Restaurant: Be Our Guest
Location: Magic Kingdom - Fantasyland
Meal Type: Breakfast
Atmosphere: Right from the castle entrance, this restaurant is over-the-top incredible in terms of immersive atmosphere. Inside the castle, you’ll be sorted into one of two lines that lead to the right and into The Study:
The Cashier Line (for those guests who have already pre-ordered their meal), or
The Menu Line (for guests that still need to use a touch screen to select their meals). If you get a chance, I’d recommend using the link on your
MDE reservation page to pre-order before you go and save yourself some time. We had a 8:30am pre-park ressie this day and even at that time, the tiny order/pay room gets rather full with people taking a bit of time just reading the menu. I think the pre-order option opened up around two weeks before our scheduled ressie and I was glad we went ahead and did it.
On this trip, we sat in The Rose Garden room to the right of the Ball Room. It looks as if the first guests in only had the choice of sitting in the Ball Room, because once we walked in, they had just unblocked the Rose Garden room to start filling it next and we had our choice of any seat. There’s a large, rotating
Life-Sized Music Box right in the center of the room and my kids wanted to sit right next to it.
The room itself is really lovely. Even if you don’t dine in this room, definitely walk around and take a look at all of the lovely
artwork on the walls!
There are interesting sites in each room of the restaurant, so be sure to take a look around
The beautiful mosaic piece that looks like a castle's
stained glass window is right next to the exit door when you are leaving the restaurant.
Food:
A Selection of Pastries – This is listed as side that accompanies each of the meals. They bring out one plate of pastries with your order, with an amount probably determined by how many are in your party. Although the pastries were tasty, it can become a situation amongst kids when multiple people decide that they want the tiny muffin that doesn’t cut well when trying to split it
Drinks – When you order your breakfast, there are a variety of drink choices to select. We went with the Chocolate Milk and Orange Juice choices when ordering because those items are brought to your table with the meal in individual single-serve bottles. There is, however, a nice self-service drink station located in each of the rooms. Our food delivery server informed us that we could help ourselves to any of the drinks there (Coffee, hot chocolate, hot tea, sodas…) as well. It worked out better because I was able to pass off my OJ to my husband and have coffee instead and the kids enjoyed a hot chocolate, then we had the chocolate milk bottles to take out into the park as we left.
*While you are up grabbing your drinks, it's an excellent time to locate the Silverware cart and grab the utensils you'll need once breakfast is delivered to your table.
Eggs Florentine – My husband and I both ordered this selection. It is described as a “Puff Pastry Shell filled with Scrambled Eggs, Cheese, and fresh Spinach served with Country Ham, Roasted Plum Tomatoes”.
My thoughts – I wished thee was a bit more egg and spinach in the shell, as eating the shell alone is a little dry without mixing bites. I don’t care for cream cheese, so I just scooped out that little blob. The ham pieces were also pretty dry and on the small side. I don’t care for roasted tomatoes in general and the cashier informed us that there are no substitutes, so I didn’t try these. Overall, it was ok. I wasn’t wowed with it, but since there were elements of the dish I didn’t try, other guests that eat those items might enjoy the overall meal more.
My husband’s thoughts– He was underwhelmed with the dish. He thought it was “ok”, but that the portion was really small.
Scrambled Eggs – The kids both had this for breakfast. It’s described as being served with Applewood Bacon and Fresh Fruit. This was a pretty straightforward and simple dish. The kids don’t care for melon or grapes, so they ended up just eating the few strawberries. Again, there was no option to substitute for something like yogurt instead, which was a bit disappointing. Our kids are usually so tired by the end of the day, that they eat a very light dinner, meaning that they are usually very hungry creatures when it’s time for breakfast. That being said, my 4-year old son devoured the two eggs and bacon and then wanted more. So, again, the portion might be a bit small for kiddos with hungry morning appetites.
Adding it up: The receipt was destroyed on a late afternoon visit to Splash Mountain (they mean it when they say “you
may get wet!”), but here’s the break-down of what it was. (A Tables in Wonderland discount only applies to dinner at this restaurant)
- Eggs Florentine with Orange Juice 19.99 x 2 = $39.98
- Scrambled Eggs with Chocolate Milk 11.99 x 2 = $23.98
- After 6.5% tax - Total = $68.12
Overall Impression: My husband has instructed me never to book another breakfast at Be Our Guest, even if it’s a pre-park opening ressie : / The food was decent, but in terms of overall value and cuisine options fit for our family (we’re prefer a pretty All-American/traditional breakfast), it just wasn’t for us. I
would still recommend still eating here if you’ve never been here and breakfast is the only slot you can get since it’s definitely a beautiful restaurant to see, if you don’t mind light breakfast portions without substitutions, or if you can grab a pre-park opening reservation to get into the park much earlier and be in a good position to hit the attractions.
