Former Shop // latest change 2004.03.19
Marketplace · Disney Springs · Walt Disney World
Former Shop · the memorial record
This shop is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
Earl of Sandwich - the first-ever location of the chain - opened March 19, 2004 in part of the former Gourmet Pantry footprint (shared with The Spice & Tea Exchange), becoming the successor tenant of the space.
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The Gourmet Pantry - one of the last Downtown Disney Marketplace shops tracing its lineage to the original Walt Disney World Village - permanently closed in 2003, ending its run as a gourmet grocery and bakery.
The shop was remembered for bakery and confection items such as Mickey-shaped brownies, macadamia-nut turtles, and truffles, sold alongside gourmet groceries and packaged sandwiches.
The Gourmet Pantry operated as a shop at the Walt Disney World Village Marketplace - listed as shop #10 on the 1987 brochure map - a gourmet-food, bakery, and grocery store whose roots traced back to the earlier Walt Disney World Village.
Per the documented record, Gourmet Pantry at Disney Springs opened in 1987.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Gourmet Pantry is dated 2003: The Gourmet Pantry - one of the last Downtown Disney Marketplace shops tracing its lineage to the original Walt Disney World Village - permanently closed in 2003, ending its run as a gourmet grocery and bakery.
The latest documented change (documented Mar 19, 2004): Earl of Sandwich - the first-ever location of the chain - opened March 19, 2004 in part of the former Gourmet Pantry footprint (shared with The Spice & Tea Exchange), becoming the successor tenant of the space.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1987 — the fan-kept shop changelog nobody else keeps.
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