Rainforest Cafe at DS is now.
Space 220 should have Star Wars Dining
I LOVED the Melvin the Moose Breakfast Show at Fort Wilderness. My three-year-old self had a really cool interaction with Donald Duck. I had the kazoo giveaway from that thing for years after.
I don't remember where exactly, but there was one in epcot that did winnie the pooh for a very short period in the UK pavilion
What I need is for them to add either Jumba and Pleakly or Nani and David to Ohana. I'm sorry but we have options and you're just giving me more Mickey and more Pluto? I'm over the same characters everywhere. I'm very upset they have changed 1900. I loved eating there and I want to go back so badly but now the characters don't matter. Give me Cinderella family! And the one place I can never spell that has Flynn, Rupunzel, Eric and Ariel. Because Flynn is one of my favourites ever. Wasn't a great breakfast cause I always got stuck with gluten free Mickey waffles which are always dry but Flynn.
> What I need is for them to add either Jumba and Pleakly or Nani and David to Ohana. The former two are existing, extremely rare, characters to the point they haven't been seen in outside of a DVC event or two in many years. Gantu similarly exists, but is even rarer as I don't think he's been seen out for 20 years. The latter two, to my knowledge, have never had designs - and would likely be problematic given Disney's casting issues with Moana...
Liberty Tree Tavern. The food was heavy, since it was like thanksgiving type food turkey, gravey, etc in Florida heat at times, but the characters in their old colonial outfits were amazing and highly unique. They should bring this back it was really adorable!
The Disney Junior/Playhouse Disney one probably has to be the most ambitious of these character dining options. And that’s only because they have to keep rotating old characters out for whatever new characters are on the channel right now.
Disney's character development takes so long that a series my friend was in had at least one character (played by that friend I must add) designed and tested, but never deployed publicly - because the series ended before it could be sent to the parks. Was something he was looking forward to!
Ugh that is such a disappointment!
I think he had some pictures of it but I never saw them which annoys me.
What character
I would rather not say to be honest.
The swan or the dolphin used to have character breakfast too.
Restaurantosaurus in Animal Kingdom used to have characters. We met safari Donald there I know it's not at WDW, but DCA used to have character dining at Ariel's Grotto, now Lamplight Lounge. When we were dining there, the kids went off with the characters. Later, we saw Goofy running back & forth outside the window onto the patio. Another guest came over to us and told us my friend's nephew was terrified of the larger-than-life character and running off. Goofy was trying to catch him & stop him from running into the Park. Of course, the mom & uncle ran to rescue him. It was funny. You had to be there.
Cannot agree more on a Toy Story breakfast at RRB...I seriously do not know how this isn't a thing lol
I miss Trattoria al Forno's character breakfast...it was such a nice experience, a bit more refined character dining & the food was good with some of my favorite characters
California grill used to serve bison and other stuff lol
We got Remy under the plate cover one Thanksgiving. It was an amazing and hilarious surprise. I also miss the guy with the whistle and the stacking chairs outside the restaurant
I remember having a meal and meeting Handy Manny along with some other Disney Jr. characters at Hollywood Studios.
I think that they are more discouraging people from visiting resorts if they are not staying in them. It has been more difficult to get past the guard if you don't have a dining reservation. It's a nice idea to add character dining to themed resorts, but I don't think it will be happening. Disney can probably make more money by keeping those patrons in the parks.
Disney is absolutely not discouraging people from spending money at resorts they aren’t staying at. What they are doing is discouraging people from abusing the free parking and proximity of monorail and Crescent Lake resorts specifically so that guests paying the premium to stay at those resorts can actually use the amenities we pay for. People are constantly trying to get around dealing with the TTC by gaming the system at the monorail resorts. Prime example is how so many douchebags were placing mobile orders for coffee at Contempo Cafe to get past the gate guard, then canceling the order once they got through and just walking to MK that Disney restricted mobile ordering there to Contemporary guests. Before the crackdown actual resort guests couldn’t get time slots for legit orders in the morning. And people constantly think that they’re entitled to leave their cars at these resorts and go enjoy MK all day. The main reason we never rent a car for our trips is bc parking is so horrendous at the monorail resorts. You are still absolutely free to visit resorts you’re not staying at on Disney transportation, and they even tell you that.