Who Remembers these restaurants?

[cinmell]

Anyone remember the character meals at what is now the playhouse Disney show? We went there in 1998 & saw Alladin, Meko, Jennie, & Esmerelda. I forgot what it was called but they had a good breakfast buffet.

I remember Minnie's menuhune breakfast & King Stephan's.

YES! I remember having breakfast with Aladdin & friends, it was a cool set up.

 

[BCV23]

That's right. When they were refurbishing the Papeete Bay Restaurant they opened the private dining area next to the Coral Isle and we had gone to a character breakfast there.

Oh, cool. Maybe you can help my old memory. Was that private dining room at the end by the monorail...like directly above the Seven Seas Room? It always seems to me that when Kona was Coral Isles, you couldn't see out the window toward the monorail???? Is that right?

 

[TR Denise]

We ate at the Gulf Coast Room and at the Top of the World when we were staying at the Contemporay on our honeymoon. Both were great. One of my childrens favorite memories is staying at the Club Lake Villas and driving our golf cart to the Lake beuna Vista restaurant. I liked so many of the old restaurants (new ones too) but we miss the old Chef Mickeys

 

[Uncleromulus]

Sotolaf:
My opinion only, but I thought Ariels had FF and Spoodles beat. The first time we ate there, they even had a 3-piece combo going around the restaurant playing Dixieland music!
For some reason, Ariels just never caught on. Both tmes we dined there, it was virtually empty.

 

[LIDisneyFan]

I LOVED both the Gulf Coast Room and the Lake Buena Vista club. I remember a package where they gave the ladies a rose as they boarded a boat from Disney Marketplace and they sailed you to the LBV Club.

 

[sotoalf]

We ate at the Gulf Coast Room and at the Top of the World when we were staying at the Contemporay on our honeymoon. Both were great. One of my childrens favorite memories is staying at the Club Lake Villas and driving our golf cart to the Lake beuna Vista restaurant. I liked so many of the old restaurants (new ones too) but we miss the old Chef Mickeys

I would love to know what sort of cuisine the Gulf Coast Room served. Again, does it compare in quality and ambience with any contemporary restaurant?

It seems like Disney had more time to appeal to more sedate, adult travelers (with comparable palates) back when "the World" was smaller. Witness the Empress Room, GCR, Top of the World.

 

[nukeantz]

I think the buffet in MGM was Soundstage or something like that. It was our favorite buffet. Kids loved walking thru the spitting camels that are now at MK.

Fireworks factory was our first Disney Restaurant.

 

[Mickeyistheman]

I remember the Empress Lily! That was the first character breakfast that I had went to with my family way back in 88 or 89 I think. It was the greatest thing ever. One of my favorite pictures with my whole family is from that time. It's amazing how far these character meals have come.

 

[TR Denise]

We went to the Gulf Coast room in 1977. Restaurants werent so themed and good ones served steak, seafood etc. What I remember most was being pampered and dinner was relaxed and the food excellent. If I had to pick something similar it would be Citricos a the GF.By the way we saw Carole Lawrence at the Top of the world

 

[disneysteve]

So many memories... Things that aren't there anymore.

I miss Chef Mickey's at the village (not DTD).
I miss the Adventureland Verandah - they had the best barbecue sandwich anywhere.
I miss the Pasta Piazza at EPCOT (that's one nobody has mentioned yet).
I love Crystal Palace the way it is now - one of our favorites - but I do sometimes get nostalgic about when it was a cafeteria.
I miss the make your own pizza at Fort Wilderness.

 

[larsson7]

I am sure there are more I am forgetting? Oh yeah, how about Broadway at the Top?

Broadway at the top was great, the show was fantastic and the food was brilliant. Brought back great memories.

Chuck S mentioned Minnie Mia's Pizzeria , this had the best pizza.

Great Thread DawnCt1

Larsson7

 

[DannyBoston]

Tangaroa Terrace - Chicken Maoir dinner or the Mt. Fiji (or Fuji) salad.

 

[beattyfamily]

I think the buffet in MGM was Soundstage or something like that. It was our favorite buffet. Kids loved walking thru the spitting camels that are now at MK.

Fireworks factory was our first Disney Restaurant.

I also ate there in 1998. I thought it was called Backstage Restaurant. We saw Jasmine, Mikko, Raffiki, and Genie.

It was a good buffet.

I wish MGM would do character meals again.

 

[Beauty]

I miss the breakfast at BonFamilies....Wow it was excellent!

 

[mexico_ride]

The Soundstage Restaurant, where Playhouse Disney is now, before it was themed to Beauty and the Beast I remember it was themed to the 1988 Touchstone flick...Big Business, with Bette Midler. They had all the sets fromt the hotel in the movie set up there. And there was a bar up in the rafters called the Catwalk Bar/Lounge...!?

Ok, now I'm cheating, but here's some from a VERY old Birnbahm book...

Coconino Cove; CR
Fife and Drum; Liberty Square
Lancer's Inn; Fantasyland

 

[sotoalf]

Ok, now I'm cheating, but here's some from a VERY old Birnbahm book...

Coconino Cove; CR
Fife and Drum; Liberty Square
Lancer's Inn; Fantasyland

Whoa! What year was the book published?

 

[BCV23]

The Soundstage Restaurant, where Playhouse Disney is now, before it was themed to Beauty and the Beast I remember it was themed to the 1988 Touchstone flick...Big Business, with Bette Midler. They had all the sets fromt the hotel in the movie set up there. And there was a bar up in the rafters called the Catwalk Bar/Lounge...!?

Ok, now I'm cheating, but here's some from a VERY old Birnbahm book...

Coconino Cove; CR
Fife and Drum; Liberty Square
Lancer's Inn; Fantasyland

I think I remember eating at Lancer's Inn. Was it a small dark place that served pizza?

 

[Simba's Mom]

I miss eating breakfast with Melvin the Moose and the kazoos!

 

[crazy4wdw]

My memory is slipping.....what was Chef Mickey's in the Contemporary before.....we went to an Italian buffet there.

I believe this was the Terrace Buffeteria

 

[DawnCt1]

Oh, cool. Maybe you can help my old memory. Was that private dining room at the end by the monorail...like directly above the Seven Seas Room? It always seems to me that when Kona was Coral Isles, you couldn't see out the window toward the monorail???? Is that right?

That's it. It would be on the right as you are walking to the monorail.