Dining Type
Table Service
Cuisine
seafood
Price Range
$$$
Status
Open
Disney's 2026 holiday foodie guide lists 11 items at Santa's Holiday Grove, 10 of them new, from November 13 through January 3. Five other Animal Kingdom dining spots start a week earlier on November 6, Hollywood Studios starts November 7 and most of Magic Kingdom starts November 8. No prices are listed yet.
Waterview Park, the open-air live music venue in The Landing, reopened Tuesday with a permanent shade canopy stretched over its seating area. The venue closed in early May for a project reported at the time to take about a month, and the reopening date on record was May 23. It came back 87 days past that target, with live entertainment scheduled to resume at 6pm on reopening night.
Before character dining was a Walt Disney World staple, the Empress Lilly riverboat offered something magical — a sit-down breakfast with Mickey, Minnie, and friends aboard a paddle steamer on Village Lake. For an entire generation of 1980s kids, it was their very first Disney character meal.
