1. 50's Prime Time Cafe - Serves lunch and dinner and requires 1 dining plan table service credit. Located on Mickey Avenue. Meals are served a la carte and feature Mom's home cooking. This restaurant is heavily themed, making you feel as though you've entered a 1950s TV sitcom. The servers interact with guests here; cast members introduce themselves as "Aunt Thelma" or "Cousin Joe" and encourage you to clean your plate, eat your veggies, etc. I especially recommend the pot roast.
2. Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater - Serves lunch and dinner and requires 1 dining plan table service credit. Menu is a la carte. This restaurant is also heavily themed, this time to a drive-in theater. Patrons enjoy their meals in a parked "car," with two seats in front and two in back (no cozy conversation here). The menu is mostly burgers, chicken, and salads. Located on Commissary Lane.
3. Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano - Serves lunch and dinner and requires 1 dining plan table service credit. Diners enjoy both traditional and modern Italian food in a cozy, well-themed, rather low-lighted environment. Located behind Star Tours and the Muppet Vision 3-D attraction. Here's a review from Kevin:
Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano
4. Hollywood and Vine - Serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and requires 1 dining plan table service credit. Character meals are featured here, with Jo-Jo and Goliath and June and Leo from "Playhouse Disney" at breakfast and lunch. There are no characters at dinner. Food is served on a large buffet. This is a big place and it feels a bit like a cafeteria. Located by Echo Lake.
5. Hollywood Brown Derby - Serves lunch and dinner and requires 2 dining plan table service credits. This upscale, richly furnished restaurant is most appropriate for adults but is kid-friendly. Guests order a la carte and may choose from seafood and stake entrees or the famous (and tasty) Cobb salad. Located by the Animation Courtyard.
I'm starting to write like a guidebook author. Maybe because I read too many of them!
If anyone is interested, I can provide audio links to Kevin Klose's dining reviews. He has done more podcast reviews that written ones, and they're unfailingly entertaining.
2 comments:
Excellent! I think this park seems to have the most interesting restaurants. We want to try the first 2 you mentioned- adn greg really wants to go to the Brown Derby since he always wished he could have gone to the real one in LA.
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Here is my 2 cents on these restaurants. Jon and I ate at the 50s Prime Time Cafe with his parents 14 years ago and it was a fun experience. Great place for comfort food. The Sci Fi Dine in Theater is also fun. Yes it is hard to hold a conversation when you are seated in car style, but most of the time people are watching the big screen so no conversation needed at this one. Not a great restaurant with 6 kids and only 2 adults can't put those cars together to make a bigger table. I didn't care for the Mama Melrose Italian restaurant (save your money and appetite and head over to Olive Garden or Macaroni Grill) my kids didn't like the wierd looking and tasting pizza.
I haven't been to Hollywood & Vine but would love to do the playhouse disney charecter breakfast only wish they had different characters like Handy Manny, and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with the Little Einsteins. I also haven't tried Hollywood Brown and Derby either sounds too fancy and expensive for me.
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