Dining with Crohn’s

Kristina685

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Hi everyone! I’m helping a friend plan a trip for February. We’re almost up to her 60 days for dining reservations. One of her daughters has Crohn’s and while I know Disney is fantastic with dietary accommodations, I was wondering if you have any fav kid friendly restaurants that you know are amazing with restrictions? Thanks for your help!
 
Every restaurant at WDW is kid friendly. Everyone is different in what sets them off so the best advice is to contact Disney with your dining restrictions. The basic stuff, like dairy or gluten free, is easy to get at every place. But if you have a more complicated situation, the you should speak to them ahead of time.
 
My DH has Crohn’s and as a result can’t have dairy or any spice that is hot like black pepper and does great at Disney. We mostly do TS and can pretty much eat anywhere including buffets. My DM has a salt intolerance. A chef always comes out to talk to them and it is such a great experience. They always say they eat better at Disney than they do at home.
 
The tricky thing with Crohns is that everyone has different tolerances so it's not as "easy" as saying you're Celiac and everyone understand you're gluten free. I have Crohns and my dietary restrictions ebb and flow, just like the disease unfortunately. Without knowing her restrictions, it's hard to give suggestions.

I personally have yet to need any restaurant alter food for me (either Disney or at home) but my restrictions may be easier to work around on a decent sized menu. If she has something like a salt intolerance, like the previous poster mentioned, then they just simply need to ask the waiter to speak to the chef. In my experience, Disney wait staff are trained to ask for food allergies almost immediately anyways so it won't be too uncomfortable for them to bring up.
 

Definitely the waitstaff and chefs never make them feel inconvenienced are always so wonderful to deal with. When making ADRs there is a spot to put in for allergies. There is a choice for the major ones but not minor so we select dairy and other. When we check in the host will say there are allergies noted and stamp the ticket that goes to the table so when the waiter or waitress comes will see and ask what they are and then have a chef come. Sometimes the chef will return later after they got their meals to make sure everything was ok and if they need anything else. We usually look at the menus ahead of time to see if anything changed since our last visit and on most of them below the regular ones and the kids section will find the allergy section and will have under items which allergies they are good for. Sometimes something like a steak does not mention ok for dairy so they ask anyway and usually can alter for them so it never hurts to ask. We found out at restaurants there is always some cut of meat or fish that has not been marinated in anything. At buffets they can cook things in the back we always have a dinner at Boma. We did Liberty Tree Tavern for the first time a few weeks ago with the AYCTE. In the past had lunch there with the la carte menu but since they do not offer it anymore decided to try and were so glad. They could have the salad but the platter had to be altered for them and had different allergy safe options for dessert. The Italian places like Tony’s and Tutto Italia can cook pasta in water with no salt and offer a few different types of pasta for allergies and they get a plain sauce or olive oil. They have other items. Also other favorites other than what was mentioned are Be Our Guest, Chefs de France, Space220, Le Cellier, Coral Reef, 50’s Prime Time Cafe, Hollywood Brown Derby, Rainforest Cafe at AK, and The Boathouse at Disney Springs. For breakfasts they are Boma at AKL, Whispering Canyon Cafe at WL and Ale & Compass at YC.
 
Another Disney-goer with Crohn's here. I've never had a problem getting the accommodations I need when it comes to food. TS has more leeway to tweak than QS, FYI.
 



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