This week, our friends at Walt Disney Imagineering have shared a few photos from inside one of our readers’ most anticipated areas of New Fantasyland – the Be Our Guest Restaurant!
In addition to an artfully planned menu, it looks like the elegant decor and the tiny references to the “Beauty and The Beast” film will really make this dining experience magical.
An elegant floor mosaic, which depicts Beast’s enchanted rose trimmed in gold, will welcome guests to the restaurant.
Lovely tile mosaics also adorn the walls and tell Belle and Beast’s love story through their colorful pictures.
And while I can’t get you in to dine just yet, I can get you to the doorway, which is highlighted with intricate columns. Notice the deep cracks at the top? Could that be some of the damage that was done to the castle when Beast was turned, well, into a beast?
Keep an eye on the Disney Parks Blog and follow @WaltDisneyWorld on Twitter for the latest on the New Fantasyland expansion. While you’re on Twitter, join in the conversation by using the hashtag #NewFantasyland.
Check out more posts in the “All in the Details” series from Walt Disney Imagineering:
- All in the Details: Themed Chandeliers Contribute to the Story of New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park
- All in the Details: Building a Grotto Under the Sea in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park
- All in the Details: Tinkering in Maurice’s Cottage at New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park
- All in the Details: The View from Belle’s Village in Magic Kingdom Park
- All in the Details: Introducing Prince Eric’s Castle at Magic Kingdom Park
- All in the Details: A Peek Inside Belle’s Library in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park
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Do you know if this will be a character dining restaurant with Belle and the Beast?
The rose mosaic is too beautiful to walk on!
It’s lovely, isn’t it?
Any luck finding out the price range, Jennifer? Thanks!
I did ask – no word back just yet.
Will the dishes be the same as they are in the movie?
*If so, This means that die-hard fans, such as myself, will have a extreme desire to buy your dishes!
Pam previously mentioned that china will be used in this location, but there’s no info yet on the pattern. You can read her post here: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/06/chef-of-be-our-guest-restaurant-in-new-fantasyland-shares-his-favorites-from-the-menu/
There is a similar tile floor in Town Square Theater and it has not held up so well, You can see a lot of “settling” of the individual tiles which creates obvious lines in the decorative pattern…I really hope the Rose can withstand the amount of traffic it will receive because it is so beautiful.
It is lovely!
Is there any new updates on The under The Sea ride in the New Fantasy Land. We will be there in mid November. Thanks for your time and information.
These pictures are just beautiful! I cannot wait until the moment I enter this restaurant for the first time! Beauty and the Beast is my all time favorite Disney movie so this is so exciting for me.
That’s great to hear, Jessica!
Do we know if the “Socerers of the Magic Kingdom” game is going to be integrated into the New Fantasyland? Will they extend the portals out there and change where you fight Ursula?
If they were cracks in the pillars, it could also have been caused by Forte, Beast’s organ when he tries to destroy the castle in Belle’s Enchanted Christmas. My little girl has probably already watched that at least 7 times this summer.
Good call, Amanda. Sounds like your daughter is a huge fan.
Hello! Hoping to celebrate my daughter’s 3rd birthday in this amazing place. Any idea the price range for lunch so we can start saving our pennies?
Let me ask…
Hi we are going to be at Disney World Sept. 22-28th and hoping to be able to eat at the new places, and see all the new attractions! My 3 children(ages: daughter 6yrs,sons 3 and 1yrs) are so excited to go! My husband and I are going to be celebrating our 10yr anniversary there and are equally excited! I hope that the Be Our Guest will be open then and hopefully we can get in as we are unable to get into Cinderella’s Royal Table to eat. We can;t wait we have already started the countdown 78 days!
Thanks Jennifer for another great post. I have a question. While I love and look forward to your weekly “All in the Details” column, can we get an update/blog post/new information on Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid separate from this weekly column? I feel like we’ve gotten a lot of information lately on Be Our Guest Restaurant, but still don’t know that much in depth info on the Little Mermaid areas of the expansion. Thanks so much as always.
Lauren – I think you’ll really enjoy next week’s post, in this case! 🙂
Awesome! Planning to have Christmas Dinner there.
That will be one memorable Christmas dinner!
I love seeing all the updates you provide. Look forward to August when I can make my ADR’s for my Ringing in the New Year trip. Have we seen where Lumiere will be since he is the one I can hear singing “Be our Guest, be our guest, put our service to the test….”!
Have a wonderful trip. I’m looking forward to making reservations, too!
OMG!! I am Sooo Excited!! Should make it a meet and greet like the chip and dale characters, or winnie the pooh 😀 OMG!!!I CANT WAIT!!!
Looking forward to when the Be Our Guest Restaurant opens! I understand more details will be forthcoming in August regarding making reservations. I am hoping that it will be open as early as Thanksgiving! We really like what the Imagineers are doing with the new Fantasyland!
Great pictures! Actually, the cracks you mentioned aren’t really cracks caused by damage- they’re seams between carved ‘stone’ archway pieces. A good friend of mine, who’s an old-world stonework craftsman, pointed it out to me.
What will the new French/Beauty and the Beast shop in new Fantasyland be like? What kinds of things will be sold there? …hopefully “real-life” Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts like what Disney released for the Diamond edition DVD! (Really..please do that!)
I’ll ask our Merchandise author, Steven Miller, if he has an update.
any idea when it will open?
It’s set to open in Holidays 2012.
While I love seeing the pictures, the white text against them is really difficult to read, in both the Mosaics post and the Port Orleans one.
Wow. Stunning. Those chandeliers really set the mood, and the mosaic/stained glass are gorgeous. So hoping to get a reservation here in December! Jennifer–can I ask you an unrelated question? With the opening of the new Fantasyland (especially Dumbo and all it’s fabulous nighttime lighting) any chance we will see those Glow with the Show style ears at WDW? I hear the ears interact with some of the new elements in Carsland and was thinking that would be cool to see in the new Fantasyland.
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