Former Restaurant // latest change 2017.02.04
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Former Restaurant · the memorial record
This restaurant is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
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The same riverboat space reopened on February 4, 2017 as Paddlefish, a reimagined seafood restaurant with a restored paddlewheel and smokestacks and a new rooftop lounge, permanently ending Fulton's Crab House.
Fulton's Crab House closed in April 2016 for a major refurbishment, laying off more than 200 workers; the operator confirmed the restaurant would not reopen under the Fulton's name.
Fulton's Crab House opened inside the former Empress Lilly riverboat at Downtown Disney, a roughly 700-seat seafood restaurant operated by Levy Restaurants under a 20-year contract.
The Empress Lilly riverboat closed as a Disney operation on April 22, 1995, and the vessel was handed to Chicago-based Levy Restaurants to be reworked into a new seafood restaurant.
Per the documented record, Fulton's Crab House at Disney Springs opened on Mar 10, 1996.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Fulton's Crab House is dated Apr 2016: Fulton's Crab House closed in April 2016 for a major refurbishment, laying off more than 200 workers; the operator confirmed the restaurant would not reopen under the Fulton's name.
The latest documented change (documented Feb 4, 2017): The same riverboat space reopened on February 4, 2017 as Paddlefish, a reimagined seafood restaurant with a restored paddlewheel and smokestacks and a new rooftop lounge, permanently ending Fulton's Crab House.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1995 — the fan-kept restaurant changelog nobody else keeps.
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