Dressy restaurants

AkiraRaptor

Meega, nala kwishta!
The only in-park restaurant I'd feel out of place not dressing up a little would be Monsieur Paul, but I always were polo shirts and dress pants or shorts, so with the exception of V&A, you can do any place without being out of code.
 

tigsmom

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I've seen people in tank tops, flip flops and jeans shorts reminded that there is a dress code for the Yachtsman. These people just came in from the parks at their ADR time and were escorted to the back of the room
 
I agree with everyone else. Other than V & A what you wear into the parks should be sufficient attire. Now I don't go into the park with ripped up short shorts or anything like that and most guests don't. I really think Disney isn't going to turn away a party that has been walking around in the heat all day and are going to pay for a meal.
 

Jon81uk

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I agree with everyone else. Other than V & A what you wear into the parks should be sufficient attire. Now I don't go into the park with ripped up short shorts or anything like that and most guests don't. I really think Disney isn't going to turn away a party that has been walking around in the heat all day and are going to pay for a meal.

I would wear a tank or sleeveless t-shirt into the park, but that should never be worn to Cali Grill, Narcosees, Yachtsman etc.
Good park clothes is OK for signature, but not all park clothes.
 

John park hopper

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I posted this before Jiko has a dress code, not nearly as restrictive as V and A. Our last visit to Jiko in May they don't see to enforce it like so many of Disney's non enforced rules.
 

Hockey89

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They have and they will. It may not happen every time but we were at Yachtsman in June and we saw two people asked to change for wearing a tank top and shorts with flip flops. They had just come from Epcot.
Well they must have been drunk at the wheel our last meal there.... Those bathing suits and wife beaters added to the environment.
 

Janir

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Once again we disagree, my friend. I wear the cargo shorts for my entire WDW vacation, and that includes dinner at California Grill. As long as they're nice and you're not wearing a wife beater t-shirt, you'll be fine.
2nd'ed. I wear nice cargo shorts in the 'World as well and never had issues. I don't wear anything weird with logos or 'artsy/style' to them, but just shorts with extra pockets. I need those pockets! ;-)
 

Chi84

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My husband and I had an odd experience at Yachtsman a few years ago. The hostess who checked us in said something like, "Look at you in your pretty dress and you in your nice, collared shirt. It makes the staff feel good and adds to the dining experience, don't you think?" I'm sure it was meant as positive reinforcement, but it sounded like a comment more appropriately directed to children than to a couple in their sixties. Anyway, we were taken to a beautiful window table, where we received mediocre food and poor service. Crossed that one off our list.

Now we go to STK, where a snooty young hostess in a tight low-cut dress looks down her nose at our fashion choices. 😂
 

Hockey89

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My husband and I had an odd experience at Yachtsman a few years ago. The hostess who checked us in said something like, "Look at you in your pretty dress and you in your nice, collared shirt. It makes the staff feel good and adds to the dining experience, don't you think?" I'm sure it was meant as positive reinforcement, but it sounded like a comment more appropriately directed to children than to a couple in their sixties. Anyway, we were taken to a beautiful window table, where we received mediocre food and poor service. Crossed that one off our list.

Now we go to STK, where a snooty young hostess in a tight low-cut dress looks down her nose at our fashion choices. 😂
🤣🤣🤣. Nailed it. I wouldn’t go to the YM again even if someone else paid. What a shame. It wears so good at its prime.
 

My95cobras

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If I can go to the streakhouse in Canada in shorts and a t, you can go to any restaurant in Disney wearing that... except va
 

danyoung56

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Maybe it's just me, but I usually change for the evenings, regardless of where I am going, into a button down shirt that I can roll the sleeves up easily. I would always rather be overdressed than under.

I do the same thing, although a little differently. I'll park storm in the morning and afternoon in shorts and a nice t-shirt, then change into a collared golf shirt for the evening (still keeping my trusty cargo shorts). I've never felt under-dressed, even at the California Grill. Now, if I was showing up with ragged jean shorts and a wife beater t-shirt, well, THAT would be out of line.
 

Club Cooloholic

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I do the same thing, although a little differently. I'll park storm in the morning and afternoon in shorts and a nice t-shirt, then change into a collared golf shirt for the evening (still keeping my trusty cargo shorts). I've never felt under-dressed, even at the California Grill. Now, if I was showing up with ragged jean shorts and a wife beater t-shirt, well, THAT would be out of line.
Is it weird that I think nice shorts are usually better than jeans for dinner? That said I go khakis myself if going out for a nice dinner.
 

Jon81uk

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Don't worry about it Astroneedle, because they aren't enforcing the so-called dress code at any of the signature restaurants, EXCEPT for Victoria & Albert's. That one they still do things right. But the other restaurants, NO. I can't tell you how many times I've been to one of these places in the past 4 years now that claim on the website to have a dress code, only to go there to eat, while wearing nice attire as following the rules, and getting super PO'd at all the people coming in wearing their park attire basically. You could just tell that they'd just come in from the parks and either ignored the dress code or didn't know about it. And you'd think the host/hostess or manager would have enforced it right? NO. So don't worry about it apparently. Come as you are in regular, casual clothes because apparently, even though the restaurant's websites say there is a dress code, they don't care anymore about enforcing it, which is sad. But it's true too. So don't worry about a dress code because they are definitely not doing anything to enforce it. Apparently Disney is so money-hungry that this is what it's all about now. Creating rules but then not going by them because it's so obvious that they got tired of dealing with the slobs that came in wearing who knows what trying to claim they "didn't know" and they're so money hungry they apparently decided it's okay. At least that's what I've witnessed. My last trip, I had dinner at Yachtsman and just the amount of people that showed up in very casual attire, it was just so disappointing. I also witnessed this at Flying Fish, Narcoosee's and California Grill.

Victoria and Alberts is not one of the signature restaurants, it has a very different dress code to every other Disney restaurant.

Wearing park clothes is perfectly fine, but as most people have pointed out, they should be on the nicer end. I would expect polo shirts and dress shorts etc. Society isn't in the same place as it was and what passes as Smart Casual clothing has significantly changed. I would say a good well fitting, plain t-shirt is perfectly acceptable at most places with some unripped clean shorts.
 
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NickPytlinski

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what is a dress code really if the people are behaved? it grieves me when people 'think' they have a better meal because the way they are dressed. makes absolutely no sense really.



i have a funny story about V&A, very embarrassing. but makes for a great laugh for me and the wife. Basically i didn't book the meal and went very casual LOL the team there tried their very best, gave me a full suit to wear literally, it was massive on me and im not the smallest guy height and a little chubby :).
i sit down and our names are embroider into the menu, i looks at GF at the time (now wife) and say what have we done. look at the price of the meal and nearly died, it wasn't that i couldn't afford it in general. i had literally only bought cash with me that night and nothing like the cost of 2 meals though. i had to tell the server i couldn't afford the meal :( they were great and sorted us a table in citricos next door (which happend to be where our wedding meal was as we enjoying it that much) Me taking off the suit was a picture :)
we leanred a lesson that day i can tell you. But funny nonetheless.
 

Hockey89

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what is a dress code really if the people are behaved? it grieves me when people 'think' they have a better meal because the way they are dressed. makes absolutely no sense really.
I couldn’t disagree more. The dress and the atmosphere sets an standard and a way behave. Seeing the way people dress and act now at the YM compared to 20 years ago is night and day.

Joel Robuchon got it.
 

NickPytlinski

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I couldn’t disagree more. The dress and the atmosphere sets an standard and a way behave. Seeing the way people dress and act now at the YM compared to 20 years ago is night and day.

Joel Robuchon got it.

so the way someone dresses sets a standard for behaviour?

pretty sure most of the people that act like idiots are usually wearing a suit n tie.

shallow world
 

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