Accurate Menu Pricing

[MamaDrama]

It seems like when I go to different Disney fan sites, the prices they have to their restaurant menus are different. Which sites do you find has the most accurate pricing information on the menus?

 

[dismichael]

Try disney world's site they have most of the menus in PDF form.

 

[Hobbes]

Ooh whereabouts on the Disney site? I just had a quick look and couldn't see a link.
I always use All Ears but maybe the offical site is more up to date.

 

[Cafeen]

The official site relies on Disney uploading updated menus (doesn't happen all the time). The other two primary sites rely on guests reporting updates to them.

What I do is take a look at all 3. Look for the one with the latest date and estimate based off of that menu (whichever it may be). Know that things can (and often will) change between now and your trip as well. (Stupid Artist Point taking Venison Pot Stickers off the menu just weeks before I showed up ).

For the official Disney menus, go to the Walt Disney World site and click on "Where To Eat", this will take you to the base Dining (which happens to also be the primary Reservation) page. Along the right, about halfway down there are options to view info about restaurants (Restaurant List), go ahead and select something in there and click Go. You will be shown a list of restaurants based on your selections, but more importantly, there will be a set of filters along the left side. Utilize these to navigate to the restaurant in question. Select the restaurant and the menu options will be visible.

Now, how do you know the date on the WDW official menus? It's relatively easy. Along the bottom there should be some sort of code. Somewhere in that code is a 4 digit number, this number represents the date that menu was released. For example, the official Liberty Tree Tavern Lunch menu has a code of "MK3404 9288000 0810" along the bottom left of the menu page. The 0810 tells us that it was released in Aug 2010. I don't really know what the other numbers mean, but probably stuff that we don't need anyway (well, I think MK stands for Magic Kingdom, I'm not positive on that though )

 

[purple figment]

Disney's site only provides pdf menus for Table Service restaurants that they operate. It doesn't include menus for the counter service or non-Disney owned venues (e.g. Tutto's, Les Chefs, La Hacienda, Yak & Yeti, etc even though they are in the theme parks). For those you'll have to rely on sites such as allears or wdwinfo. Since they rely on members to submit menus they're not always up to date, although there is usually a date for when they were uploaded. I look at the menus as a guide since prices and items can change at any time.

Here's a link to the page Cafeen described on the Disney site:

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/reservations/dining/

 

[bumbershoot]

I like allears

 

[OandA]

AllEars is good if they bother to update them. Some haven't been updated since 2008.

 

[HuskerFaninIL]

Great question, I have noticed differences as well. Thanks for asking it