Over a dozen completely different eating places at Walt Disney World and Common Orlando are taking part within the in style Magical Eating Month for 2024, providing offers on 3-course meals. This submit covers dates, particulars, and our suggestions for the place to eat throughout this eating low cost.
Go to Orlando’s Magical Eating is celebrating its nineteenth anniversary from August 16 by September 30, 2024. Take pleasure in three-course, prix-fixe dinners for $40 or $60 per particular person relying on the restaurant, plus tax and gratuity. Collaborating areas embody choose Walt Disney World eating places, lots of Orlando’s hottest eating places, and several other current Michelin Information Florida Eating places close to Walt Disney World.
9 of the 48 Michelin Information eating places in Orlando are taking part in Magical Eating 2024, together with Bib Gourmands the Ravenous Pig ($40) and Z Asian ($40). You may as well select from seven Michelin Information “beneficial” eating places: AVA MediterrAegean ($60), BACÁN ($60), 4 Flamingos, A Richard Blais Florida Kitchen ($60), Kabooki Sushi ($40), Maxine’s on Shine* ($40), The Pinery ($40), and Ravello ($60).
You may as well do dinner and an in a single day keep through Go to Orlando’s Magical Nights. This options particular presents from a few of Orlando’s top-rated resorts, together with some which are house to eating places taking part in Go to Orlando’s Magical Eating Month. This promo is rather more restricted and smaller scale, with the Swan & Dolphin being the one on-site lodge at Walt Disney World that’s taking part. Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress can be on the checklist, and it’s simply barely off-site.
As for the 2024 Go to Orlando Magical Eating Month, right here’s a full checklist of taking part on-property Walt Disney World eating places:
Disney Springs Eating places
- The Edison
- Mario & Enzo’s
- Jaleo
- Summer season Home on the Lake
Swan & Dolphin Eating places
- Amare (Swan Reserve)
- Il Mulino New York Trattoria (Swan Resort)
- Todd English’s bluezoo (Dolphin Resort)
Bonnet Creek Eating places
- La Luce (Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek)
- Zeta Asia (Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek)
- Unreserved Meals Bazaar (JW Marriott Bonnet Creek)
Different WDW Eating places
- Ravello (4 Seasons Resort Orlando)
Right here’s the checklist of taking part Common Orlando eating places:
Common Orlando Eating places
- Amatista Cookhouse (Loews Sapphire Falls Resort)
- The Kitchen (Exhausting Rock Lodge)
- The Palm Restaurant (Exhausting Rock Lodge)
- Mama Della’s Ristorante (Loews Portofino Bay Lodge)
- Trattoria del Porto (Loews Portofino Bay Lodge)
For a whole checklist of the 134* taking part eating places in Go to Orlando’s Magical Eating Month, click on right here.
In accordance with Go to Orlando, there’s a report 150 eating places taking part in Magical Eating Month, however 16 of these don’t present up on the checklist but as a result of their menus aren’t dwell. We’ll replace accordingly if any further Walt Disney World or Common Orlando spots are added.
One other spotlight that’s on-site adjoining is 4 Flamingos, A Richard Blais Florida Kitchen at Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, which was lately acknowledged by the Michelin Information Florida. This Hyatt is technically not on-site at Walt Disney World, nevertheless it’s a stone’s throw from Disney Springs, and is certainly one of our favourite resorts in Central Florida.
There’s additionally Bosphorous Turkish Restaurant, which made our checklist of Nice Eating places Close to Walt Disney World. Bosphorous has 4 areas in Central Florida–Winter Park, Winter Backyard, Dr. Phillips, and Lake Nona. Bosphorous’ must-eat dish is the signature, baked to-order Lavas hole bread. Be sure you add that if it’s not included on the Magical Eating Month menu!
Over at Common Orlando, we did the Kitchen and Amatista Cookhouse as a part of Magical Eating Month a number of years in the past. Each undoubtedly skew extra in the direction of the consolation meals facet of the spectrum, quite than being effective eating or any kind of elevated delicacies. We loved each, and left completely stuffed (and with leftovers). I’m in no rush to return, however would dine at both if we had been staying the night time at a kind of resorts and wanted a spot to eat.
Since we’ve been posting about Go to Orlando’s Magical Eating Month again in 2017, the worth has elevated from $35 per particular person to $37 final yr to $40. When you think about the hovering enter prices of labor and meals, that truly doesn’t appear too dangerous. Most of those meals are offers even at $5 greater than they value 7 or so years in the past.
We’ve executed Magical Eating Month offers a number of occasions, and have had nice success with the meals way more occasions than not. Generally the supply is illusory (by advantage of smaller parts or modified objects), however extra usually that’s not the case. This can be a likelihood for these eating places to get you within the door throughout what’s in any other case a gradual time of yr, wow you, and hope you come back to pay full worth.
Of the Walt Disney World choices, our high suggestions could be Jaleo (far and away) and Todd English’s bluezoo. We’re additionally followers of Amare and the Edison, however our common meals at each spots sometimes value lower than $40, so I’m undecided both would garner a advice for this explicit deal.
Observe that you must order from the particular Magical Eating Month prix fixe menu to make the most of the $40 pricing, and that menu is not the usual menu at some areas. It often is at mid-tier eating places, however clearly not at effective eating locales which have dry-aged steaks or different costly specialty dishes.
Whereas the Walt Disney World lineup isn’t as formidable as previous years, there are nonetheless some good and new choices which have our curiosity. Specifically, the trio of Bonnet Creek choices (though possibly not Unreserved Meals Bazaar).
Additionally, we’ll take any excuse to revisit Jaleo, which is a private favourite–and all the time an ideal worth throughout Magical Eating Month. It’s additionally very conveniently situated to the “Disney Goals That Soar” drone present viewing space, making for a straightforward ‘dinner and present’ date night time.
As talked about above, the 2024 Magical Eating Month lineup contains a record-shattering 150 eating places. That is the second consecutive yr of a quite huge bump–the quantity I’ve for 2023 is “over 125,” which was up from 86 eating places in 2022. That is sensible, as pent-up demand was solely beginning to gradual in Fall 2022, however had totally fallen off by final yr.
I’m really considerably stunned that there aren’t much more Walt Disney World eating places on the checklist for 2024. Pre-closure, extra eating places at Walt Disney World participated within the promotion, together with areas within the resorts (Flying Fish, Jiko, Olivia’s, Sanaa, and so on) and others at Disney Springs (STK, Morimoto Asia, Wolfgang Puck, Terralina, Paddlefish, and so on).
That hasn’t been the case for the previous few years, as a consequence of an evolving mixture of capability constraints, pent-up demand, staffing shortages. Now, it might appear, you possibly can add the return of the Disney Eating Plan and Free Eating promo to that checklist.
However, we’ve seen far much less eating demand within the final year-plus. Even in the course of the peak season, Advance Eating Reservation availability has loosened up. From what I’m seeing, that is persevering with even now that Free Eating is in full swing. However, I can perceive why some spots could be in “wait and see” mode to evaluate how a lot Free Eating strikes the needle. Maybe the 2025 Magical Eating Month could have extra taking part Walt Disney World eating places.
It’s not less than considerably telling that Summer season Home on the Lake is on the restaurant roster for the 2024 Magical Eating Month. That is noteworthy as a result of that is the latest restaurant in all of Walt Disney World, so that you’d assume that followers and locals could be wanting to ebook it–desirous to strive one thing completely different.
On high of that, it has a reasonably crowd-pleasing menu. Lastly, it has an ideal location for the “Disney Goals That Soar” drone present. If Summer season Home is already experiencing points that necessitate taking part on this low cost, that’s a little bit of a pink flag. Not an enormous one since it’s at Disney Springs and the eating scene could be very aggressive there, however not less than a modest one (possibly a yellow flag).
In the end, Magical Eating Month is obtainable as a result of this date vary is the low season and a gradual time for the restaurant trade at massive–it’s a great way to artificially enhance demand for eating places. To not get too speculative, however I’m wondering if extra eating places may all of the sudden discover themselves wanting an identical bump in demand. Perhaps we’ll see extra added to the Magical Eating roster on the final minute?
In fact, that’s a bit off subject right here. For now, we’ll get pleasure from Magical Eating Month and sit up for future (anticipated) eating offers and higher ADR availability at Walt Disney World. It’s unquestionably a golden age of eating places, with most of the areas at Disney Springs main the way in which. Hopefully you’ve gotten the possibility to strive one thing new that was beforehand unapproachable, price-wise!
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