You’re quite welcome! Sorry I didn’t come back last night to finish answering, but I’m now back on my computer, so I can more easily link things.
Here’s a recent thread that answers this: How Early to Get to the F! Viewing Area - #8 by lolabear_la
I made a list here in response to the same question of the food at DLR. This list includes all food, mostly snacks, a good amount of QS and a majority of the TS restaurants we’ve tried. Reading this list again, it is missing a few good ones that we more recently tried for the 1st time or re-tried since they became available again so I’ll would add to above:
- Tortilla Jo’s (TS in Downtown Disney) as a must if you love Mexican food, especially guacamole- their tableside guac is amazing!
- Paradise Garden Grill- I love their skewers and rice plate as a healthier fresh option to all the heavy theme park food. However, Paradise Garden Grill is also used quite frequently as an extension of the food booths offering specialty plates related to the festival so their “regular menu” is hard to come by with Nov-April being pretty much a straight food booth festival season in DCA anymore.
We haven’t been to WDW since RoL started and I go back & forth wondering if we’d like it or not but you saying this makes me think that I probably do need to make the time to see it when we finally get back.
Just one callout on the WOC dessert party that differs greatly from WDW. As I understand it at WDW they are usually a lot more options and all you care to enjoy and you serve yourself. When we did the WoC dessert party, I had only read about dessert parties at WDW and it was fairly new at the time and we hadn’t ever seen another dessert party offered in DLR so I mistakenly gave my family the expectations of a stuff your face full of dessert event. When in reality it was a plate (a very full plate that we brought at least half of each plate back to the hotel for us) of treats & cheeses along with a basket of bread, crackers & one more kind of cheese in the middle of the table to share. So just know it’s slightly different. But the chair, the view and even half the food they give you would make it worth the price. It also comes with 2 alcoholic drinks (sometimes they don’t enforce the 2 so you may get extra there) and unlimited non-alcoholic options including hot options (hot chocolate and I believe coffee as well) which is nice since even in summer it can get surprisingly cool near the water where they show WoC and weirdly, even though they offer soda they don’t offer Coke (Diet Coke, yes, but not regular or Zero or any other option of Coke).
We saw it opening weekend bc we are also Frozen fans and the stage effects are gorgeous but with the runtime (it was even longer than at 70 min but they’ve chopped it down some) it’s hard to justify that time. One idea to fit it in is to use it as a midday break. It’s a nice chance to relax & be entertained (and out of the midday heat!).