Dining in and around Disney

[7beasley]

Hi --

My husband and I (31 and 30 years old) will be taking our first trip to Disneyland this September -- for the past 4 years we have gone to WDW every year and decided this year - we would try something new.

We are looking for some restaurant recommendations for dinner both outside of Disney (in the Anaheim area) and at one or two of the Disney hotels. In years past at WDW we have run the gambit from quick meals everynight to PS in all of the upscale disney restaurants. While we loved our upscale dining vacation last year, it was quite expensive.

Therefore, for this trip, we are thinking we would prefer dining outside of Disney for dinner in the Anehiem area and then having one nice meal at one of the Disney restaurants. For our outside of the park/hotel dinners we would like to stay in the $30-$50 range for dinner (neither of us drink alcohol so dinner would be just that - entrees and maybe a salad or appetizer) and at our one nice dinner we would like to stay around $80-$100.

Any restaurants other than strictly seafood would be fine (as my husband hates fish).

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

-- Nicole

 

[daannzzz]

I almost always eat most of my meals at the Disneyland resort and hotel restaurants. The Storyteller Cafe at the Grand Californian is a nice place to eat. The food and service has been good. The prices are medium. The expensive restaurant at the Grand Californian is Napa Rose and has been winning awards. I have yet to try it.
At the Disneyland hotel I really liked Hooks Point which is a medium priced place. Granville's Steakhouse is the expensive place at the DLH and I have not tried that either.
Right outside of Disneyland there is not a lot of fine dining. There is an informal place called the Spaghetti Station behind Disneyland that we like. It is like a better quality Spaghetti Factory. If you have a car available you may want to check out web pages for dining in Irvine, Orange and Santa Ana.

 

[mommytotwo]

We had eatten at Yamabuki which is in the Disney Pier Hotel, and enjoyed our meal. Several of us had gotten the teriyaki chicken set which came with various types of side dishes, and the rest of the group had ordered this other dish that consisted of meat and veggies-sorry can't remember what it was called. I enjoyed the meal, but for one of our friend's bf who is a big guy, he could have eatten two of those meals. The price was in the $20-$40.

 

[7beasley]

Thanks for the info daannzzz and mommytotwo!!!