River Belle Terrace

Enjoy hearty and healthful specialties for lunch and dinner including sandwiches, roast New York and turkey breast. Once Walt Disney's cherished breakfast locale, this restaurant remains a favorite for classic breakfast fare including our famous Mickey Mouse pancakes.

Stroll through an illustrious Ante-bellum entrance and discover a sweet spot for Southern hospitality and down-home comfort food. Dine at this counter-service restaurant under elegant wrought-iron chandeliers or sit a spell on the shade-dappled terrace and watch the Mark Twain Steamboat paddle down the Rivers of America.

Touring Tips

• For breakfast, indulge in the ever-popular Mickey Mouse Pancakes or heaping helpings of scrambled eggs and bacon. During lunch or dinner, don't miss the Signature Sandwiches served on soft baguettes, featuring turkey breast, barbecued pork or savory vegetables. All sandwiches are accompanied by southern baked beans and your choice of a side.
• Tucked into the joint between New Orleans Square, Adventureland, and Frontierland, the lines tend to be slow moving, but the restaurant has plenty of seating and a nice view of Rivers of America.
• Offering one of the most picturesque views of the Rivers of the America, The River Belle Terrace building is one of the original Disneyland Park eateries, dating back to the park's opening in 1955. Walt Disney had breakfast here on innumerable Sunday mornings.
• This 1955 Disneyland original seems to survive by keeping the menu fresh and flexible, and the new "Carver" menu is a great upgrade. Disney lore places Walt here every morning for breakfast for Mickey pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage, and large, buttery cinnamon rolls dripping with buttercream frosting. We like this place for light lunches or dinners when you don't want to take a lot of time for a formal sit-down meal. Grab a hot sandwich, a PB&J or a couple of mini–corn dogs for the kids, and a tall lemonade, and people-watch from the patio awhile.

History

A restaurant first opened in this location a few weeks after the park on August 9, 1955. Between that date and 1971 the restuarant went through several names: Aunt Jemima's Pancake House (1955-1962), Aunt Jemima's Kitchen (1962-1970), and Magnolia Tree Terrace (1970-1971). Quaker Oats was the original sponsor of the restaurant and in the early years, park guests could actually meet Aunt Jemima at the restaurant. When the Quaker Oats sponsorship ended in 1970, the restaurants name was quickly changed and then closed to reopen as River Belle Terrace. As part of the restuarant's remodel into Aunt Jemima's Kitchen in 1962, the restaurant expanded into the space occupied since 1957 by Don DeFore's Silver Banjo BBQ, and before that had been the original home of Casa de Fritos.

River Belle Terrace has been running pretty much without change since it reopened under this name in 1971. Oscar Meyer was the original sponsor and later Hormel and Sunkist had sponsorships. Currently the restaurant is without a sponsor.