Be Our Guest Trims Its Halloween Party Menu, and Magic Kingdom Diners Have Noticed

By entgrove · August 3, 2026

Be Our Guest Restaurant brings back its Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party menu on August 7, but the 2026 list is down to four items after three dishes from last year failed to return. The prix fixe still costs $72 per adult, and party admission is required to order any of it.

Be Our Guest Restaurant will again serve a special menu on Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party nights, and the 2026 list is down to four items. Two dishes and a dessert that appeared last year did not return, leaving one entree, one dessert and two cocktails on a menu that had already been cut back the year before.

The four party items for 2026

The Halloween menu is served in addition to the regular all-day menu, not instead of it, and there is no surcharge for ordering from it. This year it holds one entree, one dessert and two cocktails.

• A Beast Forever: braised beef short rib cooked in cabernet sauvignon and figs, with butternut squash puree and roasted fall vegetables
• The Forbidden Rose: the Grey Stuff, black buttercream and a black rose petal
• Castle Fog: Empress 1908 Gin, Bols Blackberry Liqueur, lemon juice and cane syrup
• Apple Cider Margarita: Teremana Blanco Tequila, Grand Marnier Liqueur and apple cider

What did not come back

Three items from last year's party menu are gone. The Roasted Beef Marrow Bone, served with a pinot noir beef marmalade, toasted baguette and pickled mustard seeds, was the appetizer most often singled out by guests who booked the party menu specifically for it. The Roasted Poulet Rouge Chicken with caramelized pumpkin has also dropped off, as has the Pumpkin Creme Caramel with sour cherry jam and pumpkin seed brittle.

That matters more than a routine menu trim, because last year's list was itself shorter than the one before it. A seasonal menu that once carried its own appetizer, entree and dessert is now a single entree plus a dessert, at a price that has not moved in the other direction.

You need a party wristband to order it

From 4 p.m. on party dates, guests checking in at Be Our Guest are asked whether they are staying for the event. Ordering from the Halloween menu requires proof of party admission, usually the party wristband. Guests dining without party tickets are given yellow wristbands instead, which also governs how they are directed out of the park after 6 p.m.

The 4 p.m. start is the useful part of that arrangement. Party ticket holders can enter Magic Kingdom before the event officially begins, so a reservation booked at or near 4 p.m. lets a group eat during the mix-in window rather than spending event hours on dinner. Reservations later than about 5:30 p.m. eat into the party itself.

What the $72 actually covers

Be Our Guest runs an all-day prix fixe for lunch and dinner at $72 per adult and $43 per child, plus tax and gratuity, before any discount. That covers an appetizer, an entree and dessert, along with a regular Coca-Cola product and bread service, which not every Walt Disney World table service restaurant includes. The bread is a French baguette rather than the standard dinner roll.

The regular menu carries five appetizers, including the Escargot de Bourgogne and a French Onion Soup, and five entrees: Seared Pork Tenderloin, Trout Amandine, Pan-roasted Squash, Roasted Poulet Rouge Chicken and Grilled Filet Mignon. Dessert is normally a trio of a Lemon Jam Macaron, a chocolate tart topped with the Grey Stuff, and a dark chocolate truffle. On the Disney Dining Plan the meal costs two table service credits, the same as a signature restaurant.

Ask for the room you want

Be Our Guest has three dining rooms, and the difference between them is larger than the difference the menu makes. The Grand Ballroom is the big one with snow falling outside the windows, and it is also the loudest: high ceilings, tightly spaced tables and constant turnover. The West Wing is the darkest and most atmospheric, and the one small children are most likely to find frightening. The Castle Gallery sits in between, brighter and quieter, and is generally the safest pick for families.

Room requests are made at check-in and are not guaranteed, but asking costs nothing. The Beast walks the wider pathways through the rooms roughly every half hour, waving rather than posing for a set photo op, so a table near a main aisle sees him far better than a corner does.

Be Our Guest anchors that corner of Fantasyland alongside Enchanted Tales with Belle and Gaston's Tavern, which is worth building a party night around. Breakfast has still not returned since it was discontinued, and the counter service lunch many guests remember was replaced years ago by the current table service format.

What this means for party guests

A four-item menu is not much of a reason on its own to spend two dining plan credits or $72 a head. The stronger case is the timing: dinner inside Beast's Castle at 4 p.m. uses a window that would otherwise be spent waiting for the party to start, and it puts a group in Fantasyland with a full evening of shorter lines ahead. Guests who booked past years specifically for the bone marrow or the pumpkin dessert have less reason to pick this night over any other, and may do better ordering the Grilled Filet Mignon from the standard menu and treating the Halloween items as an addition rather than the draw.