Kids Meals Sit - Down Epcot - Need plain food..

[1hero2princesses]

We love to have the treat of a sit down meal on vacation. We are thinking about adding the dining plan, but I am concerned we will find restaurants to eat at now that my kids are older and super duper pickey. I need to find places with kids menus that include burgers, breaded chicken, dogs, pizza etc. My kids will not eat seafood, grilled chicken etc. I got kind of excited about tempo edo and then realized their kids menu wouldn't work. We have been to coral reef, it was ok but I was hoping to try new places. We are very meat and potatoes but really had pretty bad food at Le Cellier (and I fought so hard to get in there!). Not sure where else we could try that would work for the kids? Any recommendation?

 

[bicker]

At Rose and Crown, I remember the pizza kids meal going over well.

 

[casjen]

I always check the menus at allearsnet.com before we book a dining reservation. I found almost every kids menu has pizza, or a burger, or mac and cheese, or chicken fingers or PB and J except for a few in Epcot and Animal Kingdom lodge. Even at Boma my picky eater ate up the nuggets and meatballs.

We are planning to eat at Sanaa and I know they have a kid choices b/c I checked first.

 

[figment_jii]

There are menus posted on Allears.net. This is probably a good place to start:

http://allears.net/menu/menus.htm

 

[1hero2princesses]

Yes, I have seen the menu on all ears. That is how I unfortunately see that a lot of places don't actually carry burgers! I was crushed tempo edo was off my list. I just was looking for recommendations from peoples experiences.

 

[purple figment]

I just did a quick check of the children's menus at some of the restaurants in the parks and found burgers at Chefs de France, Marrakesh and Yak & Yeti, pizza at Via Napoli, Tutto, Tony's, Liberty Tree and Mama Melrose and hot dogs at Brown Derby. I didn't check the resort or DTD menus, but I'm sure you'll find some there as well. Also, buffets have a wide assortment and some would probably have burgers, pizza, etc.

 

[xbatman]

If they'll eat breaded fish, DD7 really enjoyed the fish & chips at Rose and Crown.

 

[hannahdrewmom]

Will they not eat noodles at Teppan Udo? You can ask for noodles without the vegetables. Also if your kids are like mine they'd be fine with the rice for a meal! Add dessert and let them snack around the world..... who knows... they might even suprise you and eat a bite of chicken! GASP!

 

[bicker]

Yes, I have seen the menu on all ears. That is how I unfortunately see that a lot of places don't actually carry burgers!

Speculation has been that a lot of restaurants felt that they had to remove hamburgers from their child menus because too many adults were insisting on ordering off the child menu, and the negative impact of that on revenues was so severe that it overwhelmed the negative impact of not offering burgers on the child menu.

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

Speculation has been that a lot of restaurants felt that they had to remove hamburgers from their child menus because too many adults were insisting on ordering off the child menu, and the negative impact of that on revenues was so severe that it overwhelmed the negative impact of not offering burgers on the child menu.

That's what I was going to add. You will have a hard time finding burgers on kids menus (especially at CS). Most TS places have mac n cheese or pizza.

 

[Arkansan]

You could always walk out the International Gateway and go to Beaches and Cream at the BC/YC. It is at most a 5 min. walk from Epcot. They have GREAT burgers, fries, onion rings, milkshakes, etc. There is a good turkey sandwich or grilled chicken breast sandwich, too. (for grown-ups) They don't take ADRs, however, so you may want to go at a "non-traditional" meal time. They have a take-out window, but it is only for ice-cream.

Also, for a CS credit, you could eat at Hurricane Hannas near the pool at YC/BC. (You access it from the walkway around the lagoon, not through the hotel.) They serve the same burgers as Beaches and Cream, but it is CS not TS. Their kids meals come in sand pails--very cute! They also have good "grown-up" drinks and food.

 

[Colleen27]

Most Disney-owned restaurants will have one or more of those choices. Only a scarce few of the non-Disney owned places, like Teppan Edo and Tokyo Dining, have a more authentic/ethnic kids menu without Americanized selections.

Just at Epcot you have Coral Reef (pizza), Akershus (pizza & hot dog), Chefs de France (burger), La Hacienda (chicken strips), Le Cellier (pizza & hot dog), Marrakesh (chicken strips & hamburger), Rose & Crown (pizza), San Angel Inn (chicken strips), Tutto Italia (pizza), and Via Napoli (pizza).

 

[3pletprincesses]

I know that Akershus carries hot dogs and pizza

 

[LeahZ]

There aren't many burgers on the kids menus. However, almost all have pizza or mac n cheese. My kids are really picky and have been able to find something they would eat just about everywhere. Most kids menus also have a fruit salad as a side item - sometimes my kids just got that. I have found that a grilled cheese is almost always available as well - may not be on the menu, but just ask and they'll almost always make it for you. Disney restaurants are very accommodating.

 

[Colleen27]

Speculation has been that a lot of restaurants felt that they had to remove hamburgers from their child menus because too many adults were insisting on ordering off the child menu, and the negative impact of that on revenues was so severe that it overwhelmed the negative impact of not offering burgers on the child menu.

I know it'll never happen with Disney's perspective on customer service/rule enforcement, but I really wish they'd do like so many real-world restaurants do and simply set an age beyond which you cannot order off the kids' menus. That would allow for better kids' meals without the concern of adults ordering kids' portions to save money.

 

[bicker]

Yeah, it's a shame: Too many Disney guests don't know how to gracefully take "no" for an answer.

 

[1hero2princesses]

I didn't know why the burgers seemed to all but have disappeared off the kids menus. That explains it. My pickiest child won't eat pizza, pasta or hot dogs but will eat a burger so the menus are starting to become very challenging to me. That is too bad they had to do that. Wish they just would have gone with an age limit on who could order off the kids menu but I am guessing that would have been very hard to enforce at counter service.

 

[MickeyNicki]

If it becomes too much of a problem let the kids eat CS before you go to TS

Let them have dessert at the TS instead....this worked great when I took our nieces.

 

[bicker]

Wish they just would have gone with an age limit on who could order off the kids menu but I am guessing that would have been very hard to enforce at counter service.

Counter service isn't really that much of a problem, in my experience. It is at full-service restaurants that we've been unable to find burgers on the child menu.

But even at a full-service restaurant, it is exceedingly difficult to expect adults to pay $20-$30 per entree gracefully, when there is something that they'd be happy to eat for $10. I fear that the extent many Americans will go to brow-beat CMs knows no bounds.

 

[PatsMom]

One of the problems with putting an age limit is that the child's portions are great for those on restrictive diets sometimes. I am diabetic and I am an adult who sometimes orders from the kids menu. The turkey sandwich at Cosmic Ray's is great - not too much bread, comes with apples or grapes or carrots and is just enough. Unfortunately, a lot of the kids meals aren't all that great from a nutritional standpoint.

I would love it if Disney offered a "light" menu.

You do have the option of sharing your meal with your children. Or splitting one adult meal between two children (this does assume you are not on the dining plan). When my daughter was younger and a lighter eater we would sometimes split an entree.

Also check out the appetizer menu - you could order an adult appetizer as an entree for a child if nothing on the child's menu appealed to them.

If a hamburger is a must, my niece thought the child's hamburger at Chefs de France was great when we took her in September.