50’s Prime Time Café

If you would like a really fun experience and good food as well, try the 50’s Prime Time Café. This is located at Disney Hollywood Studios, between Echo lake and the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular. Reservations (Priority Seating in Disney parlance) are recommended.

On my first trip to Disney World, we ate lunch here. You walk in the door and are immediately transported back to the 50’s. The décor is impeccably 1950’s right down to the small black and white T.V.s constantly playing I love Lucy, or December Bride. If you were alive in the 50’s, this will bring back memories. We didn’t have reservations and had to wait about 15 minutes for a table. The waiting area is like a living room or family room with furniture of the time. When they called us for our table, they called the ‘Reyer Kids‘. The waitstaff are either Moms, Grandmas, Aunts, or cousins. We had an Aunt. It is hilarious to watch the people at the other tables. Grown men with children of their own instantly become petulant children. We watched one man tell ‘Grandma’ he didn’t want to eat his green beans. Grandma made him stand up and sing ‘I’m a little teapot’ as she announced to the whole room that he wouldn’t finish his vegetables. I was told sternly to take my elbows off the table and my daughter was called out for not cleaning her plate.

The food is excellent with many ‘comfort’ food choices, meatloaf, roast beef, fried chicken etc. It is really hard to clean your plate because the food is plentiful and you get filled up fast. If you do clean your plate, you become a member of the ‘Clean Plate Club’ and you get a sticker.

This restaurant is great fun for adults and kids love watching their parents become little kids again for a short time. If you are shy, or do not like attention drawn to yourself, this isn’t the place for you. If you like getting into the spirit of things, you’ll have a great time!