Restaurants you miss

[tinkerbella16]

Wolfgang Puck Express at Disney Springs - it was one of our favorite QS on property. Still so sad it is gone.

 

[diznymom]

We miss the ESPN Club, also. That was the one dining experience we did each trip for hubby........no princesses, no characters, just TVs and sports everywhere.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I wish we could go back to pre-2000 food quality and more extensive menus. I'm looking at you, Rose & Crown, on the menu!

By far I miss the original Artist Point. Would love the signature dinner service to resume. Concourse Steakhouse was another favorite.

I was reading all the replies and thinking the exact same thing!

Back before the dining plans ALL the food was well made and reliably delicious. Back then each theme restaurant delivered a wonderful fresh tasting menu that would transport us to another place so dining at WDW seemed like traveling all over the US and internationally. It seemed like most spots had a regional dining theme and so why go somewhere else. While it was never "high end" all the food at our favorite resort, Port Orleans, was yummy southern comfort food. I think our favorite breakfast pancakes, eggs and bacon were better, our favorite dinner was Chicken Fried Steak and we could sample fresh tasting options like Gumbo without leaving property. We would hop from resort to resort just to sample food from far away places, I miss the high quality food.

 

[pooh2001]

California Grill at the Contemporary and seeing the fireworks from the outside balcony with the music piped in

 

[Mazz519]

We loved ESPN Club, we would go there with my 3 boys have a great lunch or dinner watch whatever sports was on and then hit the arcade next door...miss those days !!!

 

[tinabina919]

I miss California Grill brunch too!

Another one with the restaurant still there but I miss the old lunch at Be Our Guest. The French onion soup, French dip sandwich and strawberry cupcake was my fav meal. A must do every trip.

 

[Cfabar1]

I'll agree with part of the ESPN club - the food and price. But the atmosphere was always way too noisy with all those TV's going.

Absolutely agree with the Artiest Point though. A wonderful restaurant with interesting menu items. Now destroyed by a character meal.

It also means that every table service meal dining option at WL is weird in some way or another...
at one you have to endure big hats, antics, and the like.
at another one you have to pay for and deal with characters
at another you can't get an advance reservation and have to sit outside
another is really a bar, and not a restaurant

I'd imagine part of the issue is the resort itself - particularly with the DVC conversion doesn't have enough clients inside to justify a signature restaurant, and the thought was rarely available characters would allow them to raise prices and make it something people would drive to WL to experience...

Riviera solves this problem by having fewer restaurants and fewer operating hours at their one table service restaurant (no lunch)...