Olivia's Cafe Is Serving Its Last Brunch on October 5, Then Splitting the Service Into Separate Breakfast and Lunch

If you have a soft spot for ordering a cheeseburger at 10am with zero judgment, mark Monday, October 5 on the calendar. That is the last day Olivia's Cafe serves brunch.

WDWMagic reported Thursday morning that Disney's Old Key West Resort is splitting the single long brunch service at Olivia's Cafe into a separate breakfast and lunch, taking the restaurant from two meal services to three. In its words, the restaurant "will serve its last brunch on October 5, 2026, then switch to three separate meal services ... starting October 6." WDW News Today reported the same change the same morning.

The Hospitality House at Disney's Old Key West Resort, seen across the water. The mint green building at right carries the cream script Olivia's sign across the face of its gable, flanked by carved palm fronds. Guests are seated on the covered porch, and pontoon and motor boats are tied up at the wooden marina dock in the foreground. Photo: Disney.

The new hours

WDWMagic lays out the before and after. For years, per its report, "Olivia's Cafe has run brunch from 7:30 am to 2:00 pm and dinner from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm." From Tuesday, October 6, the single block that now covers 7:30am to 2:00pm splits in two:

• Breakfast: 7:30am to 11:00am
• Lunch: 11:30am to 2:00pm
• Dinner: 5:00pm to 9:00pm, unchanged

Note the half hour that disappears between breakfast and lunch. Under the current brunch service, 11:00am to 11:30am sits inside one continuous meal service. From October 6 the posted hours leave it as a gap between services. Disney has not said what, if anything, happens in it.

What is on the brunch menu while it lasts

WDWMagic pulled a few standouts from the outgoing brunch list, a menu it says "covers a lot of ground, from shrimp cocktail and conch fritters to buttermilk chicken and crab cake eggs benedict":

• Southernmost Buttermilk Chicken, with scrambled eggs, breakfast potatoes and a biscuit, or roasted garlic mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables, $27.00
• Crab Cake-Eggs Benedict, with poached eggs, crab cakes and key lime hollandaise, $26.00
• Bacon Jam Cheeseburger, with cheddar, crispy onions and house-made ketchup, $26.00
• Tuna Poke Bowl, with edamame, wakame and sriracha dressing, $22.00
• Banana Bread French Toast, with Bahamian banana-rum syrup, $20.00

Desserts (Olivia's Bananas Foster, Key Lime Pie, Coconut Milk Cake, Chocolate Torte and Pineapple Mango Upside-Down Cake) run $10.00 to $11.00. Kids can build their own entree for $9.25 to $11.50, with a drink and two sides included.

Three dishes from Olivia's Cafe. At left, roughly seven golden conch fritters in a paper-lined basket with a metal ramekin of pale dipping sauce and one lemon wedge and one lime wedge. Top right, a grey ridged bowl of diced potato hash with red peppers, tofu cubes, a whole roasted red chile and fresh greens. Bottom right, a Mickey waffle and a Minnie waffle, with a third waffle stacked behind them, on a white oval plate beside a craggy piece of fried chicken. Photo: WDW News Today.

What Disney is teasing for the replacements

The full breakfast and lunch menus are not out. As WDWMagic puts it, "Disney hasn't released the new breakfast and lunch menus yet. If you want to try the current brunch dishes, you have until October 5." WDW News Today quotes what Disney lists for each meal in the meantime:

• Breakfast: "Rise and shine with favorites like Buttermilk Biscuits and the Crab Cake Eggs Benedict."
• Lunch: "Sail in for coastal cuisine, like Conch Fritters. Plus, enjoy hearty options, like the Bacon Jam Cheeseburger or Southernmost Buttermilk Chicken."
• Dinner: "Feast on Crab Cakes, Jerk Spiced Grilled Pork Chop and other delicious dishes." Worth noting: the dinner menu today lists that dish simply as Grilled Pork Chop.
• And, listed without a meal heading of its own: "Craving something sweet? Cap off your lunch or dinner with Key Lime Pie or Olivia's Bananas Foster."

Read those against the brunch list above and a pattern jumps out. The Bacon Jam Cheeseburger, the Southernmost Buttermilk Chicken, the Conch Fritters and the Crab Cake Eggs Benedict are all dishes already served at Olivia's today. On the evidence Disney has published so far, this looks less like a menu teardown and more like one long service being sorted into two shorter ones, with the eggs on the early side and the burgers on the later side.

Dinner hours are not changing

Evening service keeps its current hours, 5:00pm to 9:00pm, the one slot WDWMagic explicitly flags as unchanged. The menu below is the one running today; Disney has not said whether it moves. WDWMagic lists appetizers including crab cakes, shrimp cocktail and conch fritters at $16.00 to $17.00, and entrees that, in its words, "lean into Florida Keys flavors": Slow-cooked Prime Rib at $39.00, Mahi Mahi at $34.00, Grilled Pork Chop at $32.00, Shrimp and Grits at $31.00, and Captain Wahoo's Catch of the Day at market price. It lists a plant-based West Indian Tofu and Coconut Curry separately at $25.00.

The covered patio at Olivia's Cafe, with cream stone-topped tables, black wrought-iron chairs with teal upholstered seats, napkins in pink, red, turquoise, purple and yellow, hanging lantern-style pendant lights and ceiling fans overhead. The Olivia's sign is visible in the background at left, and open turquoise doors lead into the warmly lit dining room. Photo: Disney, via WDWMagic.

Why it matters

Olivia's is a table-service restaurant where, for years, the answer to "is it too late for breakfast?" has been no. That flexibility is the thing going away on October 5. If you want the Crab Cake-Eggs Benedict at 1:30pm, or the Bacon Jam Cheeseburger at 8am, you have about six and a half weeks.

Whether the split brings new dishes, new prices or simply new signage is the open question, and Disney has not answered it yet.

Sources

• WDWMagic, "Disney's Old Key West Resort Ending Brunch at Olivia's, Adds Lunch"
• WDW News Today, "Olivia's Cafe Ending Brunch at Disney's Old Key West Resort"

Image credits: exterior photograph by Disney. Patio photograph by Disney, via WDWMagic. Dish photographs by WDW News Today.