South American Themed Restaurant in Pleasure Island

JimB · Post by **JimB** » Oct Sat 18, 2008 5:18 am

The long closed small shops next to the Adventurers Club are being refurbished into a new E-Brands South American Cuisine Restaurant scheduled to open in 2009. I guess this is among the first of the restaurants to be coming in the Pleasure Island makeover.

NOTE: I added a picture of one of the signs that's on the outside construction walls. Since it's going to be one of the E-Brand restaurants maybe a search of some of their other locations will give you a clue as to the what the menu offerings are going to be.

spodie · Post by **spodie** » Oct Sat 18, 2008 6:13 am

Sounds cool! I'm really liking how Disney is continuing to be diverse with their cusines.

pixiesparkles · Post by **pixiesparkles** » Oct Sat 18, 2008 8:25 am

Wow, that sounds really neat.

cccmouse · Post by **cccmouse** » Oct Sat 18, 2008 8:40 am

I would need to see a menu. I don't have a clue as to what South American cuisine is!

yodiwan1 · Post by **yodiwan1** » Oct Sat 18, 2008 8:53 am

I am not a huge fan of this...I know that south american, and cuban are different, but isn't Bongos still there? I'd say theya re still pretty close...Why don't they do something different, like a chinese or thia resteraunt.

agingerbugg · Post by **agingerbugg** » Oct Sat 18, 2008 8:59 am

yodiwan1 wrote:I am not a huge fan of this...I know that south american, and cuban are different, but isn't Bongos still there? I'd say theya re still pretty close...Why don't they do something different, like a chinese or thia resteraunt.

Because more South Americans visit WDW than Chinese and Thia, mainly Brazilians. I will definitely eat there if they have rodizio.

yodiwan1 · Post by **yodiwan1** » Oct Sat 18, 2008 9:07 am

I know there are a lot of South Americans in the parks, but when I worked there the numbers were pretty equal with Asian guests...They can have at least one Asain themes eatery somewhere besides Epcot, and that does not include the eggroll stnad in MK, even though I think thats gone as well.

IMFearless · Post by **IMFearless** » Oct Sat 18, 2008 7:22 pm

I'm probably with yodiwan on this one... if they actually build this, then I demand they replace Bongos with the Adventurer's Club. >_<

Post by **horizons1** » Oct Sun 19, 2008 12:00 pm

I think there's room for plenty of international cuisine.

JimB · Post by **JimB** » Oct Sun 19, 2008 12:09 pm

horizons1 wrote:I think there's room for plenty of international cuisine.

Time will tell but I'll bet that's Disney's thinking for Pleasure Island.

Post by **horizons1** » Oct Mon 20, 2008 5:17 pm

Not to go too far off topic but it would be nice if they built something other than more restaurants and stores into all the old PI space. Not sure what, but some sort of entertainment option.

agingerbugg · Post by **agingerbugg** » Oct Mon 20, 2008 5:20 pm

horizons1 wrote:I think there's room for plenty of international cuisine.

"There's room for everyone in this world, if everyone'd make some room..." Sorry I couldn't help myself.

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Oct Thu 23, 2008 10:38 pm

I went and looked up the e-brands website (here --> link). Just judging from the names of the places they run and some of the other articles I saw on google, it does sound kinda close to Bongos.

One thing I found interesting about the guy who runs it (via one of those articles):

A consummate businessman, Choufani owned and operated seven restaurants in Morocco and was President of the Moroccan Restaurant Association, prior to starting E Brands Restaurants in the US. Choufani was also responsible for opening Restaurant Marrakesh in the Moroccan Pavilion at Epcot 25-years ago.

Anyone remember what the food was like in there 25 years ago? It's not great now but that might not be his fault.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Oct Fri 24, 2008 6:15 am

Street Foods? Now that sounds exciting! I'm from Brooklyn and there street foods can be from any place, it all depends in where in the City you are at the time. Kinda like the United Nations of food.

Mr.ToadWildRider · Post by **Mr.ToadWildRider** » Oct Fri 24, 2008 7:30 am

yodiwan1 wrote:They can have at least one Asain themes eatery somewhere besides Epcot, and that does not include the eggroll stnad in MK, even though I think thats gone as well.

There's Kimonos at the Dolphin (or is it Swan?) but maybe that's not technically "Disney".