Be creative, the sky is the limit, new restaurants!

[Dreamfinder2]

Stoudt6, you beat me to the click with your Tastes of America idea! There are so many good regional specialities around the country, and to have a restaurant that featured the best from each region - well, that's just way cool.

I'm a bit prejudiced toward my own region (which includes cajun and creole from Louisiana, plus fried chicken and fresh veggies from the deep South) - I look at the crowds at our local soul food joints, and I wonder just how many folks have experienced our good eatin'. HOB does a pretty good job, but it's still touristy.

(Duh. Like nothing else at WDW is touristy.)

But a revamp of the Liberty Inn? Heck, yeah.

 

[SandraVB79]

In two weeks, I'll be able to get a "taste" of WDW (during 6 days), and I'm sure that afterwards, I'll have plenty more ideas, because then I'll finally know how it is there!

(and if food is as good as at DLP...)

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

They didn't do a good job with that at DCA at DLR and WDS at DLRP..

Actually DCA passed IOA in attendance last year. The only non-disney park that' beat it in the United States is USO. I don't know what their target was but considering DCA is a half size park, that's pretty good.

Actually, we like DCA. There's always room for improvement, but even Disneyland wasn't complete either when it first opened. The problem with DCA and WDS isn't the imagineer's lack of ideas, but rather Disney's cutbacks on budgets. Hopefully they have learned their lesson.

I think the land they had to work with at DCA was an issue as well. I don't think we'd have seen the pier area had they more land. An attempt to scrunch a few more rides into a small area. They did the pier concept well, but I'm not sure it was a concept Disney should have done.

And I'm committing blasphemy, but I'm not so sure that Disney shouldn't abandon the complex, buy enough land and move DL brick by brick, ride by ride over to the new location, and build a CA right like they really want to, plus an animal kingdom. Since CA would sort of be like an epcot of California heritage rather than world wide, no epcot of course. No Studio's either. Incorporate some of that into the new CA. I'm good at spending Disney's money. Watch that stock tumble if they ever tried it. That's just my pipe dream. Or better yet. Keep the old complex as Disney Classics... Then us old fogeys would be the only ones there.

Hehe.... That's one sure way of being able to getting seated anytime we want, without an ADR!

That's what I was thinking.

 

[donaldtutter]

A wine flight restaurant, perhaps plopped into the USA portion of EPCOT. The restaurant would be upscale and would feature fusion cooking, blending the best of international cuisine into a dynamic menu. Each meal would limited to a prix fixe menu and would be accompanied by a flight of wines selected by a sommelier to be paired perfectly with the courses. Such a place would finally add a quality TS to the USA. Inexpensive? No. Exciting? You bet.



I like this idea!!!

 

[SandraVB79]

BUMP!

Come on people, I am sure you must have more ideas than this!!!!

 

[pinchy]

Hehe.... That's one sure way of being able to getting seated anytime we want, without an ADR!

I doubt Disney would deliberately open a restaurant that would be that unprofitable. I know Landry's won't!!!!

I guess its just weird for me coming from a country where curry is standard fare... a few years ago chicken tikka masala was the most popular dish in the UK. And as for thai restaurants, if one served bland food in London it just wouldn't survive. I do tend to miss rice based dishes when I'm at Disney. Food tends to be very bread and potato biased when it comes to carbs.

 

[maddhatir]

I'd love to see a resturaunt in the Asia section of AK that serves Indian food.

I THOUGHT i heard that AK WAS supposed to be getting a restaurant in asia in the future....did anyone else hear this??

maybe disney can just go back to doing what they used to - quite some time ago.....serving good food. i remember years ago it was a pleasure just walking up to one of the restaurants and sitting down for some good food.

now they have reduced themselves to seeing how many people they can pack into the restaurants, serve mediocre food and charge too much for it.

and I am sorry for this one... (no flames please! )
NO MORE CHARACTER MEALS! ....please. or do what another poster suggested, keep ALL the character meals in one area.

 

[5disneyfreaks]

I have to say I love the idea of having a pirate themed meal. My whole family loves POC. And my hubby, well, he's our Captain. (Capain Chuck, that is. )

 

[bicker]

Actually Disney had a pretty bad reputation for food until relatively recently. California Grill was the beginning of a trend towards more refined dining at WDW.

 

[ksumn1]

Based very loosely on the chef's table at V & A, where the chef uses fine ingredients based on your preferences, but in EPCOT and more do it yourself. You would 1st take a ride on Living with the land with the chef. You would discuss on the ride food preferences allergies, etc. After the ride, you would walk through the greenhouses and with the chef pick the fresh ingredients for your meal. You would then go back to the kitchen for a behind the scenes look/cooking lesson with the chef as he prepares your meal. You enjoy a wonderful meal made with the finest handpicked by you ingredients. You could even expand the idea to make it a full day culinary tour, fishing for the trout or catfish in the lagoon, trekking to the AK to select the wine accompainment, to EPCOT for the veggies, and afterward take a Illuminastions cruise and enjoy your cinderella slipper desser that you picked up at the MK earlier. I think it would be fun as a culinary challeged person who would love to go behind the scenes!

 

[barbeml]

Great thread! Many clever & yummy ideas.

My 2 cents:

Gut the ABC Commissary and replace it with a "Dine With the Food Network Stars" restaurant featuring signature dishes from TVF shows. Celebrity Chef appearances with demos & book signings could be a regular feature.

In the Mission:Space pavillion, add "Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" from "Hitchhiker's Guide." Now that would be a meal with a view!

I agree 100% with everyone who said replicate the Blue Bayou from DL...one of the BEST Disney restaurants anywhere.

And please please please add an authentic Asian restaurant, maybe in AK. Bicker's Thali photo is making me hungry

 

[momandseandodisney]

I have to say I love the idea of having a pirate themed meal. My whole family loves POC. And my hubby, well, he's our Captain. (Capain Chuck, that is. )

They could have a peter pan, captin hook, wendy thing going !

 

[dani0622]

Great ideas everyone!
I love the Top of the TOT!
There are so many ideas Disney could expand on! I also like to see an Indian restaurant, Thai, Greek, Spanish, and good ol' Southern cooking.

 

[SandraVB79]

To continue about the top of TOT idea, how about:

- You check in at the lobby for your room
- You get up with the elevator until the 13th floor
- There, you go to your "room", and you can order room service by phone! It would allow for a more private dining opportunity, with, I guess, a great view, since you're so high up!