Former Restaurant // latest change 2020.10.12
Marketplace · Disney Springs · Walt Disney World
Former Restaurant · the memorial record
This restaurant is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
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Wolfgang Puck Express was confirmed permanently closed in the Disney Springs Marketplace. A cast member said the closure had begun a few weeks earlier (late September 2020), and Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill confirmed the permanent closure, reported October 12, 2020. No exact final operating day is documented.
Photos showed the Wolfgang Puck Express signage and posted menus removed from the Marketplace storefront with the windows blacked out, publicly signaling the closure days before it was reported as permanent.
After more than a decade at the Marketplace, Wolfgang Puck Express was completely remodeled and reopened around April 2008 with a refreshed look, new kitchen equipment (including a rotisserie oven), expanded seating, and new menu items.
Wolfgang Puck Express opened in the Downtown Disney Marketplace (the former Walt Disney World / Disney Village Marketplace) as a quick-service offshoot of chef Wolfgang Puck's Disney dining. It took over the Block J space vacated by Minnie Mia's Italian Eatery; a March 2002 guest recollection dated the changeover to roughly 1999-2000, and a Passport to Dreams Marketplace list confirms Wolfgang Puck Express replaced Minnie Mia's.
Per the documented record, Wolfgang Puck Express (Marketplace) at Disney Springs opened in 1999.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Wolfgang Puck Express (Marketplace) is dated Oct 12, 2020: Wolfgang Puck Express was confirmed permanently closed in the Disney Springs Marketplace. A cast member said the closure had begun a few weeks earlier (late September 2020), and Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill confirmed the permanent closure, reported October 12, 2020. No exact final operating day is documented.
The latest documented change (documented Oct 12, 2020): Wolfgang Puck Express was confirmed permanently closed in the Disney Springs Marketplace. A cast member said the closure had begun a few weeks earlier (late September 2020), and Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill confirmed the permanent closure, reported October 12, 2020. No exact final operating day is documented.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1999 — the fan-kept restaurant changelog nobody else keeps.
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