Birnbaum's Walt Disney World Dining Guide 2005

by Birnbaum Travel Guides

Now from Birnbaum is a complete diner's guide to what to eat everywhere in the World. More than 300 Walt Disney World eateries are featured in these pages along with lots of lists and indexes highlighting particular types of food, places for special celebrations, and much, much more. Our personally rated taste-tested temptations include who serves the best PB&J, where to sup with Snow White, and why turkey legs are the most popular snack food in the World.

Genres: Travel, Cooking

Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book you will use over and over in order to review and find great places to eat in Disney World. Do no go without this book.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

For years, Birnbaum`s has just incorporated the "Dining Section" in the Guide to Walt Disney World, but this although thorough cannot cover the amount of material that is Disney Dining. When you go to Walt Disney World, there are two things that are very important, schedules of visiting the parks, and finding time to eat, and the right atmosphere to eat in..... Walt Disney World Dining Guide 2005 will explain every restaraunt in from the Magic Kingdom to Downtown Disney, which will help many people make easier decisions when choosing places to eat, and help them to enjoy their experience even more than they already will.

[Hannah Polley · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is an extremely quick read but sadly a lot of the information is now out of date so wouldn't really be useful if you were going on holiday now. Even if it were in date, it was difficult to find even one bad word about any of the restaurants that they reviewed, it was all way too positive which makes it difficult to believe. If everywhere is good, why does it matter where you eat? Sure there are other factors like what food the restaurant does and how much it costs but these details are pretty vague. There are much better sources out there so I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone now.

[Redfox5 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my review on places I ate while I was on holiday. The first place we stopped to eat was in the Magic Kingdom at 'Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe' Just had a burger and fries. It was nothing special and I don't think I'd eat there again if I could help it. We were staying at Disney's Pop Century resort which meant that most days we ate in 'Everything Pop' food court. They really have some yummy breakfast here! The French toast with meat is amazing. I also tried the waffles with cream and the hot cinnemon roll. All very nice. I also enjoy drinking the Mickey Milk here but thats mostly to do with packaging! I also had the meatball sub here. I would recommend it.
At Hollywood Studios we stopped for lunch at Pizza Planet. Had some Pizza and salad. The pizza was pretty good but I wasn't to keen on the dressing they put on the salad. Never made it to Sci-fi-dine-in as had a really bad headache that day and had to go back to the hotel :( maybe next time. Our fave meal of the whole trip was Teppan Edo. You sit around a grill and the chef cooks in front of you in an entertaining way. Not only was it really fun. It was also the best steak I have ever tasted. I will go back here on my next trip! It was also the food and wine festival at Epcot so I wondered around trying food from the booths. It was all very tasty.
Because last time we went we had enjoyed Downtown Disney's 'Rainforest Cafe' so much, we wanted to go again. But we tried the Animal Kingdom one this time. I think your enjoyment of here depends on where you are seated. Last time we were by the beautiful first tank. This time we were next to the noisy Monkeys. I wasn't that hungry so I just had the pasta which was okay. I think I will try somewhere different on the next trip. I also managed to pop into the Magic Kingdom's 'Main Street Bakery' and selected a Ghost Cupcake which was cute. I had also been hearing loads about the Pineapple Float so I just had to try one. They can be found at 'Aloha Isle' I did like it but it was way to much for me and I ended up wasteing most of it. Overall I did eat lots of good food at Disney. I can't wait to go again :) This book is very helpful in the Disney planning process!

[Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Back in 2005 this was a great reference book for dining at the Walt Disney World Resort. However, in 2016 it is way out of date with many places no longer in existance. Still a good read for an overview of what might be offered around the parks, but I wouldn't necessarily plan your trip with it.

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Allears.net has better and more up-to-date information, but I just love reading about the restaurants. I hope Biz doesn't mind doing a meal at Askershus....

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

Birnbaum Guides are great and this dining guide is top notch!