Chef Mickey’s

FOOD

Breakfast gives Mickey-shaped waffles a proper supporting cast. Scrambled eggs, smoked bacon, sliced honey ham and corned beef hash cover the familiar savory ground, while sweet and savory breads widen the morning spread. The waffles supply the unmistakable Disney flourish, but the hash gives a meat-and-eggs appetite something more substantial to consider. Selections rotate at both meals, including the specialty sweets, salads and desserts described below.

Buttermilk biscuits with gravy are among the rotating breakfast signatures, along with ham-and-cheese and vegetable omelets. Warm cinnamon rolls deserve their own pause. Cream cheese icing and a caramel drizzle turn the rolled cinnamon bread into a rather committed sweet breakfast. A pastry that has already invited caramel along clearly isn’t feeling shy.

Croissant beignets take a different route: croissant dough is fried, then dusted with cinnamon sugar, with fruit sauces available alongside. Their layered construction distinguishes them from a plain doughnut or a conventional beignet. French toast supplies another sweet forkful, with a turtle-style version adding crushed nuts and chocolate sauce. These are worth considering as individual breakfast treats, rather than letting the waffle’s famous ears monopolize the plate.

Dinner starts with a useful cold selection. Peel-and-eat shrimp brings seafood to the opening plate, with cocktail sauce for dipping. Watermelon salad combines the fruit with cucumber, red onion and feta, giving the salad counter a specific summery choice beyond tossed greens. Four-cheese focaccia adds a bread option with more going on than a plain roll.

NY strip loin gives the dinner buffet its beef centerpiece. Barbecue pork ribs and teriyaki salmon widen the main-course choices, with the salmon offering a fish entrée alongside the meat. Barbecue chicken comes coated in a sweet barbecue sauce, extending the comfort-food selection to poultry. Shrimp scampi brings a second shrimp preparation to the hot selection, so dinner offers both chilled shrimp for dipping and a hot shrimp dish.

Butternut squash ravioli is the filled-pasta choice to notice among the dinner sides. The wider pasta selection can include baked rigatoni and penne with fire-roasted tomatoes and grilled artichokes, giving a pasta-focused plate several distinct preparations to work with. Chicken pot pie adds another comfort-food direction, while grilled asparagus supplies a vegetable alongside those heavier dishes. There’s enough substance here for dinner to extend beyond a carving plate.

The children’s selection is worth a look for its mini corn dogs: small cornmeal-coated dogs with honey mustard or ketchup alongside. Cheese pizza and chicken tenders provide familiar alternatives, and macaroni and cheese crosses naturally into the broader comfort-food spread. The mini corn dog is mercifully uncomplicated.

Dessert carries the character theme into actual pastry construction. The Mickey tart combines chocolate ganache with a chocolate-cookie crust; Minnie’s raspberry cheesecake also sits on a chocolate base. Donald’s cream puff holds lemon cream, offering a different filling from the chocolate-heavy choices. The faces may draw the eye, but the fillings help you choose. Ordinary nonalcoholic beverages are included; specialty drinks and alcohol are separate.