This is episode number 50 of Two grownups and a mouse. In today's episode we will be talking about the Cape May Cafe at Disney's Boardwalk Resort, specifically their breakfast bash. House, Pronops and a mouse. Hi there, I'm AJ.
I'm Andrew. And you were listening to Two grownups and a mouse. The podcast. Yes, and if you're watching this, then you're watching the video cast.
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That's right. Please rate and subscribe. Review. If you're watching this, you'll see I have on a Dumbo T-shirt today.
I was looking for something a little red, white, and blue because we are right around the corner of Fourth of July, so happy independence day. And I don't know if anyone watching noticed that I do try and change in front of me each episode, you know, have a little part of our Disney collections. So I said, oh, I'm wearing Dumbo. I'll put out Dumbo and you know what we found out.
You keep changing in front of you? Uh huh. Do you know what we found out? You do know because you saw it.
But Dumbo can fly. He can. Have a snow globe in front of me with a Dumbo on it. Well, Dumbo's no longer attached.
Oops. He went flying. Yeah, he did. He went flying.
I was trying to make it snow, like the snow globes do. Make it rain? No, make it snow. I don't know if you'll be able to see it in the video, but I believe I got this at the Disney outlet for about $1,299.
So I'm not that upset. Well, that it's magnificently old. No, this one's not. Well, here, I'll put Dumbo to the side.
You don't want to break my Dumbo? 60 years of magic. Disneyland. Yeah, that was not long ago.
Wow. That was expensive when I was original. 45. 46.95.
46.95. Snow globe. I'm pretty sure it was $1,299. I'm sure.
The all of them. $7,99 to $1,999. You should give good discounts. Right.
Plus I haven't been to Disneyland since 2011. Right. So anyway, today we're going to talk about Kate May Cafe. It's a Disney boardwalk resort, which is a Disney vacation club resort.
It is. But you do not have to be a vacation club member in order to stay there. You can either book directly with the resort and go online to Walt Disney World.com or you can rent out points, which we are not sponsoring any specific point renter, but there are a few out there. You need to look at the ratings for each of them.
Some of them are more popular than others. If you do a Google search for renting or buying or whatever points, not buying DVC resale, but buying points for a stay. Correct. And we've had friends that have done it and they had a great experience.
But again, you could just book directly with Walt Disney World. That's not an issue. So at the Kate May Cafe, they have two meals. They have breakfast, which they call brunch.
And that is a character breakfast. It's character dining or they have a dinner, which is not character dining. So we recently went to the character breakfast. It's called Minnie's Beach Bash Breakfast.
Even though on the website it calls it brunch, the menu they say brunch. But okay, a little description from the website. Minnie and some of her friends have gathered at the Kate May Cafe to start the day with a beach bash breakfast. They are all dressed up in their beachy best and you are invited to join the fun.
Create unforgettable memories, get autographs and photos and enjoy menu offerings, including Mickey Waffles, Scrambled Eggs, seasoned potatoes, sausage, oatmeal and more. Please note Disney characters join guests for breakfast only. Character appearances? Appearances?
Appearances are subject to change. Yeah, I can talk. So we saw Donald Guvie, Minnie and Mickey? Daisy.
Oh, it was Daisy? It wasn't Mickey? Do we see Mickey? I don't even remember now.
No, I think you might be right. I know we saw Daisy. I don't remember. Yeah, it was Donald because it was just his birthday.
And in fact, one of the things that they serve are Mickey Waffles, but because Donald's birthday was June 9th, they added Donald Waffles. I don't know if they do that in any of the other resorts at Alfred Breakfast. I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm a man.
So it's a buffet, which I really like about days for breakfast. Some of the character meals that dining isn't... I don't want to be too negative, but subpar for the amount of money you spend for some of the dinners that are characters. So a lot of our friends that enjoy character dining often prefer to do the breakfast because it's harder to mess up.
Yeah, well, it's probably a good way to put that. It's not impossible to mess up, but it's a little bit more difficult. So they have some sliced meats. They have assorted fruits and yogurt, breakfast breads, as I already said, Mickey Waffles and now the addition of Donald Waffles.
There's a selection of cheeses, cereals and grains, fresh baked pastries, and a selection of breakfast favorites. So I'm guessing that that was them describing bacon and eggs and one of my favorites, sliced Nova with cream cheese and bagels. That's pretty expensive. Slice Nova is so I'm always really happy when they have sliced Nova on the buffets at Disney because I definitely get my money's worth right there.
I think I have two bagels with sliced Nova. The bagels weren't small, but they weren't huge either. They weren't like if you went to Einstein's or one of the bagel... I was going to say, Alfred, but only people in South Florida would do what that is.
It's probably about the same size as a store-bought frozen bagel. Like a Thomas's or a lender's bagel. So I had two of them because I wanted the Nova. So that's one of my favorites.
And also my other favorite, do you remember? Gram too. Fruit Loops? Yep.
We don't buy cereal in the house very often. Never buy fruit loops in the house. But when we go to the buffet and they have fruit loops, I enjoy my fruit loops. Special treat.
Because I'm fruity. Or loopy. Thank you. You're welcome.
There's a variety of beverage selections. Most of them are included. With your meal. I didn't look at the receipt.
They were included, weren't they? Yeah. I think it's the way the breakfast works is I think you get a juice and a coffee along with the buffet. I don't remember.
It didn't really say it on the menu. I looked at the menu and I looked online. It didn't specify. Right.
And soda. They didn't charge you for your soda. Right. But I didn't have a juice.
I didn't have coffee. I don't remember what's happened when we've had all three. Right. So they have sodas, teas and coffees.
But they also have specialty coffees which are an extra fee. They, on the menu, they showed French roast or shaken Jamaican cold brew. Fameoca, cafe, alate. No, that's not cafe.
That's not latte. Cafe, alat. I don't know how to pronounce that. French breast coffee, kaloo and coffee.
Yes, they serve alcohol, breakfast. Cappellos. And espresso. But you know, she said does anybody want coffee and our server never even mentioned the, you know, did you want the French breast coffee or you know, she didn't ask us if we wanted any of that.
Yeah, that was weird because I didn't even know they had. Right. And I'm not upset by it because I mean we had a great experience, but it's just kind of unusual that she didn't even offer it to us. Well, they didn't mention the booze either.
Exactly. And they have a lot of those. It's substantial, you know, more than just one. They have a Soleil classic mimosa, which if you do not know what a mimosa is, that champagne and orange juice.
And now they sell by the glass or the bottle. Right. Just kind of weird. Well, I guess I just eat you the bottle of champagne and what's the word?
Orange juice? No, the holder for the orange juice. A bottle? No, there's a word for it.
Coraf. The Coraf of orange juice. A cafe of orange juice. Coraf.
$10 glass or $45 bottle. They have a traditional Bloody Mary, which I don't know what the ingredients in a Bloody Mary are except for tomato juice. The easiest way, because it's a bunch of spices, the cheap and easy way to make one is a V8 and vodka. That works.
So, but it's basically, you know, it's an excuse and a bunch of it. It's fine. We don't know if that's what they do or just say. I'm sure they make it a traditional one.
Right. Well, it's a traditional Bloody Mary. They also have, it's a short thing, sparkling wine with mango popping boba. That's $11.
The traditional Bloody Mary is $11.25. It's a mimosa with mango juice instead of orange juice. Correct. Yeah.
And the boba are those little tea bubble balls, I think. I think you're right. Yeah. When I saw boba that I know I've read like boba tea balls or whatever.
And Kate may cafe sunrise, which is kettle one vodka with orange juice and that's 1075. So the prices on the alcohol for Disney prices aren't horrible. It's just normal. It's just Disney alcohol prices.
So, I mean, actually it's a little bit less expensive because we've paid $14 to $16 for some of the specialty drinks. Right. Well, but I mean, early, you know, when you buy a bottle, it's only $45. So you're not getting, you're not getting top shelf champagne.
Well, the vodka. They actually caught sparkling wine. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, kettle one vodka isn't. Well, it's mid shelf.
Yeah, no, but it's not bottom shelf. It's not generic. They do accept tables in Wonderland, which is nice. So, and they do accept other dining plans, but I'm not sure how many credits it is.
I'm not even sure how the credits work anymore because we haven't used the dining plan in a long time, but they do accept it. So, you know, do double check. Right. If you are planning on using a dining plan, you know, always double check before you go and dine somewhere.
And something that they've been doing a lot of lately, more and more, they're really upping their social media game. You may notice when you go to the parks, you know, the Walt Disney World or Disneyland that they have like the colored walls, you know, purple wall, you know, meet me at the purple wall. They sold a baseball cap says meet me at the purple wall. So they realize how important social media is to everyone.
And so they really get involved in, you know, they post multiple times of date up social media. They repost other people's pictures with permission. So they're, you know, and this is Walt Disney in general. So or Disney in general, because it's not just Walt Disney World, it's Disney Land, it's Disney Cruise Lines, all of them are really upping their social media game.
So we were at K-MEC Cafe and while we were waiting to dine, or actually I think we waited it, we went into this after we dined in the lobby of the hotel, you know, right near the entrance to breakfast, they had a social media frame that said K-MEC Cafe, right? It didn't say, it didn't say Boardwalk. It said K-MEC Cafe. Well, I think it had balls right now.
So if you go to the Boardwalk, if you go inside there, make sure you look for the social media frame and go ahead and take a picture. They did not have a photo pass photographer around, but you could probably find a cast member that would assist you if a passerby doesn't want to do that for you. And we've seen those social media frames at a couple of locations. I mean, when we had the photo pass photographers, they have more social media frames available in addition to the magic shots.
Right. Well, I think the other reason is, well, it's just outside, you know, if people wanted every restaurant, it'd be kind of a lot of people, but because they want you to post it right away, you know, I mean, most of the time, photo pass gets processed relatively quickly, but it's still might be an hour or two sometimes. So, you know, they want people to post the picture right away, but now you'd have to open the app, get your picture, download the picture, and then post it, and then multi-part, I'm going to do that. Well, it was funny.
I was on Facebook a day or two after we went and one of the women in one of the Facebook groups, I'm in, yes, it's a Disney purse group. Just saying. No comment. Yeah.
So she posted a picture of herself and her husband holding the social media frame and said that she had dinner there on Sunday for her anniversary. And I said, we were there in the morning. Yeah, that's true. We had breakfast there.
Are we forgetting anything? Well, I mean, they do some special events. So if you go on the website, you can see that they do a Mother's Day brunch. What are their normal hours?
The normal hours are 7.30 to 11. And then five o'clock on, 7.30 to 11, and then five to nine for dinner. So they don't do a lunch. And despite the fact they call it the breakfast brunch, they're not really open for brunch.
Usually brunch runs a little later than that. So it's just that. But then the Mother's Day brunch is 11.32. It'll be a special, you know, it's only on Mother's Day, maybe the day before day after kind of thing, but it's really only that.
I bet you could use that as a place to get married at. Yeah, the boardwalk, the odd club in the beach club are both part of that. Because a lot of people get married on the boardwalk somewhere. Right.
And then you can do your reception. I mean, this is AJ and Andrew guessing this is it, but it's a pretty educated guess. So well, I don't know. Yeah, you might be able to do it.
Right. That's might be why they don't do it. When we would watch that TV show about the Disney weddings, and we always, I mean, obviously they're beautiful and heart-stopping, really expensive. But the other part that you don't really, they don't really say it.
They're not really hiding it either, but they're doing a lot of those events at off hours. Like 4 AM off hours and not exaggerating because one of them. Yeah, if you want to get married in front of the castle, they're not cool. They're closing the park for you and you're not getting married in front of a crowd.
They're not going to do that. So you're getting married at 3 o'clock in a morning. Yeah, they're really off hours. Right.
Yeah, we watched the, well, we watched the previous version of most recent one, had Alison Hawker and Stephen Boss or Twitch. They were both on, so you think you can dance. They met there. They ended up getting married.
And they're a really cute couple. And if you look that up online, it's a really great show to watch. You know, there aren't too many episodes. Actually, were they over the summer?
Maybe they'll have some new ones coming off soon. And yeah, so you could get married all over the place or renew your vows or you could do a surprising engagement. You know, we saw a surprising engagement at Animal Kingdom. There was a wedding in a car.
They got a lot of labor, too. I mean, the surprise engagement was staged as a mock film crew just doing surveying kind of thing. Oh, right. And they do all different sizes.
You know, I think the minimum was like six people, six or 10 people. Yeah. And the maximum, they can definitely hold a lot. But you can get expensive.
But like I said, so that's why I'm saying the educated guests, I would not be surprised if they might, that might be why they're not open for lunch because that's a great venue for dining at, for a reception, you know, be at a wedding or a special occasion or whatever that the case may be, you might be able to rent that out. So that's something that you might want to look into if you're going to get married or have a big occasion at Walt Disney. You might want to look and see because that it's beautiful. Yeah.
It was really, really pretty over there. That actually, that's the other thing is that just because you're doing a, you know, maybe you're having a family reunion or something, you don't necessarily have to call the wedding because there are people using just call their normal group services, most of the time they're dealing with a company that's doing an event or a conference or something like that. But if you could call up and say, you know, 50 of my relatives are coming down, let's do something special and, you know, that'll work with you. Well, next time we go there, you know, that we're in the area, we'll have to kind of look at like lunchtime and see if the restaurant's empty or if there's people in it.
That's like it. That's what hit her. It may have to be good luck. Because also, ailing compass in Yacht Club, also I don't think it's open for lunch.
No, I don't think so. Because I mean, I'm fast by there before a lot of restaurants might not be in the hotels just because it's just not that busy. Right. And they have, they do have the quick service, which are typically open breakfast, lunch and dinner.
So they have plenty of options for you. I think we've really enjoyed our breakfast. I think we've said this before. We're not very big on character breakfast.
I mean, they make for great pictures. So it's a really enjoyable experience. But because we have no children, we don't rush to get there, you know, to do that. But whenever our friends come to town, we do like to go to the, to the character breakfast with them because it's more enjoyable for us to do it in a group as opposed to just the two of us going.
But that's just our choice. You know, we don't judge if you and your significant other adults and you want to go do a character breakfast. Trust me, there are plenty of adults that just go to the two of them. So I mean, it's Disney.
You're supposed to be again. There's a bunch of them there. I don't feel that or feel think you're going to be the only one. Oh my goodness.
No, far from it. So on that note, we're speaking about food and we're recording it in the evening. And I have not had the internet. This is shocking.
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I'm not going to say good morning, but I didn't because I said good night. I could say good afternoon. Good evening. Or just goodbye.
Okay. Bye. Bye.