Magic Kingdom isn’t known for having the best restaurants in Disney World, but there are still some gems to be found!
Be Our Guest has a bit of an interesting reputation — it’s a gorgeous restaurant that any Beauty and the Beast fan has to experience at least once, but over the years, some guests feel the food has declined in quality. We’ve had some pretty conflicting emotions ourselves, so when we heard there were some new items on the menu, we made a reservation to check them out ASAP.
Be Our Guest is a prix-fixe meal, meaning that you pay one price and select your meal from a pre-existing limited menu. Adults will pay $72 plus tax and gratuity, while kids cost $43 plus tax and gratuity.
We started out with the Bread Service, which is also new. It’s served with butter and oil, and while it has some parsley flakes on it, you definitely get more of an oil flavor than the butter, since we believe the butter is unsalted. While the baguette is huge, there’s nothing super special about it.
For our appetizer, we chose to try the new French Onion Soup au Gratin, which is Rich Beef Broth, Sherry Wine, and Swiss Cheese. Technically, this soup used to be made with Gruyère specifically and is now made with regular Swiss cheese, but we’ll whole heartedly admit that this is FANTASTIC!
This may be our favorite French onion soup on property — the cheese pull is incredible, and the broth itself isn’t too salty or overdone. It’s even better than the one at Steakhouse 71, in our opinion, so this is 100% one of the appetizers we’d recommend getting!
The Blue Crab Bisque is also new, and is finished with Brandy, Crème Fraîche, and Chive Oil. This replaced the Potato Soup that used to be here, and we’re fans of this change!
It has the perfect amount of seafood briny-bisque flavor and was so creamy and delicious. The portion was fantastic, and while we’re sad the Potato Soup had to go in order for an option like this to come back, this is a great addition to the menu.
For our entree, we decided to grab the Steak Frites, which is Slow-roasted Butcher’s Steak, House-cut French Fries, and Red Wine Sauce. This used to be served with hollandaise sauce, but no more.
While this is still good, it’s not as good as it was with the hollandaise sauce in our opinion. The sauce is used to give it a little more flavor and creaminess, and without it, it’s almost more sultry and expensive tasting. Again, that’s not a bad thing, but we (and two Cast Members we spoke to) definitely prefer the former version. We’re not sure why it changed, but we personally would love to see it revert!
For dessert, we grabbed the new Crème Brûlée Tart, which is Orange Custard, Passion Fruit Meringue, and Chantilly Cream. We’re sad to see the former dessert platter go away, because we loved the presentation.
The orange citrus flavor in here is really prominent, and personally, we don’t really think it works with the overall vibe and feel of the restaurant. We would have preferred a regular crème brûlée tart with fresh berries, rather than having a prominent flavor the orange.
We also got a chance to try the other new dessert, the Blooming Rose, which is Chocolate Cake topped with “The Grey Stuff.”
The presentation here is beautiful, but the fact that this replaced the Gray Stuff Cupcake that was available for YEARS is beyond disappointing. The chocolate cake is very thin, but it is very moist, and we enjoy the milk chocolate coating on the outside, but the gray stuff is almost a gelatinous version, and we don’t think it’s worth the change at all.
Overall, we still don’t think this is the best spot in Magic Kingdom by far, but the food isn’t inherently bad at all. We think it’s a great spot to visit once, but it may not be a spot you want to return to time and time again, especially with that price point.
We’ll continue to keep an eye on the changes happening on the menus around Disney World, so stay tuned to AllEars!
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Would you try any of these new items? Tell us in the comments!
For those trying to avoid alchohol the new items will be problematic. While I am in the camp that the alchohol in cooked food is almost totally cooked out. Some people avoid any food that has alchohol added during the cooking process.