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Scat Cat's Club Closes October 6 at Port Orleans French Quarter, and the Mickey Beignets Move to the Food Court
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Scat Cat's Club Closes October 6 at Port Orleans French Quarter, and the Mickey Beignets Move to the Food Court

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The Mickey-shaped beignets at Disney's Port Orleans Resort French Quarter are about to change addresses. Both halves of Scat Cat's Club, the café and the lounge, close for refurbishment on Tuesday, October 6, and the beignets move a short walk away to the resort food court while the work happens.

Three Mickey-shaped beignets heavily dusted with powdered sugar on a bamboo serving board with a Mickey-shaped cutout holding dipping sauce
The Mickey-shaped beignets from Scat Cat's Club Café, which move to the resort food court on October 6. Image: Disney

Quick facts: Scat Cat's Club Café and Scat Cat's Club Lounge both close October 6, 2026. The café is projected to return in December 2026, the lounge in January 2027. Beignets and coffee move to Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory, and a temporary bar operates near the café from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

The two venues close on the same day but do not come back on the same day. WDWMagic reports the café is expected to reopen in December, with the lounge following in January 2027, which leaves the French Quarter without its only indoor lounge for roughly three to four months. The resort keeps its poolside bar, Mardi Grogs, which Disney lists as open until 10:00 p.m.

Two guests seated at a small bistro table with drinks and a plate of appetizers, in front of a painted red and gold mural of a seated jazz musician in a flat cap playing a trombone on an exposed brick wall
The Scat Cat's Club Lounge, which is not expected to reopen until January 2027. Image: Disney

There is still somewhere to get a drink. A temporary bar will stand in near the café during the closure, running 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Disney has not said what it will pour, and no menu has been published.

A family of four seated at a round café table in a bright lobby arcade, with coffee cups and a beignet on a plate, and a Shop Arcade sign visible behind them
Scat Cat's Club Café, which Disney places just outside the lounge, closes with it on October 6. Image: Disney

The Halloween beignet has a hard cutoff. The Ghoulish Delight beignets, a cookies-and-cream take drizzled with marshmallow crème, follow the regular beignets over to Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory, but their last day there is November 1. After that the seasonal version comes off the menu, closure or not.

A carved wooden entrance sign for Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory: a gilded Mardi Gras mask with a winged crest and cutlery, and the lit dining room of the food court visible through the archway to the right
Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory, the resort food court taking over beignet and coffee service. Image: Disney

What Disney has not said. There is no Disney Parks Blog post about any of this, and neither official Scat Cat's Club page carried a closure notice as of Friday morning. Disney has not described the scope of the work in either space. The café's last refurbishment was in 2024.

If you have a French Quarter stay booked this fall, the practical version is short: the beignets survive, they just move to the food court, and the jazz lounge is not expected back until after the new year.

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Image credits: all images courtesy of Disney.

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