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'''Carthay Circle Restaurant''' is a table-service restaurant in the Carthay Circle Theatre building on Buena Vista Street at [[Disney California Adventure]] in the [[Disneyland Resort]], California. It opened on June 15, 2012, as part of the park's five-year redevelopment and the debut of Buena Vista Street. The building is a recreation of the Los Angeles theatre where ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' premiered in 1937, and the restaurant above its lobby is the park's principal fine-dining room.

== The building ==
The original Carthay Circle Theatre, in the Carthay Circle district of Los Angeles, opened in 1926 and became one of the city's best-known picture palaces. Its place in Disney history comes from December 21, 1937, when it hosted the premiere of ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', the first feature-length animated film from Walt Disney's studio. The theatre was demolished in 1969.

The California Adventure version, built in Spanish Colonial Revival style with a prominent white tower, stands at the hub of Buena Vista Street, the 1920s Los Angeles entrance land created in the park's redevelopment, and functions as that park's visual landmark in the way Sleeping Beauty Castle does for [[Disneyland Park]]. The ground floor holds a lounge and the restaurant's lobby, which displays photographs and material connected to the 1937 premiere. The same building also contains 1901, a small private lounge for Club 33 members named for the year of Walt Disney's birth. The main dining room, with its terrace, is upstairs and seats about 250 guests.

== History ==
Carthay Circle Restaurant was a late addition to the park's identity. When Disney California Adventure opened in 2001, its dining was widely criticised, and the redevelopment announced in 2007 — a programme of roughly a billion dollars that added Buena Vista Street and Cars Land — set out to give the park a signature restaurant comparable to those at the resort's hotels.

The restaurant opened on June 15, 2012, the day Buena Vista Street and Cars Land were dedicated and the redeveloped park was rededicated. Its fictional setting is the evening of the ''Snow White'' premiere in 1937, casting diners as guests at a party following the screening. To establish the kitchen, Disney drew on its existing fine-dining team: the menu was developed under Andrew Sutton, then executive chef of [[Napa Rose]] at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel, with Gloria Tae, also from Napa Rose, as chef de cuisine. At opening, the restaurant also anchored a dining package offering reserved centre viewing for World of Color, the nighttime show on Paradise Bay.

== Cuisine and service ==
The menu is built around seasonal Southern California cooking — seafood, chops and produce-led dishes that change through the year — rather than the period food of 1937, though opening publicity noted that the kitchen had recreated items from the original theatre's era for its debut. A separate lounge on the ground floor serves a shorter menu of small plates and period-influenced cocktails without a reservation requirement for the dining room, and has become a destination in its own right.

Carthay Circle, together with [[Napa Rose]], represents the top tier of public dining at the [[Disneyland Resort]], and its dining room is frequently used for the resort's festival and special-event programmes at California Adventure.

== See also ==
* [[Napa Rose]]
* [[Disney California Adventure]]
* [[Lamplight Lounge]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Restaurants]]
[[Category:Disney California Adventure]]
[[Category:Disneyland Resort]]

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