Originally Posted By DisneySuiteFreak And how do you get there? Also, what restaurants/stores are in there now? Is it thriving or is it slow and a waste of time?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer AGW is just east of the Disneyland Resort. <a href="http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2411895" target="_blank">http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2411895</a> I just walk, but you can take the ART, most routes stop at AGW. www.rideart.org As to what is offered... www.anaheimgardenwalk.com I like the new addition, especially for food. The shopping choices are not for me. Bar Louie has a GREAT Happy Hour, 4 to 7 PM Monday thru Friday,
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin We really enjoyed Bubba Gumps Shrimp Co., really yummy and moderately priced. And you just have got to try the Key Lime pie.
Originally Posted By dlkozy If you are already at the DLR and don't have a ART pass-there is a ART box where you can put your money in and get a pass in return on the east side of the DL entrance gates near the hotel bus loading area. I asked one of the ART drivers last week which ART you take and I believe she said #17 takes you to the WALK-but double check that info when you go as to info is subject to change.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>And how do you get there? << Wish I could say - You can pick up the "Disneyland to Garden Walk" peoplemover to the east "esplanade" entrance. >>Also, what restaurants/stores are in there now? << Restaurants? I have since eaten at their Cheesecake Factory. WONDERFUL! It's a HUGE version. Tall ceilings! Stores? Check back in 1 or 2 years. They only have a fraction of shops open. And they are in the line of your small specialty boutique. Nothing on the scale of Gap, or Banana Republic. >>Is it thriving or is it slow and a waste of time?<< If you are hungry ... the strip of restaurants laid out on Kattella should wet your appetite! Their theater complex is nice! They have a bowling alley. If you are looking for "happening" crowds to give you that "Is it thriving" feeling that you are asking for ... you may be disappointed! Remember only a fraction of the place is up and running .. with what is opened ... sporadically placed throughout the complex. So whatever people you find .. are sporadically placed. If you walk into the bowling alley on the "basement" level .. I'm sure you'll find it 'happening'.
Originally Posted By Aladdin D Nile I will say that Bar Louie didn't appear to be a good place to take kids. I know, I know, the word 'bar' should have clued me in to that fact. But they advertise that they have a kids menu, and it was the only place in the Garden Walk that wasn't a chain restaurant I have seen at every other major city in America. Anyway, I was at the mall at 6 PM last Thursday. It appeared that the only seating inside Bar Louie were high small round tables with bar stools. I didn't go inside because everyone I could see looked like they were there to drink and watch sports on TV. I felt uncomfortable pushing a stroller in there. Outside, there were larger, lower tables, but the handful of people out there were smoking, drinking, and watching sports on TV. I saw 15-20 patrons, but none were eating food. Wound up eating at CPK *yawn*. And drinking - $9 for a Tanqueray martini - yikes!
Originally Posted By dlkozy >>>"Outside, there were larger, lower tables, but the handful of people out there were smoking,..."<<<< That is surprising about the smoking-thought that was illegal in CA, even outdoors in a restaurant.
Originally Posted By Aladdin D Nile I think there are such laws, but people seemed to flaunt them a little more in Anaheim than I am used to in the Bay Area. People were smoking cigarettes down by the Hojo pool even thogh it is a smoke-free property. Worse, the guys outside at Bar Louie were smoking cigars.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains It probably happens more down there with people coming in from other places... I would think the same would be true in San Francisco.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Smoking Outdoors is allowed in California, and why many restaurants and bars have outdoor patios, so they can accommodate smokers.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer >>So smoking out by a hotel pool is kosher?<< California Law doesn't care, but some Hotel operators might make a rule of No Smoking in the pool area. At the Disneyland Hotel, the Lost Bar is next to the Never Land Pool, and they allow smoking at the outside bar stools and the tables outside. The tables inside are all non-smoking.
Originally Posted By dlkozy It looks like it depends on where in CA you are as to whether or not smoking is allowed on patios-from the LA Times..... >>>"There's no restaurant in California where you can smoke inside, but some very chic cities, like Santa Monica, and Calabasas, and … Burbank have banned smoking in outdoor places like restaurant patios and terraces as well."<<<
