Hi All,
Coming to Disney end of March - 2 adults & 3 1/2 yr old. On a budget and not bothered about fancy food or waiter service. Shortlisted the following places based on cost & reviews, but will only need to eat at 3 of them for evening meals. For lunch we plan on Earl of sandwich & McDonalds. So, my question is, out of the below, which 3 would you recommend we go for?
Colonel Hathi
cowboy cookout
Caseys corner
Buzz's pizza planet
Lucky nugget saloon
café des casadeurs
Annettes Diner
Hunters Grill
Many Thanks +
We always go to Hakuna Matata at least once. The chips are really good and the kids love it :)
http://www.dlpguide.com/planning/dining/restaurant-menus/restaurant-hakuna-matata/
So add that in and i'd go to Annettes, Cowboy Cookout and Hakuna Matata (and indeed next month when we go we will) :)
I second the nomination for Hakuna Matata :) Delicious! I'd also say Cowboy Cookout for the ribs and its normally quite quiet there. Colonel Hathis as the pizza and pasta there is yummy. And the chidren's size pizza is in a Mickey shape!
Oooh I'd forgotten about Hakuna Matata. It was on my list months ago and for some reason has gone. The sald looks nice and my son will love the theming. Another quick question - In places like this what are the portion sizes like? If the example there are a lot of chicken strips I could probably share with my little boy as he doesn't eat much. Obviously in a buffet we'd go separate.
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Portion sizes are OK, you get lovely chips or rice with your meal too at Hakuna Matata. I think you get about 4 actual chicken strips.
Cannot speak for the others but we ate at Annette's twice as it was so nice! You get loads too
We ate in Annettes twice last year , food was yummy :)
My kids loved pizza planet . It was buffet food and something for everyone .
Would definitely eat there again x
Personally I would take both Buzz Lightyear and Colonel Hathi off the list.
I've eaten at both and the food was really not good at all. Of course, I may just have been there on a bad day and others may very well disagree with me.
I would personally avoid Casey's Corner like the proverbial plague.
Every single time I've eaten there they've been issues: three people that knew what they wanted in front of me, a 45 minute wait (and I've known it to be a wait of an hour and half too once). Every single time they mucked up something with the order. And the hot dogs are frankly rubbish. If you like hot dogs, there are alternatives that are much better :)
Hakuna Matata is great if you want something different! And both Annette's and Cowboy Cookout are really good, as is the Lucky Nugget :)
Last Chance is also really good, but not open very often (and not on your list).
I agree with Hilde that Hakuna Matata is really good - the spicy chicken and fries are lovely and they play music from The Lion King on a loop which is fun :)
Definitely Annette's, to me Caseys Corner was more snacks like hot dogs rather than an evening meal.
Colonel Hathi is good too.
Café des Cascadeurs is shut half the time. Casey's Corner is no good for dinner. Wouldn't bother with Hunter's Grill. And Lucky Nugget is normally really slow and busy.
Annette's is one you should definitely plan to attend. It's a really nice place (although a bit loud).
Don't go to both Colonel Hathi and Buzz's Pizza Planet; the food is broadly similar. Pick Buzz if you're hungry, the Colonel if not.
Finally, consider the Agrabah Café.
Annette's Diner-no brainer!!!
I would say:
-Annette's
-Hakuna Matata
-Colonel Hathi
That way you have different meals every day. :)
Thanks for your help everyone.
Think we've decided on the following
For Lunch x 4
Earl of Sandwich
McDonalds
Cowboy Cookout (strangely only open until 5pm Tues & Wed so will have to be lunch)
Buzz's Pizza Planet (Only because our son is bent on toy story & would never forgive us if we didn't take him!)
For Evening x 3
Colonel Hathi's
Hakuna Matata
Annette's Diner
The first evening we're there, we're doing Buffallo Bill's show so food is sorted for that.
Cheers +
We really enjoyed pizza planet and it was good as my kids could play in the play area whilst i sat down for a bit, annette's was great but i couldn't eat much of it as we went to a all you can eat buffet for lunch that day and i was still full up at 8pm when we managed to get a table at annette's and the portions in there are huge and the smoothies are delicious :P
Just to check. I'm guessing most of our choices we can simply walk in and farely quickly get a table. However Annettes seems to be pretty popular. Should I pre book this one or just turn up do you think? Probably looking at Thursday evening, 4.30/5pm ish. 1 more thing. I've read that the portions are large. Do they frown upon a 4yr old sharing an adults meal?
Thanks
Can you pre-book for Annette's Diner? I don't seem to remember ever being able to, however I haven't been to DLRP for almost ten years so things have probably changed since ;)
Having had a look online, it would seem, as I previously thought, that you are still unable to pre-book some restaurants; Annette's being one of them. I would personally recommend trying to go there if you can though. The staff are great and very entertaining. Plus the atmosphere is fantastic. The food can be quite filling as already mentioned, though I wouldn't let that put you off. There is no reason you couldn't order a smaller dish however. Some of the classic meals are of a good size and I wouldn't struggle to finish them myself.
In answer to your question, "Do they frown upon a 4yr old sharing an adults meal?". I honestly don't know. I work at a hotel with an on-site restaurant and we wouldn't have an issue with it, providing the child was seated correctly. Disneyland, being a family-orientated business, shouldn't mind either, though maybe someone else could give you a better answer?
Although you can't book Annette's is really good at getting people seated quickly, when I went in the summer there were about 10 groups in the queue in front of us and we got seated in about 10 mins. The portion sizes are definitely big enough to share and I don't think they would have any issues with it. :)
Can I recommend the Rainforest Cafe in the Village? From your list you don't seem to have many proper table service meals planned and I think its always nice to sit down and relax, maybe have a cocktail and talk about your holiday so far. RC service is superb as well as food and the ring. The kids will love it! I also agree on Hakuna Matata, definitely my favourite place to eat at lunch!
Just don't get seated next to one of the elephants in Rainforest Cafe! It's trunk was waving over our table lol!
Other than that the food was lovely :)
I don't know why my phone autocorrected from theme to ring :)
but yes the elephants haha last time I was there we saw a woman nearly get hit by its trunk ha!