Reviews Disney's Pch Grill

Donald Duck’s Seaside Breakfast at Disneyland Resort’s Festival Pier Hotel’s PCH Grill guarantees you to see, meet, get autographs & take photos with Donald! He’s such a hard character to catch in the Disney parks! :-( BUT this character buffet breakfast is the way to go! As soon as you arrive, you get a professional photo shoot with Surfer Donald! (Yes, they can use your camera/smartphone, too) Loved the surfing & holiday themed decor when we went during my birthday trip. So much activity all over the restaurant- other characters available that day were Daisy Duck, Minnie Mouse & Stitch! Super fun! Our time slot on a mid-weekday worked well for us as there weren’t too many other diners. So we got A LOT of special attention and interaction with the characters roaming around and seeing them interact with one another. It was especially heartwarming to see Donald & Daisy talking to one another & strolling around together as a couple. You don’t see that every day! 🥰 Love! Love! Love! Buffet consisted of omelet station (which we completely missed because who can eat when there’s Donald around! Lol), granola/fruit parfait station, hot breakfast items (scrambled eggs, eggs Benedict, bacon, pork sausage, hash, etc), oatmeal/Mickey pancake & Mickey waffles/French toast station, soft serve & dessert station with toppings! Sadly, my only disappointment was that even though I both advance booked our dining reservations online with note of my birthday celebration, and told the receptionist at checkin, AND I wore my Disneyland’s birthday pin, I didn’t get a birthday candle lit cupcake and serenade. Naturally, I thought it was just for the kids, but when I asked on our way out, one of the servers said they do it for adults, too, and to tell them again it was my birthday, but we maxed out our 2-hour parking validation time. Oh well. Learn from my mistake to be more aggressive and let your actual table server know you’re there to celebrate a birthday. ;-)

Food was good and plentiful although over priced for the experience. Catered for dietary requirements - big plus. Service was very good and we got plenty of the Disney experience. Would recommend for big Disney fans - which we aren't.

Fantastic experience, especially for the kids. Buffet was pretty good, with omelets made to order, and had a wide selection. Service was great, and very attentive. Mickey, Minnie, Daisy and Stitch characters also came out, and took their time with our children. I definitely recommend this breakfast experience if staying at Paradise Hotel.

This is one of my favorite restaurants to go to if I'm staying at Paradise Pier. The buffet is kind of pricey, but the character breakfast is fun for kids. I usually eat her first (just once) during a trip and would head to Disneyland right after. Great service, the staff is really courteous and the food is decent. I recommend it!

We booked this character breakfast as a last minute decision, and I'm so glad we did! We did have to wait about 20 minutes past our reservation time before we were seated, but that's understandable. Once our name was called, we were in line to see Mickey. The Photopass photographer gladly took pictures with my camera as well as theirs. We went to get our first round of food, and they were by right away with orange juice and coffee, which was refilled before we even realized it needed refilling throughout the whole meal! Characters we saw were Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Pluto and Stitch. Stitch was amazing with the kids!! He did a little dance with them every 15 minutes or so, and was mischievous. It was great to get to see and interact with 5 characters without waiting in line! And I found the food to be fantastic. Yes, it's a buffet, but it's the best buffet food I've ever had!! I found it to be higher than average quality. I had 4 or 5 servings of the Bananas Foster French Toast. Haha Anyways, we met lots of characters, had some great food and had fun, and it was worth the $150 we paid (with gratuity) for 4 of us. I would recommend anyone with kids who love the Disney characters to go here!

If I could give them 1,000 stars I would! We were on my sons wish trip. He is a 4.5 year old son, soon to be an official cancer survivor. He was born with a rare eye cancer called Retinoblastoma. He was granted a wish from Kids Wish Network. He loves Mickey mouse and naturally picked meeting Mickey Mouse! This dining experience was the only thing we added as an extra. It was not included in the wish trip. Given our financial situation due to having a child with cancer we figured it may be quite some time before we get to visit Disney again. The trip overall was so magical but in my eyes having a character dining experience would just be the icing on the cake for my family! Boy was I ever right! First off EVERY SINGLE and I mean EVERY SINGLE staff member was Amazing! You can tell they are trained to greet someone with in eyesight or something. I mean even the gentleman who was keeping the buffet tidy and full started a conversation with me and it started with a warm greeting! We did tell the hostess we were there on a wish trip and they spoiled us and my son for sure but I did observe every child in there was also treated with so much love! If you are going to Disney you must check this place out! The dance party was super cute and both my boys loved dancing with the characters. The Omelette Chef who did not know we were there on my sons wish trip was OUTSTANDING! I was already stuffed but my husband had a Omelette from him and I just had to get one so he made me a mini one. The food was really good and fresh. They had many choices! The place was clean! It was about half full when were were in there and all the characters made their rounds at least twice! The Minnie Mouse and the Daisy and the Donald that day you three went above and beyond to make our experience one to remember!!! We gave Daisy a trading pin and wanted to give Minnie one too but she was busy with another family when we were leaving (my boys favor girls :) ) I added that part in case the manager is able to see this and read this to Minnie and Daisy. We loved Minnie too and she spent a lot of time with us, she stole our hearts!!! We were moved by the whole experience and I am sure glad we budgeted for it! I read a ton of these reviews and the first thing you must remember when reading reviews is: People when having a bad experience no matter how small or petty it is in the big scheme of things, they are much more likely to do a review and voice their opinion, than when everything goes there way. It's just human nature. If you read through the bad reviews you'll notice for the most part there is a trend, either the person was expecting the moon and the stars for the price point and gave a review because they deemed it to be more expensive than it was worth in their eyes. That's kinda unfair because any place in our around Disney is expected to be pricier. I personally loved the food but was there for my kids to experience the character dining. So short of packing your own sack lunches you should expect ALL restaurants in or around Disney to be a bit higher. Also I noticed a few people had said service was great the food was good/great but one thing or another blew it for them and they scored the entire experience 1 star, that's completely unfair! Just a tip if you have a kiddo that is dying to meet one of the Characters make it be known to the hostess, manager or your server. They will make it happen so long as they can based on how busy they are. They aren't aloud to just brush of kids they have to give them a great experience so if one family takes a lot of their time and that character doesn't make it to your table its completely unfair to downgrade the entire experience because of that, simply let a staff member know before you leave that your family would love to meet the character you came to meet! To the staff at Disney's PCH Grill, you truly are doing an amazing job and our experience was MAGICAL because of you! We are not sure when the next time we will make it to Disney but if and when we do WE ARE COMING BACK!!!

Back in April 2015 this was my first character breakfast that we attended at the California Park. We arrived and checked in early, we walked in under (a half an hour later). First got to meet Mickey Mouse in front of the restaurant photo backdrop, then we got seated near the windows. We got some food and we ate. Surprised to meet Stitch right there on location, what a warm welcome!!! My family and I enjoyed the food, and the environment. Good to meet Daisy Duck for the first time also, I noticed that Minnie was on the route of characters (behind Daisy) to meet us next. Daisy moves to the next table, I turned around to see Minnie and she took off. And she started doing a different route when she returned, mother and I walked to where she was. And the people at that table couldn't have been nicer and let me take a picture with her. I'm not mad, all I'm asking is that director(s) better arrange the table route with the characters. So that all the guests can meet each one!!!