Suggestions for outside the park dining?

bobojenny

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Looking for some suggestions for dining in the outside area? Has anyone had any good experiences with prices/food?

Any tips appreciated...
 
Our first trip to Disney is coming up, so I have no first hand information. However, I have read several posts about Jungle Jim's. Supposedly they have good food and good prices. We plan to try it during our upcoming trip. 10 days and counting!
 
readily available to you right outside the park and only a few minutes or so drive whether on U.S. 192 or International Drive. There is everything from fast food (McDonald's, Burger, King, Taco Bell..etc.) to family style buffet restaurants (Ponderosa, Shoney's, Golden Corral,..etc) that also have regular menus.

Also, there are chain steakhouses like LongHorn and Outback along with eateries like Olive Garden, O'Charley's, Bennigans, IHOP, Sizzler, Pizza Hut, etc.... along with loads of great local places native to the area.

We have always primarily eaten all of our meals outside of WDW due to staying offsite, the combination of savings, and varied menus that are offered. For breakfast, there are great buffets in the vicinity along with those for lunch and dinner in addition to nonbuffet dishes.

Last year, we ate at Golden Corral's breakfast buffet and there were pancakes, waffles, bacon, sausage, hash browns, grits, eggs, cereal, toast, french toast, oatmeal, fresh fruit, doughnuts, and other items. Milk, apple juice, orange juice among other beverages were provided. We tried a sampling of just about everything and it was excellent! I recall it being $3.99 a person which is similar to most morning buffets in the area.

We stopped at Ponderosa for the dinner buffet and there was chicken, lasagna, spaghetti, bread, fruit/salad, pizza, maccaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, and a smorgasboard of other foods and several dessert items were included at around $6.75 a person. Shoney's had a similar kind of set up with dinner when we stopped by and had several different kinds of items at the time.

TGIF had the standard menu and prices that can be found pretty much at all of their restaurants in other cities; also the same with breakfast at IHOP and dinner at Pizza Hut
when we ate there.

Also, you can be sure and pick up a couple of the different tourist magazines located in the bins located next to shopping venues because they have a very thorough listing of all the dining places in the area along with some valuable coupons.

Hope this helps.
 
One our favorite places to eat outside WDW, is Tony Romas. Great ribs
Janice
WL 10/01
 

we like most of the restaurants located in the crossroads shopping center especially PERKINS pancake house, Pebbles and Jungle Jim's.
 
BAHAMA BREEZE is the best off site restaurant we've been to. There are two in the area. The portions are huge ( you can get half orders). There is a large selection and the food is great. We eat there once and sometimes twice each trip. Both DS love it, too. You have to go early, a lot of locals go there. I do belive the prices are average.
 
We have discovered a place called Giordano's. I'm not good with the route numbers, but if you leave Disney property at the road right opposite the marketplace (the road with all the other hotels on it), take a left, it is up just a little way on the right. I believe it might be right next to Tony Roma's. We have been to Giordano's twice, 2 years apart, and it was great both times. They have pizza, both the thin crust and stuffed, as well as Italian dishes. My son had spag & meatballs one time and really enjoyed it.
 
We had a good expreience at Chevy's right outside the park and Tony Romas. We were seated fast and the food was good.
 
Pebbles at crossroads is really good, but not inexpensive, if that matters.
 












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