Plaza Inn restaurant is providing eating packages for Paint the Evening Parade with reserved seating and an all-in-one meal that includes Disneyland’s well-known fried rooster. This assessment covers whether or not the premium parade viewing is well worth the cash, together with information about what it entails, find out how to ebook the MSEP eating bundle, and extra. (Up to date June 9, 2025.)
Let’s begin with some fast background. Paint the Evening has made its triumphant return to Disneyland, for the primary time for the reason that finish of the Diamond Celebration virtually a decade in the past. In between, that evening parade made a reprisal at Disney California Journey. In the meantime, the McRib of evening parades, Essential Avenue Electrical Parade, made a number of returns to Disneyland.
Paint the Evening returns for the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary, and between that celebration and the fan-favorite evening parade’s lengthy absence up till now, this has already been a recipe for chaos & crowds. One resolution to that is shopping for a Paint the Evening Eating Bundle at Plaza Inn.
With this eating bundle, you may savor a delicious lunch at Plaza Inn with an all-in-one meal bundle that comes with reserved viewing. Listed below are further particulars in regards to the Paint the Evening Parade Eating Bundle at Plaza Inn:
Eating Bundle Pricing, Dates & Occasions
- Might 16 to August 21, 2025
- Blockout dates: This eating bundle is not going to be out there June 14 to 16, 18; July 4; August 17, 2025.
- Eating Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Showtime: All Company will obtain a voucher for the day’s first efficiency of the Paint the Evening parade.
- Lunch: $55 per grownup
- $28 per youngster (ages 3 to 9)
Eating Bundle Menu (Adults)
- Mushroom gravy-glazed meatloaf
- Child wedge salad
- Pea purée over creamy mashed potatoes
- Herbed crispy carrots
- Paint the Evening-themed dessert
- Alternative of 1 fountain beverage
- Plant-based choices out there.
Eating Bundle Menu (Youngsters)
- Crispy rooster tenders
- Macaroni & Cheese
- Apple sauce and child carrots
- Dinner roll
- Paint the Evening-themed dessert
- Alternative of 1 fountain beverage
- Plant-based choices out there.
Please not that what follows relies on our assessment of the Plaza Eating Bundle throughout Essential Avenue Electrical Parade’s fiftieth Anniversary comeback run. Now we have no intentions of re-reviewing this bundle for Paint the Evening, because the bundle has not materially modified (besides in worth).
The viewing location is similar, and though Disneyland’s web site doesn’t formally state as a lot, we’ve heard stories that you’re not “required” to eat the meatloaf. Phew.
Simply ensure you make this request for fried rooster whenever you first go to the cashier, in any other case you is likely to be caught with the meatloaf. Not that there’s something incorrect with meatloaf, it’s simply that Plaza Inn’s fried rooster is taken into account world-famous for good purpose!
It’s protected to say viewing Paint the Evening parade goes to be a problem for the foreseeable future, so the worth proposition of this bundle ought to be comparable. Pent-up demand stays robust, the park reservations system means a gentle provide of locals, and there’s numerous enthusiasm and emotion round having fun with a sentimental favourite.
It was the same story when Paint the Evening debuted in the course of the Diamond Celebration. The Los Angeles and Orange County markets are enormous, leading to monster crowds for months, and locals camped out for hours. Prime parade viewing areas have been a number of rows deep lengthy earlier than showtime. It’s going to be the identical state of affairs for the Paint the Evening parade in the course of the Disneyland seventieth Anniversary run.
With that mentioned, right here’s our authentic assessment of this Plaza Inn Parade Eating Bundle…
The Plaza Inn Eating Bundle could be booked on-line through Disneyland.com or the app, as much as 60 days upfront.
In the event you’re having hassle reserving this, you’re not alone. Sadly, it’s extremely troublesome. We have been capable of rating a spot, and haven’t seen any availability since.
I’d hazard a guess that your entire reserved viewing space accommodates fewer than 100 visitors, which could be very restricted. It’s at all times potential Disneyland will add extra reserved viewing areas or cancellations will happen, so we’d advocate that you just hold checking as your journey dates close to.
Our reservation at Plaza Inn was for the two:30 pm “seating,” but it surely’s doubtless that we may’ve proven up at any time between 1 pm and three:30 pm.
The restaurant continues to be working as an everyday buffeteria throughout this timeframe, with visitors capable of order the traditional menu from the entire bays besides one. There aren’t any reserved tables or servers for this–it’s the traditional Plaza Inn lunch/dinner expertise with open seating each indoors and outdoors.
Upon arriving, we checked in with a Forged Member outdoors, who pulled up our reservation on an iPad. He then despatched us contained in the restaurant to a line at a money register put aside for the Plaza Inn Eating Packages.
There, we paid for the meal and got paper FastPass-style tickets to enter the reserved seating part together with cool customized lanyards to put on whereas within the viewing space. The Forged Member on the register suggested that we save our receipt simply in case we misplaced the lanyards and/or paper FastPasses.
From there, we moved on to the buffeteria bay to choose up our plates.
What’s served for the eating bundle isn’t one of many regular entrees, but it surely’s sufficiently just like decide the worth of the bundle. Given the $19 worth of the fried rooster alone, the meal itself is about $25 to $30. In fact, “worth” is within the eye of the beholder.
I’ll at all times have a delicate spot in my coronary heart for Plaza Inn, however I believe its pricing has gotten out of hand. I nonetheless bear in mind when the rooster was $13. (Outdated man shakes fist at cloud.) Moreover, it looks like the standard has been extra hit and miss–dropping $19 for dry rooster isn’t my thought of a superb time.
Our rooster was flawless. The quantity of breading, texture, seasoning, consistency, juiciness, tenderness, and general taste have been all pitch good. If I may at all times be assured fried rooster of this caliber, I’d drop $19 and do each meal at Plaza Inn. The one disappointment in regards to the meal was the house-made smoked mac & cheese, which was principally mac minus cheese.
Though the Plaza Inn Parade Eating Bundle signifies it’s a set menu, entree substitutions are allowed for individuals who are allergic (or no matter) to superb fried rooster. Sarah made such a substitution, ordering the Chipotle-Pineapple Glazed Salmon.
This salmon is an formidable and engaging dish by buffeteria requirements, providing a perfectly-prepared, flaky fish with a novel and fruity glaze. Nonetheless, it’s additionally considerably smaller than the fried rooster. That’s clearly to be anticipated. Once you roll as much as Nobu, they’re not handing you a heaping bucket of salmon, Colonel Sanders model.
Even with the smaller salmon and cheeseless mac & cheese, we’ve got no complaints in regards to the meals served as a part of the Plaza Inn Eating Bundle. It was a improbable meal. (In the event you may get the mac & cheese swapped out for mashed potatoes, you’d be dwelling the Disneyland dream.)
We left full, and didn’t eat once more for the remainder of the day. Simply $25 right here in worth, which places the reserved seating at round $15 per individual. Provided that visitors have been already tenting out to assert parade spots in mid-afternoon after we left Plaza Inn, that’s most likely not too steep of a worth for the viewing space.
The paper FastPasses are for reserved seating in the course of the first efficiency of the evening parade.
These tickets point out that you must examine in on the City Sq. flagpole roughly half-hour earlier than the parade steps off. You’ll wish to arrive a lot sooner than that. Disneyland followers love nothing greater than to camp out for issues; in terms of stuff like this, there’s at all times a line for the road, so to talk.
The seating space is on the again aspect of City Sq., going through the Essential Avenue USA Practice Station.
It’s a big part, and there was loads of respiration room for individuals even within the second and third rows to sit down down and unfold out a bit. The draw back of this was that visitors scrambling for final minute spots stored asking if they might squeeze in. (The above picture doesn’t adequately illustrate how packed different sections have been versus this space.)
Technically, it is a viewing space and never a seating space. Disneyland guarantees a reserved viewing, and nothing extra. Not like seating sections, there aren’t any chairs right here. Additionally, you may need to face if you happen to arrive late or if the individuals in entrance of you might be standing. Simply because everybody round us was capable of sit down doesn’t imply that’s the way it’ll be sooner or later.
By way of evening parade viewing places, I’m kind of impartial on this spot.
The view is completely tremendous; I simply favor the extra iconic perspective with Sleeping Magnificence Fortress within the background for pictures. My one advice could be to sit down on one of many far sides of the viewing space; this could provide you with a little bit extra space and likewise a greater perspective of the parade floats rounding the nook.
In the end, we extremely advocate reserving the Plaza Inn Eating Bundle for Paint the Evening. In the event you’re taking a trip to Disneyland, you’re going to wish to attempt that well-known fried rooster regardless, and that places the price of the reserved seating space at $15 per individual. Whereas that’s not an insignificant expense for a household of 4, the time and complications saved in not having to camp out hours upfront and “guard” your turf is price that quantity.
We’re usually not significantly eager on paying a premium for under okay nighttime spectacular viewing areas (taking a look at you, Magic Kingdom fireworks dessert events), but it surely’s simply completely different at Disneyland. Locals with time to kill stake out spots for hours, and that’s unlikely to alter anytime quickly.
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