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September 24, 2021 ·

Walt Disney World 2013 | 50 Days to 50 Years

Travel· Walt Disney World

Walt Disney World 2013 welcomes Be Our Guest Restaurant

It’s a 2013 throwback today on 50 Days to 50 Years. Perhaps the most anticipated newcomer this year was the expansion of Fantasyland. Along with its newest resident, The Beast. Let’s waltz back to Walt Disney Word 2013 and take a swirl around Be Our Guest Restaurant.

Walt Disney World 2013

The “New Fantasyland” expansion was eagerly awaited. Perhaps not for its rides, gift shops, or splash zones. But for its new “attraction”, but disguised as a restaurant! Located deep within the Magic Kingdom’s newest weenie, this was a much-needed new dining offering.

New Fantasyland (more on that tomorrow’s post that features 2014!) would bring multiple Disney classics to life, but none more than this beauty. Be Our Guest Restaurant is another ‘prince’ from Walt Disney Imagineering.

Though less than half as large as Cinderella Castle, Beast Castle looms large thanks to Disney’s famous forced perspective technique. Course by course, “feasting” will take place in three distinct areas.

First, you will step foot into the elegant two story Grand Ballroom. Depending on where you will be dining, you will enter the library/gallery the for the famous West Wing. Lastly, the Castle Gallery highlights giant dancing figurines of Belle and Beast.

What you will immediately notice is that this restaurant is massive. It offers seating for 550 Guests-which is some party! The rose motif is incorporated throughout, and in case you have forgotten the “tale as old as time,” this beautiful story is retold in the stained glass, murals and portraits.

Be Our Guest Castle

Be Our Guest Castle

The Disney storytelling experience reaches new heights with Beast’s Castle in Fantasyland.  From the very first step upon the stone bridge, with full view of the gushing waterfall that fills the castle moat, your every sense is enveloped in the Beauty and the Beast tale.   As you pass through the grand entrance, you are physically stepping into the fairy tale, and are greeted by the solitary rose; the implied reminder of both the curse and the promise it holds for the Beast and Belle- and you!  In the Be Our Guest Restaurant story, be mindful that the most exquisite of roses bears the sharpest of thorns…

Be Our Guest Restaurant

Be Our Guest Restaurant menu

Open your “book” with a rose-covered menu. The Be Our Guest Restaurant tale is fully told through the smallest elements. Your surroundings and the culinary construction place you IN the story.

Center-cut Filet Mignon at Be Our Guest Restaurant
Center-cut Filet Mignon

Food

You are Guests of the Beast and food is part of the epic.  Though presently only prix fixe menus are available, the choices continue to reflect the French influence of the chefs. (Though we do miss their authentic ratatouille!) From Center-cut Filet Mignon to Poulet Rouge Chicken, your meal is executed à la perfection. Of course, the highlight continues to be that “grey stuff!” The Dessert Trio includes the White Chocolate “Chip” Cup that is filled with the famous Grey Stuff. I dare you not to eat it and sing along!!

The Grey Stuff featured in Be Our Guest Restaurant Dessert Trio.
The Grey Stuff Center Stage

Alcohol

Be Our Guest Restaurant was THE first to offer alcohol in Magic Kingdom. Now, you can enjoy a glass of champagne, wine or beer for breakfast, lunch, OR dinner. (Please note, at this time, breakfast service has been suspended due to the pandemic.) while you read or peruse.

Be Our Guest Private Label Wine Sampler
Be Our Guest Private Label Wine Sampler

The beverage menu also represents the story. It includes private label champagnes, sparkling wines, red, white, and rose wines, beer and hard ciders. Varietals hail from regions in France and California. Most of these are offered by the glass or bottle. Beers and ciders are from Belgium, France, Florida, and New York.

Decor

Your interactive experience begins as you step through the massive Beast castle doors.

The Grand Ballroom at Be Our Guest Restaurant
The Grand Ballroom and Domed Ceiling

The tale progresses in the Grand Ballroom, where you can literally imagine Belle and the Beast dancing at their wedding reception.  With a backdrop of snow gently falling over the Loire Valley mountains in the distance, this setting is ornate and splendid and fit for a ball, or a French-inspired meal fit for a prince and a princess!

Be Our Guest Restaurant storytelling
Dine while overlooking the snow-covered French countryside.

Upon entering the West Wing, the enchantment escalates.  Amid the tattered wallpaper, silks and tapestries (angry claws will do that, you know), hangs a portrait of the master. We wonder- is he a handsome prince or tortured beast?

Your meal progresses, and the famed rose that is housed in the West Wing study begins to shed its petals.

The Beast's enchanted rose in the West Wing
The Beast’s enchanted rose

Suddenly, there is a culmination of claps of thunder and bolts of lightning. Be sure to look quickly! Finally we witness the transformation of the handsome prince in the painting to the Beast himself.

The West Wing study
The West Wind wall hanging

Atmosphere

Furthermore, to fill your senses and set this stage, the recording of a 50 piece orchestra plays music from the film to accompany your feast.  In this storybook, you are a player. Whether you are recreating your own version of the greatest love story of all time or just falling in love with your food.

Enough I’m done!

Walt Disney World 2013 welcomes Phase 1 of the New Fantasyland expansion and the grand opening of Be Our Guest Restaurant in Magic Kingdom. #DisneyWorld50 #50Daysto50Years #Disneyhistory #2013 #BeOurGuestRestaurant #NewFantasyland #BeautyandtheBeast #MagicKingdom

50 Days to 50 Years

Long story short, this addition to the Magic Kingdom dining scene has a happy ending. Frustratingly, it is always the first reservation to ‘sell out.’ Be Our Guest Restaurant has become a must-do in Walt Disney World. Yes, it’s THAT magical.

Tomorrow, we look back at 2014 and the completion of New Fantasyland. We’re getting oh-so-close to that big 50th anniversary!!

LUV

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