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Resorts Gal’s Disney World Restaurant Review Index

Decisions, decisions! You’ll have plenty of decisions when planning a Walt Disney World vacation. One of those decisions is dining. Where will you eat? For a seven-day trip, that’s 21 meals to figure out if you do breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. I don’t know about you, but we struggle to come up with a meal plan at home every week, and we all sit around with blank stares on the nights we decide to order takeout. No one wants to decide where we’re going to eat!

With these struggles in mind and the vast number of Walt Disney World restaurants, I compiled a list of our restaurant reviews. This guide is designed to help you learn from our experience. Each dining review contains photos of the food we’ve tried, thoughts on value, and other planning considerations. However, it’s important to point out that our taste might vary significantly from yours with the nature of opinion pieces like restaurant reviews. We do our best to consider value, pricing, and quality, but it’s possible you might not like a dish we enjoyed or vice-versa. So keep your likes and dislikes at the forefront when reading our reviews.

Before we get to our dining reviews, I wanted to share our dining guides. These resources are available if you’re looking for a specific type of dining experience.

a platter of fried chicken
Fried Chicken from the Best Restaurants at Disney Springs Guide | Disney Restaurant Reviews

Resorts Gal’s Best of the Best Restaurant Reviews

Readers often ask about the best dining options. Again, we know those answers can be subjective. However, we have dined at many restaurants multiple times, allowing us to offer more than just a one-time review. So, we’ve compiled a few guides that convey what we consider the best dining at Disney World.

a platter of sushi
Sushi from our Best of the Best Disney Dining Guides

Dining in the Parks

Below is a list of every dining review available for the theme parks. Click on any link to read the full review of our dining experience.

Magic Kingdom

Epcot

Hollywood Studios

a platter of meat from a restaurant at Disney World
Meat Platter from Roundup Rodeo BBQ

Animal Kingdom

a serving of macaroni topped with barbecue and pickles from Disney World
BBQ Mac and Cheese from Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Disney Water Parks Dining

Hotel Dining Guides

The following list contains dining guides for every resort. Each guide lists every available dining option at that resort with a mini-review and photos of what to expect. Those guides branch out to independent Disney restaurant reviews where applicable. If you’re staying at a resort, the dining guide should help you assess what you’ll have access to during your stay.

Value Resort Dining Guides

Moderate Resort Dining Guides

Deluxe Resort Dining Guides

  • Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge Restaurants Guide: Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge is home to multiple table-service restaurants, quick-service locations, lounges, and bars. This guide includes dining options at Jambo House and Kidani Village.
  • Disney’s Beach and Yacht Club Restaurants: Since Disney’s Beach and Yacht Club are connected, we combined this dining guide to include the options between them. Unfortunately, both resorts have minimal quick-service offerings. However, they have table service restaurants, bars, lounges, and a character dining location.
  • Disney’s Boardwalk Restaurants: This is one of our more popular dining guides. Disney’s Boardwalk is a destination offering table service, quick service kiosks, and more.
  • Disney’s Swan and Dolphin Restaurant Guide: These hotels are not owned and operated by Walt Disney World. However, they sit on Disney property in the Epcot Resorts Area. We frequent a few of these dining options.
  • Disney’s Contemporary Dining Guide: Whether you’re staying at this resort or only visiting, you’ve got to have a meal in the hotel the monorail runs through. We love dining at this resort’s quick service. The resort is also home to the popular Chef Mickey’s.
  • Disney’s Grand Floridian Restaurants List: This resort offers everything from brunch to a fancy cocktail hour, which is always a treat. This dining guide also includes an overview of the three fine-dining restaurants at this resort! You read that correctly. Grand Floridian has three signature locations!
  • Disney’s Polynesian Dining and Restaurants: Aloha! You can stop at this resort for a Dole Whip. But if you’re staying here, this dining guide shares all the details!
  • Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Restaurants and Dining: This resort has all the good eats! You can find anything from a casual walk-up restaurant that sits lakeside to a character meal featuring Snow White and the Evil Queen. But of all the dining reviews at this resort, don’t miss the one that includes breakfast at Whispering Canyon Cafe!
a breakfast skillet from Disney World with biscuits, eggs, bacon, sausage, gravy, and Mickey waffles.
Breakfast from Whispering Canyon Cafe

Deluxe Villa Resorts Restaurant Guides

A croque monsieur sandwich with fries for a Disney World Restaurant Review.
Croque Monsieur at Primo Piatto | Disney Restaurant Reviews

Disney Resort Hotel Restaurants

The following Disney restaurant reviews are all listed underneath the hotel where they are located.

Grand Floridian

Polynesian Village Resort

Contemporary Resort

Wilderness Lodge

Animal Kingdom Lodge

Yacht Club

Beach Club

Daisy at Cape May Cafe poses for a photo for a Disney World Dining Review
Daisy is one of the characters at Cape May Cafe.

Boardwalk Inn

Swan and Dolphin

The Swan Reserve

Riviera Resort

Saratoga Springs Resort

Old Key West

Caribbean Beach Resort

Coronado Springs Resort

Port Orleans French Quarter

Port Orleans Riverside

Art of Animation Resort

Pop Century

Disney Springs

The Disney Restaurant Reviews include all the meals we’ve enjoyed at Disney Springs.

Final Thoughts

We hope this list of restaurant reviews helped you decide where to eat! If you’re in the beginning stages of planning, you might also enjoy our Disney World Dining Handbook. It provides an overview of dining at Walt Disney World. Make sure to check back often for updates. We add to our list whenever we enjoy a new meal at the parks or resorts!

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