You’re headed to Disney World and figuring out where to eat…but you have over 200 restaurants to choose from!
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Please consider doing a video about restaurants with more vs. fewer options for people with food allergies or sensitivities. Especially now, during the pandemic, with restaurants sometimes having a shorter menu than usual, the options for those on a restricted diet can be greatly reduced as well. I’ve been researching menus for our upcoming trip and some previous “must do” restaurants have such limited allergy-friendly options right now, I’ve scratched them off our list as “not worth it for this trip.” Obviously, the situation is different for different people depending on what their allergy is, but I think it would be useful just to have a list of restaurants with reasonably extensive allergy-friendly listings and a list of restaurants where the possibilities are slim.
Karin, try contacting Special Diets before or during your trip. They will have the best, most recent information as menus could be updated almost daily
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/guest-services/special-dietary-requests/
Would love a printed menu anywhere!!!!
Here is our opinion on having tried so many great restaurants at DisneyWorld and currently at 17 years experience and up to 28th vacation to DisneyWorld Florida with our family…
it really comes down to how much money you want to spend and are able to spend, your food budget, and ultimately how much time you have in a certain theme park, resort, or area of Disney World. For us it was also about detailed pre-planning, reservations and knowing what each of us wanted to do during our vacation.
As a family we usually did 2 days in each of the 4 parks, 1 or 2 full days at Disney Springs and a full day at our Disney resort.
We drove from Canada down to DisneyWorld and our vacation was longer than most people or most locals. We realized this after being told by cast members, park guests, resort guests and random people we meet along the way over the years..most people visit for 3 or 4 day and let’s face it…it is VERY EXPENSIVE TO VISIT DISNEYWORLD!
It requires alot of pre-planning, a bigger budget and alot of time to enjoy many of the numerous and signature/higher end restaurants in DisneyWorld and on property.
Every time we planned a Disney trip our boys would go online and choose restaurants they wanted to visit including signature restaurants, character restaurants, dinner and shows, seafood restaurants, Tepan Edo, and steak restaurants and of course to almost every culturally ethnic restaurant in Epcot. We made foodies out of them as a result and we all love a variety of foods and we love to just sit down leisurally for dinner, relax and enjoy our time and meal as a family and as a relaxing break from the hectic pace of DisneyWorld…Our kids also learned about food etiquette, ambience and decor styles, cultural music and costumes, different cultures and their foods and the whole experience that comes with it. It was immersive and educational and fun all wrapped up.
It broadened their tastes, likes and dislikes and their views on the world. It exposed them to many people, many cultures, live shows, how to interact with characters, how to enjoy and sit through live shows, different types of foods, and to many different people and cultures outside of their norm.
But it all required time, planning and of course money to do all this. The lessons were invaluable and well worth the long term gain. It was never about just eating food or getting your fill and moving on. It was all about the experience and how it made you feel, how it made you yearn for more or to research a certain culture. And again it was educational and informative, Our boys even wrote journals about their experiences at Disney and they would save a souvenir such as a napkin, a chopstick, a coaster, a wrapper or a menu and then share this with their classmates throughout their school years…it was magical in our opinion. They learned, they taught others and people listened and were intrigued.
We had such great experiences together and we opened our eyes and palettes to many foods and cultures that we would not have otherwise have sampled unless we traveled to those actual countries, and we were able to experience all in one great place called DisneyWorld!!!
Our suggestion is for anyone going to any Disney Parks around the world, to at least try to do one or two special dining experiences other than just fast food or “walk-up and grab”snacks as we call them.
Immerse yourself with all of your senses, do something out of the ordinary, open yourself to a new culture, a new genre of music or a cultural live show, a type of food you never tried or always wanted to try…and what better place to try this than at DisneyParks…I promise, you will never forget the experience and you will cherish it just like we always have. This response reply is proof of that. Thank you.