Scat Cat's Club and Cafe Closing for Refurbishment at Disney's Port Orleans French Quarter

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Friday September 4, 2026 6:53am ET · "Scat Cat's Club"
Scat Cat's Club and Cafe Closing for Refurbishment at Disney's Port Orleans French Quarter
Scat Cat's Club – Café and Lounge at Port Orleans French Quarter close for refurbishment October 6, 2026. The café reopens in December, the lounge in January 2027.

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Scat Cat's Club – Café and Scat Cat's Club – Lounge at Disney's Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter will close for refurbishment starting October 6 2026.

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The café is expected to reopen in December. The lounge is expected to reopen in January 2027.

While the café and lounge are closed, you'll have a few options:

  • A temporary bar will operate near the café from 5pm to 11pm.
  • Beignets and coffee will move to Sassagoula Floatworks & Food Factory. Ghoulish Delight beignets will also be available there through Nov. 1.

If you have a stay planned at Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter during this window, plan on using these alternate spots for your coffee and beignet fix.

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curious to see how this turns out, both venues were currently being used for a purpose they were not built for. The cafe was originally the bar and the bar was a TSR. They were both changed to their current setup with minimal budget and infrastructure updates, the bar is basically a pop up bar set up, the longer downtime for this area might be to install a properly functioning permanent bar.

Also, Disney, please don’t ruin the theming! You’ve been doing so well lately!
Its going to get pretty cramped and congested if the number of people arriving who want beignets are similar to when we were at POFQ. With the Scat Cat Club separated from the Floatworks area there was no issue serving.
Hopefully the focus is more operations and less about cosmetics. Both areas are quite charming but neither are an ideal setup operations wise.
I wonder if they will add a mobile order pick up at Scat Cats.
We were set to stay at POFQ for the first time from December 1st through the 8th. Scat Cat's was near the top of the list of reasons why. Thanks for posting about the closure, I just changed our reservation and we'll try it again at a later date.
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Too bad. Theres plenty of things that makes POFQ a wonderful resort to stay at. Scat Cat club is a very minor part of the resorts charm. What made it so vital to your stay that you would relocate?