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Walt Disney World is planning to shut down the Contemporary Resort's high-end California Grill restaurant for six months or more, to allow for an extensive renovation of the restaurant atop the hotel. The eatery will close Jan. 6 and reopen in late summer 2013.
The company provided few details on what the renovation will entail, though it said it will be altering the menu, which features California fusion cooking and sushi, and ranges in price from $36 a plate to $60 a plate. It also plans improvements to the restaurant's "onstage kitchen." Disney said Disney says the restaurant will keep its two private dining rooms, an important feature at the Contemporary, which is one of Disney's largest convention and group-meeting hotels.
The California Grill makeover has been timed to coincide with other construction at the Contemporary, including a new roof and renovations of the hotel's 14th-floor suites. Disney once planned to convert those rooms into "health-and-wellness"-themed suites but has since dropped the concept.
The Contemporary features 1,041 guest rooms and 115,000 square feet of meeting space.
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