How will ADRs for Be Our Guest start?

DavidNYC

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Is there a pretty standard procedure for how ADRs begin to be taken at new restaurants? We're heading down Dec. 8-15 and really want to go to Be Our Guest for dinner.

Is there usually an announcement such as "ADRs can start being made on [date] at [time]" or will they just suddently show up one day?

And do ADRs usually open before the restuarant does or do they usually wait until the restaurant is actually opened to start ADRs (so they don't have to worry about delays in the opening).
 
Is there a pretty standard procedure for how ADRs begin to be taken at new restaurants? We're heading down Dec. 8-15 and really want to go to Be Our Guest for dinner.

Is there usually an announcement such as "ADRs can start being made on [date] at [time]" or will they just suddently show up one day?

And do ADRs usually open before the restuarant does or do they usually wait until the restaurant is actually opened to start ADRs (so they don't have to worry about delays in the opening).

The Disney Parks Blog just posted this today :banana:

Many of you have been asking for an update on the Be Our Guest Restaurant, and I’m happy to announce that we’ll have an update on this topic tomorrow on the Disney Parks Blog. Our Food Author Pam Brandon will share details with you on the delicious menu items you can expect, when reservations will begin, and more! Don’t miss it.
 
what is this restaurant all about? where is it located? Hmm, just when I thought I had ALL of my meals/shows booked. LOL, another one thrown at me?!?! not sure if I should :banana: OR :sad2:
 
What I hear happened with the last couple of TS restaurants to open in Epcot is that they didn't start taking ADRs until the restaurants were actually in soft opening.

I really hope they don't give a date certain so we have to fight crazy long phone waits just to get it. I'd rather it just happen and let word leak out.

But they didn't ask me! :lmao:
 

We are going to be there the same week :santa: and left one ADR open just for Be Our Guest. I hope its open then!! We would be so happy :banana: :cool1: :woohoo:
 
what is this restaurant all about? where is it located? Hmm, just when I thought I had ALL of my meals/shows booked. LOL, another one thrown at me?!?! not sure if I should :banana: OR :sad2:

It is a new restaurant (not open as of yet ~ we're all waiting for details!) in MK in the new expanded Fantasyland expansion. I don't have all the details, but it's supposed to be counter service meals at lunch and sit down meals at dinner. Maybe someone else here with more knowledge of this can add on info...
 
The most they posted on the Disney blog today was that the restaurant would start taking reservations "in August." No exact date. That doesn't mean it will open in August, just that it will start taking reservations in August.
 
It is a new restaurant (not open as of yet ~ we're all waiting for details!) in MK in the new expanded Fantasyland expansion. I don't have all the details, but it's supposed to be counter service meals at lunch and sit down meals at dinner. Maybe someone else here with more knowledge of this can add on info...


Braised pork for lunch and a grilled strip steak for dinner – Chef Michael Deardorff had a hard time choosing, but says those are two of his favorites from the new menu for Be Our Guest Restaurant in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park.

Guests can start making reservations in late August with the restaurant to be open for the holidays.


Chef Deardorff has been at the helm in Disney kitchens for 25 years, most recently as part of the opening of the restaurants at Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina, Hawai’i. Now he’s back to open Be Our Guest, inspired by “Beauty and the Beast,” with three dining rooms and seats for over 500 guests.

“Lunch is quick service, but not traditional counter service,” says Deardorff. Guest-activated terminals make ordering a snap (there also will be traditional cashiers for cash orders and special dietary requests). You order, take a seat and lunch is delivered to your table – on china, not paper.

Back to the menu. “It’s all about simple, fresh ingredients,” says Deardorff. “Just like your favorite quick-service restaurants across Magic Kingdom Park, you’ll be able to enjoy sandwiches and salads at Be Our Guest Restaurant for lunch, but all with a twist that transports you to the French setting of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’”

There’s a little French bistro flavor with tuna Niçoise salad and a Croque Monsieur sandwich with carved ham, Gruyere cheese, béchamel and pommes frites (a fancy term for French fries). Or go for the carved turkey on a warm baguette with Dijon mayonnaise, or the grilled steak sandwich with garlic butter spread, both with pommes frites. Heartier fare includes braised pork that’s cooked for eight hours, and for vegetarians, there’s a loaded vegetable quiche or quinoa, shallot and chive salad.


Dinner is table service, with diverse starters such as a charcuterie plate with cured meats and sausages, mussels steamed in white wine, French onion or potato leek soup, and a salad with champagne vinaigrette. We’re intrigued by the salad trio with three mini tastes of roasted beet, raisins and orange; green beans, tomatoes and roasted shallots; and watermelon, radish and mint.

Entrées include a thyme-scented pork rack chop with au gratin pasta, rotisserie rock hen with roasted fingerling potatoes, pan-seared salmon in leek fondue, grilled strip steak with pommes frites, sautéed shrimp and scallops with veggies in puff pastry with creamy lobster sauce, and an oven-baked ratatouille.

Oh, and dessert – we vote for the cupcakes, strawberry cream cheese or triple chocolate. If cupcakes aren’t your favorite sweet ending, there’s a chocolate cream puff and a passion fruit cream puff.

For kids 9 and under, the lunch entrées include a carved turkey sandwich, roasted pulled pork, Mickey meatloaf, seared mahi mahi, or whole-grain macaroni topped with marinara and mozzarella. For dinner, it’s grilled steak, grilled fish of the day, whole-grain macaroni or grilled chicken breast.

“We think guests will be pleasantly surprised with the menu and the value,” says Deardorff.
 












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