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Episode #168: Cape May Cafe Breakfast Buffet Dining Review
Ever wondered why some Disney dining experiences just don’t live up to the hype? Join us as we share our candid review of Minnie's Beach Bash Breakfast at Cape May Cafe and explain why this character breakfast didn't hit the mark for us. We compare it to other fan-favorite character dining spots like Tusker House and Topolino's Terrace, shedding light on what made Cape May Cafe feel a bit underwhelming. From our thoughts on the beach-themed decor to the taste of the breakfast offerings like salted caramel beach buns and Mickey-shaped waffles, we leave no stone unturned.
But it's not all about food! We'll also give you a sneak peek into Disney's latest merchandise, featuring the must-have Mickey Mouse Candy Apple Lounge Fly Mini Backpack from the Disney Eats Collection. Plus, get excited for our upcoming episode focused on the unforgettable sounds of Disney parks. Listen in as we share some laughs, reminisce about awkward moments, and ponder the quirky costume choices of Disney characters. Whether you're planning a trip to Disney or just love all things Mickey, this episode promises to entertain and inform.
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Hello and welcome to Circle of Parks podcast episode number 168. Today we are doing a dining review on Minnie's Beach Bash Breakfast at Cape May Cafe. You look like you have something to say.
Speaker 2:That's a mouthful.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is. There is far too much to see and do. We are here to help guide you through. There is far too much to see and do. We are here to help guide you through. But before we do that we must talk Disney merch. So this week on DisneyStorecom, if you go to what's new and trending, there's a new Mickey Mouse Candy Apple Lounge Fly Mini Backpack with the Disney Eats Collection. This one's priced at $89, folks, but it does say fans of the delicious Park's Candy Apple will be sweet on this mini backpack. Inspired by the mouth-watering treat. One of the Mickey icon-shaped desserts serves as an exterior pocket on this simulated leather bag from L fly. The front features an all-over design of the candy and chocolate delight looking good enough to eat. It'll make you hunger for your next trip to the parks again. That is this week's disney merch wait so a candy apple is 89 dollars the lounge fly oh, it's a lot.
Speaker 2:Sorry I messed part. I just heard candy apple and $89. I was like what?
Speaker 1:No, it's a Mickey Mouse candy apple lounge fly.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, okay, that makes more sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, part of the Disney Eats collection.
Speaker 2:What they put on that candy gold flakes Right what you never know at Disney.
Speaker 1:You never know, that's true, but yeah, so that's what you never know at disney you never know, that's true, but yes, so that's this week's disney merch. So go check that out at disneystorecom. And while we're talking about merch, we have merch. If you go to our website, circleofparkscom, click on merch, it'll take you to our t public site and from there you can find things such as coffee, moth coffee coffee moths coffee mugs, sweatshirts, t-shirts, stickers and more so please go check that out thank everybody for joining us.
Speaker 2:Episode number 168 we're talking about the breakfast at cape may cafe. This is a character dining buffet and I think this has done it in for me and character dining buffets. I don't know if I will ever go back to one except the two we have previously talked about in previous episodes.
Speaker 1:One being Tusker House.
Speaker 2:Tusker House and Topolinos Terrace. This one, this one's up there. Well, we'll just get to it.
Speaker 1:We'll get to that point.
Speaker 2:This one made me very uncomfortable.
Speaker 1:This one wasn't my favorite either. I'll just go ahead and say that See thank you.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, but if you're new here, I'm Zach, I'm Brittany and we do this podcast every single week One. We try to help you have a better Walt Disney World vacation. Our tagline is there's far too much to see and do. We're here to help guide you through, and that is really true. There's a ton of these restaurants. There's so much coming at you with the multi-pass now and we haven't even talked about that. What is can you do with that? The attractions, the restaurants it's very overwhelming, I get it, but we're here to help kind of break it down and help you plan a better vacation. That's why we're doing these dining reviews is to give our opinion on it and so you can decide, based on what your family likes or dislikes, if it's a good place to book for you.
Speaker 1:Right, Yep exactly.
Speaker 2:Spoiler alert this one was not for us.
Speaker 1:It wasn't, and you know if you've been listening for a while. I enjoy the character dining. I enjoy the character dining buffets, but this one was my least favorite.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, we'll get more into that in a minute. And number two we do this podcast is we just want to take you to Disney for about 45 minutes every week 30 to 45 minutes depending on the episode.
Speaker 1:Sometimes an hour Sometimes an hour.
Speaker 2:Break your week up. Kind of give you that midweek break. Helps us. Yes, and speaking of taking you to Disney, we've got an exciting episode coming in the next few weeks where we're going to take you to Disney by sound. Oh, yes, and it's going to be a great episode. We're going to be playing some sounds and it's going to immediately take you. These sounds are so unique to anywhere they're unique only to Disney.
Speaker 1:And if so, if you've been, you should be able to recognize them.
Speaker 2:You will know them immediately and you will be right where that sound is. That's in a few weeks. It's going to be a fun episode, but yeah, so we just try to take you there and break your week up and hope you have a good week. But yeah, so, brittany, what does Disney say about?
Speaker 1:Minnie's Beach Bash Breakfast at Cape May Cafe.
Speaker 2:Minnie's Breakfast. Yes, just Minnie's Breakfast.
Speaker 1:All right. So Minnie Mouse and some of her friends are gathering at Cape May Cafe to start the day with Minnie's Beach Bash Breakfast. They're dressed up in their beachy best and you're invited to join in the fun. Create unforgettable memories as you get autographs and photos during a delightful meal. Enjoy a spread of flavorful breakfast. Favorites like Mickey Mouse waffles, scrambled eggs, seasoned potatoes, sausage, oatmeal and more. Characters only appear during the breakfast buffet and not the dinner seafood buffet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so there are two things there. They have the breakfast buffet and then they have a dinner all-you-can-eat seafood buffet, which used to be more appealing because it was all you can eat crab legs okay not anymore, but we'll get to that in a little bit when we talk about the menu and all that good stuff, but the key is, if you're wanting to do character here, it's in at breakfast.
Speaker 2:Yes, so you know we got to talk about history of the restaurant, of course. So this uh restaurant, cape may cafe, is located in the beach club resort near ep, which opened in 1990. Closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rest of Walt Disney World in March 2020. And it reopened in May 2021 with limited character interactions and family style dining. I probably would have liked it more during that time.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And back when some of these restaurants at that time were opening back up, several of the buffets did the family style dining dining. Well, so I wasn't a big fan of the family style dining but the limited character interactions speaks to me. Okay, all right, anyway, full buffet and character interactions have returned now. So it's just like it was pre-pandemic, designed to mirror the design and decor of the beach club resort. However, it's a little bit different. So the beach club resort is based on I'm sorry, yeah, the beach club is based on the uh architecture of it's kind of like a new england theme with influences from newport, rhode island. Okay, so I've been to newport. My brother used to live up there and whatnot in newport but in providence went to newport and it was a beautiful town right on the coast there and wasn't really beachy it was. It was a big uh fishing town okay like the coast guard has their academy there.
Speaker 2:So a lot of fishing boats and stuff. So I remember me and my brother were at this uh like an irish bar having lunch and looked beside me at the bar there was this old man, white hair, smoking a cigarette, weathered face, had on like that cable knit sweater that we wear because they look good.
Speaker 2:They wear them because they're functional, like you could tell yeah he's been on the ocean like he was a real ocean fisherman. Okay, I was like, wow, okay, so anyway, that's what the beach club is themed after. Um, but cape may cafe is not. Now the design reflects the color palette of the beach club, with the soft uh, what colors were they like? The?
Speaker 1:like blues and yellow.
Speaker 2:The blues and the yellows and the light oranges and reds kind of.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like very soft colors.
Speaker 1:Right, bright, but soft yeah.
Speaker 2:And so it is not based on a New England beach town, though it is actually based on the beachside town of Cape May, New Jersey, which is the southernmost town in New Jersey and known as America's first seaside resort.
Speaker 1:Oh okay. So New Jersey is known as America's first seaside resort? Oh okay.
Speaker 2:So New Jersey is not considered the Northeast.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:We're not New England, it's considered like mid-Atlantic. So Cape May Cafe or sorry, Cape May, New Jersey is the largest commercial fishing port in New Jersey and its history dates back to the late 1600s. Lots of the decorations in Cape May Cafe is based on the turn of the century activities in the beach town of Cape May, New Jersey. Cape May, New Jersey really does have beach cabanas like those constructed over some of the tables in Cape May Cafe. Remember how they were kind of like awnings looking? Yeah, they really do have those in the actual town.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Although not covered, they do resemble the blue and white colors from steger beach service I guess that's the company that runs the beach. Uh, chairs, okay. Inside cape may cafe you'll also find croquet balls and mallets used as decor in victorian times.
Speaker 2:People played croquet in cape may, new jersey so it's not just regular deck like it's there because of what it's what it is, yeah and the mural in cape may cafe depicts children's children in old-fashioned dress playing in the sand, which is a which is reminiscent of old postcards from cape may, new jersey, from the turn of the century pretty cool yeah and cape may.
Speaker 1:New jersey is also home to many great seafood restaurants so that's why it has all these decorations, and then the seafood buffet at night.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I say it time and time again Like we honestly do not keep up with the dates of when we need to make our dining reservations. And you know, Erica reaches out to us about a week, five days to a week prior, Like, hey, is this still what you're thinking? Is this still where you want to eat? Are you still thinking lunch? Are you still thinking dinner? And then she does the rest for us, and that in itself is a lot of stress off of us. I think that used to be stressful before, so now we don't have to worry about any of that. Yep.
Speaker 2:All right. So we're talking about the menu at cape may cafe and we did breakfast and again we had the dining plan.
Speaker 1:Now the character buffet breakfast or just the character dining are good credits for your dining plan yes, you get your money, except for the ones that take two, then they're not worth it right, but this one, the if you eat breakfast here, is $47 per adult plus tax and gratuity and $30 per child plus tax and gratuity.
Speaker 2:So it's a little expensive for breakfast, but I think this is what most of them go for now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The non-character ones are a little bit less than this.
Speaker 1:Right, just a little bit yep. Now your breakfast buffet offerings again. Some of the things here you can find are salted caramel, beach buns served with vanilla cream, oatmeal and grits, cheddar, biscuits and gravy, omelet and carving stations, fruits w shaped and mini shaped waffles, chocolate chip pancakes and potato barrels which, if you are not familiar with that term, disney refers to tater tots as potato barrels also not on the menu.
Speaker 2:They have a crepe station as well oh yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, not on the menu. But they have. They'll make the crepe for you right there, yes, so. So for breakfast I just had my normal breakfast Scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage. I'm not big on waffles or French toast I like them, but I really feel horrible after eating all of that and some fruit. That's basically all that. I had your typical breakfast. I think I had a Mickey-shaped waffle, because you have to get one.
Speaker 1:Right, that's what I was about to say when you're talking about waffles and stuff. Like I'm not huge on french toast, but I'll get the waffles, especially mickey or mini shaped waffles, um, or others that we've talked about, like simba and stuff. But here I think I did get a mini one, just because it was mini, but I usually just eat a few bites of it because I want to try other things and not get so full just from that. And I did try their cheddar biscuit and gravy and it was pretty good.
Speaker 2:Pretty good. Yes, and the boys. Like our oldest Ryan, he's not a big breakfast food person, so he just usually gets like croissants and breads.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he'll get like croissants or muffins. Also, he does like French toast, so he'll get French toast and some bacon, but that's usually what he gets.
Speaker 2:And Nolan is like me he eats all the breakfast stuff.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, he'll get the eggs, he'll get some bacon, he'll get a waffle, and then he'll go for some fruit and muffins, and all that as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then there's no lunch here, and then the dinner they have an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet and the price is the same, except for the kids. It's a little cheaper $47 per adult for the dinner, $27 per child Again. That's ages 3 through 9, so a little bit cheaper.
Speaker 1:On that On the children. Yes, and some of the things include New England-style clam chowder, plant-based seasonal soup, seafood pasta salad. A carving station featuring chef's selection. They have steam boils with clams, mussels, shrimp, corn and red potatoes. New England captain's fried seafood selection. There's paella roasted chicken sustainable catch of the day. There's also some plant-based seasonal inspired dishes, seasonal vegetables, chef's dessert selection with Cape May signature bonbons. Now you do have snow crab legs $29 per pound.
Speaker 2:Yes, used to be included. Now it's $29 per pound, so this may not be quite the value that it used to be Right. Yeah, because I would wish quite the value that it used to be Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I would wish that the crab legs were included.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Or give an option, maybe even like adults pay a certain price, and if you want to add crab legs, pay like $10 more, or something you know, and I would assume that the $20 per pound is not included.
Speaker 2:If you use a dining plan, right I would plan Right, I would assume.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't notate it here, I'm not sure, but it's $29 per pound not $20.
Speaker 2:$29, sorry.
Speaker 1:Yes, and then they do have the classic favorites for children as well. So if you have children that aren't big on seafood, you know I did mention roasted chicken and stuff as well, but they also have pizza, macaroni and cheese, chicken and pasta okay, so, britney, tell us the characters that were here and what you thought of the restaurant uh well, one character I know is mini mouse of course this is her beach bash, so it has to be many yes, and so loved, loved, loved that and the uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I loved the outfits okay, um, my favorite out of all of them here was probably Minnie. Uh, daisy was very cute as well. You know, they have those lighter, brighter colors. So, like Minnie had on like this striped uh dress that was like pink and purple and blue and a fun pink hat, and then daisy had on like this light blue dress and then, um, you know the, the decor, the theming, like it is very bright in there. I will say, um, and I'm trying to remember, I want to get the characters right donald was there donald was there and goofy, yeah and pluto that's what I'm trying to double check about pluto yeah, so donald, you know he was wearing one of those what what do they call them the?
Speaker 1:when the guys wear like the print shirts, like a hawaiian print like a hawaiian button-up shirt with a striped shirt underneath it and a hat, and he was real fun goofy he had on like yes, pluto was for sure there, because I well yes so and then, goofy, had on almost like swim trunks in a swim shirt with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, you know, and just being goofy, of course, uh, trying to. I don't know if pluto was here, zach, I'll have to go through some of our pictures because I'm, but anyway, um, I enjoyed their attire, for sure, and they also. We forgot to mention this. Um, they also bring a bread service to your table to try as well, and that was really good. It was like this bread with it's the salted caramel beach bun, so I did mention it, but you don't get it off of the buffet. They bring it to you and it's the salted caramel beach bun, so I did mention it, but you don't get it off of the buffet. They bring it to you and it's like pull apart bread coated in salted caramel and comes with an accompanying accompaniment of the vanilla cream sauce, so you don't get those from the actual buffet. They bring it to your table for you okay, I'm looking.
Speaker 2:It was mini goofy Vinny, goofy Daisy and Donald.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't think.
Speaker 2:Pluto, no Pluto.
Speaker 1:Because, remember some of these, you know there's not Pluto and Nolan's always like where's Pluto, that's right, where's?
Speaker 1:Pluto. So but again, like as far as how they were dressed and everything like I love their outfits I feel like we did have to wait a little bit longer on them their outfits I feel like we did have to wait a little bit longer on them. Um, at at the other more recent character dinings I felt like we didn't have to wait long at all, like we got them all in and still had plenty of time to eat. After this one, we were waiting a little bit longer for the characters and we'd been done eating for a little while and still hadn't seen who was the last one we hadn't seen.
Speaker 2:Donald, donald. I'm looking at the picture right now with Nolan.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we'd been waiting you know a little bit for Donald, and so you know, I don't know it's up to you guys, like how long you want to wait and stuff, but we'd been done and we did wait because, you know, nolan insisted that I got to meet Donald too.
Speaker 2:I'm looking at the time stamp of the pictures. It was an hour.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so where other character dining that we went to, within the first 30 minutes we'd met all the characters. Yes, you know. So just keep that in mind. I don't know if it's that way every time, but it was that way for us this particular morning.
Speaker 1:So in this, the time that we got there was go through at 9 am yeah, because the first character we met was daisy and she came around at 905 big hugs, you know joked around with me and nolan because we were the only ones really getting pictures. Then five minutes later, not too bad goofy came around. Okay, he did like knuckles and all that with Nolan and pictures and hugs and all of that good stuff. Then Minnie though she didn't come for like 15 minutes later.
Speaker 2:Well, Minnie's cooking the food.
Speaker 1:Yes, she is, and she had to look all beautiful in her dress, but then, from the time Minnie came at 926, donald didn't show up until almost 30 minutes later. Yeah, yeah. So uh. I will say, though, this if you want to kind of embarrass someone for their birthday, this is a good place for it you want me to talk about it?
Speaker 2:you can. Okay, so I was violated here oh, come on.
Speaker 1:This is a disney show, don't?
Speaker 2:say that I didn't want to. They were like putting, like, like putting their arms around me and stuff oh yeah, so like that's what I'm yeah at other character dining they read the room, they.
Speaker 1:They, they didn't, you know, didn't push it. Ok, they don't want to interact, so we'll just keep it with these two. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was putting out vibes of hey, they want to interact with you. I do not. Those were the vibes I was putting out and at Tusker House they were read quite, quite well. Here I don't know if they were read incorrectly or they just did not care yeah not, they were hugging me and like putting their head, their hand, on my head and trying to make me smile.
Speaker 2:It was goofy's kitchen all over again oh, it was not it was no but I loved goofy I was extremely uncomfortable the whole time here. So, first of all, yes, I was very embarrassed. Secondly, what you're talking about and this was ryan's actual birthday- yes, so we could have done it, but he is just like me when it comes to not drawing attention to himself and not wanting to be like you, not center of the attention I don't like being like. I don't like being the center of attention.
Speaker 1:Ryan doesn't like being the center of attention either, but they're one of the servers I will say has an amazing voice yes, so this part wasn't necessarily embarrassing, but all eyes are on you because it would have been for ryan everyone wanted to see who was doing this singing, because it was an amazing voice like this cast member is bound to do some kind of broadway it's got to be a singer or something yeah yeah like a singer, you know as a second job, I don't know, but he had a voice he was amazing and was singing happy birthday to. It was like me, me, me, me, like it was very like it was really impressive.
Speaker 2:Like that was pretty cool. Yeah, ryan would have hated it though, right, I mean, I would not have liked it either, but it was fun watching others enjoy that right. No one would have loved it.
Speaker 1:Yes, you would have too no, I wouldn't no, but um, but he, he did a great job, you know. But if you you have someone that just gets embarrassed easily because attention's on them, this would be a great place for it. But then it happened several more times as well. So the first time was amazing, but then the other two times I was like, okay, we just heard this.
Speaker 2:So when I talk about this was like Goofy's Kitchen in Disneyland. It wasn't so loud and screaming and noises going off all the place. That wasn't like that it was. I was very uncomfortable with the characters interacting with me when I obviously did not want characters interacting with me right like I was fine taking pictures of you and Nolan and the characters, and me and Ryan do not want to be interacted with the characters whatsoever yeah like.
Speaker 2:So that's what made me uncomfortable. Now it was pretty cool. They did break and like do beach dancing with other like if you're into that, that's like this is what disney's for. Right for little kids to go and have fun with that, with the characters or any, not even little kids. Whoever wants to be like that and go do that.
Speaker 1:That's just not for me right, well and see, for me it wasn't so much like this stuff that didn't impress me. I guess maybe because we'd already done another uh character breakfast buffet that was a little more bigger and elaborate with the choices. So I think that was part of why the food tasted fine, but I felt like it was kind of lackluster with the amount of food.
Speaker 2:So here's the thing We've done Topolino's Terrace, we've done Tusker House, we've done Boma, which is not a character buffet, but it is a breakfast buffet, right. And the food at those places, well, tusker House is it's the same breakfast food, but they just have better specialty foods, right, right. Yeah, so your tusker house is it's the same brexit food, but they just have better specialty foods, right right, yeah so your expectations were too high going in here. That was the thing.
Speaker 1:I think maybe if we'd flipped it around and had done this one earlier in the week and done tusker after this, maybe I'd have a little bit different of opinion on that. Because again, yeah, like your basic items, like your waffles, your eggs, you know the meat, all of that, that was fine. But I but I just felt like there wasn't as much to choose from. But again this was coming like what two, three days after?
Speaker 2:animal kingdom yeah, so your expectations were too high yeah see, my expectations were too low, which was fine. I wasn't disappointed in the food. I was disappointed that the characters were putting their arms on me. I just don't't. I just read the room. Just read the room, like you can obviously tell when people don't want to be bothered.
Speaker 1:I think for me like it was more just again what I was saying about the food choices. But again, I think it would have been different had we gone here first, but then also, I don't know, I guess maybe waiting as long as we did for the characters, because I think the last several character dinings we've gone to we just met them a lot quicker.
Speaker 2:Well, I think we were so, because we were going to Typhoon Lagoon after this.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think we were getting ready to go to that. I think we were ready to go. So maybe maybe we weren't rushing it, but by the time we were done eating, I think we were like, okay, let's go. But Nolan was like I have to meet Donald.
Speaker 1:But at the same time it had been an hour you know where. The other, more recent, not just on this trip but the last couple of trips, you know it's been within 30 minutes you've met them all.
Speaker 2:Riddle me this. I was looking at the picture of Nolan and Donald Nolan. I'm sorry Donald had the you know the button-up shirt unbuttoned and a normal shirt on. Yes, no, swim trunks right but goofy.
Speaker 1:On the other hand, has swim trunks in a swim shirt and he's a dog yeah, I know, I don't know I just I don't ever get it.
Speaker 1:I just do not understand yeah, but again, you knowing, you know they have beach umbrellas closed up along like the window area, the bright colors, you know the, the character interactions for those that want character interactions are great, you know, I like that they were in these beach themed outfits. You know there was a really cool sandcastle sculpture in like a glass case not far from where we were sitting, actually right next to where we were sitting. Uh, you know. So I mean, again, it's, it's a good character experience for interaction and stuff. But is it going to be in my top two or three?
Speaker 2:no, so I think you can get better buffets even with characters, with better food. Tusker House obviously.
Speaker 1:Tusker House, for sure Now without characters Boma.
Speaker 2:Without characters Boma and so I'm looking at the price right now. Tusker House Okay, so Tusker House is more expensive. Tusker House is $59.
Speaker 1:Per adult.
Speaker 2:Per adult and $35 for kids. So Tusker House is about 13 more expensive than this. And boma let me find boma here, but you know.
Speaker 1:But again, tusker house is going to have some specialty items, you know some african dishes and meats and stuff like that, and I can't really say, because some of you might be like why are you not even talking about chef mickey?
Speaker 2:so we when we stop it oh my gosh, you child sometimes but real quick. Boma's 59 and 35 for kids, so a little bit more expensive too, because you're getting better quality specialty foods here right, yes, and they do have some, some really good specialty items, for sure sorry, now back to chef, chef mickey's.
Speaker 1:The only reason why I'm not saying a whole lot about them right now is because when we went it was after covid and it was that family style, so we didn't really get to experience the full buffet options of food and the characters were that distant character interaction which is perfect for me but I'm just saying like that's why I'm not really including that in this discussion, because you and ryan don't have to, but I think me and nolan need to experience it one more time as a buffet so even with the social distancing they had during then, it was still extremely loud in there.
Speaker 1:It was it was.
Speaker 2:It was way too much.
Speaker 1:So it's probably on par with how loud Goofy's Kitchen in California is.
Speaker 2:It was on par with that. Just the characters didn't come close to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:I would prefer that, but even then I'm done. I would never go to Chef Mickey's Right. Well, I'm just saying like, but to be able to compare food. I'm saying for me, but to be able to like, compare food choices and all that I will say. Chef Mickey's did have a different selection of breakfast items than just your typical breakfast. Oh, like what they had brought out to the table. Yes, they had different selections.
Speaker 1:I will say that yes, so, but I mean, would we go back to Cape May? No, no, no. But this could be your family's favorite, it might be, you know. And again, maybe if we had went prior to tesker house on this trip, I might have ranted and raved a little bit more about it, but I just didn't like how long we did have to wait to meet our final character that we hadn't met at the time, and then just there weren't quite as many specialty options on the buffet.
Speaker 2:My opinion would still be the same.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't matter, but you know, if you're wanting to experience it, if you've been before and you're wanting a different character dining and buffet options, you know, just keep in mind this is breakfast only for the characters, and to see them in their beach outfits and stuff, I mean then yeah. Or if you're staying at beach club or yacht club and that's the key here.
Speaker 2:If you want to like a breakfast buffet and you're staying here, then yeah yeah, now would I again.
Speaker 1:You know your family. But if you, you were staying all the way at Animal Kingdom?
Speaker 2:Lodge.
Speaker 1:I would not come here, no.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Not for this restaurant anyway.
Speaker 2:So this is not for us. I was violated.
Speaker 1:Will you stop saying that word?
Speaker 2:And Brittany was less than enthused with the food. Yeah, is that a good summary? Yeah, Again.
Speaker 1:I mean, their cheddar biscuits and gravy, like one of their specialty items, was good, but it wasn't to me, it wasn't anything to rant and rave about. And even the bread the pull apart bread that they brought to the table, I thought I would have liked it a little bit more. And then you know, your other breakfast items are like what you can find elsewhere.
Speaker 2:So everything was just fine. Yeah, nothing, no, alright, so moves us on to Disney trivia. I've already answered this, but what city is Cape May Cafe named after? And it is Cape May, new Jersey. We already talked about that. Two winners this week. I'm going to give credit to two.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:First one, both from X Sweeney answered. First it said Cape May, okay, and then Deservations. Answered about two minutes later and said Cape May, new Jersey so more specific, more specific. So I'm going to give it to them both, give both to them. So congratulations, sweeney and Deservations, you're this week's Disney Trivia winner congratulations congratulations. Next week we'll be talking about Beaches and Cream. Now, we originally were not going to do a dining review on this, but after eating there we decided we have to warn people about it.
Speaker 1:About certain things.
Speaker 2:Yes, so there will be a review next week about it. So the Disney trivia will be about Beaches and Cream. So look for that next Thursday. Disney Trivia Look for that episode next week. Thank everybody for joining us. If you want to support the podcast, the best way to do that is to book your next vacation with mainstream travel company. Cost you nothing. To book your trip with them saves you time, money, stress, anxiety, just yeah yeah, all of the above.
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