From the Disney Parks Blog:
We’ve been sharing details here on the Disney Parks Blog about the new Disneyland Hotel restaurants, Tangaroa Terrace – Casual Island Dining and Trader Sam’s – Enchanted Tiki Bar, and today we’ve got even more to share with you. The biggest news is that both restaurants will open on May 25!
Tangaroa Terrace – Casual Island Dining will feature a tropical setting complete with tiki torches and island music setting the stage for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Guests can start the day with signature breakfast items such as French toast with bacon and warm banana-caramel sauce and grilled cinnamon-spice oatmeal with island fruit.
For lunch and dinner, Tangaroa Terrace – Casual Island Dining will offer a 1/3-pound Angus Hawaiian cheeseburger with teriyaki sauce, bacon, grilled pineapple, Havarti, tomato and lettuce burger on a multi-grain bun. (Can you imagine taking the first messy bite?) For the health conscious, the Asian chicken salad has lots of greens (lettuce, cabbage, carrots, sweet peppers and cucumbers) with chicken breast, cashews and rice noodles in a sesame vinaigrette. The Kalua pork flatbread is topped with pulled pork, barbecue sauce, red onion and fresh cilantro.
Every evening, a different “Island Plate Dinner” will be on the menu. Look for miso-crusted salmon, tamarind-glazed pork shanks or panko-crusted chicken, each served with jasmine rice, panko-crusted long beans and green papaya slaw.
If you’re in a hurry, a “Grab ‘n Go” selection includes yogurt parfait with tropical fruits and house-made granola, a tropical fruit plate, house-made pastries, sandwiches, veggie with dips, a sweet potato cake with guava cream cheese icing, pineapple-lilikoi pie, and “Trader Sam’s Dessert Flight” with pineapple upside-down cake, layered passion fruit with pineapple-coconut crème and chocolate coffee cake.
Trader Sam’s—Enchanted Tiki Bar is adjacent to Tangaroa Terrace – Casual Island Dining, with substantial “bar food” – sweet ‘n spicy Asian wings, chicken lettuce wraps, panko-crusted Chinese long beans with Sriracha mayo, tamarind-glazed pork shanks with green papaya slaw and ahi poke (sushi-grade tuna) with avocado, green onion and crispy wontons.
But it’s the vintage island cocktails in kitschy glassware that we can’t wait to try. How about Krakatoa Punch with reserve aged rum, light rum, tropical juices, almond syrup and hibiscus grenadine? Or Uh Oa!, with light rum, spiced rum, guava, orange, passion fruit, grapefruit, fresh lime juice and cinnamon? Serious rum lovers will want to try the HippopotoMai Tai with two shots of light and dark rums, orange curacao, almond syrup, organic agave nectar and fresh lime juice.
The non-alcoholic Schweitzer Falls is a refreshing blend of pineapple, guava, orange and passion fruit juices with all-spice syrup and a splash of Sprite.
Now we’re dreaming of vacation time!
Trader Sam's – Adventurers Club Light! woot! Hopin' Sam has the World Famous Kungaloosh on his specialty drink board…and Tongarora's having Tonga Toast West? Life gets good…now just bring back the actual Adventurers Club and all will be right with the world! KUNGALOOSH!
Unfortunately this 'Re-Imagineering' of the Disneyland Hotel complex isn't doing it any favors. And Tangaroa Terrace, the extension of Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar, is just one example.
And I admit it. I'm old school here. I'm not one that thinks just because change is inevitable it is somehow good. I wasn't at all impressed with TT & TSETB inside and especially outside. Inside too small and too dark. Outdoor terrace didn't remind me much of a Tiki bar what with that sad iron fencing/railing surrounding it. Iron lanterns? You've got to be kidding me. Can't you at least make iron to look like bamboo? Of course you can. And that furniture? Much too modern looking. Waiters & servers? Don't get me started. What's with those uniforms??? If you want someone to have that 'enchanted tiki' feeling you don't put uniforms on your waiters/servers. Dress them up 'in costume'.
The only thing that was good was my martini. But how can you mess that up? But even though it's now served in a glass instead of plastic as with the 'use to be there 'The Lost Bar', I'd give anything to have it back that way. And while you're at it. Give me back my water falls, my koi ponds, my Jungle Cruise arcade..