If you’re looking for fine dining, Disneyland may not come immediately to mind. But you’d be wrong.
Twenty-five years ago, Disneyland opened its first high end restaurant, Napa Rose, inside the Grand Californian Hotel. Its chef, Andrew Sutton, had been plucked from Napa Valley, and it went on to build a reputation as one of the most ambitious dining destinations in Orange County. (Sutton is now the culinary director of all of Disney’s top-tier dining in Anaheim — including the members-only Club 33 and Carthay Circle.)
But after more than two decades, the restaurant had started to show its age — the Wine Country identity was baked into the bones of the room, but the cuisine and plating style felt more Y2K than TikTok…