What restaurant do you think is best?

[SilverCeladon]

At the Disneyland Resort? It can be at the Disney properties or at DCA. I love the Blue Bayou but I don't think the food is to die for-it's the atmosphere I love. What do you like?

 

[fairycat]

I suggest

Napa Rose- Higher end California cusine and great wine list

Jazz Kitchen- Very good food and save room for dessert almost all of them are to dine for!!!!!!!!!

Wine Country Trattoria- a great lunch place to slow down eat a good priced, good food meal in DCA. Sitting outside is good people watching (though since you are above the crowds its a bit more private for those eating)

 

[staley7580]

Hands down, for us it was the Jazz Kitchen. We ate there on our first night when we went on our fist trip last October. it was DELISH!!! Even the kids meals were good!

 

[shkeogh]

I like the food at Storyteller's Cafe. Especially the breakfast buffet, omelettes, big thick bacon, french toast, and mickey waffles.

 

[blackjackdelta]

Napa Rose for me, Brennan's for the GF, RFC for the kids.

This time I am going to try Hooke's Point and Steakhouse 55( not Granville's)

Jack

 

[Disneyenthusiast]

Brennan's Jazz Kitchen upstairs was nice.

 

[Charles&Josi]

I think its called Cafe Orleans in New Orleans Square. Food is good for being in the park. Live jazz music and fake mint julips, I love that stuff. That would be one of my faves.

 

[disneylandfreak]

My family's favorites are Goofy's kitchen and The Hungry Bear. I love BB but it is also for the atmosphere more than the food.
Jen

 

[PirateFish989]

Wine Country Trattoria- a great lunch place to slow down eat a good priced, good food meal in DCA. Sitting outside is good people watching (though since you are above the crowds its a bit more private for those eating)

I also suggest Wine Country Trattoria. Yummy food (I love their Lasagna Rustica!) and a nice place to rest from running around the park.

In DTD, I like ESPN Zone and Rainforest Cafe. ESPN Zone is fun. In one room, they have a HUGE TV screen covering one wall, showing ESPN (what else?). They also have a whole second floor of games (my brother never wanted to leave!). The food was good. It is your typical sports bar/restaurant food...burgers, fries, chicken strips, salads...but good. Rainforest Cafe is certainly a unique dining experience. You can't beat eating in a rainforest (although I recomment not sitting next to the kitchen door. If your back is towards the door you can't see the waiters coming out with their huge Volcano desserts and you jump out of your chair when they yell VOLCANO!!! And this happens quite frequently, we found). Their menu is gigantic, food was delicious, the portions huge and fairly expensive but the atmosphere wonderful (minus our volcano mishap).

In DL I like Cafe Orleans. Their Monty Cristo sandwiches are really good but my most favorite part this about this restaurant is their Mickey shaped Beignets - sooooo good. They also sell beignets (called Fritters elsewhere) at the Royal Street Veranda and the Mint Julep Bar for about half the price but they aren't in the shape of Mickey. Still, you MUST try these tasty little morsels!

 

[DangerMouse]

MiMi's Cafe!

Ok, I know it's not at the resort, but I honestly haven't had any "excellent" meals at the resort (with the exception of the banana stuffed french toast at Storyteller's -- YUM!)

I'm too frugal to drop a ton of money in DTD so we always head to MiMi's on our way back to our hotel.

 

[DancingQueen]

Our favorites are Cafe Orleans, and Carnation Cafe.

 

[c&m]

At the DL resort, we liked Storytellers Cafe and Cafe Orleans. We ate at Storytellers twice -- once off the menu and the second time the buffet. I just don't recommend the roast chicken off the menu. It was very dry. At Cafe Orleans, we really enjoyed the beignets.

Outside the resort, we also liked Mimi's Cafe. Their soups were really good. DH and I really liked the flatiron steak. Prices were so much better at Mimi's.

 

[Castaway Kev]

I'm headed to Disneyland in September, and I think my wife and I will just stick with Blue Bayou, Carnation Cafe and Storytellers. We're looking forward to the Monte Cristo and the Corn Chowder. Yumee!

I've heard Club 33 is nice (see signature).

 

[PrincessSitka]

I will be staying at Disneyland hotel and I am interested in how far is Mimi from the hotel?

 

[suzannen]

Napa Rose without a doubt.

 

[jenpace]

Another vote for Storytellers in the GCH. Also, we have really enjoyed meals at Carnation, House of Blues and ESPN Zone, which had THE best salads...great after loading up on not so healthy stuff all day at the parks.

Jen

 

[fairycat]

I will be staying at Disneyland hotel and I am interested in how far is Mimi from the hotel?

From the hotel its a walk from the park not so bad.

Basically as you exit the parks you have an exit to the Simba parking lot and street on the left (from D-land) and on your right DTD. DLH sits at the far end of DTD.

Mimi's is out the street exit and almost across the way from what I remember.

I also want to add if you have a car there are a lot of nice places to eat on Harbor from Large and Small chains to independents. Also depending on when you are coming out a new shopping center is going to be opening very soon. I also just heard that on top of having some amazing food choices they are going to have a free shuttle set up to take you from the parks to the center.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I will be staying at Disneyland hotel and I am interested in how far is Mimi from the hotel?

It's a haul. You have to go through DTD, through the section between the parks, out the opposite side. Then you have about a 10 minute walk up Harbor from there over to Mimi's. Round trip from the DLH, it will take an hour out of your day just getting there and back from the hotel, not counting your time waiting to be seated and eating.

 

[DangerMouse]

It's a haul. You have to go through DTD, through the section between the parks, out the opposite side. Then you have about a 10 minute walk up Harbor from there over to Mimi's. Round trip from the DLH, it will take an hour out of your day just getting there and back from the hotel, not counting your time waiting to be seated and eating.

If you start from the Esplanade (as you are leaving DLR), it should only take 10 minutes, 15 if you walk real slow.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

If you start from the Esplanade (as you are leaving DLR), it should only take 10 minutes, 15 if you walk real slow.

That wasn't the question asked, nor did I answer that. Nor will the person asking the question be starting from the Harbor side of the esplanade. So my statement stands. It's a good haul from the DLH over to Mimi's. About 1/2 hour each way at about average speed. As far as an alternative starting position for the person asking the question, well the one most likely would be from one of the parks rather than from the Harbor side of the esplanade. And from within the parks, Mimi's is about a 20-30 minute walk at average speed depending upon where in what park one is starting from and assuming no out of the ordinary crowd bottlenecks occur. That's including time to get to and out the gate of the park, to and out the east side of the esplanade, past the trams, to and across Harbor, and up to Mimi's at average speed.

But since you brought it up. We walk at a clip where we rarely get passed by anyone not running. We pass others a lot. We don't walk at power walk speed. But we're certainly not slow by any means and are quicker than average. From the security station on the Harbor side, past the tram stops, across Harbor, and up to Mimi's in 10 minutes would require nearly everything going right for us such as no crowd bottlenecks through the tram stop areas, hitting the light, and no crowd bottlenecks on the sidewalks between. So for people of average speed, 15 minutes would be closer and that may be a bit short an estimate.