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The Complete List of Disney Resort Hotel Restaurants

If you’re deciding where to dine on your Walt Disney World vacation, I feel your pain. The options seem endless. Maybe you’re not familiar with the resort restaurants. Or maybe you visit somewhat regularly, have gotten stuck in a rut of the same restaurants trip after trip, and want to change things up a bit.

It’s no secret that we spend a good deal of time at the resorts and often dine at many of their restaurants. Below, we’ve listed every Disney Resort hotel restaurant. We’ve grouped each restaurant by its location and type. So you’ll find every quick-service restaurant, lounge, pool bar, character meal, and table-service restaurant for each resort.

Whether you want a cocktail by the pool or to splurge on the finest dining among the Disney World Hotels, you’ll find the options below. For reference, every highlighted entry links to a corresponding restaurant review. The resort’s dining guide is also at the bottom of each list. These guides are designed to be a resource for what’s specifically available at your resort.

Mickey waffles with a side of bacon
Mickey waffles are a staple at most Disney World Resort Hotels.

Resort Dining Guides

In addition to the list of restaurants below, you might also enjoy these other popular resort dining guides:

The Complete List of Disney Hotel Restaurants (You Are Here)

The Best Disney Resort Hotel Restaurants Ranked: Preview our list of the best Disney Resort Hotel restaurants ranked.

Best Quick Service Restaurants at the Disney Resorts: This list features our favorite quick service options among the resorts!

Disney Hotel Restaurants List

We’ve listed the restaurants below by their resort category, starting with Disney’s Value Resorts. Each value resort has a food court. These food courts typically have an average of five stations offering specialty food items. Most stations offer a kids’ meal option.

Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort

Disney’s All-Star Music Resort

Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort

Disney’s Pop Century Resort

During our recent stay at Disney’s Pop Century, I had the teriyaki stir-fried chicken. This delicious option came with chicken, stir-fried vegetables, and rice. I substituted the rice for roasted carrots. We were impressed with the variety of options at the food court.

chicken stir fry with veggies from Pop Century
Pop Century has a food court with a variety of options, including this stir-fry chicken dish.

Disney’s Art of Animation Resort

  • Landscape of Flavors
  • The Drop-Off Pool Bar
  • Resort Dining Guide: Disney’s Art of Animation Dining Guide

We stayed at Disney’s Art of Animation earlier this year and felt they had several decent options. But ultimately, the food court doesn’t have nearly as many options as it did a few years ago. You can expect breakfast basics like burgers, pizza, and Mickey waffles.

dining area inside Landscape of Flavors
Landscape of Flavors has all the basics, but we felt there wasn’t a good variety of entrees.

The following list of hotel restaurants is for Disney’s Moderate Resorts. Each of these hotels offers more dining options than the value resorts.

Coronado Springs Resort

Coronado Springs used to be one of our favorite resorts for dining. They have excellent options like Toledo, Tapas, Steak & Seafood, and Cafe Rix. But in recent years, the resort’s food court has been mediocre. During our stay this last summer, we felt the quick-service dining options were limited. Thankfully, the club level at Gran Destino Tower provided enough to tide us over when we weren’t dining out.

chicken wings from Dahlia Lounge
During our last stay at Gran Destino Tower, we enjoyed wings from Dahlia Lounge.

Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort

The restaurant scene at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort has dramatically improved since our last stay. When we visited to check out the new rooms, we enjoyed several meals at the resort’s quick-service, Centertown Market.

a mixed grill platter from Caribbean Beach
The mixed grill platter from Centertown Market was of good quality and shareable.

Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort

Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue is one of the few remaining dinner shows at Walt Disney World. It’s offered three times a night on most evenings, and reservations fill up quickly.

Disney’s Port Orleans Riverside Resort

Riverside Mill Food Court has several nice entrée selections. On our last visit, I tried the shrimp and grits, which was enough to split with someone. They prepared them fresh in front of us. Unfortunately, I’ve never dined at Boatwright’s Dining Hall. With so many excellent dining options at Disney Springs, we tend to eat there when we stay in this neck of the woods.

shrimp and grits

Disney’s Port Orleans French Quarter Resort

Port Orleans French Quarter is widely known for one thing: beignets. Sorry, I meant Mickey-shaped beignets. Enjoy them for breakfast, lunch, or dinner with whatever dipping sauce your heart desires. Enjoy!

Mickey-shaped beignets

Lastly, we have a list of restaurants at Disney’s Deluxe Resorts.

Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa

Victoria and Albert’s is the most exclusive restaurant in Walt Disney World. A meal here will cost you a pretty penny.

steak with cheesy potato casserole and grapes

Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort

‘Ohana is one of the most popular restaurants at Disney World. However, we thought the meal was just okay on our last visit. We often hear that it can be hit or miss, and that can be a pricey miss. We love Capt. Cook’s, the resort’s quick service, and find that it often fits the bill when dining at the Polynesian. During our last stay at the Polynesian, we stayed at the resort’s Kamehameha club level and enjoyed most of our meals in the lounge.

a noodle skillet from 'Ohana
The noodles are one of the most popular items at ‘Ohana.
bread pudding from 'Ohana
‘Ohana’s Bread Pudding
Superfood Salad from Capt. Cook's
This is the superfood salad from Capt. Cook’s. It’s a delicious option.

Disney’s Contemporary Resort

We love most of the dining options at Disney’s Contemporary Resort. Contempo Cafe is one of the best quick-service restaurants among the Disney Resorts. California Grill was our favorite restaurant at Disney World for a long time. Unfortunately, the experience has changed to a prix fixe menu in recent years, and we don’t think the value is there. California Grill is a place where we wanted to splurge on things we enjoyed, like sushi, dessert, and that delicious Sonoma goat cheese ravioli. But now, the menu feels confined, and no one likes restrictions when it’s time to dine.

We also dine at Steakhouse 71 often. It’s hard to go wrong with this semi-casual, table-service restaurant.

the Sonoma goat cheese ravioli
Sonoma Goat Cheese Ravioli is a signature menu item at California Grill.
An order of seasonal pancakes with blueberries.
Steakhouse 71 has seasonal pancake flavors that change throughout the year.

Disney’s Beach Club Resort

Beaches and Cream is a diner-style spot with burgers, sandwiches, and plenty of ice cream options. This is where you can order the popular kitchen sink ice cream sundae that feeds many. If you’re looking for a guilty pleasure, this is it.

Unfortunately, the entrée items at Beach Club Marketplace, the resort’s quick service, are lacking. We rarely purchase anything here unless we’re picking up a snack. However, they have an excellent selection of treats, like the brownie listed below.

Cape May Cafe is home to Minnie’s Beach Bash, a character breakfast. In the evening, the restaurant has a seafood buffet. We’ve enjoyed this breakfast with characters, but like most character meals, the focus is on the characters, and the food is decent but fairly generic.

a plant-based chocolate brownie from Beach Club Marketplace
A plant-based chocolate brownie from Beach Club Marketplace
Minnie at Cape May Cafe
Minnie Mouse at Cape May Cafe

Disney’s Yacht Club Resort

Like Beach Club, we don’t care about the quick service at Disney’s Yacht Club. However, we dine at Ale and Compass more than anywhere else at Walt Disney World. It’s hard to go wrong here for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. You can place a mobile order if you prefer to dine in your room or at the pool.

Additionally, Crew’s Cup Lounge is an excellent place to enjoy dinner. The prime rib sliders have recently returned and are one of our favorites! This location also has excellent soup and salad. Or, if you want to splurge on a steak, Yachtsman Steakhouse is fantastic.

Parker House Rolls with three spreads
Parker House Rolls at Ale and Compass
chocolate waffles with bacon
Chocolate waffles are a staple menu item at Ale and Compass.

Disney’s Boardwalk Inn Resort

On paper, Disney’s Boardwalk appears to have enough dining options. However, the quick service options are somewhat lacking. Fortunately, Disney is adding a more formal quick service location. (More details to be announced later.)

ham and cheese sandwich

Disney’s Swan and Dolphin Hotel

Disney’s Swan, Dolphin, and Swan Reserve have many dining options.

waffles with a compote and syrup
Waffles with compote and syrup from Amare

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge

Animal Kingdom Lodge immediately comes to mind when someone asks which resort has the best dining. We love everything here, from The Mara and Sanaa to Jiko and Boma. The breakfast buffet at Boma is incredible. For lunch or dinner, you can’t go wrong with Sanaa. Jiko, The Cooking Place, could easily be that one restaurant where you splurge on an expensive meal.

a fish with vegetables dish from Sanaa
Sanaa has African and Indian-inspired cuisine.

Disney’s Wilderness Lodge

Disney’s Wilderness Lodge is another excellent place to enjoy a meal. We prefer to go casual here and get a walk-up at either Geyser Point Bar and Grill or Territory Lounge.

charcuterie selection at Territory Lounge
Charcuterie Selection from Territory Lounge

Finally, we’ll discuss the restaurants at the Disney Vacation Club Resorts.

Disney’s Riviera Resort

My other top choice for resort dining is Disney’s Riviera Resort. Primo Piatto is our favorite quick-service restaurant at Walt Disney World. It’s an upscale counter-service restaurant with quality food and reasonable prices. We also enjoy dining at Bar Riva. They have several quality dishes and don’t require a reservation.

a quiche with salad from Topolino's Terrace
Breakfast quiche at Topolino’s Terrace
lemon blueberry pancakes
Lemon Blueberry Pancakes from Primo Piatto
Grilled Chicken Sandwich with a Side Salad from Primo Piatto

Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa

The Artist’s Palette is another excellent quick-service restaurant at Disney World. This restaurant has pizza, sandwiches, and even a roasted half chicken with veggies. If I’m at Saratoga Springs, I’ll almost always stop here for a quick meal. I’ve eaten here 3-4 times in the last year alone, which says a lot given the resort’s proximity to Disney Springs.

half chicken dish from The Artist's Palette
Roasted Half Chicken with Vegetables from The Artist’s Palette

Disney’s Old Key West Resort

If you stay at Old Key West, you’re only a boat ride from Disney Springs. Unfortunately, this charming resort doesn’t have many dining options. But Olivia’s Cafe makes up for it. We love eating here, especially when the weather is pleasant enough to dine on the patio.

entrance of Olivia's Cafe
Olivia’s Cafe is a hidden gem at Disney’s Old Key West

Final Thoughts

We hope this list of Disney Resort restaurants gives you a simple place to see all your options. If you are looking for more information, you might enjoy our Disney World dining guide for first-timers.

To learn more about the resorts, see our guide to the Disney World Hotels. Need to learn how to get around? Our beginner’s guide to transportation options at Disney World is one of our top resources.

For touring the parks, see our Disney World Rides and Attractions guide. It links to attraction guides for all four theme parks. If you’re just getting started, you might like our Disney World Vacation Planning Guide. It brings together the resources you need to plan your visit. Check back with ResortsGal.com for more updates.

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