Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View-1445.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Lotion: A Preview of the New California Grill</b></a> The California Grill high atop Disney's Contemporary Grill in early September. Here's an early look at the changes that are coming.
Originally Posted By TP2000 This looks like any corporate "upscale" restaurant in any airport Sheraton in the country. The only unique thing about the interior design and furnishings are the funky chandeliers. The rest is just sort of... 21st Century Tastefully Bland. That said, this place needed an update to drag it out of the Seinfeld 1990's Era something awful. This big rehab should have happened a decade ago, and about now they could be refreshing it for the second decade of the century. And the food? Well, no one really goes to Orlando for the food, do they?
Originally Posted By dshyates "Well, no one really goes to Orlando for the food, do they?" 10 Foodie Surprises In Orlando: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-block/ten-foodie-surprises-in-o_b_3176006.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...006.html</a>
Originally Posted By leemac <<This looks like any corporate "upscale" restaurant in any airport Sheraton in the country.>> Spot-on assessment TP2000! It looks like it could have been a Morton's or McCormick & Schmick's or Ruth's. It just lacks something special. It doesn't look like an individual high-end restaurant - which is what the price points suggest it is. Puccini Group have done a number of restaurants for WDP&R recently but this one doesn't come close to the magic of Remy.
Originally Posted By leemac <<This big rehab should have happened a decade ago, and about now they could be refreshing it for the second decade of the century. >> My memory is fuzzy but I thought the last renovation was in the late nineties? This recent renovation project for the Contemp has been dragging on forever. I think that is 8 years since they first began work on the outside rooms.
Originally Posted By dshyates "This recent renovation project for the Contemp has been dragging on forever." That's the way TDO does things these days.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>My memory is fuzzy but I thought the last renovation was in the late nineties?<< I don't know the exact date, but the old aesthetic looked like something straight out of 1996-1998ish. For a place that's supposed to be 'contemporary', they really do seem to go through phases of how contemporary it really is. Plus at the rate they're going, they'll have to start all over again about the time the refurbishment wraps up
