The Cape May Cafe breakfast is perfect for any Minnie-obsessed child! Here's our full review and everything you need to know!

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Review – Meeting Minnie and Friends!

On our daughter’s first trip to Disney World, breakfast with Minnie was at the top of her bucketlist so we obviously had to make reservations for Minnie’s Beach Bash Breakfast.  This Cape May Cafe breakfast was the perfect place to bring her to make her wishes come true!

From the character interactions to the delicious buffet spread, we’re covering everything you can expect in this Cape May Cafe breakfast review. 

The Cape May Cafe breakfast is perfect for any Minnie-obsessed child! Here's our full review and everything you need to know!

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Cape May Cafe Overview

Location

Cape May Cafe is located within the EPCOT resort area at Disney’s Beach Club Resort.  It’s a lovely pastel-coloured, New England-style resort situated next to the lake, and walking distance to EPCOT.

Disney's Beach Club Resort Visitor Parking
Visitor parking at Disney’s Beach Club Resort

If you’re not staying at the hotel, you can park in visitor parking and make your way to the hotel lobby.  You’ll find the entrance to Cape May Cafe on the right-hand side of the lobby. 

Cape May Cafe

Hours

Cape May Cafe is open for both breakfast and dinner.  However, the Disney characters are only there for breakfast.

Breakfast Hours: 7:30am – 11:30am

Dinner Hours: 5:00pm – 9:00pm

Cape May Cafe Character Breakfast

Reservations

Considering how popular Minnie’s Beach Bash Breakfast is, it’s best to make a reservation well in advance.  Reservations open up at 6:00am 60 days in advance and can be booked online on the Disney website.

Weekend reservations seem to be especially popular so we made our Sunday breakfast reservation 6.5 weeks in advance.  A credit card is required at the time of booking to confirm the reservation, but it is not charged until after your breakfast.

If you need to cancel, you can do so up to 2 hours prior to your reservation at no charge.  If you don’t show up for your reservation or try to cancel within 2 hours, your credit card will be charged $10/person.

Price

As of April 2024, the breakfast price is $45/adult and $30/child, plus tax and gratuity.

Arrival and Check-in

If you have your reservation linked to your Disney My Experience app, you’ll receive a notification on your phone letting you know it’s time to check in.  Otherwise, you can speak with one of the hosts standing in the lobby outside of Cape May Cafe.

Cape May Cafe Check In

When you check-in on the app, you can add any dietary restrictions or celebration notes for your group.  After checking in, you’ll need to wait in the lobby until you receive another notification letting you know your table is ready.  At this point, one of the staff will bring you inside to your table.

Cape May Cafe Postcard
Autographed postcard at our table

When we arrived at our table, we found a lovely autographed postcard waiting for us.

Service

Once seated, our server came around to introduce herself and explain what was included and what to expect.  She took our drink orders, brought us some warm beach buns, and invited us to help ourselves to the buffet.

Our server was very friendly and checked on us once in a while to see if we needed anything.  She was attentive but not overly so.  Our daughter was taking her time eating her food and did not want to leave the restaurant, so we were one of the last guests out of there.  However, we never felt rushed by our server or any of the other staff.

Cape May Cafe Breakfast with kids

 

The cook and restaurant manager also each came by our table to see how we liked the food and if we enjoyed our experience.  This was a nice touch.

The Disney Characters You’ll Meet

You’ll get to meet four Disney favourites:

Minnie Mouse

Photos with Minnie at Cape May Cafe

Daisy

Meeting Daisy at Cape May Cafe Breakfast

Donald

Character Dining with Donald at Cape May Cafe Breakfast

Goofy

Meeting Goofy at Cape May Cafe Breakfast

Minnie and her friends Donald, Daisy and Goofy are the four Disney characters you’ll have the pleasure of meeting at breakfast.  All are dressed in their best beach attire which makes for a fun and lighthearted encounter. 

Cape May Cafe Breakfast with Donald

We loved the beachy vibes, which really made us feel like we were on a beach vacation.

Meeting Minnie at Cape May Cafe Breakfast

Each character personally visited our table and spent time interacting with each of us.  We had lots of great photo opportunities and our daughter got each character’s autograph.

Getting autographs at Cape May Cafe Breakfast

The characters also had impromptu dance parties between tables and invited the kids (and families!) to join in.  Our daughter had a blast dancing with them!

Dancing with Donald at Cape May Cafe

We thought each character would only visit our table once, but some of them came back to hang out with us more than once 🙂 

Minnie's Beach Bash Breakfast Dancing

The Food and Drinks

Breakfast starts with warm salted caramel beach buns with vanilla cream brought to your table. 

Cape May Cafe Salted Caramel Beach Buns

The cream is the most delicious part and perfectly pairs with the warm beach buns.  Make sure you eat them while still warm as we found the buns got dried out and were not as tasty as when they were first brought out.

Cape May Cafe Latte

Juices, pop, coffee, tea, milk and water are all included and can be ordered from your server.  Alcoholic and specialty beverages are available at an additional charge.

Cape May Cafe Drinks

Breakfast Buffet Menu Offerings

Other than the salted caramel beach buns, breakfast is served buffet-style.  There is quite a good variety of options available, and if you’re a carb-lover or have a sweet tooth like me, you will be especially pleased! 

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Buffet

The buffet wraps around the cooking stations where you can get made-to-order omelets and crepes, as well as freshly carved ham.

Sweet Carbs

This was my first (and favourite!) stop at the buffet. 

Mickey and Minnie Waffles at Cape May Cafe Breakfast

Here you’ll find the popular Mickey and Minnie waffles and chocolate chip pancakes, which our daughter absolutely loved! They were honestly quite satisfying.

Dining at Cape May Cafe for breakfast

However, my personal favourite was the bread pudding drizzled (er, drenched) in the delicious Creme Anglaise. Drool.

Cape May Cafe Bread pudding and Creme Anglaise

In addition to the creme Anglaise, you’ll also find whipped butter, whipped cream, and berry sauce. 

If you’d like something a little less sweet, try the house-made cheddar biscuits with gravy.

Next are the crepes, and while they look good, they weren’t my favourite but maybe it’s because I didn’t eat them fresh.  

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Crepes

Kids Station

To the left of the carbs is a lower counter with the kids’ favourites: potato barrels (aka tater tots), ketchup, chocolate chip pancakes, and Mickey and Minnie waffles.

Kids Menu at Cape May Cafe Breakfast

Savoury Options

Continuing on to the left are some savoury options.  Here you’ll find a tofu and veggie scramble, breakfast potatoes, asparagus, poached eggs and hash, and hollandaise sauce.

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Options

Meat and eggs

Next, you have your meat and egg options.  There’s breakfast sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, and steak and eggs.  You even have flour tortillas, salsa and grated cheese so you could make a breakfast burrito if you like!

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Eggs Bacon and Sausage

Our daughter loved the bacon!

Kids dining at Cape May Cafe
Dangling bacon over her mouth, thoroughly enjoying it
Oatmeal and Grits

Continuing on, you’ll find warm oatmeal and grits.  The toppings offered are brown sugar and dried cranberries.

Fruit and yogurt

Next up, you’ll find yogurt (strawberry and vanilla), cottage cheese, granola, and a variety of fresh fruits.  The day we were there they had pineapple, grapes, canteloupe and strawberries. I found the fruit to be quite fresh and sweet.

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Fruit and Yogurt

There were also cups of overnight oats with berries, but I didn’t love these.  What I did enjoy, however, was the Ambrosia salad – something I hadn’t had since I was a child!

If you’ve never had ambrosia salad before, you’ve got to try it!  It’s a fruit salad made with pineapples, mandarin orange slices, mini marshmallows and coconut.

Pastries and cheese

Moving on, you have a few select pastries and assorted cubes of cheese.  The double chocolate mini muffins were obviously a hit with the kids.  I skipped the Parker House rolls and croissants as I already had too many carbs on my plate.

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Croissants and Muffins

Carving station

Next is the popular carving station.  Here you can get freshly carved ham and it’s very delicious!

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Carving Station

You’ll also find more scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, and breakfast potatoes, the same ones that are offered on the other side of the buffet.

Cape May Cafe Sausage and Bacon

Omelet Station

Finally, you have your made-to-order omelet station!  I personally don’t eat eggs, so I skipped this one, but it was very popular!  The cook will customize your omelet just the way you like it.

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Final Thoughts – Is the Cape May Cafe breakfast worth it?

Based on our experience, yes!  This was our first time doing Disney character dining, so it was a very special experience for our daughter.  Her dream of dining with Minnie got to become a reality.

Minnie Mouse at Cape May Cafe Breakfast

Us adults in the group were not expecting to be wowed by the food and were solely booking Minnie’s Beach Bash Breakfast for the experience for our daughter.  However, we were pleasantly surprised with the food!  There were more options than we were expecting, and enough to satisfy both kids and adults alike.

Cape May Cafe Breakfast Spread

The characters were all super fun and great with the kids.  We appreciated how much our daughter got to interact with them.  She was so thrilled!

Disney Character Dining with Daisy

The only con we can think of is that the restaurant is very busy so it feels quite tight at times and loud.  Our daughter has sensory issues so the noise inside the restaurant was too much for her (hence the headphones in the photos).

Afterwards, we loved that we could walk along the beach outside of the hotel. 

Disney's Beach Club Resort Beach

It was so relaxing, and our daughter absolutely loved the beach swings.  She could have stayed there all day.

Disney's Beach Club Resort Beach swing

If you have a Minnie-obsessed child, we highly recommend this Cape May Cafe breakfast experience!

Meeting Minnie at Minnie's Beach Bash Breakfast

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