A look inside the new 'Carousel Coffee' at Disney's BoardWalk Inn

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Posted: Wednesday December 28, 2022 7:25am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

'Carousel Coffee' is now open at Disney BoardWalk, bringing Joffrey's coffee and pastries to the main lobby area.

Carousel Coffee overview

Some of Disney's theme park carousels are featured on the walls

Magic Kingdom's carousel artwork on display

'Carousel Coffee' replaces the original 'Dundies Sundries' gift shop and expands with a new seating area into the space across the hall that was previously a concierge desk.

The entrance to 'Carousel Coffee' to the left, and the new seating area to the right

The new seating area across the hall from Carousel Coffee

There is no dedicated new outdoor space, but the existing terrace offers some outdoor seating.

The existing outdoor terrace offers seating

Highlights from the Carousel Coffee menu include:

Specialty iced and frozen coffees with flavors to suit the season
Pomegranate-Green Tea Lemonade - Fresh-squeezed lemon juice blended with pomegranate green tea and just a touch of agave
Crunchy Raspberry Danish - Crispy sugar dough layers, hibiscus fondant and raspberry
New Jersey Crumb Cake - Moist butter cake topped with cinnamon crumbs

Carousel Coffee beverages and pastries

View full Carousel Coffee menu. Note, there is no refillable mug station at 'Carousel Coffee,' that option remains available at the BoardWalk Deli outside.

Grab and Go items

Carousel Coffee overview

'Carousel Coffee' operating hours are currently 7am to 4pm daily. Note that with the opening of 'Carousel Coffee,' the Belle Vue Lounge no longer serves breakfast.

Belle Vue Lounge - December 2022

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WorldExplorer1 day ago

Lots of mint paint left over from M. Mouse Merchantile, I see.

mastromjm1 day ago

Screendoor reopened today. Interesting color choices

DJM2 days ago

Never happen. There isn't enough parking, and Lexin who owns the downtown wants RIDICULOUS rent for the space. Many attempts were made to do something with the space and all have failed.

I didn't realize changes were being made to the store there, I thought it was fine and nice the way it was, but of course because it was nice it has to go, as such. Speaking of that also wondering about the Emporium, that entire back quadrant through to casey's walled off. Do we start cringing now how thats going to turn out?

ToTBellHop3 days ago

Ah, the Boarddwakd, home of on-theme locations like Cake Bake Shop.

Disney Analyst3 days ago

Hot take, if I was in charge... I'd be trying to remodel that bar ;) Maybe some more subtle colours, less circus, less tacky. ETA: I used Bing, please don’t write to corporate about me using AI to express what I would design.

jmuboy3 days ago

100% accurate in your assessment - 1990s Disney at its BEST.

mattpeto3 days ago

lol. Hey, that's still theming far beyond anything Carousel Coffee came up with.

MisterPenguin3 days ago

;) (Yeah, I know it's gone, but it happened.)

mattpeto3 days ago

The BoardWalk Inn pool bar is a great example of theming done well.

FiestaFunKid3 days ago

I agree with your point, but saying Carousel Coffee has a theme b/c it has pictures of carousels on the wall - is being extremely generous to Imagineering.

castlecake2.03 days ago

I think the issue is they’re designing things to match a theme rather than being part of an overall story. Carousel Coffee for example, it has a theme with the carousel photos on the wall, but it doesn’t drive the story of the resort forward. I came up with a story for it a while back, it should have been designed to look like the repair shop of the person who takes care of the boardwalk carousel and dressed to match. This looks like the same issue the shop refurb is going to have, it looks nice, but what’s the story? Saying that the story also doesn’t have to be in your face as a guest, but it should be used as the plot line of the design.

Tha Realest3 days ago

Because it’s more attractive to private equity folks who will be looking at acquiring the resorts and/or the DVC

Jrb19793 days ago

Why are they so obsessed with going the generic route for a lot of things now. What made Disney different was the theming. They have been going away from that for everything outside of the parks.