Episode Details

If you've ever stared at the My Disney Experience app trying to figure out which Magic Kingdom area restaurant is actually worth your money, this episode is for you!

We sat down to rank all 20 table service restaurants in the Magic Kingdom area, including everything inside the park plus the four monorail and boat resorts. We're going to tell you exactly which ones we'd book again and which ones we'd cancel today.

In this episode, we walk through every single one of the 20 Magic Kingdom area table service restaurants using a tiered system: never eating there again, average and meh, good, and elite.

We also rank each one from 20 to 1 so you can see exactly where it lands. We cover food quality, theming, cost, value for money, reservation difficulty, kid friendliness, and the would I book it again test.

Whether you're planning your first trip or your fifteenth, this gives you a clear roadmap for where to spend your dining dollars.

We also dig into some of the more controversial picks. Chef Mickey's lands lower than most millennials would expect, and we explain exactly why nostalgia isn't enough to save it. Be Our Guest has arguably the best theming of any Walt Disney World restaurant, but we break down why charging character meal prices without giving you a real character meet keeps it stuck in the average tier. Chip and I also disagreed on Kona Cafe, and you'll hear how he convinced me to move it up the list.

And just when you think we're done, we close out with our superlatives: best for a milestone occasion, best for toddlers, best value, best fireworks view, easiest reservation to grab, easiest walk up, most overrated, most underrated, and the one restaurant we'd cut from any trip.

00:00  Intro and how we ranked all 20 Magic Kingdom area restaurants

00:53  The four tier system and our ranking criteria

03:44  Number 20:

05:08  Number 19:

06:38  Number 18:

07:52  Number 17:

09:09  Number 16:

11:32  Number 15:

13:11  Number 14:

16:25  Number 13:

19:39  Number 12:

22:39  Number 11:

24:53  Number 10:

27:55  Number 9:

29:31  Number 8:

31:13  Number 7:

34:10  Number 6:

35:14  Number 5:

36:18  Number 4:

38:18  Number 3:

40:00  Number 2:

41:30  Number 1:

42:55  Superlatives

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