Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Today I’ll be reviewing the character breakfast at 1900 Park Fare in Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort. Read all the entries in this report here. Onward!
For our final meal of our WDW Marathon Weekend trip, we chose a character breakfast at 1900 Park Fare inside Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. 1900 Park Fare is themed to the idea of wishes – whether they be those of the characters you’ll meet or your own. Should you use up a wish on it? Let’s find out!
Follow along with the menu here. Keep in mind, however, that online buffet menus are partial even when accurate, and actual offerings are in constant flux.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS 1900 PARK FARE
1900 Park Fare is a character meal at Disney’s Grand Floridian, WDW’s flagship resort and the most expensive Disney resort on property. Don’t worry, though; the ambience is still pretty casual. There’s no real dress code, and the character aspect attracts a lot of families with kids.
The breakfast buffet is a flat fee. As of February 2025, you’ll pay $58 for adults and $37 for kids before tax, tip, and any extras.
The character meals here are themed to “wishes,” with the characters who appear both in person and in the portraits on the walls having made a wish at some point in their story. We’ll dive a little deeper into this theme later in the post. But first I need a drink.
DISNEY GETS: MORE MONEY. YOU GET: COCKTAILS
Your 1900 Park Fare price includes basic beverages like soda, juice, and standard drip coffee. If you wanna get a little fancy, though, you can give Disney more of your money in exchange for drinks like specialty coffees and cocktails.
My weekend of races now behind me, I was down to try out a brunch cocktail. I’m a sucker for bubbly drinks, so I went for the classic French 75: prosecco, gin, cane sugar, and lemon.
I loved this one. While not particularly strong or complicated, it was well balanced and refreshing. The brightness of the lemon kept the cane sugar from making everything too sweet, and the gin canceled out any prosecco aftertaste (you know what I mean?) without coming through like a pine tree. Pro-bubble imbibers would do well to give it a shot.
THE FOOD
And now for some aggressively average photographs! Look, I feel weird wandering around taking pictures while people are just trying to get their food, you know? This is the sort of self-consciousness that keeps me from becoming a proper Disney blogger. Still, I was able to capture everything that was available. Roll call!
To start you have your breakfast appetizers. Think cereals, breakfast pastries, breads like croissants and bagels, and fruit with yogurt and granola. Hey, quick question: who is eating raisin bran at a Disney buffet? Pick a lane. 
There’s a lox bar with tomatoes and capers and similar (cream cheese is with the bagels). It was next to a potato beef hash and cheesy grits.
Classic breakfast items and their healthier equivalents were of course available, including regular sausage, chicken sausage, bacon, eggs with or without cheese, and spiced tofu scramble.
You could also pick up some cheesy potatoes, eggs Benedict (sorry you missed it, Erika), oatmeals with brown sugar and apples, biscuits with gravy, bread pudding with vanilla sauce, and the perennial pancakes and waffles.
(Can you tell I was trying to get all my photos surreptitiously?)
Finally, you had the Adult Section (carved ham) and the Kid Section, conveniently lowered and boasting gummy candy(?), croissant breakfast pizza(!), and tater tots with ketchup.
Not exactly a gourmet spread, but there was definitely something to suit every breakfast taste. If you had hoped to lean a little harder on the lunch half of brunch, you might have found yourself disappointed. I, however, believe the Ron Swanson maxim that there has never been a sadness that can’t be cured by breakfast food. No complaints here!
WHAT I TRIED
When it came down to filling my plate, I selected an assortment of items that either strongly appealed to me or were too unique not to give a go. Not pictured: Becky gave me a taste of the strawberry soup. I thought it tasted like melted ice cream, but I know it’s a fan favorite.
Disney buffets are notoriously hit or miss; happily I only made one poor choice. The monkey bread was the clunker of my selections. I found it dry, although you could probably liven it up with some syrup or the vanilla sauce from the bread pudding.
Speaking of bread pudding, I LOVE BREAD PUDDING. The bread pudding at 1900 Park Fare is basic, yet delicious. You got your cinnamon, your vanilla, your gooey consistency – this is one of the items that made it onto my third plate. I mean, if you don’t like bread pudding or prefer a more solid texture, you won’t like it, but I was all in.
Chicken sausage can be hit or miss. I was impressed by this iteration, which was flavorfully spiced. Rather than go for a pork sausage link in round two, I stuck with the chicken.
The tofu scramble surprised me. Don’t get me wrong – it is NOT a true approximation of scrambled eggs. Texture: no. Taste: no. Looks: maybe a little? Yet much like the chicken sausage, the spice blend really did it for me. The flavor profile reminded me of Indian curry, and since I love Indian curry, I wolfed it down. Once again, rather than grab some real eggs in round two, I spooned a bit more tofu scramble.
The watermelon was watermelon. (My favorite fruit!)
The double chocolate muffin was just as chocolate-y as you might expect. I didn’t find it good enough to finish, but if you’re craving chocolate this’ll scratch that itch. One note: the muffin contained unadvertised nuts. The host asked us when we checked in if we had food allergies, which we do not, but I’m pretty sure they give you a safety tour of the buffet if you say yes.
I enjoyed the croissant breakfast pizza, one of the more unique offerings. Find it in the kids’ section – I guess modern kids are into croissants? The crust was flaky in the usual croissant way, and you can’t go wrong with a traditional eggs and bacon combo. I think cheese may also have been involved, but if it was it wasn’t memorable.
The star of the show, as far as I am concerned, is the all-you-can-eat lox! I love lox as much as I love bread pudding, which is saying something. Still, I don’t buy it often, as it is none too cheap. This was good quality, thick cut lox, and if I didn’t make my money back, I at least made a dent in the total. Buffet lox forever!
WHICH CHARACTERS POPULATE 1900 PARK FARE?
The standard character slate is as follows: Aladdin, Mirabel from Encanto, Cinderella, and the arguable star of the lineup, Tiana from The Princess & The Frog. As noted above, these characters all fit into the “make a wish” theme.
Don’t count on anything, though – per the fine print, these names are subject to availability and can change. Becky reports that at her 1900 Park Fare character dinner last year, Tiana was replaced with Snow White. No shade to Snow White, but, uh, big hmmm there.
As a self-described Awkward Weirdo, I generally prefer full costume characters. Somehow removing conversation makes things feel less forced. Face character small talk can feel odd, but they do a pretty good job feeling out the vibe. Once you’ve exhausted the chit chat, they suggest you take “portraits” and go on their merry way.
In this round, I found Aladdin most natural, but he also seemed the least locked into the “I AM Aladdin” mindset as he mentioned being on the marathon course the day before. I’m sure it all depends on the given actor and their chemistry with you.
It helps to keep on eye on the characters in between grabbing your food. They seem to be pulsed through at proscribed times, with long pauses between rounds for people to eat. Toward the end of our meal, a manager came by to confirm that we had met with all four characters. Based on observation, it seems they’ll send a character specifically to you if you missed them the first time.
MAKE A WISH!
1900 Park Fare adds a little bonus ritual to the proceedings. Upon arriving at your table, you’ll find a wish card and golf pencil waiting for you. You’re instructed to write down your wish when seated. At some point during your meal, generally between character rounds, you’ll participate in a wishing ceremony that involves everyone lifting their wish in the air in tandem.
Does it work? Well, Becky wrote that she wished Tiana was there at her dinner, and lo and behold, Tiana appeared at breakfast a few months later. Coincidence? You decide!
SHOULD YOU BRUNCH AT 1900 PARK FARE?
So, after all this, should you make a reservation at 1900 Park Fare? As per usual, it depends. It’s certainly not cheap as far as breakfast goes. Then again, you’ll meet several characters in less than an hour. Not bad if you have kids with you that would otherwise want to wait in lengthy lines for character meet and greets in the parks. A late breakfast/early lunch time may also enable you to skip a meal, thus saving money. I wasn’t hungry again late evening.
Ultimately I think it comes down to how much you value the individual characters on offer, weighed against the risk that they might be replaced at the last minute. Or how much lox you can/want to eat. A pound can cost as much as $75 dependent upon quality – time to work that leverage!
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