Chef Mickey’s

As far as character dining experiences go, Chef Mickey’s can’t be beat! You’ll find Chef Mickey’s at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, just a short monorail ride away from the Magic Kingdom. You can have breakfast or dinner here, both meals are buffet style. Before you are seated, you are led to a Mickey Mouse in full chef gear to pose for a picture. This can be added to your Photopass card, and a castmember will be around to your table sometime during your meal to offer you a photo package. In your photo package, you get one 5×7 picture as well as some 4×6 prints. It’s a great souvenir! Also, when you enjoy a meal at Chef Mickey’s, you’re guaranteed an autograph and picture with each of the Fab Five! This will save you time in line to meet characters at the parks.

For breakfast, you’ll find fresh fruit, pastries, and of course classics like Mickey Waffles. For dinner, there is seafood, chicken, salad, soups, pasta, and an amazing dessert section! Of course the best part of Chef Mickey’s is the character experience. As you help yourself to the buffet, the “Fab Five” make their way from table to table to visit with your family. Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy, and Donald Duck will sign autographs and pose for pictures.

Some things to keep in mind when dining at Chef Mickey’s:

You need advanced dining reservations and this will count as one TS credit per person on your Disney Dining Plan.
Have your autograph book and pen ready for autographs to save time. There is a cast member traveling with each character to make sure everyone is respectful of others’ time.
It’s a fun touch to wear your favorite character tee shirt or Mickey ears during your meal.
This is a very kid friendly experience. The atmosphere is lively and energetic, and every so often the characters and cast members perform a musical number-and guests are encouraged to wave their white napkins. Such fun!
Chef Mickey’s is a fun place to find Hidden Mickey’s.

Overall, we give Chef Mickey’s an “A”!

Audrey Wolf
I have had dinner at “Chef Mickey” for my birthday every year for the past 5 years…and before that about every other year..Our family vacation/bday celebration would not be complete without a stop there..My son, who is 5 1/2 years old, looks forward to “celebrating mommy’s birthday” with all the characters and a special dance with swinging our napkins around..This restaurant has become as much a tradition as going to Disney itself..Look forward to seeing Mickey and the gang again soon!..
Candice H.
We have ate here for both breakfast and dinner and loved both. It has a great family atmosphere and wonderful food. We can’t wait to go back on our next trip.
Applegrace411
We did Chef Mickeys Dec 30th,2011 for breakfast. Yummy food, though for the price I was expecting real maple syrup, but I guess your paying more for the characters then you are for the food. I loved all the healthy options available. The server was great! Definitely would return.
Purpleprincess02
LOVE LOVE LOVE Chef Mickey’s! Mickey spend 10-15 minutes just with MY 17 month old son. He took Mickey’s hand and they went walking – I have it on video. I’m serious when i say it made me cry!
http://twitter.com/Martino2781 Marty Nothhelfer
We ate at Chef Mickey’s twice on my last trip in Sept. 2011. Great time and I really enjoyed the breakfast buffet. I plan on going there for my honeymoon in Dec. 2012. Easy way for the kids to see Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto and Donald. They come to everyones table and interact with you, sign autographs and will take pictures. They do this dance section where everyone waves their napkin in the air. I could do without that but its for the kids.
Tristan Jeddrey
We visited Chef Mickey’s in both 2009 and 2011. We have done both dinner and breakfast, we prefer the dinner. The only draw back this time was the table full of drunk (and yes I knew they were, I watched them order drink after drink) parents whose wild kids were running and screaming and throwing stuff. The food was good and the Characters came by twice and were pretty attentive. We will probably do dinner here again, but not breakfast, that we will save for Crystal Palace and Ohana’s!
Amanda Johnston
My family and I last visited Chef Mickey’s for breakfast in December of 2009. Our group consisted of Grandma, Grandpa, DH, DD9, DS2months, and myself. Chef Mickey’s is located inside the Contemporary Resort. Our arrival at this iconic resort is always filled with excitement. We arrived at the check-in station and were immediately directed to have our picture taken with the giant plate and Mickey Mouse statue. After our picture we waited about ten minutes to be seated at our table. Our server was attentive to our needs. The buffet breakfast was varied and fresh. My favorite is always the Mickey waffles and syrup. There was also fresh fruit, boiled eggs, sausage and bacon. Yogurt, cereal and pastries. The biggest draw of Chef Mickey’s is of course, Mickey Mouse himself. We really enjoyed our interactions with all the characters, but especially Donald Duck. I have a picture of Donald, Grandpa and Daddy all standing with their arms crossed being, “bad.” It makes me smile . Another unexpected aspect of Chef Mickey’s is getting to watch the Monorail go by as you eat. Chef Mickey’s is a very exciting and upbeat way to start the day. It is also hard to get an ADR, so make your reservations early!
Janine
we’ve eaten dinner there and it was wonderful! The food was good, the desserts too, and there were lots of character visits one after the other, great experience, one of my favorites
Disneyanytime
I am not a huge fan of Chef Mickey’s. The atmosphere is fun but the resturant is very large causing the character interaction to not be what we expected. It was also very loud in comparison to the other character breakfasts that we have had. The food was typical and nothing that we would go back for. This is not a place that we plan on eating again as there are so many more that we have enjoyed more.
Lori R
We love the fun, napkin-waving atmosphere at Chef Mickey’s! We’ve had both breakfasts and dinners here but definitely enjoy the breakfast offerings more and will probably avoid dinner going forward as we found the food to be somewhat sub-standard. We’ve had to wait for our table each time – anywhere from 15-45 minutes so be prepared for the possibility of that.
The characters have always been great here in my opinion, never too much of a wait, and we’ve always seen them all.
Jensor06
We did breakfast here (around 7:30 a.m.) on July 4, 2011. There were 5 in our party. Myself, my husband, our 4 year old son, our 13 yr. old nephew and 15 yr. old niece. They all loved it. Always plenty of food, you never have to wait for them to refill anything on the buffet.
I know if was the summer, and a busier time of the year, but we still had to wait a long time to see the characters.
Our waitress was nice, but busy. She said I have my birthday ears on and brought me a cupcake. We went here last year and they brought one and sang….no song this year…but that’s ok.
Jamie
We have enjoyed both breakfast and dinner at Chef Mickey’s.The food is great and the characters are awesome. Love me some Mickey!
Julie
I wish I could edit my post as I just saw the typos…. The first sentence should read: “We had one of the last breakfast seatings (so it fell around lunchtime) at Chef Mickey’s, and the buffet was wonderful.”
Julie
We had one of that breakfast seatings (so it feel around lunchtime) at Chef Mickey’s, and the buffet was wonderful. I don’t think I have seen a more varied breakfast buffet. I was extra excited because we were there on St Patrick’s Day, and they even had a corned beef hash (not sure if that was special for the holiday or part of their regular menu). The food was amazing, and it was such a great experience to see Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto up close. Our table, while not the best view of the restaurant, had a great view of the Magic Kingdom, too. While this is a little pricey, I highly recommend it. This was our first trip to Chef Mickey’s but definitely not our last!!
Katie Wilson
Chef Mickey is really a must do when visiting Disney World. You get to interact with a vast array of characters dressed as cooks! Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto and Goofy make at least two to three rounds of the enclosed restaurant interacting with each and every person at your table. Make sure to have your camera charged and ready for those photo ops. Whether it is each character one on one with each family member or a group shot. Our family has older kids, but they even loved it! Another great thing about Chef Mickey is that it is a buffet style dinner. You can move at your own pace and pick out a great array of items to eat! My 10 year old loved the dessert buffet….cookies, ice cream, etc is every kids delight! You definitely will leave feeling full and satisfied.
http://profiles.google.com/cassandra.dimauro Cassandra Di Mauro
We had dinner at Chef Mickey – it was buffet style dinner – but the food was really good. I liked that there were several options so you could eat as “healthy” as you wanted. The kids in our family really liked the fact that Mickey, Donald, Pluto, Minnie and Goofy all stopped by the table to take pictures and sign autographs. If you have little ones in your group this is a great way to see the characters without having to stand in line.
Another thing our family liked was the group photo we had taken right before being seated. Of course we purchased one – one of the few times you’ll get 5 kids (7 and under) and 7 adults together…

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