Dining Solo

[The Wuzzels]

I'll be traveling on business to Orlando in June and it just wouldn't be right if I didn't spend a day at WDW. I thought I would head over to Epcot and catch the tailend of the flower festival. Does anyone have a suggestion of where would be a good place to dine solo at Epcot possibly where I could also catch Illuminations?

 

[bicker]

There is only place where you can get a really good meal and there are a significant number of tables with a view of Illuminations: Rose and Crown. However, even there, only about 30% of the tables have a view, you cannot reserve one of those tables in advance, and almost every patron who decides to eat at that restaurant wants one of those tables. We've been very lucky, getting a table with a view of the show three times out of the eight times we've had dinner there during the show. If you're happy with those odds, then that would be your option. (If you don't get one of the good tables, they do let you stand at the back of the terrace during the show to watch.)

You may be better off chosing your dinner spot based on what you want to eat, and planning a dinner early enough that you'll be surely done long enough before the show to be able to find a good place to stand to see it.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I love dining solo at Chefs de France. I've always requested and gotten a window table, without additional waiting. I've only gone there for lunch so far, but you may be able to see some of Illuminations (though not the most direct view). I expect to find out first hand about that when I dine solo for dinner for the first time in September.

 

[Praise2Him]

I think you can see most (or at least some) of Illuminations from the Bistro de Paris. I've eaten there once with DH and would definitely go back solo.