FIRST LOOK: The Breakfast Buffet Has Returned to Ale & Compass Restaurant in Disney World

We’ve seen several buffets return to Disney World in the past few months.

Desserts at Biergarten

Boma at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge has breakfast and dinner buffets again, and family-style dining switched back to a buffet at The Crystal Palace in Magic Kingdom. Cape May Café at Disney’s Beach Club Resort will have breakfast and dinner buffets again starting February 15th. And now, yet another buffet is back in Disney World!

Several breakfast items have returned to Ale & Compass Restaurant! The restaurant is located at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort.

Yacht Club Resort

Ale & Compass has been serving breakfast for a while, but now there are even more options to choose from. In addition to à la carte entrées, you can now “enhance” your breakfast with buffet items like pastries, fresh fruit, yogurt parfaits, and house-made cheddar biscuits with country gravy. Uh, YUM!

Let’s head in!

We headed into the restaurant to check out these returning items. When you sit down, you can choose from the normal entrées or go with the buffet option.

Table setting

The buffet is $23, and it includes seasonal fruit, assorted yogurt parfaits, chilled overnight oats, assorted breakfast pastries, house-made granola, cheddar biscuits with country sausage gravy, and warm cinnamon rolls.

Buffet menu

If you order the buffet, an entrée item and drink (coffee, tea, juice, or soft drink) are included as well.

Good morning from Ale & Compass 🧭 We’re trying the breakfast buffet enhancement! 🍓 pic.twitter.com/AU3OvA9BDm

— Disney Food Blog (@DisneyFoodBlog) January 31, 2022

The buffet is walk-up, and you are required to wear a face covering while you’re up getting food.

Buffet

Once you have your plate full, you can head back to your table to eat. You’re welcome to revisit the buffet and grab more whenever you’re ready.

Dining room

On to what you really came here for: Let’s take a look at all of the items on the buffet!

Buffet

First of all, there are a few options for fresh fruit, including pineapple, strawberries, and grapes.

Fresh Fruit

There were also some whole fruits like apples, oranges, and bananas.

Whole fruit

Then there are some parfaits, including blueberry and vanilla yogurt…

Parfaits

…chilled oats with strawberries…

Strawberry Chilled Oats

…and strawberry yogurt.

Strawberry yogurt parfait

There was also a bowl of house-made granola that you could add to your parfait to make it a build-your-own treat.

Granola

The granola does contain nuts, and there was a sign next to it so that you can avoid those if you have an allergy.

The granola contains nuts

Next up were some pastries, including croissants…

Croissants

…assorted muffins (which were blueberry and chocolate chip when we visited)…

Muffins

…and warm cinnamon rolls.

Cinnamon Rolls

If you’re looking for something more savory, you can find cheddar biscuits…

Biscuits

…which you can add sausage gravy to for a true Southern-style breakfast.

Sausage gravy

We grabbed a little of everything, and we’ll have a full review available for you soon!

Our plate

Breakfast is served at Ale & Compass from 7:30AM to 11AM every day.

The buffet includes an entree and soft drink for $23. We chose dark chocolate waffles 🍫🧇 📍Ale & Compass 🧭 pic.twitter.com/ebXMYnZhKX

— Disney Food Blog (@DisneyFoodBlog) January 31, 2022

Ale & Compass Restaurant will also begin serving lunch again today, so if you can’t make it in the morning, pop over for a midday meal! Stay tuned to DFB for more Disney news and updates.

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