Goofy's Kitchen at Disneyland offers a popular character dining experience featuring a meal with fun and creative food items and quality time with Goofy and friends. During the holiday celebration, visitors can enjoy a special seasonal character dining experience!
“Goofy’s Kitchen Celebrates the Holidays” is the perfect way to celebrate Christmas at Disneyland. Keep reading for our review of the experience and everything you need to know about this holiday character dining in 2025! We now have 2025 pricing, dates, and a sneak peek at some of the menu items.
Goofy's Kitchen Holiday Dining
Goofy's Kitchen is offering a holiday-inspired character dining experience, which includes a festive breakfast, brunch, or dinner buffet featuring Disney characters in seasonal attire. Guests can enjoy special seasonal foods, themed decor and music, Disney PhotoPass digital downloads, and a holiday-themed button.
Goofy's Kitchen is one of our favorite character dining meals offered at Disneyland! You can see a full breakdown of all the options offered in our guide to Disneyland Character Dining for reviews, tips on making the most of your experience, and a ranking of all experiences.
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Goofy's Kitchen also offers special theming during the spring, Halloween, and certain holidays. You can see our review of Goofy's Kitchen Halloween for our thoughts on the new Halloween character dining experience and the food offerings we enjoyed. In the past, Goofy's Kitchen has also offered Thanksgiving Day Dining, which you can see the details of below.
When Will Goofy's Kitchen Holiday Dining Be Offered?
Disney has confirmed the return of a holiday-themed character dining experience in 2025 at Goofy's Kitchen with “Goofy’s Kitchen Celebrates the Holidays.” This year, it will be available from November 17, 2025, through January 6, 2026. Bookings will open starting September 25, 2025.
Note that the last seating of the day will take place at 8:30 pm, and Goofy and friends will make their final appearance starting at 9:00 pm.
Breakfast – 7:00 AM to 10:30 AM
The breakfast buffet includes the following:
- An assortment of baked goods
- Mickey waffles and classic pancakes
- Made-to-order omelets
- Duck confit chilaquiles
- Maple-glazed pork belly Benedict with butternut hollandaise
- And so much more!
Price: $69 plus tax per adult (ages 10 and up) and $39 plus tax per child (ages 3 to 9). Prices do not include tax and gratuity.
Brunch – 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
The brunch buffet includes all the menu items available for breakfast, plus a carving station with herb-marinated turkey breast and carved beef sirloin chateau roast.
Price: $74 plus tax per adult (ages 10 and up) and $39 plus tax per child (ages 3 to 9). Prices do not include tax and gratuity.
Dinner – 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The dinner buffet includes the following:
- Shrimp cocktail and crab claws
- Roasted beet and pear salad
- Salmon with persimmon hollandaise
- Roasted chicken
- Short rib ravioli with wild mushrooms and pecorino
- BBQ pork spareribs
- A carving station with herb-marinated turkey breast, bourbon-glazed holiday ham and prime rib
- Assorted seasonal desserts and pastries
- And so much more!
Price: $79 plus tax per adult (ages 10 and up) and $42 plus tax per child (ages 3 to 9). Prices do not include tax and gratuity.
Holidays at Goofy's Kitchen Review
We had the opportunity to try brunch for this holiday experience, and we will take you through a review of our experience with photos and what you can expect!
We arrived and checked in at 10:30 am, then we were called to be seated at 10:45 am. While waiting to be called, you can get in line to meet Goofy dressed in holiday attire and take photos with him! PhotoPass photographers are at the location ready to take photos, and all of these are included in the cost of your meal. You can see Goofy all dressed up with his super festive background below!
Once seated, we were promptly greeted by our server and offered water, juice, and coffee. Then, after getting our drinks, we headed over to the buffet.
We were there for brunch, and there was a full breakfast bar, make-your-own omelet bar, cereal bar, fruit bar, salad bar, and pastry bar.
There were some holiday-themed treats and foods offered, such as holiday cupcakes, maple-glazed pork belly Benedict with butternut hollandaise sauce, and pancakes with powdered sugar, syrup, and cookie-butter icing.
You can see some of the breakfast offerings like bacon, sausage, eggs, and more below. There were also traditional brunch offerings like Mickey waffles and pancakes as well.
The characters would parade around to music twice an hour, which added an extra element of fun to the atmosphere! Characters would stop at each table and spend time with guests. This is a big reason why we love Character Dining meals so much, as they give you this great quality time with characters. See Minnie in her adorable holiday outfit below!
Overall, the atmosphere was very fun, joyful, and festive! See fun details like holiday pictures of classic characters on the wall:
When you attend the holiday character dining meal, you get a commemorative pin to take home with you, which you can see below. Tax and gratuity are included with your bill.
Thanksgiving Day Dining at Goofy's Kitchen
We do not yet know if Thanksgiving Day dining will be returning to Goofy's Kitchen, but we have kept details from a past year for reference.
Thanksgiving Day Dining at Goofy's Kitchen, a Thanksgiving buffet-style feast featuring Disney characters, was offered on Thanksgiving Day at the Disneyland Hotel.
There were two meal periods offered, including a brunch featuring turkey and “tasty fixings” and a dinner buffet offering turkey, popular Thanksgiving sides, prime ribeye, seafood cocktail, and pumpkin and assorted pies. The pricing and timing for these meals were as follows:
Brunch Buffet
Time: 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Price: Brunch is $60 USD plus tax per adult (aged 10 and up) and $32 USD plus tax per child (aged 3 to 9). Prices do not include tax and gratuities.
Dinner Buffet
Time: 1:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Price: Dinner is $85 USD plus tax per adult (aged 10 and up) and $35 USD plus tax per child (aged 3 to 9). Prices do not include tax and gratuities.
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