Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Quick question....does this mean we will need reservations to dine there? Do we call the regular Disney Dining phone number or do we have to put in reservations at the park?<< Yes. Either on line or via Disney Dining.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Do you think that the Cafe will be open during the early weeks of December?<< I suppose it will depend on guest reaction. Since this is now positioned as the "mid level" dining experience, I would suppose it will stay open even during slow periods.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck Goodness I'm practically drooling just going over the menu! Can I have one of each sent up here please? Thanks Doug!!!
Originally Posted By tuknshak does anyone have the online link to make reservations? btw the cafe next door is still the same as always right?
Originally Posted By boyumz I just called the Disney Dining line and got ressies for 2:00 on the 26th. I'll be the one with the teenagers eating nothing but the french fries!
Originally Posted By dizzdis I made my ressies for July 18th at 7:30, I will be the one with the pommes frites, French Onion Soup, Cheese Monte, Chocolate Crepes, and Mickey Beignets! OH and some tums! The rest of our party may need to get a separate table, my food will take up all of mine I second the calling for the Tahitian Terrace!
Originally Posted By wonderingalice <<I suppose it will depend on guest reaction. Since this is now positioned as the "mid level" dining experience, I would suppose it will stay open even during slow periods.>> Excellent... I sure hope so! Thanks again, Doug!
Originally Posted By LVBelle Goodness I'm practically drooling just going over the menu! Can I have one of each sent up here please?>> Klucky, I think us preggos need to start avoiding the dining topics, it's torture...
Originally Posted By dzy76 How do you make disney dining ressies online? I've never heard of that before!
Originally Posted By LacyBelle I don't believe you can make PS reservations online, dzy76. I was chalking that comment up to a typo or misunderstanding. It would be nice to be able to do that, though.
Originally Posted By ploeb909 Yummy! Yummy!! Was thie inside of this place always so pretty? I have only walked by, because I have only seen it open a handful of times. Was it a walk up service before? No bar huh? It would be fun to have a bar serving Pirate Ale in those big silver mugs!
Originally Posted By oc_dean I have a question if there's anyone here who can answer this....... After exiting PotC yesterday around 7:50pm, CM's were getting ready to close Café Orleans for 8pm. And the park was closing at midnight. Why the early closure for a busy summer night ... especially with the grand re-opening of PotC?
Originally Posted By smeeeko well they weren't taking walk ups.. so maybe they didn't have any more reservations?? We tried to get seating for 7pm (that's when the CM at the check in requested we come back) and they still weren't taking them.. (and where were you anyway? would have liked to have run into you!!)
Originally Posted By oc_dean They pulled the podium inside .. and were closing the doors. The seating was some 1/3rd filled inside. Looked like all CMs inside were wrapping up. I'll see you soon smeeeko for the meet around DL's 51st.
Originally Posted By smeeeko wow.. it's a shame they couldn't have stayed open later.. they would have gotten more folks.. definitely plan to eat here soon.. going to do it the right way though with the ressies though. We ate at Riverbelle which was pretty busy. The food was pretty filling too & not too much fish like French Market.. =P It's funny because of PoTC we were running into so many folks yesterday.. in the queue and around NoS (saw Darkbeer taking pix of the HCA line but he didn't see me waving at him I guess) Our friends were in the HCA line with their little girl and it seems a shame that they couldn't have made some kind of rehab for the exit queue.. the HCA line competes with folks coming off the boats, exiting out into the alley there.. as well folks dining at BB & Club 33.. big cluster of frustration.. I don't see it changing after the exitement dies down either.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Both Blue Bayou and Cafe Orleans are extremely popular, They are booked up solid, but will take a limited number of reservations. Both venues have always had lunch/dinner hours. I assume the Cafe closes a bit earlier due to Fantasmic!, but I could be wrong. The Cafe Orleans interiors were carefully preserved in this remodeling. Previously it was a cafeteria style restaurant with limited indoor seating. I should note that the wooden panels dividing the dining areas were salvaged from the set of "The Happiest Millionaire," which opened about the time that NOS was being finished. The set pieces were used in the bar where the somg "Let's Have a Drink on It" was performed. The stained glass inserts were redone, though, as a subtle tribute to the original vendor, Sarah Lee.
Originally Posted By Tiggirl Mark called yesterday evening and got us Priority Seating for 120pm this afternoon. I'm looking forward to trying it out (as well as check out POTC, of course!). ~Beth
