Dining Archive

Star Wars Character Dinner Review at Hollywood & Vine

New for Star Wars Weekends, Walt Disney World is offering Jedi Mickey’s Star Wars Dine at Hollywood and Vine in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. This Star Wars character dinner is available during the entire Star Wars Weekends “season” (in other words, weekdays in addition to the weekends) and features Disney characters dressed in Star Wars attire.

Cafe Portofino Review

Cafe Portofino is a counter service buffeteria in Tokyo DisneySea’s Mediterranean Harbor. It’s a nice Italian option at the front of the park, and is one of the largest restaurants in the park. Tokyo Disney Resort’s official description of Cafe Portofino is that it originally was “a very small, unassuming restaurant, but it was so

Crystal Palace Review

Crystal Palace is a buffet restaurant in Tokyo Disneyland that is nearly identical to the Magic Kingdom’s Crystal Palace in terms of design. This review takes a look at the Crystal Palace’s lunch buffet, with photos of a number of different buffet items. The menu is an international mix, with plenty of conventional choices and

New York Deli Review

New York Deli is a counter service restaurant in Tokyo DisneySea’s American Waterfront port-of-call. The Deli serves a variety of small sandwiches similar in nature to what you might find at an actual deli in New York. The flagship menu item here is the Mile High Deli Stack, which is so popular(?) that there are

S.S. Columbia Dining Room Review

The S.S. Columbia Dining Room is located onboard the eponymous ocean-liner in the American Waterfront port of call at Tokyo DisneySea. It’s considered one of the flagship (that’s awful pun #2,573 on this blog, for those keeping score at home!) restaurants at Tokyo DisneySea, along with Magellan’s. Certainly, they’re the two most expensive restaurants in

Blue Bayou Restaurant Review

Blue Bayou is a restaurant inside Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris (Blue Lagoon there). This Blue Bayou review covers the Tokyo Disneyland version of the restaurant. Design-wise, this version of the restaurant is very similar to Disneyland’s Blue Bayou, although cuisine-wise, they’re substantially different. Due to its location adjacent

Rancho del Zocalo Restaurante Review

Rancho del Zocalo Restaurante is a quick service restaurant in Disneyland’s Frontierland that has a Mexican menu. Although it’s technically counter service, much like Plaza Inn, it’s sort of a ‘buffeteria’ style location with higher quality options on actual plates and with real silverware. It’s also priced slightly above other counter service restaurants in Disneyland,

Kringla Bakeri og Kafe Review

Kringla Bakeri og Kafe is a bakery and counter service restaurant in Epcot’s Norway at Walt Disney World. It has a menu with entrees, drinks, and desserts, but the real draw here is the desserts. Kringla is arguably the best bakery in Epcot, with a variety of popular snacks. These desserts include School Bread, which

Enchanted Garden Restaurant Review

Enchanted Garden Restaurant is a character buffet at the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Pluto in Victorian attire with some Chinese motifs. This review covers only breakfast at Enchanted Garden. For breakfast, the cost ended up being around $37 (USD) per person, with prices ranging up to

Pinocchio Village Haus Review

Pinocchio Village Haus is a counter service restaurant at the edge of regular ‘ole Fantasyland and New Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom that experienced a resurgence of sorts with a new menu recently. This review features food photos, thoughts on ambiance, and our recommendation as to whether this is a good restaurant to try on