Be Our Guest - Lunch or Dinner?

[kadybat]

Hi friends! My partner and I snagged reservations at Be Our Guest because we've heard the food's great and we really wanna see inside the castle. We ended up getting reservations for both lunch and dinner though. Our trip's in about a month and we're trying to decide between lunch and dinner.

The pros of dinner are... table service is kinda nice and the idea of ending the day at Be Our Guest like that is sorta romantic.

The pros of lunch are... table service isn't essential and the prices for entrees are much less while still looking really solid.

Disney Food Blog seems to prefer lunch but I wanted to ask for some additional input. If it helps any, while seeing Beast would be neat it's far from a make-or-break, and we really want to sit in the West Wing. Let me know your thoughts, and thanks!

 

[sxeensweet]

We love both and usually do both every trip. Do know The Beast is only at Dinner if that is important to you.

 

[DisneyPrincess5]

We have only had dinner there, twice. We had awesome experiences both times and really enjoyed the food, atmosphere, and service.

 

[belledream]

I'd do lunch if there are menu items that seem good to you. Dinner is alright, but not as spectacular as the prices would make it seem.

It's a busy restaurant, and I don't think dinner is that much more intimate. Also at lunch, it's more casual to have the freedom to pick which room you want to dine in.

 

[Sunset7132]

cant wait to go for dinner in december

 

[Sunset7132]

Hi friends! My partner and I snagged reservations at Be Our Guest because we've heard the food's great and we really wanna see inside the castle. We ended up getting reservations for both lunch and dinner though. Our trip's in about a month and we're trying to decide between lunch and dinner.

The pros of dinner are... table service is kinda nice and the idea of ending the day at Be Our Guest like that is sorta romantic.

The pros of lunch are... table service isn't essential and the prices for entrees are much less while still looking really solid.

Disney Food Blog seems to prefer lunch but I wanted to ask for some additional input. If it helps any, while seeing Beast would be neat it's far from a make-or-break, and we really want to sit in the West Wing. Let me know your thoughts, and thanks!

We have had lunch there and we didnt love it, but we wouldnt have changed doing it once, this time we are triyng dinner, i have read the steak dinner is awesome

 

[BuddyThomas]

I'd do lunch if there are menu items that seem good to you. Dinner is alright, but not as spectacular as the prices would make it seem.

It's a busy restaurant, and I don't think dinner is that much more intimate. Also at lunch, it's more casual to have the freedom to pick which room you want to dine in.

At lunch, in theory you have the freedom to pick any room you want to dine in, but in reality, the place is often so mobbed that you have to take whatever room has a free table.....unless you want to wait.

I didn't love the food, or the insane crowd, but the restaurant is undeniably, incredibly beautiful. For that alone, it's worth it.

 

[belledream]

At lunch, in theory you have the freedom to pick any room you want to dine in, but in reality, the place is often so mobbed that you have to take whatever room has a free table.....unless you want to wait.

I didn't love the food, or the insane crowd, but the restaurant is undeniably, incredibly beautiful. For that alone, it's worth it.

That's true. It depends what time of day you go though. We eat on the earlier side and have found empty tables in all three. But West Wing is definitely the hardest to get.

 

[danyoung56]

I've had all three meals there. The breakfast is easily the weakest of the three, but the advantage there is getting to ride the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train multiple times before the park even opens. Lunch is a nice, casual experience with the pulled pork and a cup of french onion soup, almost like a TS meal. They serve wine at dinner, and that plus a nice steak makes a really nice meal. So you can't go wrong with either lunch or dinner.

Enjoy!

 

[correcaminos]

At lunch, in theory you have the freedom to pick any room you want to dine in, but in reality, the place is often so mobbed that you have to take whatever room has a free table.....unless you want to wait.

I didn't love the food, or the insane crowd, but the restaurant is undeniably, incredibly beautiful. For that alone, it's worth it.

If you go earlier (11-11:30) it isn't as much of an issue. Adult lunch menu is solidly good. Kids meals not so much, but kids can split the adult meals easily. So lunch is my pick.

 

[ynahtebwdw]

we've found the quality of the food and service severely lacking at dinner in recent years (compared to when the restaurant first opened), but lunch is consistently good and better value for money (in our opinion)

 

[Weather_Lady]

I've only had lunch there. The pros of lunch: you get to see the castle without an expensive and tough-to-get dinner ADR (lunch ADRs have always been easy for us to come by, at least at 180+ days - your mileage may vary), and the food quality is better than other MK CS (although not as good as when it first opened). The downside is that even with an ADR, you have to wait in an annoyingly long queue, and the prep times are greater than for other CS meals, so you'll end up spending twice as much time for your "quick" service meal there as for any other CS venue in the park -- although in a lovely setting: it is loud and vast and cafeteria-like, but it's the nicest cafeteria I've ever seen.

 

[HarperRose]

I've had breakfast and lunch at BOG and honestly didn't care for either of them. The atmosphere is loud and chaotic and the place is mobbed, so trying to find a place to sit is mainly an effort in futility.

 

[ctcdisneymama]

We always do both every trip we take, but mainly because we actually like the food. The french onion soup is amazing (you can get it at both lunch and dinner) and their shrimp/scallop dinner entree is one of my favorites of the whole trip. There's something magical about sitting in the castle with a glass of wine (beer for my husband) and eating a good meal, watching the snow fall "outside"......i vote dinner, especially if you have the DDP. but if you don't have the DDP and you want to just eat in the castle, lunch is a better bang for you buck.

 

[jgj123]

We've done all 3 meal services there and prefer lunch. Breakfast was ok, nothing came out hot and those items that should be served hot, were barely room temp. Dinner wasn't anything special, loud dining rooms and average food. Lunch at least met our expectations and had enough options to satisfy everyone. But they have consistently lowered the quality of the beef sandwich, such that it changed from a prome rib roast, to steak to french dip sandwich. But we'd still do lunch, not breakfast or dinner any more.

 

[networkpro]

We've had lunch and supper there multiple times. We won't return until the menu changes because it's not good. Even alcohol doesn't make the Army Chow hall atmosphere bearable.

 

[Magic Kingdom Park]

I have had dinner there and the food and service were both good. The Grand Ballroom is beautiful, but it does get noisy with the high ceilings, tile floors and all of those diners! The West Wing is smaller, but darker with thunder and lighting flashes. I noticed that some smaller children seemed to get spooked in that environment. And don't forget to check out the "rose" in there. When I have eaten there, the Rose Gallery seems to be overflow seating only, with a limited number of diners in there.

I would recommend dinner.

 

[JIMINYCR]

We do both because each menu differs enough that its a different experience. We enjoy both meals but put the Dinner menu ahead of the lunch. And we like dining in different dining areas during our trips.