waltography
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The windows have food references in them ("Something new is cooking!" and "Gumbo is the spice of life!"), so I wonder if it's a kitchenware shop. It'd be fitting for a shop in New Orleans Square.
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News Le Bat En Rouge Shop seems to have permanently closed
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SuddenStorm
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I would love to see more dedicated shops return to New Orleans Square (and Main Street for that matter).
A kitchenware shop would be awesome, and if they brought back some form of an antique shop.
mharrington
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I was thinking maybe more of a shop selling cooking stuff, like Le Gourmet, but with a Tiana theme.And signs in the window seem to indicate that it's going to be replaced with a new restaurant (Tiana's Gumbo?):
PHOTOS: Le Bat en Rouge Closed at Disneyland For Conversion to New Quick Service Dining Location with Possible Princess and the Frog Theme - WDW News Today
Le Bat en Rouge in Disneyland's New Orleans Square is currently closed, with hints pointing to an additional quick service dining location.dlnewstoday.com
I miss the witch in the cage.
Stevek
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Probably something like this...New Orleans Food related.
VJ
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i really think the hints are pointing to something Princess and the Frog-related in advance of the new ride
waltography
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It may very well be a PatF-themed cooking shop given the color scheme, but the hints aren't really pointing to that so much as the color scheme is. If it were more PatF-focused, there's so many more relevant quotes to put in the windows than basic food-focused ones (i.e. "Dig a little deeper!" "Goin' down the bayou!" "We're almost there!" etc.). The "Set a table! Set a stage! Dress the part! Start a rage!" sign in particular makes me think it's plates, aprons, etc.
At the very least, I think we can comfortably say it's not another dining location (NOS isn't hurting for more of those, that's for sure).
jmuboy
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I’d be ok with this
Disney Irish
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My guesses in order:
1. A quick service Gumbo and other Cajun food pickup window similar to Royal Street Veranda.
2. A New Orleans/Tiana themed Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. This would keep with the previous dress shop venue.
3. I think its really less likely but could possibly be a Disney kitchenware store, as others have mentioned. However what would guests do with the kitchenware's while walking around the Park? Its not likely its easy to lug around an 8 piece plate set all day.
The first two seem most likely, the third not so much. I mean seriously do we think they are going to put a Disneyfied Williams-Sonoma in NOS? They already have Disney Home in DTD, so just seems strange to me that it would be that, but its not out of the realm of possibilities I guess. So who knows....
1. A quick service Gumbo and other Cajun food pickup window similar to Royal Street Veranda.
2. A New Orleans/Tiana themed Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. This would keep with the previous dress shop venue.
3. I think its really less likely but could possibly be a Disney kitchenware store, as others have mentioned. However what would guests do with the kitchenware's while walking around the Park? Its not likely its easy to lug around an 8 piece plate set all day.
The first two seem most likely, the third not so much. I mean seriously do we think they are going to put a Disneyfied Williams-Sonoma in NOS? They already have Disney Home in DTD, so just seems strange to me that it would be that, but its not out of the realm of possibilities I guess. So who knows....
waltography
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We've seen impractical stores before (thinking of the perfume shop, crystal shop, and Pandora jewelry shop all in the park at one point or another); I'm all for a Le Creuset Outlet in NOS.
Disney Irish
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Yes, but the difference between those shops and a Le Creuset or Willams-Sonoma type shop is you aren't carrying around 50+ lb crystals, perfume bottles, or jewelry all day.We've seen impractical stores before (thinking of the perfume shop, crystal shop, and Pandora jewelry shop all in the park at one point or another); I'm all for a Le Creuset Outlet in NOS.
Not saying they wouldn't do it, just seems less likely compared to a food pickup window or Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique type shop.
DrAlice
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I wondered about this too.
Honestly, I think we are all overthinking this. It's going to be a shop that carries all the stuff you can find elsewhere in the park. Somebody just got creative with the signs. I don't think they mean anything.
RescueTheDay
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If it were going to serve any type of food, we would already see permits filed. That would entail an overhaul of the space inside as there’s no kitchen attached.
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Disney Irish
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You could be right. As I said it was just a guess, we'll see soon it enough I'm sure.
TP2000
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In the 1990's they had a fun kitchenware shop in New Orleans Square. Lots of quality kitchen gear, and some authentic Creole foodstuffs also. This was back when Cajun cooking was a popular fad, and Emeril Lagasse was a new celebrity chef.
It was just next to the Gumbo stand, if memory serves.
It only lasted a few years in it's original Southern/Creole kitchenware format, and eventually it devolved into selling the same t-shirts and plastic crap made in Communist China no one actually needs that most other Disneyland stores sell.
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TP2000
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I'm all for a Le Creuset Outlet in NOS.
Don't you just love their stuff? It lasts a lifetime, and always looks great. And even when I'm screwing up dinner, Le Crueset makes it look like I know what I'm doing.
But I doubt we'd see that, because most Le Creuset stuff is still made in France by highly skilled Frenchmen. To pencil out for TDA, the merchandise sold at Disneyland has to be made in Communist China by indentured serfs working 12 hour days making $3 an hour.
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truecoat
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It lasts a lifetime if my wife isn't using it. We have quite the set and she broke the handle off a pan and cracked a big pot. Not to mention a couple chips on the lids. I wish we would have went with something cheaper that I could have replaced 5 times brand new by now.
Communicora
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She should submit a claim to take advantage of the lifetime warranty
Le Creuset offers a lifetime warranty—but is it for real?
Accidentally chipped your Dutch oven? Here’s what you need to do.
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truecoat
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She should submit a claim to take advantage of the lifetime warranty
Le Creuset offers a lifetime warranty—but is it for real?
Accidentally chipped your Dutch oven? Here’s what you need to do.
Thanks! I'm going to try it out on that handle that broke.
Disney Irish
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Whatever happened to this project? Did the store ever reopen as anything new for PatF?
SuddenStorm
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Still shows as Le Bat en Rouge on the app, with no selectable shop or restaurant there.
Crazy it's been almost a year.