Mystery: What restaurant from the early 2000s was this?

[CarolynFH]

Maybe one day I can try out Narcoosees and CG and see if either of them feel right!

Hopefully so! The decor at both has changed, but the windows and views from them haven't!

 

[focusondisney]

To clarify we didn't see fireworks from the table, we went to the dock to see them.

I noted above, from ground floor at the Contemporary resort you would see high fireworks. But you don’t see the castle. From the boat dock, you would have been looking back over the garden wing building & trees. If you were facing towards the water, the fireworks would be behind you.

 

[Babsy]

Narcoosee's

 

[johnandmaz]

Blimey. I so need the definitive answer to this.

We've dined in most places onsite in the past 30 years and there are so may different elements to the query. I would have said Narcoosees the same as other posters but we dined there around the OPs time and don't remember be able to draw on the tables. Perhaps the crayons were hidden away that day.

That bit has thrown me because the only place I remember drawing on tables was at Cape May Cafe on the disposable tablecloths. Obviously not that though, from the rest of the description.

 

[zackiedawg]

As an outside curve ball, it could have been Grand Floridian Cafe. It's still an ornate looking restaurant, is on ground level, is kid-friendly and almost certainly would have offered crayons for the kids, and would still walk through the ornate lobby to get there - plus you could fairly easily walk out to the dock from there.

 

[OhhBother]

We took my niece and nephew as kids around that time. As I recall, they had crayons to draw on the table (maybe paper placemats - it’s fuzzy) at Narcoossee’s.

 

[Mambo Junkie]

Definitely sounds like Narcoossee's. I felt like I was on a dock and some people walked outside to watch, but you could see from inside.