Good places to eat with 20+ people???

[aurora15]

First off, thanks to all the great tips everyone has shared on this board!! They really help out newbies like me to plan a fairly large family reunion coming up in October. I am wondering what places you would recommend that have good food and are reasonably priced in and around DLR. Please help me!!!! TIA

 

[jencav5]

Are you planning on eating all of your meals with all 20+ people, or will you be splitting up at times? The character meals are good for large groups, but I don't know if I'd call them "reasonably priced." The Rainforest Cafe & Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen are good in DTD, but they are also somewhat pricey, although less per person than a character meal, depending on what you order. There's a McDonald's on Harbor, right outside the park, for quicker, inexpensive meals. There are also several other restaurants on Harbor, in walking distance, Dennys, IHop, Mimi's, Tony Roma's, etc..., but they are priced at "resort" prices. It is not a bad value compared to the parks, but just keep in mind that the prices may not be what you're used to at home for the same restaurants. There's also Pizza Port in DL or Pizza Oow Mow Mow in DCA, which is a counter service, but you can order whole pizza's and the salad's & pasta's are large.

 

[JenDisneylandlver]

We had a group of 23 and ate at the Rainforest. They gave us a long table right along the aquarium on the bottom floor. All we did was put in our name a few hours before we wanted to eat. Was really nice.

 

[JadeDarkstar]

when are you going and how many kids? you may want to do a charcter meal if you have enough kids thated be fun for a family reunion

 

[avalon451]

There's a Buca di Beppo a couple miles down Harbor. They're great for large groups.

 

[tlovesdis]

There's a Buca di Beppo a couple miles down Harbor. They're great for large groups.

What she said! LOL!!!

We love Bucca, whether we have 6 or 20 people! The food is great and it's served family style!

 

[aurora15]

Thank you so much for all the responses already!! We are going to have 12 adults and 11 kids ranging from 8 years to 2 months old. I would imagine that some people might want to go off and do there own thing sometimes, but most have never been to DLR so they wouldn't really know where to go anyway. I have already arranged PS for Goofy's Kitchen (been there, loved it!!!) and a girls lunch at Ariel's Princess Celebration. What I am trying to figure out know is what to do for the other lunches and dinners we have left... Keep 'em coming!! Thanks.

 

[CalvaryMike]

Everyone keeps recommending Character meals and when I booked Goofy's Kitchen for 9, the CM told me that we would probably be split up.

 

[aurora15]

Yeah, she told me that we would be at seperate tables but close together. Last time we went there were 17 of us and they had us at tables right next to each other so it worked out well.

 

[avalon451]

Where are you all staying? All at the same hotel?

It's going to get pretty spendy to eat out a lot. If your hotel has in-room fridges, you could plan some time to have a sandwich party-- get together in one room and do an assembly line to make sandwiches with cold cuts and cheese or something like that, add fruit, snack bags of chips, cookies, and bottled water... then you could take your lunches out by the pool and have a relaxing lunch by the pool for your afternoon break. Kids can swim, adults can visit, little cleanup.

Are you staying at a hotel that has free breakfast? Might also work well for some or all of your party to do your own breakfast in your rooms; just juice, milk, cereal cups, fruit, yogurt, stuff like that. We kinda liked doing that when we were there, we could get out of the room quicker and get to the gates before opening.

Just a couple of alternatives.

 

[disney-inspired]

If you are all eating together, I would suggest a Disneyland catered "picnic". They do it for companies, I don't see why not for a large group.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Last March a group of us from the Gals' Meet had dinner at the House of Blues patio. I thought the pricing was decent, and the area would fit a big group nicely.

I also liked that since we were outside, we had the ambience of Downtown Disney, and did not have to talk over the music played in the restaurant.

 

[JadeDarkstar]

oh cool both perfect meals princess lunch i only didnt like the food but hay ive come to relize its not always bad alot have ok food there so. id just stay away from the hamburger. the charcter interaction is grate. have fun im sure you will all have a blast.

 

[ACDSNY]

Back in Nov 2005 we had 25 of us for dinner at Goofy's Kitchen. We had multiple table all in the same area which worked out great. I looked into the catered picnics and the price was too high for us.

 

[biolabetty]

In February we took a group of 20 from my husband's work to Steakhouse 55 at the DLH for breakfast. They have a private dining room that you can reserve at no cost (the Oak Room), and breakfast is very reasonably priced and quite good.