My party of 2 spent $471 at Disney's most expensive restaurant at sea, and it rivaled Michelin-star eateries I've dined at on land
Jacqueline Dole
- I dined at Enchanté, Disney's most expensive and fancy adults-only restaurant at sea.
- It's located on the Disney Wish and we spent over $230 per person.
Enchanté is an adults-only restaurant on the Wish, the newest ship in Disney Cruise Line's fleet.
Enchanté is unique to the Disney Wish and requires reservations, which can be tough to secure.
Enchanté features a menu crafted by Michelin-star chef Arnaud Lallement, whose restaurant L'Assiette Champenoise outside of Reims, France, earned its third star in 2014.
The restaurant is the most luxurious dining experience that can be found on any Disney ship and comes with some of the highest price tags.
It's themed after "Beauty and The Beast," specifically Lumiere, the candelabra featured in the film.
I noticed subtle nods to the movie such as red roses adorning the dining-room tables as well as more obvious touches, such as a figure of Lumiere mounted to a light fixture on the wall.
The dining space looked stunning, featuring an impressive chandelier, gold accents, marble tabletops, and sweeping blue carpets.
Enchanté offers dinner service, brunch, and dessert tasting.
The price tag for dinner starts at $125 per person for the Passion menu, which includes six courses and an optional wine pairing for an extra $115 per person.
The nine-course Collection menu is $195 per person with an optional wine pairing for $140 per person. There's also an à la carte menu that features dishes from each of the tasting menus.
We opted for the Passion menu as I'd never dined at one of Disney's adults-only restaurants and was unsure what the quality of the meal would be like.
I dined with a guest and we were seated at a table adjacent to the eatery's floor-to-ceiling windows.
The meal began with an amuse-bouche featuring several small bites.
The bites included a falafel, an herb-and-shallot tart, and a comté-cheese tartlet.
They were delicious and a great start to the dinner. I thought the comté-cheese tartlet was the clear standout. We were also served bread that was par-baked in France and then finished on the ship.
We were served one more amuse-bouche before dinner.
This one featured a bowl of lemon sauce alongside a beeswax honeycomb wafer made from rice flour. It was garnished with edible flowers.
The first course featured all things tomato.
This dish featured a 12-hour tomato confit, focaccia served with a tomato vinaigrette, and a glass of tomato water featuring — you guessed it — an ice cube formed from frozen tomato water.
This was surprisingly one of my favorite dishes of the evening. Although I never thought a tomato would be anything to write home about, this dish was extremely memorable and a great way to start dinner.
The second course featured a stone-crab tart.
The tart was covered in a sheet of langoustine (a small, slim lobster) jelly with a side of lobster mayo. It was topped with edible flowers.
This was a really interesting dish, especially because of the texture of the langoustine-jelly film. This course wasn't my favorite, but I'm glad it was on the menu.
The third course was wild halibut.
It was served with onion confit, an onion gratin, and a spring onion.
The crust on the halibut was cooked perfectly with the most satisfying crunch that I've been trying to perfect myself at home.
Next we had squab pigeon fermiere followed by a cheese course.
This dish featured a piece of squab layered inside a puff-pastry crust alongside spinach, dried tomato, foie gras, and pancetta. It was served with a turnip relish.
This was my favorite dish of the evening and the tastiest thing I ate on the Wish. It was tender, full of flavor, and something I never expected to see on a menu at any Disney property, whether at sea or on land.
After this course, we were visited by the cheese cart. We could choose up to six different varieties of cheese from the selection presented and we got dried fruit and honeycomb to go with them.
The cheese selection was impressive, offering both cow and sheep varieties such as Mimolette, Camembert, and Délice de Bourgogne — my favorite.
Much to my surprise, we receive an extra dessert course because we were celebrating our anniversary.
We got a chocolate entremet cake (a layered cake encased in a mousse and a glaze) served inside a decorative egg.
The cake was sliced and served with a vanilla anglaise on the side. It was rich and absolutely delicious.
Our second dessert was the Framboise.
The Framboise is a honey blancmange (a creamy gelatin dessert) served with raspberry sauce and fresh raspberries. It was topped with edible flowers and bee pollen with a side of raspberry sorbet and beeswax foam.
I thought the texture of the blancmange was akin to a marshmallow-type meringue — it wasn't my favorite bite. Still, I thought the flavors in this course were fantastic.
The dinner ended with petit fours.
We got chocolate domes and, my favorite, lemon drops that featured a lemon curd atop a pastry disc.
We were also served several pieces of pâte de fruit (French confections made using fruit paste) and a coffee tartlet topped with gold-brushed coffee beans.
In total, we spent $471.71 for two meals and some drinks.
This is easily the highest check I've ever rung up at any Disney restaurant.
The bill included two orders of the Passion menu, one bottle of wine, two additional glasses of Champagne, and the automatic 18% service fee charged by Disney Cruise Line.
Enchanté is definitely not a good fit for everyone — it's very expensive, reservations can be hard to get, and the meal is very time-consuming. We were in the restaurant for nearly three hours, time many people on a Disney cruise would rather spend waiting in line for a water slide or grabbing complimentary unlimited soft serve.
Still, I was constantly impressed by the hospitality and knowledge of the staff providing us service throughout the meal, including our amazing server and the restaurant's sommelier.
I don't usually associate cruises with caviar and Disney with fine dining, but Enchanté delivered a truly memorable meal.
I'm not sure I'd do the five- or nine-course option in the future, but I'd definitely book a table to enjoy some of my favorites from the à la carte menu in the beautiful dining room.
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