[Disney California Adventure] Carthay Circle Restaurant (15 juin 2012)

Le 15 juin 2012 ouvrira à Disney California Adventure la nouvelle entrée du parc, Buena Vista Street (voir https://www.disneycentralplaza.com/t16522-disney-california-adventure-placemaking-paradise-pier-condor-flats-buena-vista-street-hollywood-land). A la manière du château à Disneyland, une réplique du Carthay Circle Theater marquera le centre du parc.





A l'intérieur de ce bâtiment se situera un nouveau club privatif, intitulé 1901, un satellite du fameux Club 33 (voir le Sujet http://disneycentralplaza.1fr1.net/t666-disneyland-resort-les-lounges-exclusifs-club-33-et-1901) .

Mais au premier étage se situera un restaurant gastronomique ouvert à tous, le Carthay Circle Restaurant. Il disposera de 256 places, 200 en intérieur et 56 en terrasse. Ouvert tous les jours pour le déjeuner et le diner, les réservations se font par téléphone au 714-781-DINE de 07h à 21h ou par courriel à dine@disneyland.com.

En fait une seule partie du restaurant devrait être privative. L'autre sera ouverte aux visiteurs, ça deviendra le restaurant "haut de gamme" de DCA. Hâte!

D'après l'OC Register, le menu devrait être défini par le Chef du Napa Rose, Andrew Sutton: http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2012/02/15/major-changes-underway-at-disney-park/108493/

N'ayant ni l'histoire, ni l'environnement du Club 33, la décoration intérieure et le service de Club 1901 vont être particulièrement soignés. Mais cela suffira t'il? Après tout, Wolfgang Puck’s Avalon Cove et Mondavi’s Vineyard Room n'ont pas eu le succès espéré. Mais il faut reconnaitre que c'était AVANT le gigantesque placemaking du parc...

Cependant, certains (aussi bien au sein de WDI que de TDA) pensent qu'à la place du très cher et très select Club 1901 il aurait peut être été mieux de n'ouvrir qu'un lounge et le mini-musée sur Walt Disney prévu à l'origine...

Dinner Theater


The final big piece in the Buena Vista Street project is of course the Carthay Circle Theatre and its restaurant and lounges. The private membership lounge acting as a satellite location for Club 33, called 1901 in honor of Walt’s birth year, takes up the smallest space through private entrance doors on the west flanks of the marquee entrance lobby. Unlike Club 33, however, which has strict membership guidelines that do not generally allow non-member celebrities to dine there, the intimate 1901 lounge with its darkened banquettes set along the walls is going to be open for anyone who gets clearance through the secretive Disney Special Activities office.

The Disney Special Activities group, or DSA for short, is officially a small team within the Guest Relations department working out of separate offices in the Grand Californian Hotel. The DSA Cast Members, made up of experienced VIP hosts and hostesses, handle all the celebrity and high profile visitors who come to Disneyland. But in the past even the DSA office couldn’t get the average B List celebrity in to Club 33 unless they had reservations made by an actual club member. That will change with 1901, so much so that a double-wide podium has been created for the 1901 lobby area for both the regular club hostess to welcome run-of-the-mill members, and a separate DSA Cast Member there to check credentials of arriving B Listers, minor politicians, or upgraded guided tours, and act as a satellite location to the main DSA office in the Grand Californian.

But even if TDA is able to grow the small roster of Club 33 members beyond its current list of about 400 members, perhaps even doubling that number with the new 1901 lounge and the more restrictive entrance and parking policies, a thousand or so 1901 members are a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the millions each year who visit even a lightly attended Disney theme park like DCA. TDA is hoping a good chunk of the 99% are in the mood to splurge and head upstairs to the Carthay Circle Restaurant.

They've made a great choice in having Napa Rose's chef, Andrew Sutton create the menu. Now the management team there is trying to pull together a roster of seasoned table-service Cast Members from around the resort, in addition to a few outsiders hired on just to work at the Carthay Circle. And they are really going for a very high end experience here, using some of the hippest cocktail lounges (think the Edison in downtown LA - shown below) and swankiest restaurants in Southern California as inspiration.

For example, diners in the restaurant, or drinkers in the lounges, will be treated to some of the most impressive tableside performance art in the Disney empire. Not content to just offer the typical flambé dessert or a tossed Caesar salad tableside, the Carthay Circle team will also be offering hand-crafted martinis and cocktails served tableside from small performance carts. Ordering a cocktail at the Carthay Circle lounge this summer means the customer will be presented with a choice of not just top shelf liquor in gleaming Carthay Circle barware, but also with an ice-cube menu (perfectly squared, round, shaved, or chipped?), various artisanal bitters and mixers made with organic herbs and spices, and finished with small batches of stuffed gourmet olives trucked in regularly from Santa Barbara. If you want an appetizer to go with that hand-crafted artisanal martini, you’ll be choosing from trendy dishes like a Korean roast duckling kimchee plate, or more typical fare like Kobe’ beef sliders a la’ Morton’s. And that’s just downstairs in the public bar.

Knowing that they don’t have the history of Club 33, or the romantic waterside view of the Blue Bayou, the Carthay Circle team is aiming to create an instant must-see with sumptuous interior décor, excellent service, and menu offerings that rival or surpass even the vaunted Napa Rose. It’s the service piece that is the most elusive however, as years of dumbing down the Resort’s dining experience, and not fixing the ridiculously high hourly turnover of Disneyland’s restaurant division specifically, has left the existing talent pool very thin when it comes to pulling together a polished team that can create this type of upscale experience. That’s where the outsiders may need to come in and save this concept from Disney’s years of management ineptitude, as there simply don’t appear to be enough top notch Cast Members willing to leave their current Napa Rose or Club 33 gig to really make this work like TDA would like.

What also is yet to be seen is whether or not theme park audiences will be willing to shell out the big bucks to dine in this type of environment during their DCA day. DCA has been down this road before, with Wolfgang Puck’s Avalon Cove, and Mondavi’s Vineyard Room, and the flailing theme park did them both in quickly. Certainly the Napa Rose has carved out a very successful niche for itself as not only one of the best restaurants in the Disney empire, but one of the best restaurants in foodie-crazed SoCal.

There will likely be a flood of Annual Passholders the first few months wanting to check this place out at least once, especially once pictures of the lavish interiors both upstairs and downstairs become available online. But a growing crowd in both TDA and WDI are quietly whispering if perhaps the Carthay Circle Restaurant concept might be over-reaching just a bit. Perhaps it would have been better to have just a single cocktail lounge combined with that Walt Disney mini-museum that WDI was pitching a few years ago? We wish the Carthay Circle team the best though, as they are aiming for a demographic that no Disney theme park in America has ever been able to capture, outside of the tiny Club 33 membership.

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http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al022112a.htm

[Petit HS] Un article vraiment sympa qui montre comment le Carthay Circle Theater est déjà (très) présent à Disney's Hollywood Studios: http://www.yesterland.com/carthay.html

L'intérieur du restaurant se dévoile!







http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/05/inside-carthay-circle-restaurant-at-disney-california-adventure-park/

Depuis hier, les réservations sont ouvertes! http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/05/reservations-open-today-for-carthay-circle-restaurant-at-disney-california-adventure-park/

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/05/cue-the-dining-music-at-carthay-circle-restaurant-in-disney-california-adventure-park/

Plus de photos et menus (lunch/dinner) sur http://micechat.com/blogs/dateline-disneyland/3464-carthay-theater-unveiled-mad-t-party-lights-up-cars-land-gets-ready-more.html

J'aime beaucoup la musique d'ambiance !
Quand on voit ces magnifiques photos, on se laisse à rêver pour le parc Walt Disney Studios...

Tout est beau !! Musique, cadre, carte !!

http://micechat.com/blogs/dateline-disneyland/3475-ghirardelli-opens-buena-vista-details-play-parade-returns-cove-bar-changes-more.html

Présentation de la Chef du restaurant, Gloria Tae, sur http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/06/meet-chef-gloria-tae-at-carthay-circle-restaurant-in-disney-california-adventure-park/

http://www.mouseinfo.com/forums/content/1071-closer-look-gorgeous-interiors-carthay-circle-restaurant-lounge.html

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/06/carthay-circle-restaurant-at-disney-california-adventure-park-to-open-with-92-sommeliers/

Vraiment magnifique l'intérieur du restaurant
C'est vraiment du haut de gamme

Visiblement, le restaurant a du mal à trouver du personnel qualifié et... des clients!

Citation :

Deal-A-Meal?


That’s not to say everything is a home run hit at DCA. The Carthay Circle Theater continues to struggle to both fill its tables and find its footing in the high-priced fine dining scene in Anaheim. While they were smart to start very slow for the first few weeks and limit the reservations per night to only a fraction of the tables available so that the kitchen and staff could ramp up smoothly, the interest just hasn’t been there now that they are able to fill the entire restaurant.

Disney’s crafty social media team has worked wonders to bury the poor reviews coming in on Yelp and TripAdvisor that tell of shaky service and unpolished staff, but the high price points on the menu are enough of a deterrent to most tourists and locals alike who are watching their pennies in this economy. The food itself generally gets raves online, even when the reviews aren’t impressed with the service.

DCA’s restaurant team tried for months to recruit new employees from other fine dining restaurants in Southern California to staff the Carthay, even offering up to a $500 bonus for any existing Cast Member who could recommend someone with outside experience in fine dining. Almost amusingly, the Carthay Circle Theater management was hoping to snag employees currently working at Newport’s Pelican Hill or the Laguna Ritz-Carlton, as that was the service standard they had originally hoped to achieve.

But the reality is that very few of the Carthay’s CM’s have outside experience in fine dining, and many of the Cast Members now working at the Carthay Circle Theater are transfers from other theme park table service locations like the Carnation Café, Cafe Orleans or Storytellers Café. While those restaurants do a good job at delivering solid and smiley service, they simply aren’t up to competing in the AAA Four Diamond fine dining world that the Carthay Circle Theater was originally aiming for (they never really thought they could achieve a Five Diamond service level, but they were originally aiming for Four Diamonds).

Luckily for the management, many hardcore Disney fans splurging at the Carthay are happy to just gawk at the Snow White ceiling and ogle over the Walt pictures or marvel at the novelty ice cubes in their cocktail. But long term for the Carthay, they’ll be trying to up their game and develop a reputation for highly polished service that matches the stunning interior and excellent food quality. We wish them luck, but they’ll need to build a better buzz quickly if they want to fill the tables when the summer tourists disappear in September.

http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al073112a.htm

Franchement, ça m'étonne pas ! C'est une expo dans le style de celle des Disney Studios d'Orlando qu'ils auraient dû mettre dedans à la place du resto s'ils avaient voulu vraiment rendre hommage à Walt Disney ! Là, 99 % des guests passent à côté du bâtiment sans savoir ce qu'il représente historiquement (le théâtre où Blanche-Neige a été projeté pour la première fois). Une expo à l'intérieur aurait permis de l'expliquer...

Bon ben j'y ai diné et j'ai été conquis , c'est du très haut de gamme , le service était irréprochable , la nourriture était excellente ...
Si on doit trouvé un défaut a ce restaurant c'est qu'il y fait un poil trop sombre ...
La carte est assez restreinte et aussi très changeante ...
Perso j'ai prix des cailles qui étaient juste exquises ... et alors que normalement des cailles me laissent sur ma faim ... ici cela devait être des cailles de competitions

Bon vu le prix , ce n'est pas un restaurant pour tous les jours , mais quand on veut se faire plaisir , c'est parfait ...
Je me rends compte a posteriori que l'on n'a pas fait plus attention que cela au décor ...

Moi je me demande comment sera l'intérieur du restaurant "La Ratatouille" aux Wds et si le souci du détail et l'exigence du décor et mobilier sera aussi poussé .

En tant que non americain si je devais aller manger dans un restaurant ce serait le Cathay Circle, au moins le Cathay Circle est une valeur certaine. A croire que aux USA ils ne mangent que des hots dogs et des hamburgers.

Non mais vraiment quand on regarde les restos de DCA, ce sont TOUS des restos de malbouffe sauf peut-être Ariel Grotto et Wine Country Trattoria.

L'album officiel du restaurant est disponible et est superbe pour tous les amateurs de Jazz.

Au programme:
1. A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (from “Cinderella”)
2. Be Our Guest* (from “Beauty and the Beast”)
3. Ev’rybody Wants to Be A Cat (from “The Aristocats”)
4. Winnie the Pooh
5. A Whole New World*** (from “Aladdin”)
6. Alice in Wonderland
7. He’s a Tramp (from “Lady and the Tramp”)
8. Can You Feel The Love Tonight** (from “The Lion King”)
9. If I Didn’t Have You** (from “Monsters, Inc.”)
10. Married Life*** (from “Up”)
11. Some Day My Prince Will Come (from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”)
12. You’ve Got A Friend In Me* (from “Toy Story”)

Bonsoir l'album est disponible uniquement sur le parc ou es qu'on peut se le proccorer autre part ? En vous remerciant

j'aime bien ce CD de très beau morceau de jazz, sully bob je crois qu'il est disponible uniquement dans le parc

Merci pour la réponse je m'en doutais c'est dommage

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