Be Our Guest
Today our lunch was scheduled at a new-to-us restaurant, Be Our Guest. I was kind of excited to check this place out. I would’ve booked it anyway, but I was even more eager to do so after a friend of mine had such a good experience there shortly after it opened. He was a first-timer at Disney whose mini trip report I posted
here
When I’d started my planning this trip, they were handling the lunchtime reservations by using the fastpass system rather than via Advanced Dining Reservation. About the time I figured out how that was going to work, they switched it to using the ADR system. I was fine either way, but thankful for the DIS so that I was aware of what was going on. This was one reservation that I had set my alarm for midnight in order to get (or 1am, or whatever time the reservations opened up, I forget now). Bleary-eyed in the middle of the night, squinting at my phone, I was able to get an 11:45am ADR. I rolled over and went back to sleep, hoping that I hadn’t just dreamt it. I hadn’t, and we were now about to dine here.
Crossing the bridge to the Beast’s Castle. The forced perspective might be a tad overdone here, but I understand that they want only one castle (Cindy’s) to be in view from anywhere else on property.
The gargoyle lampposts are awesome.
Walking in, past the big lions (with ram’s horns) which are totally befitting the entrance to a Beast’s castle!
And if you liked the gargoyle lampposts, you’ll love the big minotaur-looking columns inside.
The line to order started just inside the doorway, in a hallway of suits of armor.
James spotted this Hidden Mickey in a halberd.
We were soon ordering at the kiosk. Judy took the lead, while her tech-savvy children watched over her shoulder to make sure she did it right. You don’t want a newb messing up your order.
We were at one of the kiosks closest to the dining room. Here’s a shot back at the room with the ordering kiosks. We entered the room through the doorway at the far end.
The first dining room you come to after ordering is the Ballroom. It’s the largest of the three dining rooms, and is situated in the middle. We found a table in here, way in the back.
I went to grab a couple of photos of the other dining rooms. First the West Wing, with draperies that the Beast has shredded. I can just hear Belle now, “This is why we can’t have nice things!”
On the other side is the Rose Gallery dining room with its music box centerpiece.
Here are my tablemates...Judy and the kids at our table.
Our meal arrived very quickly. We barely had time to get drinks from the soft-drink machine before our food arrived, having found us via MagicBand, I assume.
James’ sandwich. I believe this is the Carved Prime Chuck Roast Beef Sandwich.
Marlene got the Croque Monsieur sandwich.
This is mine, the braised pork with mashed potatoes and green beans jardinière. Judy and Lauren both also got this dish. I had to get the potato leek soup to try as well, because I love anything potato. I needed to assess whether theirs was, you know, suitable. It was, and then some. Believe me, this whole meal was very good.
Marlene enjoying her sandwich.
Lauren heartily approves of her dish.
James diving in. Unfortunately, shortly after this picture was taken his stomach started feeling not-so-well and he couldn’t finish. It wasn’t the food or anything, just a stomach thing like what had hit him the previous evening. He’d been having some tummy troubles during the school year and they seemed to follow him on vacation. He was really disappointed that he couldn’t finish this meal.
Of course we had to try a couple of the desserts, especially some of the grey stuff. I think the one on the left is the lemon-raspberry cream puff. I don’t remember if I tried the cream puff, but I know I had some of the cupcake. It was good; not quite amazing or anything, but you’ve gotta try it at least once, right?
Everybody loved this meal. It didn’t disappoint. The food was good and the rooms are really something to behold. Even the ceiling is pretty amazing.
I took a picture of Judy and kids in front of the door behind us before we left. Even though it looked pretty cold outside these windows, I had a feeling that it would be pretty hot when we got outside and found ourselves in sunny, humid Florida.
The girls with the pantsless prince (oh yeah, and Belle) on our way out.
As we headed out, I took a selfie with the gargoyle lamppost. (He looked away just as I snapped the photo, dumb gargoyle.) I sent it to some workmates back at the office and said, “caption this photo”. I didn’t get any takers, can you believe it?
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Heated Mansion