New Ale & Compass Menu Items at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort

Ale & Compass Restaurant at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort has new menu items starting July 22, and the changes touch every meal. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert all picked up additions — including a Crab Cake Eggs Benedict and a New England Seafood Pot Pie that leans hard into the resort’s coastal theme.

One thing also disappeared, and if you were counting on it, you’ll want to know before you sit down.

Here’s the full rundown of the new Ale & Compass menu items, what they cost, and which ones are actually worth ordering.

Quick Summary

• New menu items arrived at Ale & Compass Restaurant on July 22
• Breakfast adds Stuffed French Toast, Dark Chocolate Waffles, and Crab Cake Eggs Benedict
• Lunch and dinner add Blue Crab Bisque, Steak Frites, a Maryland-style Crab Cake, and a New England Seafood Pot Pie
• Two new desserts join the menu, including a plant-based option
• The $28 Continental Enhancement has been removed from the breakfast menu
• Ale & Compass is located at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, walking distance from EPCOT’s International Gateway

New Breakfast Items

Three new dishes join the breakfast menu:

• Stuffed French Toast — French vanilla stuffing and seasonal compote, $17
• Dark Chocolate Waffles — Dried cherry compote, espresso-mascarpone cream, and chocolate shavings, $16
• Crab Cake Eggs Benedict — Poached eggs, pan-seared crab cakes, and hollandaise, $19

The Crab Cake Eggs Benedict is the one that makes sense for this restaurant. Ale & Compass is a New England-themed dining room at a nautical resort, and swapping Canadian bacon for a pan-seared crab cake is exactly the move the concept calls for. At $19 it’s also priced fairly for a Disney resort table service breakfast.

The Dark Chocolate Waffles are the outlier. Espresso-mascarpone cream and dried cherry compote is a dessert plate that happens to arrive before noon. If that’s what you want, order it without guilt — just know what you’re getting.

Breakfast Here Is Underrated

Ale & Compass is one of the better breakfast reservations at Walt Disney World and it’s consistently easier to book than the headline spots.

The location is the real argument. You’re a walk from EPCOT’s International Gateway, which means you can eat a full sit-down breakfast and be in World Showcase without a bus or a monorail. That’s a rare combination.

New Lunch and Dinner Items

Several savory dishes are now available for lunch, dinner, or both:

• Blue Crab Bisque — Chili oil, sherry reduction, and jumbo lump crab. Available at lunch and dinner, $14
• Steak Frites — Grilled 12-oz New York steak, shoestring fries, and au poivre sauce. Available at lunch, $35
• Maryland-style Crab Cake — Corn purée, tomato succotash, roasted baby red potatoes, and spicy aïoli. Available at lunch and dinner, $35
• New England Seafood Pot Pie — Shrimp, scallops, jumbo lump crab, fish, and baby vegetables in a brandy-cream sauce with a flaky crust. Available at dinner, $34

What to Order

Order the New England Seafood Pot Pie. It’s the most distinctive dish added, it’s dinner-only, and nothing else at the EPCOT resorts is doing this. Shrimp, scallops, jumbo lump crab, and fish in a brandy-cream sauce under a flaky crust is a proper regional dish, not a theme park approximation of one.

Order the Blue Crab Bisque as a starter. At $14 with jumbo lump crab and a sherry reduction, it’s the best value add on the new lineup and it shares well.

Skip the Steak Frites unless you’re at lunch and want something familiar. A 12-oz New York with au poivre at $35 is a fine plate, but you can get a version of it at a dozen places on property. The seafood is why you’re here.

New Desserts

Two new desserts round out the menu:

• Banana Crème Brûlée — Brûléed banana, banana cream, puff pastry, and raspberry sauce, $10
• Peanut Butter-Marshmallow Cup (Plant-based) — Plant-based peanut butter mousse, potato meringue, and a chocolate shell, $9

The Boston Cream Pie — vanilla chiffon, vanilla bean mousse, chocolate glaçage, and raspberry sauce — also appears on the updated menu.

The plant-based Peanut Butter-Marshmallow Cup at $9 deserves a note. Potato meringue is a genuinely clever technique for a dairy-free dessert, and Disney’s plant-based desserts have improved a lot in the past few years. This isn’t a consolation prize.

What’s Been Removed

The Continental Enhancement is gone from the breakfast menu.

It included fresh fruit, assorted yogurt parfaits, assorted breakfast pastries, house-made granola, and warm cinnamon rolls for $28.

That’s a meaningful change if it was part of your routine. The Continental Enhancement was an add-on that turned a single entree order into something closer to a spread, and it worked well for tables sharing across a few people.

Without it, breakfast at Ale & Compass is a straightforward entree-per-person restaurant. Budget accordingly if you were planning to split.

Is Ale & Compass Worth a Reservation?

Yes, with a specific use case in mind.

This is the restaurant to book when you’re staying at Yacht Club, Beach Club, BoardWalk, or the Swan and Dolphin and you want a real meal without leaving the EPCOT resort area. It’s also a strong pre-EPCOT breakfast if you’re entering through the International Gateway.

It’s a harder sell if you’re staying elsewhere. The food is good and the new items are genuinely interesting, but the trip out here from a Magic Kingdom resort eats an hour you probably don’t have.

The Bottom Line

The new Ale & Compass menu items add a Crab Cake Eggs Benedict at breakfast, a Blue Crab Bisque and New England Seafood Pot Pie for lunch and dinner, and two new desserts including a plant-based option.

The Continental Enhancement is gone, so plan your breakfast order around individual entrees. Book the dinner pot pie if you’re anywhere near the EPCOT resorts — it’s the best new thing on this menu.

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