Mickey’s Autumn Adventures a brand new Disney character eating expertise with a harvest theme for August via November. It’s joined in 2025 by the brand-new Clarabelle’s Enchanted Halloween Dinner at Storytellers Cafe. This eating evaluation shares meals images, and ideas on the delicacies & character interactions. (Up to date July 10, 2025.)
Let’s start with fundamentals. Mickey’s Autumn Adventures is a personality breakfast or brunch at Storytellers Cafe, a restaurant in Disney’s Grand Californian Resort. From August 22 via November 16, 2025, Disney invitations company to begin their day with Mickey Mouse and a few of his closest buddies at this cozy Craftsman-style eating room, which serves as a heat and pleasant backdrop to your buffet breakfast journey.
At Mickey’s Autumn Adventures breakfast or brunch, you’ll be able to select from favorites similar to croissants, muffins, danishes, seasonal sliced fruits, contemporary berries, Mickey Waffles, Bananas Foster French Toast, pork carnitas chilaquiles, hand-carved meats, custom-made omelets and way more. You may also ask your server for delights like metal lower oatmeal and yogurt parfaits.
This Halloween season, Disneyland is debuting the brand-new Clarabelle’s Enchanted Halloween Dinner at Storytellers Cafe! From August 22 via October 31, 2025, get pleasure from methods and many treats as you dine with Clarabelle Cow and her woodland buddies sporting Halloween apparel. You’re inspired to decorate up as your favourite forest good friend for Clarabelle’s Enchanted Halloween Dinner.
Dinner will probably be served from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The menu options quite a lot of tasty dishes, together with hand-carved meats, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, grilled salmon, grilled pork, seasonal greens, bread pudding, sweets & confectionaries, ice cream, and varied drinks.
You may make reservations for Mickey’s Autumn Adventures or Clarabelle’s Enchanted Halloween Dinner beginning July 15, 2025, topic to availability. Breakfast is $69 per grownup (ages 10 and up) and $39 per baby (ages 3 to 9); brunch is $74 per grownup and $39 per baby; dinner is $79 per grownup and $42 per baby.
Now let’s flip to our evaluation of Mickey’s Autumn Adventures from final Halloween…
Let’s begin with the great. The arrival and check-in course of was easy and shockingly quick. That is notable, as our previous experiences with Storytellers Cafe have virtually all the time been chaotic and crowded. This character meal is notorious for being booked to capability, and having company ready within the walkway to be referred to as for his or her reservation.
We all know this not simply from firsthand expertise, however as a result of Storytellers is in a pathway on the Grand Californian that we use often to enter and exit Disney California Journey, and there are all the time lots of people ready, inflicting congestion.
Not so this time. We checked in through the Disneyland app as we walked into the Grand Californian, and as we approached the restaurant (~3 minutes later), acquired a notification that our desk was prepared. Solely a handful of individuals had been sitting within the ready space–nobody was outdoors–and we had been seated instantly.
We had been additionally happy to see that Storytellers was not crammed to capability. Tables are nonetheless pretty tightly packed, which might make navigating round company and characters tough. It could additionally make images with clear backdrops a problem, however I’ve discovered my lesson from previous meals right here and opted for a lens with shallow depth of subject.
It had been some time since our final meal at Storytellers Cafe (dinner or breakfast–each of which I forgot to evaluation), so we had been wanting to return for Mickey’s Autumn Adventures character eating expertise. Particularly Sarah, who had been anxiously awaiting the opening of ADRs and even bought an outfit for Megatron that matched Minnie Mouse–proper right down to the lovable pumpkin beret!
I’m a giant fan of the themed design at Storytellers Cafe, which is criminally under-appreciated. It incorporates nods to literary legends and California tales and folklore from the Golden State, all with a heavy craftsman affect. It’s detailed, beautiful, and eccentric…and I concern it’s solely a matter of time earlier than it will get modernized as a result of somebody finds it too dated. It’s not–it’s unbelievable. Areas like this are what make the Grand Californian particular, and in a very totally different league than the opposite two resorts at Disneyland.
Turning to meals on the buffet, I’m simply going to begin by sharing images of the unfold:
The buffet was chaotic all through our meal at Mickey’s Autumn Adventures, so I missed a few main issues.
First, there’s an omelet station the place cooks put together made-to-order omelets with the next components: Entire Eggs or Egg Whites, and Bacon Bits, Breakfast Sausage, Unattainable Meat, Spinach, Kale, Mushrooms, Roasted Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, Onions, Cheddar Cheese, Asiago Cheese.
Above is the vegetable-centric omelet that Sarah ordered. She was even capable of request gentle oil and the chef was blissful to oblige.
This omelet was wonderful, per Sarah. Not as wonderful because it might’ve been with a heavy serving to of meats and cheese, however she disagrees.
Talking of meats, there’s additionally a carving station that I couldn’t handle to {photograph} because it’s the preferred cease on the buffet.
The choices right here rotate; after we did Mickey’s Autumn Adventures breakfast/brunch, Prime Sirloin and Roasted Turkey. The Mickey waffle will not be a part of the carving scene, though that may be fairly superior if the chef carved Mickey Mouse out of regular waffles–sorta like mop artwork, however with meals. I’ll you’ll want to submit this nice suggestion.
Each the Prime Sirloin and Roasted Turkey had been unbelievable.
The sirloin, particularly, was superb. Completely ready, tender, flavorful–simply the whole lot you could possibly need. The creamy horseradish wasn’t obligatory for taste, but it surely did elevate the already-excellent meat to the following stage. The turkey was likewise tasty–tender and never dry. Ok that I acquired it repeatedly.
The opposite chef particular of the day was salmon. Not the smoked salmon above (which was served with capers cream–excellent stuff), however the one subsequent to it. This was additionally unbelievable.
I’m unsure what precise distinction exists between breakfast and brunch, however perhaps it was this salmon? It didn’t seem till the midway level in our meal, by which level I had already had a couple of dozen (no joke) cuts of high sirloin. Most likely would’ve been higher to steadiness between beef and salmon.
Right here’s one in all Sarah’s plates. She took a really totally different method than me, which is why I used to be compelled to eat meats for 2. I had no different alternative.
We subscribe to the Joey’s Philosophy on Buffets: “right here’s the place I win all my a refund!” Simply our most quoted line from Pals. Extra precisely, I subscribe to the philosophy…Sarah likes the road. As costly as fruit has gotten, it’s not sufficient for us to win something again with the above sort of plate.
When it comes to different gadgets we appreciated on the buffet, the French Toast and Bread Pudding had been each unbelievable within the dessert unfold, as had been the beignets. They had been additionally loaded with sugar, and ended up being my knock-out punch. (I’m certain the pound of beef earlier than that didn’t assist, however I used to be feeling good till dessert. Like a prizefighting aggressive eater in his prime.)
We additionally each love the chilaquiles, which had simply the precise kick, and had been contemporary, flavorful, and addictively scrumptious. They don’t {photograph} properly, however they’re unbelievable. Aside from what you see above, I didn’t strive the rest–simply actually the identical plates of scrumptious meats time and again. Sorry, however I’m not attempting rooster tenders or fries or no matter low cost meals are on a buffet to easily verify what I already know.
One delicate disappointment was that the flatbreads regarded unambitious and underwhelming. I kinda hoped for one thing seasonal and a bit extra envelope-pushing, however these had been very fundamental. Talking of seasonal, there wasn’t actually something that stated autumn or fall harvest. Just a few pumpkin dishes (and even cream sauce for the french toast or bread pudding) would’ve been a pleasant contact.
Now let’s flip to characters, beginning with images:
The costumes in all probability converse for themselves, however I need to underscore simply how unbelievable they’re. Apart from Pluto, who all the time appears to get shafted with a brand new collar or scarf, they’re unbelievable. Nice layer, particulars, and simply usually lovable.
Minnie Mouse, particularly, is the star of the present. Her outfit has a powerful pumpkin motif, from the beret to the buttons. Large kudos to the Disneyland costuming staff as a result of, as soon as once more, they’ve crushed it. This shouldn’t be any shock, as they’ve finished unbelievable work with the brand new Halloween and Christmas character costumes over the previous couple of years–but it surely’s price giving reward the place it’s due. (Partially within the hopes that maybe finally, Walt Disney World will comply with go well with.) I can’t wait to see what they provide you with for Christmas!
It’s barely amusing to me that Chip and Dale are dressed for an precise autumn journey–perhaps they’re going climbing in Yosemite? Whereas the mice seem dressed to move for an “journey” in Haight-Ashbury at a swanky espresso store. I nonetheless love all of them, it’s simply humorous what journey outfits imply to totally different characters.
Interactions with the characters had been fairly good. Most of them took time with Megatron and did one thing to catch her consideration and curiosity. Mickey gave her excessive fives and put his always-enticing nostril inside attain (purposefully, I’d add). Pluto teased his whiskers in her attain and was blissful to supply snuggles; he was additionally oddly okay together with her want to discover the within of his mouth together with her head. Chip and Dale had been good, and one of many two–plus Pluto–truly paid us a number of visits. No complaints about these interactions–they had been all meaty and memorable.
With that stated, not one of the characters actually went above and past, for us or the tables in our normal neighborhood. I truly wouldn’t anticipate this with our household–we’ve got a small child and it’s tough to deviate from the tried and true interactions. All she needed was to seize noses and whiskers, anyway, so mission completed. (If something, I’d say we acquired the perfect interactions of the tables round us.) However I nonetheless get pleasure from watching the characters with different company, notably these with small youngsters, and seeing the performers do enjoyable and goofy (decrease case “g”) issues. There wasn’t a lot of that. In some instances, the characters appeared hurried.
And I do know this as a result of I used to be watching diligently, because it took the ultimate two characters eternally to get to us. Our first two interactions occurred virtually instantly upon being seated, which is how we like character meals. The opposite characters had been all close by, and it regarded like they’d arrive shortly thereafter. However then they simply vanished. One did seem out of nowhere not lengthy after, but it surely was almost an hour between the third and fourth characters coming to our desk.
I’m unsure if we had been by chance skipped or what, however no large deal, that occurs. It’s occurred loads of instances at Walt Disney World, and normally what occurs is a personality attendant or supervisor comes by at a sure level and asks who we’ve got or haven’t seen. Then, these characters materialize pretty rapidly. I by no means noticed a supervisor and attendants solely appeared whereas racing round to present 5-minute warnings to the characters.
I don’t really feel prefer it’s honest to penalize Mickey’s Autumn Adventures for this as a result of, once more, this kind of factor does occur. And for each expertise like ours, there’s in all probability a dozen-plus totally different events who noticed the entire characters inside the span of half-hour. That’s nice for them!
However that is our evaluation and I can solely converse to our expertise. That was a 2-hour lengthy marathon meal, which is a number of time to be in a restaurant with a stressed toddler. I don’t know what you already know about infants, however they’re not usually identified for the endurance and tolerance for sitting nonetheless for prolonged durations. Fortunately, her favourite passion is “cup” and she or he loves watching characters and folks…however we however would’ve most well-liked the meal final round an hour–perhaps a bit extra.
Our greater criticism is the price. Once we first booked Mickey’s Autumn Adventures, the value was $55 per grownup (ages 10 and older) and $33 per baby (ages 3 to 9). That elevated quickly after to $65 per grownup and $36 per baby.
Even when we paid the ‘earlier than’ worth, it could’ve been the costliest character breakfast we’ve ever finished (albeit by a greenback as in comparison with the flowery Walt Disney World ones). However that whopping $10 worth enhance made it the costliest by $11 per individual. We knew the value had gone up, so it’s not like this caught us unexpectedly–we nonetheless voluntarily selected to do the meal.
Regardless, readers of our evaluations will know that I routinely complain about the price of Disney breakfast (such a bit is a staple of our character breakfast evaluations), and that’s for meals which are at the very least $11 cheaper per individual. Out the door, we ended up paying over $140 for this meal after AP low cost, tax and gratuity.
Now you already know why I felt compelled to eat a pound of high sirloin to win our a refund (mission not completed). Truthfully, I might’ve finished it regardless because it was scrumptious, however I felt “stress” to someway justify the exorbitant price of this breakfast/bunch to myself. As a lot as we love Storytellers, we might’ve finished a baby-less date night time at Napa Rose and simply met the characters on Principal Road for Megatron’s sake.
I shouldn’t be tremendous shocked by the $65 price ticket. As famous, Storytellers Cafe normally has an enormous crowd outdoors within the morning and is commonly cramped and chaotic on the within. Clearly this breakfast is in excessive demand. It’s additionally positioned in Disneyland’s flagship Grand Californian Resort, which is a dear resort that possible has a gradual stream of well-heeled vacationers who received’t bat a watch at paying $65 a pop. Disneyland fees what the market bears, and it seems to bear a $65 breakfast.
With that stated, I additionally assume it’s essential for Disney to ship an expertise that’s commensurate with price with a view to meet or exceed the expectations of first-timers who are available in chilly with sure expectations of a $65 breakfast. With its cramped quarters and chaotic atmosphere, Storytellers merely will not be a setting that’s becoming for a $65 meal. The unfold can be (at the very least) a few larger high quality dishes away from justifying it.
In the end, Mickey’s Autumn Journey Breakfast and Brunch remains to be one of many higher character eating experiences anyplace. Within the curiosity of steadiness, the meat carving station, made-to-order omelets, salmon, and a handful of different high-quality dishes do display consideration to element–and that this meal is extra like an early lunch (or only a common lunch…our 10:30 am ADR lasted till 12:30 pm!) with gadgets you’d usually discover on a dinner buffet reasonably than breakfast.
Maybe probably the most pertinent portion of this evaluation–or at the very least our conclusion–is that we’re protecting our ADR for Goofy’s Kitchen Celebrates Halloween, which additionally simply elevated in worth to $65 per grownup. Partially as a result of that’s for Megatron’s first birthday (how has it been a yr?!) but in addition as a result of we did get pleasure from our expertise at Mickey’s Autumn Journey on steadiness. It wasn’t excellent, but it surely was enjoyable–and as we’ve already discovered, time is fleeting and there’s solely so lengthy to seize these moments and recollections.
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