Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-76699.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: DCA's New Carthay Circle Theatre to House a Restaurant</b></a> <p>The Orange County Register's Around Disney Blog reports - as previously mentioned by Disney Parks Chief Tom Staggs on the Disney Dream Maiden Voyage - Disney California Adventure's Carthay Circle will house a restauant, not an attraction. Rumors also state it will be a private club similar to Club 33. Click before for more details.</p>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If they really wanted to put a restuarant there (and by all accounts, this seems to have been the plan since the beginning, save a short stint where they were talking about a preview center), why not theme to to a restuarant? There are many iconic restuarants that would have fit the area perfectly, and would have had a lot fewer head-scratching moments from guests who have never heard of the Carthay Circle. The Brown Derby is already represented in the Studios in WDW, and would work well here too. The Pig and Whistle would work too. I'm sure there are others, but those are just off the top of my head. I'm sure the building will be nice to look at, and it will be a nice enough restuarant, but it just seems strange for the park's new focal point to be something so mundane.
Originally Posted By SafariRob Agreed. Maybe they will surprise us with something cool...like a "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" premiere dinner theme (or something similar).
Originally Posted By TP2000 The 1930's appropriate Tam O'Shanter, reportedly Walt's favorite restaurant down the road from the Studios, would also work here instead of a theater. I've dined at the Tam O'Shanter a few times, and there is a signed sketch from Walt on the wall to the restaurant management. Cool!
Originally Posted By DlandDug Did anyone else also catch the reference to the "lounge?" That usually means a bar, no? What theme could they use for that?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt You know what I'd love at DCA? A nice adult only lounge that carded guests as they came in. I know it'll never happen, but it sure would be nice.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Next time you're there, check out the upstairs bar area at the Trattoria. It's very well hidden and out of the way, and seldom crowded. I don't think I've ever seen anyone there without a drink, so they're probably all old enough to pass the test. I would guess that I've probably been the youngest person there on all of my visits, so it definitely has a very adult vibe. You don't get carded, but it sure seems like there's something that keeps the families with kids away (maybe the fact that it's so obviously a bar, even moreso than the Cove Bar).
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Next time you're there, check out the upstairs bar area at the Trattoria." Noted.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Whenever I look up those steps it looks empty. So is it still open? Does it have a view?
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<That usually means a bar, no? What theme could they use for that?>> FERN BAR!!!
Originally Posted By Ohana oh well you know about those West Hollywood fern Bars... and technically Carthay is west of DCA's Hollywood, its a go.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA One of the coolest moments during our first visit to DCA in 2001, was that patio bar -- adjacent to the fine dining restaurant. Great wine -- and some fantastic appetizers -- we had a delicious olive platter -- and desserts too it seems. Wife had a parfait with mangoes and mascarpone cheese layered in between. Amazing. The servers were all Mondavi employees, super friendly, very knowledgeable about wine, and given the newness and the excitement of the new park, it was a wonderful, and for a theme park, a nicely sophisticated experience. That's not meant to sound snobby, it's just that it was fun to be in a California based Disney theme park, sitting and having a glass of wine, without kids and characters and so forth. About 6 months later, that whole section was all closed down. Today, it's just a shadow of what it once was.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I actually miss the Wine Country Deli. Granted, the pb&j was priced around $6, but it was nice to be able to grab trays of cheeses and olives in a theme park.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra >>Today, it's just a shadow of what it once was.<< I still grieve the loss of the Soap Opera Bistro...
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA >>Today, it's just a shadow of what it once was.<< <I still grieve the loss of the Soap Opera Bistro...> I thought that Soap Opera Bistro was a great concept -- loved having the actors playing various characters -- I think it also suffered from a horrible, overdone frou-frou menu. Maybe a deli-style sandwich shop might have worked there. Or maybe, they just should have built a '50s PrimeTime Cafe' in that location. That, and the 'Sci-Fi Drive-in Dine in' Restaurant where that other food court place was in DCA -- I bet they'd both still be open.
Originally Posted By oc_dean So ...... a glut of restaurants was one of the main criticisms of DCA 1.0 .. and what are going to build ... OHHH ... ANOTHER restaurant! Somethings just keep get repeated .. don't they??
Originally Posted By oc_dean The Carthay Circle theater is for all intent and purpose DCA's new "iconic weenie" .. like the castle, Matterhorn, TWA Rocket, etc. And what do guests discover ... as this approach this attractive building - "Oh .. another restaurant. How common."
