Blue Bayou Restaurant

About Blue Bayou Restaurant

This is the restaurant that you float by while riding on Pirates of the Caribbean. Make your reservations in advance, up to 60 days before your visit, to avoid the up to two-hour wait for a table.

If you are looking for the Bayou's famous Monte Cristo sandwiches, either eat here at lunch, or go to Cafe Orleans across the street. The Monte Cristo's not on the Bayou's dinner menu.

Dinner Menu:
Crab Cakes
Jumbo Shrimp Remoulade
Beef Short Ribs
Seafood Jambalaya
Alaskan King Crab Legs
Five-Pepper Roasted Rib of Beef
Filet Mignon
Port-Royal Mahi Mahi
Tesoro Island Chicken
Portobello Mushroom and Couscous Maque Choux
Molasses-Brined Bayou Pork Chop
Cajun-Spice Salmon

Desserts:
Creme Brulee Trio
Kew West Lime Pie
Flying Dutchman Cookie Boat

Kids' Menu:
Kid-cut Prime Rib
Cheesy Macaroni
Citrus Chicken Drummettes
PB&J Monte Cristo (yep, it is fried)
-- Last edited by Robert Niles

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Readers' Opinions

I had a good time! A Disney Classic! I think lunch is better! - Anthony Murphy

Go at lunch, and get the Monte Cristo sandwich. That's worth the price of admission, and costs less than the dinner menu, whose bad review is below. - Dave Williamson

First I would like to say that was really excited about eating here. I’ve been a huge Disneyland fanatic since I was a kid; it is my favorite place to go. Pirates, is also one of my favorite rides and I always wondered what it would be like to eat at the blue bayou restaurant. So, when my girlfriend was coming to visit from Indiana, I thought it would be awesome to take her to Disneyland and have dinner at the blue bayou. I didn’t make any special reservations, but miraculously we were given a table within about 5mins of wait time. We both agreed that the ambiance was spectacular. It felt just like we were sitting on a porch along a river in some southern town, very awesome and very romantic. The food, on the other hand was worse than we could have ever imagined. 1st the bread rolls were completely stale and hard. They tasted just like cardboard; no amount of butter could hide that. For entree's, we both ordered the crab cakes because we are both big fans of crab. What a huge mistake. Not only were the $26 crab cakes (you only get 2 of them!) as big as quarters, my girlfriend and I both agreed that they tasted exactly like frozen fish sticks. There wasn't one bite that tasted anything like crab. I could have gone to the grocery store and spent $5 on frozen fish sticks and gotten the same effect. They were completely terrible and disgusting. Before we got there we had looked at the menu online and decided that for dessert we should definitely try the crème brulee trio. The trio included vanilla, chocolate, and "passion fruit" flavors of crème brulee as well as an "edible" chest with chocolate coins inside. This was another major disappointment. While the vanilla crème brulee was OK, the chocolate was sub par and the "passion fruit" didn’t even taste like passion fruit. I can’t even describe what it tasted like, but the best word that I could use would be strange. It wasn’t fruity at all, it was just gross. As for the chest, if you are some sort of animal with a ridiculously strong jaw and teeth, then MAYBE you could eat it or even break a piece off it. I swear to christ it was made of plastic! And the menu said it was edible! My girlfriend and I nearly broke our teeth off trying to bite it. The only thing good about the entire dessert were the foil wrapped chocolate coins. Those were tasty. Overall we were extremely disappointed with this restaurant. My girlfriend was visiting California from Indiana! This was supposed to be special and it totally wasn't! Maybe we got the "wrong" dish or whatever but in my opinion everything on the menu should be tasty and if nothing else, worth the ridiculous price tag. The ambiance was really awesome but we both agreed it was not worth the $60+ bill. I give this overpriced McDonalds a 2/10. If not for the ambiance and excellent service it would have gotten a 0. I do not recommend it, save your money and go someplace else instead. - mark jefferson

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