Review of Cape May Cafe at Disney’s Beach Club Resort
Yesterday, I posted a series of pictures of the Cape May Cafe at Walt Disney World’s Beach Club Resort. Today, I’ll share my review of the restaurant’s dinner buffet.
First, the Beach Club Resort is beautiful, so one would expect a great restaurant to go along with a great hotel. Overall, I’m disappointed by the restaurant choices at the Beach Club Resort and its next door neighbor, the Yacht Club Resort. The reason is there just aren’t enough of them, but I’ll save that for another post entirely.
The Cape May Cafe’s dinner buffet is a New England Style clam bake. It’s held every night from 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. This is a very popular buffet, so reservations are a must (407-WDW-DINE). Adults cost $27.00 each and kids ages 3-9 cost $13.00 each. It’s pricey but worth it.
You know about the decor and ambiance from my photo review yesterday. Food is the focus today, so let’s get started.
When you’re seated at your table, the first thing you’ll notice is instead of tablecloths, the tables are covered in large sheets of paper. Kids are given crayons to color with, which my 3-year old triplets love. Your server will take your drink orders, then you’re set loose on the food. Bring your appetite, because it’s all you can eat – and you’ll want to eat a lot.
The buffet is set up as a huge square that sits in the center of the dining room. Each side of the square buffet holds a different type of food. One side consists primarily of seafood such as clams – as you’d expect at a New England style clam bake. Red-skinned potatoes, corn on the cob, corn bread and more can be found in this section of the buffet.
Another side of the buffet holds cold salads such as green salads, potato salad, brocolli slaw and more as well as soups. Clam chowder is usually offered as well as a second soup choice. This weekend, the second soup choice was a delicious minestrone.
The third side includes red meat and poultry selections as well as a pasta dish and several hot vegetable dishes. Additional seafood selections can also be found in this area. The mashed potatoes are incredible. I’m not a huge mashed potatoes fan, but these are amazing!
The fourth side includes the kids meals (pizza, hot dogs, chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese), breads, a carved red meat and several desserts such as cookies, brownies and blondies.
Once you’ve hit the main buffet several times, you can wander over to the more elegant dessert table that typically includes bite-sized treats such as to-die-for cheesecake, German chocolate cake, an Oreo cookie-based chocolate bon bon and a kiwi tart.
Bottom-line, the Cape May Cafe offers an incredible selection of foods. If you love clams and seafood, then this is the buffet for you. While the seafood is the main attraction, if you don’t like seafood, don’t worry. There is such a great variety that even non-seafood eaters will find a lot to try. I don’t like seafood, but I love the dinner buffet at the Cape May Cafe. Also, I love that the buffet includes foods kids like. This allows parents to enjoy the foods they love without worrying about finding something their kids will like, too. Overall, you can’t go wrong at the Cape May Cafe dinner buffet at the Beach Club Resort.
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[...] My in-laws were visiting this past weekend. They love seafood, so we thought it would be fun to take them to the Cape May Cafe clam bake and seafood buffet for dinner at the Beach Club Resort. As always, it was delicious! Check back for my post tomorrow where I’ll write my review of the restaurant, food and more. [...]
The first time we ate at the Cape May Cafe’, we were ecstatic. The seafood was wonderful.
So, last November we went to eat there again but we were bitterly disappointed with the buffet. The clams tasted as though they had been boiled to death in water without any seasonings. The food was so bad and the service lacked a lot – we left after only 20 minutes.
I am afraid to try it again, when we are staying at the Beach Club Villas this coming January.