This summer, we are reintroducing our listeners to the BEST OF SCFADP by playing our 10 most popular episodes. In this episode, we review an AMAZING meal at Topolino’s Terrace at Disney’s Riviera Resort.
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Show Notes:
Chris and Kelli shared their dining experiences at Topolino’s Terrace and another restaurant, praising the quality of the food, ambiance, and service. Chris initially had doubts about the elegance of Topolino’s Terrace due to its Character Breakfast offering, but Kelli assured him it exceeded expectations. Kelli highlighted unique features of the other restaurant, such as handcrafted pasta and a secret vegetarian menu option, while Chris praised the perfectly grilled salmon and delicious artichoke hearts. Both speakers recommended the restaurants they visited, with Kelli suggesting Topolino’s Terrace for vegetarians and Chris endorsing it for meat lovers.
Outline
New Disney restaurant with views and character breakfast.
- Chris and Kelli reminisce about their visit to a restaurant and share their favorite dishes.
- Topolino’s Terrace offers Mediterranean Italian fare with stunning views.
Dining at a restaurant at Disney World, including menu items and service.
- Kelli and Chris dine at the Riviera Resaurant, praising its elegant atmosphere and delicious menu.
- Kelli and Chris enjoy pasta and vegetarian options at a restaurant.
Food, wine, and service at an upscale restaurant.
- Chris and Kelli enjoyed the salmon dish at the restaurant, describing it as “luscious” and “perfectly grilled.”
- The chocolate lava cake at the restaurant was “phenomenal,” with Chris almost licking the plate.
- Elegant dining experience with exceptional service and delicious food.
Episode Transcript:
NOTE: This transcript was produced by AI. Please excuse any errors.
Welcome aboard, Disney fam. Hello out there Disney fam. Oh, I’m so excited. My name is Chris.
Kelli 0:36
And I’m Kelly.
Chris 0:36
Welcome to the podcast.
Kelli 0:38
Yes, we are still making our way through our best of summer and we are now officially to our second most popular episode ever. Also from season three, also another bonus episode we must have really done great on the bonuses and we were really, really are eating a lot of you guys. This one originally aired on January the seventh of 2021. And it is a bonus episode on our visit to totally nose terrace. Which I still remember every bite I took in that restaurant
Chris 1:11
was so so good. You know, though, we had just come back from a trip and we did all these like in successive weeks these bonus episodes I’m noticing well they were these food places that were so crazy.
Kelli 1:24
And people probably still drooling over them. But I remember that the chef took Linus here has made me a vegetarian pasta, which was phenomenal. I remember that. Cottage cheese dip.
Chris 1:38
Yep, yeah.
Kelli 1:39
Oh my gosh. And the chocolate cake.
Chris 1:41
Oh stop. Stop. Let’s just go here and again.
Kelli 1:45
It’s so good.
Chris 1:48
Hey everybody, welcome to a season three bonus episode tonight we are talking about Topo Leno’s terrace is a brand new technically brand new restaurant that sits on top of the Disney’s new Riviera resort one of their new DVC resorts it just opened in December 2019. In the restaurant opened right along with it shiny and pretty. It is shiny, it is pretty. The whole resort is beautiful. So this was this this restaurant totally knows tears totally know is Mickey Mouse in Italian. And it in the Riviera is it is French Riviera Italian Riviera themed. And so that’s also the theme of the dinner service that they have is is Mediterranean Italian fare. And so the restaurant sits atop one of the towers at Riviera. And it’s got all these wonderful grand views of Walt Disney World Resort. In the morning, they actually offer a Character Breakfast from 730 to 1115. It features a delicious fixed price menu including pastries, bread, quiche, sour cream waffles, smoked salmon a lot more, and you’ll be treated to the amazing views that are a hallmark of this restaurant, as well as parades of Mickey Minnie Donald and Daisy in artful outfits. So that’s always a good time. The charming cafe at breakfast transforms into pure elegance for dinner service. That’s inspired by the cliffside restaurants of France and Italy that look out over the Mediterranean. In this case, the views include the lake between Riviera resort and the Caribbean Beach Resort across the way and further in the distance you can enjoy views of Epcot and Hollywood see as I imagined the firework shows look amazing. From this view, by the way, there is a technically a dress code for toppling as terrorists, but they do they’re not strict about it. They make you feel warm and welcome just as you expect Disney would. We came directly from Hollywood Studios for our reservation, wearing shorts and sweatshirt that we wore to the park and it was fine.
Kelli 3:53
Yeah, they were really nice. They were really nice about it. And speaking of which location, location location, this restaurant is so easy to get to. So we were at Hollywood Studios. Today we went we hopped on the skyline or my favorite mode of transportation and popped right over to the Riviera. It was a lovely trip from Hollywood studios to the Riviera. 10 minutes total. Oh, it was relaxing. There was a breeze. It was fantastic. Highly recommend. It’s just so easy to get to this restaurant from really anywhere.
Chris 4:21
Yeah, it really is. The real show here is the dinner menu. That I I was a little skeptical of how nice totally nice terrace could be given that it is also the destination of a Character Breakfast not to take anything away from the Character Breakfast, but they can be wild and crazy. Yeah. So I wasn’t sure was this going to really reach the elegance standards that I might have been expecting. And truthfully, this is a step above any of the nicest restaurants you’ll find in the parks. This is this is definitely above even the Hollywood Brown Derby or About everywhere like that in the parks. This is a place that you will go and you want to feel like you’re having a nice meal. I
Kelli 5:06
was yes, it was very nice. So I’ll cover some of the menu. First of all, they have several antipasto, things that are phenomenal. But what our waitress told us is that everybody gets the ricotta. It’s what we got. It was lovely. It was right. She was so right, that it came with a plate of ricotta with some H balsalmic. Tomatoes, cracked pepper and basil. It was just perfection one of the plate and they served it with this these breadsticks that looked like a tree with branches. I can’t even explain it was
Chris 5:40
kind of like pretzel bread, but it wasn’t quite.
Kelli 5:42
It was beautiful and it tasted good. Oh it was perfect was perfection in bread which you guys know I love perfection and bread. And let’s just smear some ricotta on it. It was fantastic. So good. We didn’t have any of the starters but they do have several like a bisque and as cargo if you’re interested in that. So again, like what you were mentioning, sort of top tier stuff there as cargo. You don’t get in a lot of park restaurants. They have handcrafted pasta, so they make their pasta there in the in the restaurant every day. And so I had you guys know, I’m vegetarian and I had heard that there was a secret menu option that you could tell the chef you’re a vegetarian and he would make you a pasta. Like special like he would just whip that up. And so I asked our waitress and she was phenomenal. And he did. And so she told me I’ve recommend this particular pasta you can have one of these different sauces. And I went with an an Alfredo sauce, which was very light. It was perfect. And then some amazing amazing root veggies. Yeah,
Chris 6:43
yeah, it was. Oh, it
Kelli 6:44
was good.
Chris 6:45
I’ve never seen and that was Alfredo but it was like this handmade like
Kelli 6:51
perfect. And I told the waitress. They also have a bean Castle lay there that is plant based and I was totally fine trying that. That’s also plant based sausage, trumpet mushrooms and root vegetables. I was sure that would be phenomenal. But I was really feeling pasta like I saw the pasta when we walked in and I was like I really want the pasta. So she did a great job there. What did you get home?
Chris 7:14
Yeah, so I got the the salmon dish the king salmon me qui I’m sure I’m saying that wrong. This was the most luscious, beautiful, perfectly grilled medium piece of salmon sitting on a bed of artichoke RoZeta it was so precious. I mean it was beautiful. It was great. It was it was grilled perfectly. The the rizona was creamy and soft and luscious. These artichoke hearts I’m not an artichoke fan, but I was devouring these constitute they were so so good. So I mean I would highly recommend the salmon there it was it was perfect. And they also have they’ve got you know sold on the menu they’ve got they’ve got lamb shank and veal chop and a what appears to be a beautiful filet mignon. But then there comes the dessert there
Kelli 8:13
comes the dessert, right and so we had sort of been saving up for this when we knew it was gonna be a great meal. We went with the chocolate lava cake now they call that the warm Volcarona I’m sure I screwed that up. Chocolate cake with a caramel Sen Chantilly cream and raspberries. They also have like a mousse and a pistachio mousse chocolate cake. They have lovely desserts. I mean, I’ll say I didn’t think these were overpriced, right? The dessert was $14 That’s as far as you know. Pricing goes I thought that was very reasonable. So the chocolate cake the chocolate lava cake was phenomenal. There’s no other way to put it. So over the top
Chris 8:54
I just about licked the plate. If it hadn’t been such an elegant place. Yeah, we’ve and we
Kelli 8:59
were sitting in like a booth that was sort of like a semi circle so we were facing outward and I would have felt bad about licking the plate. But if we had been in more of a closed off situation.
Chris 9:11
give that a shot. Oh that’s amazing. Yeah, it was good. It was warm a cake. Oh it was fudgy chocolate cake can you crack it open and it just deliciousness all over the place. They had a little a little circle of of ice cream there and then you just I didn’t even get the taste that Chantilly. I always strive for that so I can’t really I mean I’m sure the pistachio mousse and the fruits of the forest are delicious. But get the chocolate cake. Your your your waiter or waitress will not leave you Australia, Australia they’ll take
Kelli 9:47
it was great and I mean I will say too we had a couple of lessons a Chardonnay I thought their wine prices were very reasonable. Yeah, we should have gotten the bottle we
Chris 9:55
should have gotten about we had enough. Yeah assets to pay for the bottle.
Kelli 9:58
Buy that I’m into, right So, prices were very reasonable. But ya know, the desert the food, the wine, the ambiance, the location, the service that it was phenomenal. Absolutely
Chris 10:12
will go back the service was perfection. I can’t say enough about how pleasantly surprised I was about the entire elegance and I’ve
Kelli 10:22
loved here it’s my new favorite was it was wonderful. Absolutely. My new favorite for top to your dining.
Chris 10:27
Yeah, so So hey, if you want to see how not to do that chocolate cake, by the way, we actually tried to make it before we actually went on our most recent trip. And it was an utter catastrophe. The one they actually serve it totally knows is on point and much better than when we made it home. So go check that out, too. In fact, follow us on all the socials at SEF ADP on Instagram and Twitter. Go subscribe to us on YouTube Supercalifragilistic awesome Disney podcast. And with that we hope to see you real soon