Character Dining - Goofy's Kitchen

A new experience for us on our latest trip was the character dining at Goofy's Kitchen.  The restaurant is located inside the Disneyland Hotel.  We booked the dinner at the hotel for 6 pm and when we arrived we were a little surprised to learn that we had to line up again inside to even check in with the front of the restaurant.  Once we checked in we had a seat and waited until we were called.  So that whole procedure took a bit of time but you start off your meal with the main chef himself!

Kinda neat!  Being a buffet we were welcomed to begin eating right away and the food the was presented for us at dinner time was plentiful and delicious!  Various kinds of meats, salads, side dishes, chicken fingers, 3 kinds of pizzas and macaroni and cheese.

First Minnie came around to greet us and sign autograph books and pose for photos.  We felt like she spent a good amount of time with us.  She was her usual cute and funny self.  We loved it.

Goofy also came out to visit us at the table which was nice since I know he's very busy cooking!  One of my favorite pictures of the trip was when Goofy went to pose for a picture with Danelle and Kris and he covered up Kris's face.   You could tell that Goofy was sweet on Danelle.

Karly almost missed Goofy's visit since she was up getting food but he played around with her a bit when she came back to the table.

Also Chip and Dale were around that night we were in for dinner.  The food again, was fantastic. There was something there for every pallet.  We had two very good eaters with us that night and they were just stuffed.  After we had decided that we were so stuffed and couldn't eat another bit of food for at least a week, the waiter brought us 3 that ran the half marathon that day a cup cake and a badge to celebrate our accomplishment.  Things like this just stick out in my mind as over the top Disney customer service.  It's attention to detail that you don't find any where else and its partly why we love Disney so much.  The gesture of the cupcake was fantastic.

My little one also especially remembers a dance that all the characters did during our time there although it would appear I didn't take any photos.

All in all the dinner was Aces.