Goofy’s Kitchen Christmas & Thanksgiving Character Dining—Christmas Bookings Open!

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. This year, visitors can enjoy a special Goofy's Kitchen holiday character dining experience!

Goofy's Kitchen dining experience is the perfect way to celebrate Christmas at Disneyland. Keep reading for our review of the experience and everything you need to know about Holidays at Goofy's Kitchen!

You also can see our previous review of Goofy's Kitchen Halloween for our thoughts on the new Halloween character dining experience and the food offerings we enjoyed.

Goofy's Kitchen Holiday Dining Experiences

Goofy's Kitchen is offering a holiday-inspired Character Dining experience, where you can enjoy fun foods inspired by the season and appearances from favorite Disney characters in their holiday best. Last year, Goofy's Kitchen also offered Thanksgiving Day Dining, which you can see the details of below.

Goofy's Kitchen is one of our favorite Character Dining meals offered at Disneyland, and 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.

When Will Goofy's Kitchen Holiday Dining Be Offered?

Disney has confirmed the return of a holiday-themed Character Dining experience at Goofy's Kitchen with “Goofy’s Kitchen Celebrates the Winter Holidays.”

This experience offers the option of a festive breakfast, brunch, or dinner buffet featuring Disney characters. This year, “Goofy’s Kitchen Celebrates the Winter Holidays” will be available from November 19 through January 2. Bookings are open as of October 24.

Note the cancellation policy for this experience! For winter holiday dining, you need to cancel at least one day prior to your reservation or you will be charged a full price per person cancellation fee.

Note that the last seating of the day will take place at 8:30pm, and Goofy and friends will make their final appearance starting at 9:00pm.

Breakfast Buffet 

The breakfast buffet will feature:

• 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 more!

The pricing and timing for breakfast is as follows:

Breakfast Time: 7:00 AM to 10:30 AM

Price: Breakfast is $65 plus tax per adult (ages 10 and older) and $36 plus tax per child (ages 3 to 9). Prices do not include tax and gratuities.

Brunch Buffet 

The brunch buffet will feature all of the items available for breakfast, as well as a carving station with herb-marinated turkey breast and carved beef sirloin chateau roast.

The pricing and timing for the brunch buffet is as follows:

Brunch Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Price: Brunch is $65 plus tax per adult (ages 10 and older) and $36 plus tax per child (ages 3 to 9). Prices do not include tax and gratuities.

Dinner Buffet 

The dinner buffet will feature:

• 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 more!

The pricing and timing for the dinner buffet is as follows:

Dinner Time: 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Price: Dinner is $75 plus tax per adult (ages 10 and older) and $39 plus tax per child (ages 3 to 9). Prices do not include tax and gratuities.

Holidays at Goofy's Kitchen Review

We had the opportunity to try brunch for Holidays at Goofy's Kitchen last year, 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

Thanksgiving Day Dining at Goofy's Kitchen, a Thanksgiving buffet-style feast featuring Disney characters, was offered on November 23, 2023 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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