Skipper Canteen at the Magic Kingdom Now in Soft Open

By Dave Shute

My imaginary internet friend Joe Black gave me the heads up that the new Jungle Cruise-themed restaurant in Adventureland at the Magic Kingdom Skipper Canteen began soft open today, so I went over for a look around.

The restaurant is themed as the old Jungle Cruise skipper’s lounge and dining area–and also as the private dining room of Alberta Falls, daughter of founder Albert Falls.

It’s located just inside Adventureland.

Here’s part of the menu.

The lovely and hilarious Annie gave me a guided tour of Skipper Canteen.

There’s three dining areas. I don’t quite have the words right, but there’s the main dining room:

…a room hidden behind a secret door in a bookcase that was Alberta Falls’ private dining room :

And a third room that includes much better birds than The Enchanted Tiki Room:

Fun details abound:

I’ll clean up the photos and post more later, but I wanted to get this news about Skipper Canteen being open  out now in case you are in the Magic Kingdom one of these days and want to stop by!

“Soft open,” by the way, means it may or not be open when you come by. I asked Annie when the opening would be real and Skipper Canteen would begin taking reservations. “The ways of the jungle are mysterious and not to be predicted,” she said…

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