New water-side restaurant 'Spice Road Table' coming to Epcot's Morocco Pavilion?

[PeterAlt]

WDW ought to build an entire WS of US states! Local architecture, local cuisine.

A New Orleans Square area, with cajun food. A Liberty Squaresque New England, with seafood. BVS for California, with health food. Texas, with 22lbs steaks.

I'd kill to visit something like that.

Remember what my monorail research turned up... That they were planning a New Orleans Square at what is now DTD as the main attraction for an expanded monorail loop from EPCOT. Would have been great!

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Remember what my monorail research turned up... That they were planning a New Orleans Square at what is now DTD as the main attraction for an expanded monorail loop from EPCOT. Would have been great!

Aye! A NOS would've been the perfect complement to a certain LBV paddlewheel steamboat!

 

[bdearl41]

So the overall theme from this thread is that there is a new restaurant on the lagoon, but no water slide. WHY IS THERE NO WATER SLIDE!!!

 

[Mickey_777]

So the overall theme from this thread is that there is a new restaurant on the lagoon, but no water slide. WHY IS THERE NO WATER SLIDE!!!

My understanding is that EPCOT is a water slide free zone.

 

[bdearl41]

My understanding is that EPCOT is a water slide free zone.

Absurd!

 

[prfctlyximprct]

They should make a restaurant in the middle of the lagoon, like Caribbean cuisine or something. Now that'd be cool!

 

[marni1971]

Sigh

 

[rudyjr13]

That was fast for them:
http://bit.ly/13LwkeG

 

[prfctlyximprct]

Just announced on the blog

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/

 

[Clamman73]

They should make a restaurant in the middle of the lagoon, like Caribbean cuisine or something. Now that'd be cool!

...and at the 9:00 seating, they give you marshmallows on a stick to hold up during the start of Illuminations to roast.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Just announced on the blog

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/

No concept art? Lame.

 

[DisneyWall-E]

Just what EPCOT Center needs, more restaurants/food stands. Lord forbid a new ride makes its way in there.

 

[mickey2008.1]

It's just another way to get us to make a dining reservation so we have a 50% chance to see illuminations. Great idea! J/K. Fix Liberty Tree first, so mis represented, or is it with all the burger joints out there. Maybe thats what tourists want from oversees. I would rather see a good american seafood and steak house. Missing out on some great all american dishes. I get a good burger, and a steak, mahi mahi or grouper, mac n cheese, playful hot dogs, fried chicken, so many great things. WDW needs a poll on what to put in there. Well, just have to wait and see what Morocco does, I hope it's like the old La Hacienda, cs and sit out side waiting for illuminations, just enjoying the area with a cold beer or margerita and not all cluttered up.

 

[Prototype82]

The architecture better be astoundingly better than La Hacienda's. This is the most authentic pavilion in the park in my opinion. Get it right, and avoid clutter at all costs. It was one thing to put it in front of Mexico's lone pyramid, but the Morocco pavilion's skyline was a thing of perfection.

 

[Bolna]

The architecture better be astoundingly better than La Hacienda's. This is the most authentic pavilion in the park in my opinion. Get it right, and avoid clutter at all costs. It was one thing to put it in front of Mexico's lone pyramid, but the Morocco pavilion's skyline was a thing of perfection.

It won't be the most authentic pavilion anymore once the "Mediterranean" restaurant opens. Mediterranean covers such a huge and divers region, which mainly shares one thing: a coast at the Mediterranean Sea. And while there are some similarities between the different cuisines, there are also huge differences! It's kind of as authentic as a Pan-Asian restaurant...

 

[MaryJaneP]

Next waterside restaurant will be exclusively a 'smore restaurant. You can melt your own marshmallows during Illuminations flame sequences.

 

[SirLink]

It's not the last. There's another one they are looking to do. ... and it will clutter up the area just like the Hacienda (which I still haven't tried yet) does at Mexico.

It's also going to be more Med-inspired cuisine than Moroccan as folks don't exactly make beelines to get ressies at the current locale 180 days out. I've been told Tapas at real world moderate restaurant entree prices.

So wouldn't it make more sense to convert the current restaurant and pavilion to be more like Northern Morocco? Than build out another restaurant...

So it takes them less than 8 months to get a restaurant built but a new ride takes forever ... now let us go through logic:

1)Does a new eatery increase people coming through the turnstiles? Nope!
2)Does a new ride increase people coming through the turnstiles? YES!
3)Therefore should a new ride be built before a new eatery? YES!

 

[ParentsOf4]

Just what EPCOT Center needs, more restaurants/food stands. Lord forbid a new ride makes its way in there.

I understand where you are coming from but I still prefer the World Showcase being the "grown up" part of WDW: dining, drinks, shopping, and (mostly) movies.

I just wish they'd add a few more countries.

 

[RandySavage]

Any chance they will leave the lovely Moroccan waterfront area alone (irrigation system, water wheel, mud buildings) and build this thing slightly east of the actual pavilion, or is that too much to ask/hope for?

 

[SirLink]

Any chance they will leave the lovely Moroccan waterfront area alone (irrigation system, water wheel, mud buildings) and build this thing slightly east of the actual pavilion, or is that too much to ask/hope for?

Too much to ask for