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New Rumor: Cantina de San Angel to be torn down and replaced
- Thread starter Rob562
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I get the pre-made chips at the CS, I don't like it but I understand why they are used there, but at a TS restaurant there is just no excuse for it. If I can get fresh made chips with my $4.49 Speedy Gonzales at La Nopalera I should be able to get them with my $32.00 Filete Motuleno at San Angel.
imamouse
Well-Known Member
I just hope WDW doesn't start charging for the upper balcony seats for Illuminations like they do at DL for Fantasmic!
As for the tequila bar - I never thought it was a good idea in the first place. People can get sloppy drunk fast on a few shots of tequila. Not family theme park appropriate IMO.
As for the tequila bar - I never thought it was a good idea in the first place. People can get sloppy drunk fast on a few shots of tequila. Not family theme park appropriate IMO.
DisneyDellsDude
New Member
Just looking at reviews, San Angel has only a 4.9/10 on this site, and a 6.85/10 on Allears (which is the lowest score of any Epcot restaurant on Allears).
ClemsonTigger
Naturally Grumpy
...as long as they offer up some decent sangrita as well.
One Lil Spark
EPCOT Center Defender
Ooo, yeah! Hopefully they'll make it fresh. Nothing like eating the orange slice when you're done. :slurp:
Brian_WDW74
Member
The WDW News site was updated a short time ago to include this brief item:
This may be a small indication of the validity of the rumors.
This may be a small indication of the validity of the rumors.
wickedfan07
Member
The Cantina is one of my favorite places to watch IllumiNations, so I'll be disappointed if it is replaced with a two-story table service restaurant. Oh well, time to find a new viewing spot.
tirian
Well-Known Member
San Angel is one of the nastiest, most overpriced restaurants in WDW. I've been to Mexico, and I've had all three of the dominant versions of Mexican food; and the crap inside that pyramid doesn't taste like any of them. It doesn't even taste like Tex-Mex or American "Mexican." In fact, the food doesn't really have any flavor at all! :lol: This is truly the only restaurant in Epcot I avoid.
p.s. Bagged chips don't exist in authentic Mexican restaurants. The San Angel is a joke.
p.s. Bagged chips don't exist in authentic Mexican restaurants. The San Angel is a joke.
Computer Magic
Well-Known Member
My wife got sick from eating at San Angel, so that is why we don't go.
Maybe this will stay a CS and just add seating and a new menu. That would be cool, SOmething like the second story seating at MK Columbia House
SirNim
Well-Known Member
Well this would be the first major change to the World Showcase Lagoon skyline since...well... I don't know, some time ago... What is interesting is how Mexico would approach the restaurant situations in Japan and France, which notably featured several restaurants rolled into one pavilion, in contrast to just one table service and one counter service like the other pavilions. A sign of demographic trends in the origin of visitors to the Vacation Kingdom of the World?
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
What an odd rumor! It would be interesting to see the construction in WS, tastefully of course, but I would hope that they would use the $$$ for other means. *coughJapancough*
olmec26
New Member
t3techcom18
Well-Known Member
If this news is true, it's pretty sad. San Angel inside has been an absolute disgrace for several years now; while the atmosphere is eloquent and beautiful - as most say on here, the food definitely isn't. As a Latino myself, it's pretty embarrassing when you say that the real stuff nearly tastes like is the fast food outside than the TS inside, even if it's always been cheap. Pathetic. Always been odd to me as to why they've never changed it all these years, but, that's their issue.
That, and having a story building right next door??...Kinda defeats the purpose.
Err...I was there week before New Year's and they still the styrofoam containers as norm, so I would assume it's safe to say they're still there. Food was still as norm, nothing changed.
That, and having a story building right next door??...Kinda defeats the purpose.
Err...I was there week before New Year's and they still the styrofoam containers as norm, so I would assume it's safe to say they're still there. Food was still as norm, nothing changed.
wickedsoccer22
Active Member
Why do they have to build up? Why can't they just expand over the lake to make a TS restaurant? That would only block a bit more viewing points around that corner, but not block the actual pyramid.
scpergj
Well-Known Member
La Nopalera....mmmmm!!!
Burrito plate, beans, rice...and a pitcher of margaritas!
Gotta love the resteraunt scene in the JAX area!!
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
Yep...And if they do this, I rreeeeeeally wish the $$$ would be allocated elsewhere. Ride > Resturant any-day.:lol:
WDW1974
Well-Known Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by kcnole
If upscale Mexican can use pre-packaged chips then I guess it can be, but its a pretty crappy Mexican restaurant. If this upgrade to it brings in real on site cooked tortilla chips then I'll be happy. Its got a beautiful setting for a restaurant, but the food leaves a lot to be desired.
Yeah ... again, WalMarting. Magical.
The cheapest little Mexican dive in a strip center in Central FLA will serve you fresh home made chips and salsa.
But at EPCOT? You get them tasty bag Tostitos and salsa just like you picked them up at the WalMart SuperCenter on 535 for the big game.
It wasn't always this way. They used to serve delicious chips hot out of the oven with originally two kinds (late just one) of home-made salsa ... they were great ... they were still doing this as late as 2001-02 ... but when I returned after a few year absence in 2005 or possibly 2006 they were out of the bag and I was shocked by such a tacky stunt at what is considered a high end restaurant.
Haven't been back since.
As to the topic of this thread, all of what was listed in the OP was/is planned. I have no idea if the economy has slowed or cancelled these plans.
Originally Posted by kcnole
If upscale Mexican can use pre-packaged chips then I guess it can be, but its a pretty crappy Mexican restaurant. If this upgrade to it brings in real on site cooked tortilla chips then I'll be happy. Its got a beautiful setting for a restaurant, but the food leaves a lot to be desired.
Yeah ... again, WalMarting. Magical.
The cheapest little Mexican dive in a strip center in Central FLA will serve you fresh home made chips and salsa.
But at EPCOT? You get them tasty bag Tostitos and salsa just like you picked them up at the WalMart SuperCenter on 535 for the big game.
It wasn't always this way. They used to serve delicious chips hot out of the oven with originally two kinds (late just one) of home-made salsa ... they were great ... they were still doing this as late as 2001-02 ... but when I returned after a few year absence in 2005 or possibly 2006 they were out of the bag and I was shocked by such a tacky stunt at what is considered a high end restaurant.
Haven't been back since.
As to the topic of this thread, all of what was listed in the OP was/is planned. I have no idea if the economy has slowed or cancelled these plans.
WDW1974
Well-Known Member
Just another thought, but the food at San Angel Inn used to be excellent. Of course that was in the 80s and early 90s ... back when you actually got a multi-page menu before Tom Kelly and his consulting firm (RMS) came into Disney and destroyed dining (or tried ... he eventually was drummed out of the company, but since has come back in favor with some WDW reject execs over in Paris and is working on destroying dining there now) ... by the early part of this decade the food was average at best.
And again Mexican isn't the most difficult kind of cuisine to make ... I can even do it myself and I am no cook!
And again Mexican isn't the most difficult kind of cuisine to make ... I can even do it myself and I am no cook!