Be Our Guest Restaurant vs. Cinderella's Royal Table: Which Disney World Restaurant? 

Believe it or not, I was in Disney World for my 65th birthday and had dinner in Cinderella's Royal Table. My sister and I went to celebrate my birthday and retirement and what a great time we had. Of course, there were many families with children who had birthdays and it became a fun time when they realized that I was also celebrating a birthday. I got the free photo with Cinder and since we went on a package deal, it was one of the restaurants on the list and I had been to Disney many times, but never in there. I got treated just the same as all the children with birthdays. I got a magic wand, a birthday card signed by the Princesses, special cupcake, and pictures with the Princesses. Food was good but the atmosphere for me was special. We had a window table, so we had a view.

My reccomendation Cinderella breakfast Be our guest lunch Tonys (this is a cool one too) dinner

My trip to DW isn't till November 2021, but I've been watching these videos everyday. I love the content, so informative and entertaining. Thanks AJ I can't wait for my trip!!!

One time I did both in the same day. I highly recommend this approach.

I took my granddaughter to celebrate her 9th. birthday at Cinderella’s castle. We were there for dinner and had the filet minions. The decor was beautiful and we were the first to dine there after they had redecorated. We were able to to meet all of the. princesses and I bought Natalie a birthday cake and a crystal crown. The cake was a beautiful 2 tier white cake with blue roses and was so yummy. They packaged the remaining cake for us to take with us. We were seated near a window and had great food and service. It was expensive, but worth it to eat at the castle. I personally have waited since I was a little girl to go into the castle...yes, I would go again...it brings you back to your childhood.

As a grandparent, I would say if any adult or child loves Beauty and the Beast, you have to do dinner at Be Our Guest at least once. When the Beast walked through the dining room and was announced, my girlfriend started crying. The decor is like no other and needs to be experienced. I do agree with the rating of the food here, AJ. Now if you have children who love the Princesses, Cinderella’s Royal Table is also a must-do for the ambiance and characters. Seems Disney knows what they have at both places and the food will always be just ‘o.k.’ when everyone keeps booking them.

My family ate at The Castle during our stay. It was dinner and was dark out. The fireworks started and I thought I was in the middle of Baghdad during the war. Was really neat!

Having eaten many times at both restaurants, I can honestly say that this assessment is, for the most part, correct. However, I would like to mention that the last time I ate at Cinderella’s the meal turned out to be the best one we had out of 17 table service restaurants throughout the parks-including Be Our Guest which came in 12th. So you never know. As for the kids, they seemed to enjoy Cinderella’s much more then Be Our Guest. Although, that may have had something to do with the fact that we were in the ballroom which, despite its beauty, is crowded and loud. It reminds me somewhat of a fancy cafeteria.

Fun story, I think you will enjoy. For my 6th birthday (Feb 2002) my parents got us booked for breakfast at Cinderellas castle. They got someone from the front desk of our hotel (beach club) to deliver an invitation from Cinderella and bought me a Cinderella gown, glass slippers, a crown, and scepter. Looking back it was amazing but as a 6 year old I looked at the outfit and throw it on the bed and said "Baby clothes" I spent the whole breakfast pouting and being miserable. It is still one of the funniest stories my mom tells and I always feel so bad.

The quality of your videos is outstanding. The images are so clear and not too fast. It's perfect and great photos. Thank you so much for producing these

I hear alot of people say they don't like the rose room bc its not from the movie. I love it bc I see it as insight into their lives. Behind the scene photos. You could call it the family room with all thr moments that mean something to them. So its magical in a different way.

Since I'm planning a 10 day stay, why not both?

I’m going to both of these restaurants for the first time in June and I’m so excited!

I love your videos... you've saved me so much time and are so objective. Thanks so much!

Love this informative video it is great! I love Be Our Guest and may go to Cinderellas Castle one day but a great experience at Be Our Guest for breakfast and lunch and hopefully dinner next time!♡

The video review is very fair. Having eaten at both, I think Cindy's is the superior experience hands down over Be Our Guest. It was fun meeting the beast, but otherwise it paled in comparison to my experiences at Cindy's.

Extremely helpful video thank you 🙏🏼

Great video. Unless I missed it, one unmentioned pro for Be Our Guest is that it is the only place in the Magic Kingdom to serve alcohol. So if you want wine with your "authentic" French boeuf bourguignon, you have to go with BOG.

Beautiful I can't wait to go to both of these restaurants and Be Our Guest again!♡

I've been to Be Out Guest twice, they have the best French Onion Soup I've ever had

Be Our Guest prices have changed, $60 fixed rate for dinner $28 for breakfast (adults) and lunch is a la carte but more affordable. Be our guest is more likely to have a reservation and the food is better, lunch being my favorite. Definitely worth it

B.O.G was amazing, only downside was my wife getting food poisoning or an allergic reaction. We did call and inquire for Cinderella’s Table, $165 for 2 people

3:38 They got Ariel looking like Cinderella's step sister 😂

2020 we will b Celebrating My son's 4th Birthday, 9th Anniversary and my Mom's Retirement from the Army.

Very hard choice! We haven't done Be Our Guest, but have heard so many good things!

Our family of six went to both in Oct 2019, and although Cinderella’s Royal Table was okay, we were absolutely blown away at Be Our Guest! Definitely go to dinner there!

My son and I love Be our Guest for breakfast. We think the food is good and the way it is themed is so cool. Also if you go early before the park opens then you can get some pretty cool pictures of the castle with hardly anyone arou nd.

My boyfriend & I will be having lunch at Be Our Guest, and then dinner at Cinderella's Royal Table the same day! Only 14 more days.. so excited!! :)

Get the dining plan and do both! The food at both isn't the most amazing, but the atmosphere and experience makes up for it. I'd do both a least once.

Thankkk you!!!! I love all your videos !! I book a breakfast in be our guest and dinner in Cinderella castle !!

First trip to WDW was for New Years this year- Be Our Guest was booked and we were lucky enough to get Cinderella’s reservation at night- Great experience from beginning to end .

I LOVE both these to and have been to both in one trip. Be our guest is more cool with visual experience and that’s all that I care abt tbh.

I think something else that’s a big factor is what movie/ princess you like. I’m personally a Huge beauty and the beast fan and am really really looking forward to just seeing the be our guest for the castle.

Thanks AJ. Excellent video!

Just went to Disney in September and got to go to be our guest 3 times. We had 2 lunches and 1 breakfast. We had the qs meal plan and it covered everything. Beautiful restaurant and great food. Can't wait to go back next year!

You guys are the best! We are leaving for our Disney Honeymoon this Thursday and I feel so lucky to have scored reservations at both of these destinations. Despite the frequently low food scores, I am excited to experience the ambiance and imagineering!

Our first trip to Disney will be this July. We initially had Snow Whites Story Book dining booked since we will be staying at Wilderness Lodge. But we made a last second change and got a reservation for Cinderellas Royal Table. Kids are so excited. Thank you for all of these very helpful reviews!

If you are looking for more atmosphere or even romance I would ask for the West Wing at Be Our Guest. You may have to wait a little more than your reservation (although we didn't have to), but it is well worth it. Much more intimate. The service was impeccable. And I have disagree with AJ and some reviewers about the food. I had a really good meal there. Mickey had the steak (perfectly cooked) and I had soup and the seafood pasta dish. Both were delicious. Can't miss the grey stuff. Because it was our first time they brought us out a little sample for free. Such a nice touch.

I’ve been to both they are both amazing I went for my birthday and I liked Cinderella’s Royal table (CRT)

Did both CRT and Akershus during our 2015 visit. Both neat experiences. Food/characters equal. Can't beat eating in the castle. Gonna try to get in BOG and 1900 Park Fare next.

My all time favorite has to be 1900 park fare. The food was amazing. It is a character dining with Cinderella. It was fun, the service was great.

I have to say we went for breakfast at BW Our Guest and it was easily my favorite breakfast option for our whole trip. For the cost out of pocket or the QS credit and the amount of food (lots of options and not too much heavy food). I can’t recommend it enough for those reasons alone! But thanks to AJ we are considering lunch next time we go. We LOVED Be Our Guest!

My family really enjoyed breakfast at Be Our Guest! The atmosphere is really great and we liked the food. (Also we had an early morning reservation. So was able to ride 7 dwarves mine train a couple times before the park officially open. Not sure that's possible anymore, but that was definitely worth it. )

I think the theming for Be Our Guest was better than Cinderella’s Royal Table, however it is a very unique experience to dine in Cinderella Castle. I think the food at Be Our Guest was far superior. I’m somewhat of a picky eater and don’t usually eat very much so I had a little trouble choosing at Cinderella’s Royal Table. But I loved the Be Our Guest food, I had a croque madame, a ham and cheese sandwich, but it was better than one that I’ve had at a real French bistro. Granted, I ate breakfast at Be Our Guest, but nonetheless it was better. And they have the grey stuff! And the food cost far less, which is important when you don’t have the Disney Dining Plan. Characters don’t really matter to me, so I will go to Be Our Guest, but if you have a kid that wants to meet the princesses , then definitely go to Cinderella’s Royal Table, and then you won’t have to wait in the lines to meet the princesses.

I will be there soon for a vacations cant wait!!! But I love be our guest restaurant!!!❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰

Breakfast at BOG is a good use of a Quick Service Meal if you are trying to beat the crowd before the park opens and you also get a really empty shots around the castle. Just make sure you book on a day that doesn't have Extra Magic Hours in the morning.

Be our guest is now also a fixed price menu for like $55 a person or something but you get an appetizer, entree, and trio of desserts

Go to both they look amazing

On my first day of honeymoon we went to Magic Kingdom and had lunch at Be our guest and Dinner on Royal table( with our dinning plan) and it was amazing!!! Magical day and actually the food was so good that I couldn't believe it ! I had some type of roast beef for lunch at Be our guest and the fish of the day on Royal table! Everything was amazing.

I have actually dined at BOG, but yet to dine at CRT, though I really want to and really hope to this December.

Having breakfast Cinderella’s Royal Table on July 11th. I’m surprising my 6 year old princess, I can’t wait!

We are going back for my daughters birthday in October 2021... this will mark our 10th visit and I had never done the royal table but I celebrated my birthday at Cinderella’s royal table and we had a marvelous time they treated me the same as they would a kid celebrating there I got the full treatment and really felt special. We went at breakfast and I enjoyed it very much. It’s so cool to be in the castle. This next time we will go at dinner in the castle for her birthday since she wants to do the tea service at the grand Floridian at lunch time. I didn’t pull out all the stops for my birthday there but I certainly will for my baby girl. I plan on doing the cake and room decor. The whole nine. I love all your videos. I have never gotten to do be our guest so that’s def on the list for us. We always do the deluxe (3 sit down meals or 3 quick service and 2 snacks) because we LOVE to eat at Disney and consider it a huge part of our trip... so I’ll use my credits for breakfast at be our guest or use them for lunch. But I know one thing for sure that I’m doing different this time especially now that my kids are almost all grown up and all will be grown by the time I get there (she’s turning 18 there) so the one thing is my planning I always use a Disney planner who’s a friend and I love that but I’m going to map out my trip a lot better I usually besides fast passes and meal reservations just let us decide day to day what we do but I’ve been watching all your video’s and I’m making a huge book with all my planning in it so we can really make the most of our money. It takes me a year to pay off our trip and it’s worth it but I really realize by watching your videos that even with all my trips there I haven’t made the most of my money. I’m very excited to go again being so much better educated.... thanks AJ and all of you at DFB!!

Have never eaten at Cinderella's Royal table, but the review of be Our Guest is very accurate - lunch is the best deal there (and you can still get the "grey stuff") - and you can see pretty much all those princesses at Norway's Akershus....(we did that and the girls loved it!).

Agree with you on both counts,,,had breakfast at Cinderella Royal Table,food C,,atmosphere A,,,Be our Guest,atmosphere A ,food better than royal table B- ,we ate lunch..and the grey stuff is tasty..

Going for 14 days in just over 3 weeks time form the UK, managed to nab a table at be our guest, now desperately checking every day to see if we can get dinner at ohana one day while we are there. It's so hard to get tables at these places!

I ate at Cinderella’s Royal Table, and it was lovely!

Another one of your concise accurate fun reviews. Thanks. For me the main reason to eat at Cinderella's Royal Table is if someone in your party really needs to see the princesses. IMHO much better doing it over a meal but as you suggest, the food was just ok and the price was pretty outrageous However the character interaction was amazing. Maybe do it just once. Totally agree with you about lunch at Be Our Guest. non sequitur sidenote: Took me a while to dictate this, Siri insisted on calling the restaurant be aghast.

Thank you.

If i booked online with resort and dining plan can I use my dinner voucher here at these? Or is it extra?

I think you used to be able to *walk in* to Cinderella's Royal Table and just ask to be seated, like 20+ years ago. I'm fairly certain that happened, because I remember a time a little over 10 years ago when my family went to Disney World, and the plan was to have lunch at that restaurant, but I distinctly remember our father being informed that in order to eat there, you need to get a reservation like six months in advance. I'm sure the waiting time is well over a year by now.

I did dinner at be our guest and absolutely loved it! Didn’t get to do Cinderella’s castle but as so glad that I chose be our guest. I loved the atmosphere. Also Beauty and the beast was my favorite Disney movie, so I may be biased. Also I thought the food at be our guest was great! I loved dessert! The cart they role up to the table is so cute

Plz do what to not eat in Epcot and thanks for this it really helped!

Everyone says Be Our Guest is mediocre but when I went I got the rack of lamb and it was amazing! If you're worried about the food, definitely get that!

We somehow got into Be Our Guest for all 3 meals in the same trip. So sad dinner is changing but lunch was great!

Excellent review. I've done both and like both a lot. I've always enjoyed CRT for special occasions. We tried BOG on the last trip and their theming blew me away. Didn't realize BOG would be cheaper as well! I'd love to see CRT remodel it's theme somehow to compete better with BOG, seriously, it's time. Love your site ~ thanks!

I’m not understanding why these are being compared, but...CRT is hands down better than BOG. Be Our Guest in my opinion is like hospital cafeteria food, and I went for lunch. It was very crowded and very noisy AND I COULDN’T GET OUT OF THERE FAST ENOUGH. That being said, I still enjoyed seeing the inside of the Beast’s castle. I wish there was another way to see it without having to book a meal reservation.

We have eaten at both and enjoyed the food at both. I would give a slight edge to Be Our Guest for dinner, and a definite edge to Cinderella's Royal Table for the view.

I love this channel. If y'all could do a video about food diabetics could get, for my mom, that would be awesome. :)

Lunch at Be Our Guest is my favorite. The braised pork entree is sooo good and a good value!

I heard BOG is now 2 credits on the dining plan, so cost wise they are the same now if you have the dining plan

We picked breakfast at be out guest for this December. I didn’t want to waste a table service credit at either location.

cool vid, will keep it in mind, next time i'm there

I had a Filet Steak dinner at both locations. I certainly met lots of Princesses at Cinderella’s Table, but my meal was pretty, very nice looking, but tasted definitely lackluster compared to my dinner at Be Our Guest! I got another clutch of Princesses at Akershus in the Norway Pavillion at Epcot. I recommend The combination of Akershus (1 table credit )and Be Our Guest( 2 table credits unless you go to lunch instead )for an excellent trip. Yes I liked the decor of Cinderella’s Table, but I enjoyed the decor of the other two as well.

breakfast at be our guest was very lowkey when I was there last summer. There weren’t a ton of people there and we pretty much had our choice of seating. The staff had no problem with us moving around to explore the three dining areas. Personally I loved the breakfast food, I had probably the best scrambled eggs I’ve ever eaten. Not worth the price, but it was certainly tasty.

Hi AJ! I absolutely adore your videos, I watched A LOT before we went on our trip. Actually just left a comment on Chef Mickey's v Crystal Palace video. When my kids and I visited we were lucky enough to get both of these places also! Both for dinner and I have to say I am not sure which one was our favorite. They were both great restaurants, great themes and DELICIOUS food. My son is a seafood lover and had actually eaten different seafood dishes at both of these locations and raved about it. I think I had chicken at both locations (I am not into seafood or steak really) one of my girls had the pork at CRT and a beef tenderloin at BOG, I have never seen her so quiet during a meal she was so intent on enjoying and making it last! My other daughter is a picky 8 year old like most are so I didn't put much stock in her food opinions.

Saw the video and would like to give my opinion if I may. I've eaten at both and will say that Be Our Guest at lunch is the best deal. Not only did we have a great meal that had a lower cost but the ability to walk around and explore all three dining areas is pretty cool. The Royal Table is still a fun and delicious place to eat.

I went to Disney world on a tight budget for my birthday. We understood that the restaurants were hard to get into, but my boyfriend just went up and asked anyway. He said what was the worst they would say? Before the attendant said no, he looked at my birthday badge and asked if it’s my birthday and I said yes, today actually. He then told us that he just got off the walkie talkie the reservation just cancelled and if we wanted the spot it was in 15 minutes. Lesson: always ask!!! I didn’t have a reservation and I got in!! How lucky 😊

Arkeshus VS Cinderella's? And I wanted to say that I love your videos!

good!

if i pay to book but am on Disney dining plan for Cinderellas castle can i still use DDP?

I like to refer to Be Our Guest as “Sois Notre Invité”, not only does it fit with the source material’s setting (France), but it’s fun to pronounce. It's homey, but just hard enough to pronounce to intimidate the riff-raff …either that or I’ve been watching too much Frasier.

I didn't like BOG for breakfast and lunch is cool for what it is. I love CRT... we go every trip and have NEVER had a problem with getting a reservation for either restaurant tbh.

I have ate at Cinderella’s royal table castle and it was really cool next time I go to Disney I really hope to go to the be our guest restaurant

I’ve eaten at Be Our Guest and all I can remember is the way the napkins were folded to look like roses. 🌹🥀🌹🥀🌹🥀🌹🥀🌹🥀

Is it best to have the Deluxe Dining Plan if you're doing breakfast for BOG and dinner for Royal Table?...

I will be going to both on my next trip for dinner, my last trip we went to BOG for breakfast and my daughter loved it now I will be taking her to CRT and BOG for dinner so she can get the experience. I always hear you say you have to at least go once to CRT.

I prefer BOG for lunch as well. It is fun to get a picture with Beast at dinner, but the food is about the same for lunch and dinner and lunch is much less expensive. I recommend trying to eat in the West Wing - very cool. Love to watch the petals fall from the Rose. I also love that you fill your own drink, which allows you to take one to go. Breakfast is a great value if you have the meal plan, otherwise I would skip it - although they will bring you as many pastries as you would like, so you never have to leave hungry.

I personally didn't really like the entree for lunch at Be Our Guest. But the Master's Cupcake, topped with the grey stuff, was really good! Breakfast there was pretty good. I haven't eaten at Cinderella's Royal Table since I was 5, and I haven't had dinner at BOG yet, so I'm going to have to try those!

We have done both and greatly preferred Be Our Guests, there is a better selection of food there and we found that if you didn’t have children the princess that came over were pretty much “hi and bye”

We were underwhelmed by food at CRT but adored the characters.

Be our guest :) however, Cinderella’s Royal table is more intimate.

Can you do an updated video with all the Covid changes

I have not eaten at either of these places, does anyone know if you go to be our guest and only get appetizers and desserts and a soda??

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I love your site. No words!

We use to always eat at Cinderella's castles from 1998-2004. It was not prefix and the food was amazing! Now we don't even bother.

I love Cinderella's Royal Table 😏💭🏰👑🌹

Could you do a breakdown of just the restaurants that require 2 credits & make videos for adults only. The best alcoholic drinks, price wise.

Are both castles handicap accessible?

I’m not going to Disney till October 2021 but I can’t decide which restaurant I want to have my birthday dinner at