Over a dozen completely different eating places at Walt Disney World and Common Orlando are collaborating within the well-liked 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. Get pleasure from 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, a lot of Orlando’s hottest eating places, and a number of other current Michelin Information Florida Eating places close to Walt Disney World.
9 of the 48 Michelin Information eating places in Orlando are collaborating in Magical Eating 2024, together with Bib Gourmands the Ravenous Pig ($40) and Z Asian ($40). You can too 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 can too do dinner and an in a single day keep by way of Go to Orlando’s Magical Nights. This options particular presents from a few of Orlando’s top-rated lodges, together with some which might be house to eating places collaborating 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 collaborating. Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress can be on the record, and it’s simply barely off-site.
As for the 2024 Go to Orlando Magical Eating Month, right here’s a full record of collaborating 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 record of collaborating 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 record of the 134* collaborating eating places in Go to Orlando’s Magical Eating Month, click on right here.
In keeping with Go to Orlando, there’s a document 150 eating places collaborating in Magical Eating Month, however 16 of these don’t present up on the record but as a result of their menus aren’t dwell. We’ll replace accordingly if any extra 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 one in every of our favourite lodges in Central Florida.
There’s additionally Bosphorous Turkish Restaurant, which made our record 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. Ensure 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 just a few years in the past. Each positively skew extra in the direction of the consolation meals aspect of the spectrum, slightly than being tremendous eating or any type 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 type 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 12 months to $40. When you think about the hovering enter prices of labor and meals, that really doesn’t appear too unhealthy. Most of those meals are offers even at $5 greater than they price 7 or so years in the past.
We’ve completed Magical Eating Month offers a number of instances, and have had nice success with the meals way more instances than not. Generally the supply is illusory (by advantage of smaller parts or modified gadgets), however extra usually that isn’t 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 12 months, wow you, and hope you come to pay full worth.
Of the Walt Disney World choices, our high suggestions can 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 price lower than $40, so I’m undecided both would garner a suggestion for this specific deal.
Observe that you must order from the particular Magical Eating Month prix fixe menu to benefit from 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 tremendous 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 perhaps not Unreserved Meals Bazaar).
Additionally, we’ll take any excuse to revisit Jaleo, which is a private favourite–and at all times an awesome worth throughout Magical Eating Month. It’s additionally very conveniently situated to the “Disney Desires 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 encompasses a record-shattering 150 eating places. That is the second consecutive 12 months of a slightly massive bump–the quantity I’ve for 2023 is “over 125,” which was up from 86 eating places in 2022. That is smart, as pent-up demand was solely beginning to gradual in Fall 2022, however had absolutely fallen off by final 12 months.
I’m truly considerably stunned that there aren’t much more Walt Disney World eating places on the record 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 forth) and others at Disney Springs (STK, Morimoto Asia, Wolfgang Puck, Terralina, Paddlefish, and so forth).
That hasn’t been the case for the previous few years, because 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 record.
Nonetheless, 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. Nonetheless, I can perceive why some spots can be in “wait and see” mode to evaluate how a lot Free Eating strikes the needle. Maybe the 2025 Magical Eating Month may have extra collaborating Walt Disney World eating places.
It’s at the very least 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 most recent restaurant in all of Walt Disney World, so that you’d assume that followers and locals can be wanting to e book it–eager to attempt one thing completely different.
On high of that, it has a reasonably crowd-pleasing menu. Lastly, it has an awesome location for the “Disney Desires That Soar” drone present. If Summer season Home is already experiencing points that necessitate collaborating on this low cost, that’s a little bit of a purple flag. Not an enormous one since it’s at Disney Springs and the eating scene may be very aggressive there, however at the very least a modest one (perhaps a yellow flag).
Finally, 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 would possibly out of the blue discover themselves wanting an identical bump in demand. Possibly 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 best way. Hopefully you will have the prospect to attempt one thing new that was beforehand unapproachable, price-wise!
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