REVIEW: Topolino’s Terrace Breakfast à la Art

Breakfast à la Art is a character meal featuring Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, and Donald, and it’s one of the hottest breakfast tickets at Disney World. Members of our team dropped in recently to try it out, and their review of the meal at Topolino’s Terrace is below.

Breakfast is $52 for adults and $33 for kids ages 3-9, plus tax. Should you be using the Disney Dining Plan, the meal requires 1 Table Service Credit. Annual Passholders and DVC Members receive 10% off the tab. If using the Dining Plan, tip is not included. Although it’s possible to score a reservation last minute, this is a popular character breakfast. We suggest you be ready to book as soon as your dining reservation window opens.

The Experience

You’ll find Breakfast à la Art at Topolino’s Terrace, on the 10th floor of Disney’s Riviera Resort. When seated you’ll receive a keepsake autograph card. On one side is a picture of the characters you’ll meet at the breakfast: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Daisy. The other side has their signatures. If you would like, the characters will still sign as they come around to you.

You’ll find the characters dressed in delightful artist outfits. Mickey is a painter, and you can tell from his smock. Minnie is a poet, which might be a bit harder to guess. Daisy is a dancer, and Donald is a sculptor.

The characters will rotate around to you as your meal proceeds; expect 60-90 minutes to see all four. Don’t worry if it appears that one is about to come to you and then heads to another table. The routes are not always linear, and the Cast Members are excellent at making sure that every guest gets to meet every character.

The Meal

Topolino’s Terrace serves a fine dining meal at dinner, but breakfast is a prix-fixe plated affair. You’ll choose an entree from the list, with coffee, tea, milk, juice, croissants, and chocolate-chip muffins included. Specialty coffees and cocktails are extra.

The croissants and muffins (shown above, accompanied by butter and jams) were tasty and high quality. We tried four of the nine entrees on the menu, with separate groups visiting on two different days.

Two Eggs-Any Style
Roasted Potatoes served with choice of Smoked Bacon, Ham, Sausage, or Plant-based Sausage

A perfectly serviceable plate of eggs, with roasted potatoes that were nicely toasty and nicely seasoned. Ours were made dairy-allergy friendly, which usually means skipping the butter. They were still light and tasty, and the bacon was perfectly cooked too.

Sour Cream Waffle
Roasted Apple, Chantilly, Orange-Maple Syrup, and served with choice of Smoked Bacon, Ham, Sausage, or Plant-based Sausage

Light, fluffy, just a bit of crunch on the outside, and absolutely delicious. We couldn’t really taste the orange in the orange-maple syrup but who cares? This was almost like eating a cloud, and definitely not an IHOP waffle. Plus more perfectly cooked bacon. The best dish of the set, 10/10, no notes.

French Toast Brûlée
with Seasonal Compote and choice of Smoked Bacon, Ham, Sausage, or Plant-based Sausage

Our server warned us, we didn’t listen, and we should have. This was a mistake. French toast is pain perdu and bread pudding is pain perdu and it seems like they should be doubly glorious, right? But it just didn’t work. The brulee coating was nice but was completely overwhelmed by the incredible denseness of the bread pudding. Even the light freshness of the fruit was not enough to balance out the leadenness of the toast.

Quiche Gruyère
House-made Pancetta, Roasted Potatoes, Gruyère, Field Greens, Lemon Vinaigrette

We subbed Canadian bacon into our plate, but that’s OK. The quiche is the real star of the show here. The crust is short, the filling is silky and rich, and the flavor is ooo-la-la adult. The salad had a nice bit of acidity from the lemon which was a great complement to the quiche. And the potatoes were once again roasty, toasty, and delicious.

Wrapping Up

With the exception of the French Toast, we enjoyed all our dishes. The flavors were balanced and the quality of the preparation was high. The characters were delightful as well. None of our interactions felt rushed, and they were engaging with our kids.

You can hear the “but”, right? At character meals, you’re always paying a premium for the characters. Cape May Breakfast Buffet and the Tusker House breakfast both feature similar character lineups and are currently $49 per adult. Boma, a similar breakfast buffet with no characters, is $39 per adult.

Those meals are all-you-can-eat buffets. Looking at plated meals, you’ll find a similar egg dish at the Grand Floridian Cafe. It’s $16 – and it’s a similar quality too. The Cake Bake Shop, criticized elsewhere for relatively high prices, has a pair of quiches on its menu and they are $23.99. The Grand Floridian Cafe has one for $16. I’ve had it and it’s not quite the level of the one here, but it’s very solid.

If you are charmed by the specific outfits at Breakfast a la Art, this is the only place you can find them. If you want to meet Mickey and Minnie at the same meal, this is one of only two options. Not everyone likes a buffet, and if you prefer plated food then this might be a good choice for you. Or, if the specific dishes appeal and money is not a concern, we can definitely recommend this meal. But as a straight value proposition based on the food, Breakfast à la Art is ouchy, even with an allowance for the “character premium”.

Have you eaten at Breakfast à la Art? What did you think? Let us know in the comments!