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Given that its opening is coming (relatively) soon, it’s no surprise that the details keep pouring in about Disney World’s forthcoming Art of Animation resort. The latest Disney Parks blog post on the hotel focuses on its Landscape of Flavors food court. I love reading about food, so I’m excited to learn more.
Of course the announcement of Landscape of Flavors is all a bit grand. It plays up the restaurant, making it seem like a unique and innovative new approach to dining. Perhaps it is for restaurants in Disney World hotels. All I know is it almost kind of sounds to me like a fancy food court.
Even so, the restaurant sounds like it’ll have a great variety of foods, and it also seems a bit more laid back than some of Disney’s other restaurants, which hopefully means it’ll be a bit more affordable. The restaurant will be divided into stations. The parks blog post highlights five of them: Soup-Salad-Sandwich Shop, World Flavors Shop, Pizza Shop, Burger Shop, and Market Shop (which sounds redundant to me, but whatever).
The names of each except for the latter are rather self-explanatory. The Market Shop is where guests can “grab-n-go” some easily-portable consumables. It’s kind of like a fancy convenience store, carrying drinks, yogurt, bagels, cupcakes, cookies, gelato, and more.
The other shops offer combinations of “build-your-own-meals” and pre-made entrees. The Pizza Shop, for example, just has a limited number of toppings out of which one can design a pizza, as well as having a make-your-own-pasta option. This particular shop supports room service.
Food from the other shops must be kept in the restaurant, and their options are a little more complicated. The Soup-Salad-Sandwich shop lets patrons build their own salads. But then they have to choose between just two sandwiches: caprese with mozzarella and tomatoes or Buffalo wings-style turkey sandwich. Interestingly there is no mention in this post of soup offerings. I imagine that there will be one or two soups of the day on offer as well. Choice at this station seems surprisingly limited, but maybe the sandwiches on offer will also change from time to time.
The World Flavors shop sounds like it would be really diverse and it is in one way, and isn’t in another. It offers many different types of cultural flavors: Indian, Portuguese, and Mongolian, but again, what this boils down to is just one or two options for each meal. You can get tandoor potatoes with Portuguese sausage with eggs and slab bacon for breakfast, and Tandoori chicken/shrimp, Portuguese sausage again, Mongolian beef, mahi-mahi, or roasted acorn squash for lunch and dinner.
The Burger shop has all of your traditional burger options (all in build-a-burger of course), as well as some more unique premade burgers. These include a surf-and-turf burger with crab cake and popcorn shrimp, and a pastrami cheeseburger with fried green tomato. There are even two breakfast burgers, made with eggs, chicken breakfast sausage, or steak.
Landscape of Flavors will be included as part of the Disney Dining Plan. It’s not clear whether that means it’ll be a better deal than other dining plan restaurants, or if it’s just a unique(ish) new Disney restaurant. While I think it sounds interesting, it also seems like it’s a bit more flash than substance.
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