In addition to the two food courts, Port Orleans Riverside also features Boatwright’s Dining Hall, which is the only table service restaurant at the resort. Enjoy classic American favourites in a relaxing waterfront environment. This restored boat-construction warehouse is a shipbuilder’s paradise along the Sassagoula River. Home-style meals include heapin’ “Tin Pans” for breakfast [sadly no longer available] and tantalizing Southern entrées for dinner. It’s a boatload of fun!

Themed after a wooden shipbuilding yard with vintage shipbuilding tools hanging on the walls inside the restaurant, even your cutlery is presented to your table in a woodworker’s toolbox. The partially built sailboat located inside the restaurant is actually an authentic reproduction of a flat bottom “New Orleans Lugger” that sailed the Mississippi River in the 1820s. Constructed at the Brewers Dauntless Ship Yard, you can find construction information and photos here.

The 208-seat Boatwright’s Dining Hall is located inside the main Sassagoula Steamboat Co. building at Port Orleans Riverside, just between the River Roost lounge and the Riverside Mill food court. Boatwright’s is open daily for dinner from 5:00pm until 10:00pm, but is closed for breakfast and lunch (please use the adjacent Riverside Mill food court instead).

Advanced Dining Reservations are recommended, especially during busy periods, or when the Disney Dining Plan is being offered as a free perk with resort room reservations. Call 1-407-WDW-DINE to book up to 180 days in advance. The “Disney Dining Plan” and “Tables in Wonderland” discount programmes are both accepted at this location.

Please use the following links to see what sort of food choices and price ranges you can expect at Boatwright’s:

• Boatwright’s Dinner Menu
• Boatwright’s Kids Dinner Choices
• Sassagoula Eatin’ History (historical menus, including some from the Dixie Landings era, circa 1995)

Also, the Walt Disney World website includes downloadable PDF menus for Breakfast (note: not currently being served), Dinner, Dessert and Kids Picks at Boatwright’s.

For the nostaglia buffs, I thought it would nice to include some references back to the early days of the Dixie Landings and Port Orleans resorts.

Prior to the year 2000, Boatwright’s wasn’t the only table-service restaurant on property. The French Quarter section also had its own restaurant called Bonfamille’s Cafe which was located inside the main building, just to the right of the current Scat Cat’s lounge area.

So if you’d like to hold on tightly to the handrails and keep your arms, legs and appetites inside the car, the Disney Wayback Machine will whisk you all the way back to 1995 to see what you might have been savouring in the good ol’ days. Is it just me, or do those earlier breakfast choices seem so much more enticing than the more recent rather bland, generic offerings? There sure was some good eatin’ in them there days...

• Bonfamille’s Cafe Menu, Breakfast & Dinner, circa 1995 [PDF format, 1.5Mb]
• Boatwright’s Dining Hall Menu, Breakfast & Dinner, circa 1995 [PDF format, 1.7Mb]
• Boatwright’s Dinner ‘Specials’ Menu, 1995 [PDF format, 1.2Mb]
• Boatwright’s Breakfast and Dinner Menus, 2007
• Boatwright’s Final Breakfast Menu, 2009

If anyone can add to these older menus, or help out with updates for the current menus, please feel free to get in touch with me via the Contact Page. Thanks.