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I won't be picky if I'm able to score an ADR for BOG, but which mealtime do you prefer to eat there? Breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Is one experience better than the other? What entree do you recommend? *please feel free to send us ADR pixie dust*
The quality of food at breakfast and lunch can be really uneven. We've had pretty good lunches as well as not so great.
I honestly didn't think the quality or amount of food at breakfast met the price for adults. The pastries tasted like assembly line-made grocery store ones, definitely not the freshness or quality at other TS. People's experiences have been very mixed, either great food or cold. DH had ice cold food, as cold as if they'd pulled it out of the fridge!
Dinner is more fun since you can go into the Master's Study to meet Beast after your meal. The food on the whole is better but also can be somewhat uneven quality-wise. And, getting seated can take quite some time. Service was a bit slow when we did dinner.
Really, BOG itself is a character experience as stunning as the atmosphere is. The rooms are beautifully Imagineered with numerous touches that echo the movie.
So, I suggest looking over menus and picking the meal you think you'd enjoy most. You can wander about looking through all three rooms at breakfast and lunch. It's way too crowded at dinner unless you eat very early or late, and the Rose Gallery Room isn't open then (unless that's changed recently). But, you can meet Beast at dinner.
Tough decision, but you can always eat there again sometime. We sure have!
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We have done dinner the last 3 trips and I would recommend it. I have had the French onion soup as an appetizer and the shrimp and scallops entree. I get the grey stuff for dessert. A lot of people complain about it that it is hard but I have never had an issue. My family members with food allergies get a steak, potato or fries, and veggies.
We have done all three mealtimes and I must say we prefer lunch. Breakfast seemed very overpriced and not that memorable. Dinner was nice but took lots of time to enjoy all the courses we wanted to try....meeting Beast was special but something we wouldn't do again for the price point of the meal (we pay OOP but with a TIW or AP discount). For lunch, we preorder our food making it a quicker and easier process. We like being able to chose our own room/table and can wander around to take photos. We prefer to have a late lunchtime when there are more tables available and we don't feel rushed. You still get the meal brought to you with real utensils and dishes. (you do get your own drinks, napkins and silverware)
I am fond of the potato leek soup and my husband prefers the French onion soup. We share one of the sandwiches and are pretty full. We have had the grey stuff....which is delicious......but we prefer to hold off on dessert so we can try something later on.
I have had breakfast and lunch and think Dot summed up breakfast. IMO it was a lot of mediocre food. You get fruit and pastries for the table but they are grocery store quality, nothing special. I also don't need a third of the food that is offered so you can either over eat or waste food.
Our lunch was very nice. We went at 1:30 and the place was beginning to clear and was empty by the time we left. I cannot stand noisy meals and once the crowds cleared lunch was pleasant. I thought the odd was much better than your average CS meal and the price was not much more.
Yes! Thank you all for your replies, sounds like dinner can be crowded and can take a while and breakfast is not too memorable, so sounds like a late lunch is the way to go, although you don't get a chance to meet Beast. Exactly all the information I was hoping to get -- it's always so great to come back to the forums and you all have such great (or not-so-great) experiences to share.
We have only done lunch, and while not everything is equally good, there are still some very nice items that seem to be pretty reliable, like the potato leek soup and the pork stew with green beans and mashed potatoes. Be sure to take advantage of online pre-ordering if you do lunch or breakfast. It will really save you some time when you arrive at the restaurant; you will have the option to add or change items if need be. Unless you are on a dining plan, breakfast seems pretty expensive to me. For $24, I'd just as soon eat breakfast at one of the MK resorts. But BOG is an experience everyone should have at least once.
Yay! An ADR for dinner popped up for our MK day! DH will think I'm a little bit crazy for accepting a 9:50 dinner time, and I'll keep checking for earlier in the day, but I didn't want to miss out on the experience altogether. So, we may take a break midday and then head back to the park for the evening. Otherwise, I could see one of my girls becoming particularly cranky.
Yay! An ADR for dinner popped up for our MK day! DH will think I'm a little bit crazy for accepting a 9:50 dinner time, and I'll keep checking for earlier in the day, but I didn't want to miss out on the experience altogether. So, we may take a break midday and then head back to the park for the evening. Otherwise, I could see one of my girls becoming particularly cranky.
At least you got something! that you can get earlier on in the day. Keep checking - you never know, you may luck out!
I have ate at BOG for all 3 meals and my first choice would try to get a lunch seating. My least favorite was breakfast and Dinner was very similar to lunch so either of the two would be fine according to the better seating time you could get.
The only time I have not ate at Be Our Guest is Lunch Time. I really enjoyed both the QS breakfast and the Dinner. Of course meeting the Beast after dinner was really special so I would say dinner was my fav.
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