World of Color Table Service Dining Options
Each World of Color dining option will include a fastpass, which is required to view World of Color. Both Ariel's Grotto and Wine Country Trattoria offer full sit down meal options.
The full sit down dining experience gives a green fastpass. Dining at Ariel's Grotto or Wine Country Trattoria is the only way to obtain this special green fastpass.
Ariel's Grotto:
It is important to note that the Ariel's Grotto dining package is for World of Color and does NOT included the Princesses. As of March, 2011 the price for Ariel's Grotto is: $39.99 for each person 10 and up, and $20.99 for each child aged 3 through age 9.
All meals include your choice of soft drink, water, coffee, tea, or alcohol at an additional charge. Each meal also includes a ticket for the preferred section of World of Color Viewing.
The three course meal includes an appetizer tier of meats and cheeses and vegetables, one per table. In this antipasti tower you will find salami, mozzarella, other meats and cheeses and various squash and other vegetables. Various dips for the veggies such as a pesto or ranch dressing dip. A bread bowl is also given with this course.
Next course is the Entree course. The prix fixe meal includes the following options, with an option for meat eaters, seafood eaters and vegetarians:
Mafalde Pasta with Italian Sausage:
- With pasta tossed in a Piemonte-style ragu sauce, spicy Italian sausage, sautéed bell peppers and sweet onions.
Herb-Crusted Chicken Breast
- With Cheddar-herb mashed potatoes and medley of seasonal vegetables.
Santa Maria Style Tri-tip
- Slow roasted and smoked with red oak wood. Includes Cheddar-herb mashed potatoes and a medley of seasonal vegetables.
Filet of Grilled Redfish
- Served on a wild rice pilaf, and lightly topped with a sweet & spicy pineapple chutney. Includes a medley of seasonal vegetables.
Spinach and Ricotta Agnolotti
- With fresh spinach, sun dried tomatoes, julienne onions, and asparagus in a light mushroom broth.
Cioppino
- Some of the ocean's finest, including lobster claw, pink scallops, redfish, green- lip mussels and shrimp in a fragrant soup bowl, plus Bilbao chorizo soaked in a robust fire-roasted tomato broth.
The final course is a tray of delicious desserts, including a Seahorse Lave Cake, Cheesecake tarts and raspberries, chocolate chip strips and a more, with a white chocolate edible World of Color film strip.
The Ariel's Grotto prix fix child meal menu offers the following courses:
A share of the antipasti tower first course.
Various menu choices for the entree include options for even picky eaters:
Glazed Chicken on Sugar-Cane-Skewer
- With cuts of tender chicken, grilled and glazed and placed on a bed of rice.
Served with fresh fruit.
Kid-Cut Tri-Tip
- Tri-tip strips, hot and tender with white-cheddar mashed potatoes and served with seasonal vegetables
Seashell Pasta
- Shells and cheese, with pasta lightly tossed in a velvety cheese sauce, and sprinkled with crushed cheese fish. Served with fresh fruit.
Meatball Lollipops
- Healthier ground turkey is placed over spaghetti and sauce. Served with fresh fruit.
And finally a share of the dessert platter that ends the meal.
For the Ariel's Grotto seating, times for the first World of Color show will be dining between 5 and 7 in the evening. For the second show the dining will be between 7:05 and 8:30.
Wine Country Trattoria:
All dinner World of Color dining at Wine Country Trattoria will include an appetizer, entree or dessert. The Wine Country Trattoria lunches will be from their Italian Menu. Lunch is not offered every day.
Each meal includes an appetizer, choice of entree and dessert. Each meal also includes a ticket for the preferred section of World of Color Viewing.
Lunch serving times are 11:30am to 2:30pm for the first show, and 2:40pm to 3:30pm for the second show. The cost for lunch is $29.99 per adult aged 10 and up, and the child cost for those age 3 through 9 is $18.99.
Lunch World of Color packages include:
Appetizers: choice of soup or salad
Several Italian Entree Options:
Tuscan Salad with Grilled Shrimp or Chicken
- With a blend of Romaine and Radicchio lettuce, red and yellow grape tomatoes, celery, green and cannellini beans and roasted peppers tossed in creamy italian salad dressing
Lasagna Rustica
- With house Bolognese sauce
Grilled Chicken Sandwich
- An herbed chicken breast, arugula lettuce, caramelized onions, provolone cheese, and walnut-porcini aioli on a toasted ciabatta bread with a green salad
Broccolini Aglio Olio
- campanelle pasta tossed with spinach, arugula, tomatoes, garlic, chili flakes, and olive oil
Dessert Options:
Trattoria tiramisu
Mini fruit crostada
Vanilla bean panna cotta with fresh fruit
Chocolate hazelnut mousse with lemon cream
Wine Country Trattoria Dinner Menu for World of Color are $39.99 for adults aged 10 and up, and $20.99 for children aged 3 through 9.
Seating times for the early World of Color show are 4:00 to 7:00, and the late show seating's are 7:05 to 8:30pm.
Like the lunch options the dinner is also served in three courses.
Appetizers: choice of soup or salad
Entree options for dinner:
Grilled Chicken Sandwich
- An herbed chicken breast, arugula lettuce, caramelized onions, provolone cheese, and walnut-porcini aioli on a toasted ciabatta bread with a pasta
Seafood Pasta
- Spaghetti tossed with sautéed shrimp and scallops with garlic and herbs in a light pomodoro Sauce
Braised lamb Shank
- With polenta, Pinot Noir reduction, and gremolata
Roasted Beef Tenderloin
- With gorgonzola potatoes, green beans in a mushroom Chianti sauce
Today's Sustainable Fish
- With citrus pesto served over tomato-vegetable Ragu
Broccolini Aglio Olio
- campanelle pasta tossed with spinach, arugula, tomatoes, garlic, chili flakes, and olive oil
Dessert Options:
Trattoria tiramisu
Mini fruit crostada
Vanilla bean panna cotta with fresh fruit
Chocolate hazelnut mousse with lemon cream
The menu for children at the Wine Country Trattoria is the same for both lunch and dinner.
Appetizer: antipasti plate with grapes, mozzarella and carrot slices
Entree Options for Children:
Grilled Chicken Breast
- With spaghetti and marinara
Fish of the Day
- With potatoes and seasonal vegetables
Choose Your Pasta
- Spaghetti or little bell pasta with choice of sauce: marinara, turkey meatballs with marinara, or vegetarian sauce
Dessert on the children's menu:
Mini chocolate tart with berries
Both restaurants offer a menu for many tastes and give the preferred dining fastpass for World of Color.