Completed a roughly three-month exterior refurbishment (begun June 2024) that refreshed the building's paint and lighting and removed the frosted window decals while keeping its historic color scheme; the restaurant stayed open throughout.
Tracked byTheme Park Patch NotesA second round of exterior work, behind construction walls and themed scrim since February, wrapped in mid-March 2025 with no visible changes to the facade; the restaurant remained open.
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the lifetime log- 2026
Changed
Refreshed its milkshake menu, adding Cookies 'n Cream and Chocolate-Hazelnut shakes as the first phase of a 2026 menu refresh.
- 2025
REFURBISHMENTsince · ongoing · ~1.8 yrStill closed · the record updates as work is documented
- 2023
Changed
Overhauled its menu, adding 14 dishes including a Crab Cake Sandwich ($26) and Pot Roast Stack ($24) while dropping 6 items such as the Plaza Reuben, for a net gain of 8 options.
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New
The Plaza Restaurant was created as its own table-service dining room when the adjacent ice cream parlor's large seating area was walled off.
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NewOct 1, 1971
Borden's Ice Cream Parlor opened on Main Street, U.S.A. with Magic Kingdom on opening day; The Plaza Restaurant would later be carved out of this location.
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